I wish we had Teawood in California! I'm definitely going to go back later this week to try the…read moredesserts since I didn't get the chance last time and they are known for their sweet drinks and toast! However their savory food is just as tasty. My sister ordered beef noodles and not only is is so flavorful, but the beef meat pretty much melts into your mouth. My smoked salmon salad was one of the best salads I've ever eaten and the entire bowl was empty by the time I was through with it. Quality food and service! Edit: I came back with the sole purpose of trying their desserts (and other savory foods) and it was worth the half hour wait, I'll tell you. We ordered pasta, the cookies and cream brick toast, jasmine milk tea, and brown sugar milk tea with wheat. Pasta: forgot the name but SO GOOD like better than some of the high class Italian pastas I've had in California. How can a Taiwanese cafe that specialize in dessert create such divine pasta I don't know but I ain't complaining! Brick toast: 10/10 I'm so used to eating the inside of the brick toast and leaving the crust to the dust because of how hard and flavorless it is, but this is hands down the best brick toast I've ever had in my life where I was able to eat both the crust AND the inside. Jasmine milk tea: good taste, good quality. Good enough for my mom to crave more for it even after being back in California for a week. Brown sugar milk tea with wheat: maybe it's because I'm unable to drink this stuff without getting sick, but my throat started to feel funky after two sips and the texture of the wheat made me feel uncomfortable to drink anymore. Most of their drinks are brown sugar so I wish they had more flavors but maybe this is what they're known for. Everything else is great, though!

English Review: Tea…read morewood is a very refreshing and trendy Taiwanese chain. For me, the teal bluish coloring combined with the wood surfaces provide a very classy and fun environment to eat. My party of 2 came around peak hours ~1:30pm and was seated in about 10 minutes. However because of the lunch rush, was only allowed to stay for 60 minutes. My order: ~$150 HK or about ~$25 US Popcorn chicken - nice and crispy; definitely a lot better than some of its American counterparts Mixed fruit tea - felt like I could have made it at home to be honest; however, they gave a huge load of fruit( Mangos, Dragon fruit, strawberry, blueberry, plums) which made it super refreshing Latte - cutest little coffee art I've ever seen! All in all pretty cute place. A little busy for my tastes but I still had a good time. 4/5 stars :)

We stumbled upon this Taiwanese style restaurant while exploring Hong Kong. The noodle dishes are…read morewell priced and the menu has pictures which makes it easily to find out what to eat and order. I had the Taiwan style beef noodles and they were delicious .

Taiwanese restaurant with noodle bowls and bubble teas. Very affordable and cheap priced food right…read morein downtown Mong Kok. Check it out!

This restaurant opened most recently and specializes in Taiwanese food. Started off the meal with a…read morebraised beef tendon with noodle soup. I can't say I'm an expert in Taiwanese beef noodles, but this one taste like the ones from what I remembered in Taiwan. They let you choose thick or thin noodles and with our without preserved vegetables. Next on the list was the oyster pancake which was really good. Service was below par, but then again, it just opened and needs to fine tune in the coming weeks. Worth to visit, but due expect a wait during peak hours.

I just can't contain my excitement, so I'm writing this review just hours after eating at Wong Ah…read moreMa Soya. After becoming obsessed with Taiwanese breakfast whilst visiting Taipei, I researched where I could get my grubby hands on it in Hong Kong. It was a fruitless and devastating search, as I came up with nothing. I decided to ask my Taiwanese colleague and lo and behold - she stumbled upon Wong Ah Ma Soya! My German friend (read: non-Chinese speaking, like me) and I plotted our field trip to the Hung Hom neighborhood of Kowloon. Once we found the small storefront, the woman working shooed us away with a 'No English!'. Oh, but that didn't stop us. I had prepared for this situation in advance by requesting Chinese translations of the menu items we enjoyed so much in Taipei. I flashed my credentials, and we were allowed to take a seat. Victorious! Though they didn't have the egg pancakes we love so much, we did get to indulge in hot, sweet soy milk and the glutinous rice rolls stuffed with sugary pastry. Both items were every bit as good as we had in Taipei! For the two of us, we paid $40 HKD. That's my kind of breakfast: cheap and outrageously delicious! I think that lady is going to be seeing a lot of us! 2016 goal: She'll have memorized our 'usual'.

Amazing, they call it the best closest thing to Taiwanese food here in HK! it's a bit hard to find…read morethis place as it's in a ware house but take the first elevator up (you might find it a bit sketchy) and then take a right and then go down the hallway to find the entrance to the place. Get some of the beef with rice and some dong gua cha! You have to go up and order, but once you place your order the food comes out pretty fast! I'm just drooling thinking about this place. Tip: It's a short walk from the MTR.

I have been traveling back and forth Taiwan so frequently that I almost see myself as half a…read moreTaiwanese; one of the things that they pride themselves in has to be the food. Indeed, why would they not? Whether it is the street food found in street markets or proper meals such as beef noodles or taiwanese bento, Taiwan has it all. Having said that I have a secret rule of thumb when it comes to food, that is, I will never eat Taiwanese food in Hong Kong and the same applies to the Hong Kong food in Taiwan. It might be a preconception on mine that the authenticity would very much be lost when the cuisine is introduced to a foreign piece of land; adding to that would be the fact that I have been let down for too many times and have gradually lose faith in it. It wasn't until I have come to this shop coincidentally that I gradually restore hope in Taiwanese cuisines in Hong Kong. I think the best way to tell whether a restaurant is good or not is to try out the basics; beef noodle soup is a staple of Taiwan and it would very well be a good indicator in how well a restaurant prepare their foods. The broth is quintessential in a bowl of noodles and 程班長 does it like no others. Traditional taiwanese beef noodle broth is rich and seasoned with soy sauce, behind the mellow fullness a punch of heat will catch you by surprise, and this is exactly how the broth is like in 程班長; going against the slightly broad and substantial noddles, the two matches perfectly. Whereas for the priced jewel, the meats, which could either be brisket, tendon or tripe or all 3 of them, are all very well braised and are melt in your mouth tender. Last but not least, the pickles that add to the noodle soup play an important role in spicing up the flavors as well as freshen up the mouthful. Thank to this restaurant, may be it is not a bad idea to give a little try on taiwanese restaurants in Hong Kong; a leap of faith is indeed called for nonetheless.

I went here last week .Location is great and the best things is food . Yummy yummy . Environment…read moreis very nice love to visit again .

TeaWood totally appeals to the urbanites: a decor of green and wood tone, baskets of fake produce,…read morea blackboard with a childlike drawing of a farm, cutleries that look like spades and pitchforks, and even tables with a glass box tabletop of fake sprouting greens. It speaks of our idea of a farm: wholesome, natural, nostalgic, healthful, minus the dirt under your fingernails and the manure on your boots. It makes you think that you are eating healthy and natural, even if you are eating fried chicken or an 8" tall honey toast loaded with ice cream and cream. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate this place. Successful marketing, that's all. It's nice to feel a bit closer to nature and a bit more tranquil just sitting inside the restaurant. And their food is pretty good. We ordered a set lunch, which for $72 includes a drink, an appetizer, an entree (your choice of protein includes beef, pork, chicken, duck and fish! No veg option though) and a small noodle/rice. They hand made their noodles, and the beef is tender, so I really enjoy their beef noodle soup. We couldn't resist ordering the honey toast. It is a stack of 3 thick slices topped with mango, mango ice cream, whipped cream, sauces, marshmallow and more. Quite a feast for the eyes. They bring along knife and tongs to make it easier to make headway into this gigantic tower. I really enjoy the dessert. The toast is crunchy on the outside but still soft inside, so it doesn't hurt my tongue like sandpaper, and has a hint of sweetness. Personally, I think this is a dessert best shared among 3 or 4 people. The two of us got really stuffed putting this away. A significant portion of the menu is dedicated to drinks (tea and coffee) and desserts, making this a great spot for afternoon tea.

It's the second time I have come to this restaurant and I think many more to come whenever I get to…read morethe Yuen Long district. But of course there are many other restaurants to try out around that area. Back to the restaurant. It is highly-rated at openrice.com, an almost-exclusive HK restaurants site. So I guess that said a bit about the quality. I had the most famous beef noodles. The soup was beef soup of which it has been boiled for 16 hours and rested for three days before use to get the taste. Awesome. The noodles was chewy too. And the beef, although only 3 pieces, they were tender and had the best proportion of fat the meat. Kinda costly for this one though. $47 for a bowl of beef noodles. +$15 for an iced drink. The restaurant is small. So be expected to wait or sit outside or share table with other eaters.

Had the pork chop rice for lunch, $38, no drinks included. It's comes with a crispy fried pork…read morechop, side cabbage, and marinated minced meat on rice. The pork was slightly dry on the inside, but I'll overlook that because the outside batter was surprisingly crunchy. Besides this, the other popular item is the beef noodle.

SUMMARY After a disastrous first few hours in HK, this was…read moreour first meal in HK and it was better than expected. It definitely cured the hangry in all of us! Would recommend, but don't expect great service here...or in HK for that matter. ATMOSPHERE (5/5) While I could look this up, I believe this is a licensed theme restaurant as evidenced from the cute, cartoon like atmosphere TeaWood restaurant. The place is adorned with cartoon characters in a woody setting. It's very well done and hat's off to the people who put this together. FOOD (5/5) Wife says this is a Taiwanese character that serves Taiwanese meals and maybe because of this, we were very happy with our meal---mostly because we had a really crappy time getting to our AirBnB and the general attitude of people who we encountered along the way (unhelpful and rude). I ordered a tripe based soup with noodles in a beef broth and it was a 5/5 for me. The broth was very clean, not oily. Noodles were perfectly good. Tripe was not over or undercooked. Vegetables still had a bit of snap to it. Really happy with my meal. My wife ordered a red bean dessert that I took a few bites as well. One of the things I liked about that was how perfectly cooked the mochi balls were. All around delicious. SERVICE (2/5) Perhaps this is a cultural thing, so HK people don't beat up on me too harshly for saying this: but even in a more pricier corporate type of restaurant like this, the service is not friendly was not friendly here and especially at smaller mom and pop shops ***anywhere*** we went in HK. Any time we asked a question, there was this sort of disbelief or umbrage that we would ask a question about what was in a dish, what a certain type of ingredient was, etc. RETURN VISIT? If we do return, we'd probably go back or at least I would. Sans the service, the restaurant is good and tourist friendly to a certain point.

Can someone say YUM up in here?!…read more View of the streets from high up and good food. Taiwanese Pork Chop bento was pretty darn good. They made the minced meat rice correctly. Milk tea was nicely flavored, though we forgot to request an iced one! Chocolate strawberry brick toast was not the best I've had but it was still good. Rocky road ice cream, slightly chewy and not so fried bread, whipped cream and strawberries! Yum! A cute place, food came out quickly and servers were polite (you may need to flag them down). Great for a date or catching up with a girl friend!