The service here is horrible...worse each time. The food is decent, so the owner should consider hiring better staff if they want to stay open! Â Wouldnt turn on A/C because "it would be costly to turn it on to cool the entire room," and would not allow us to sing karaoke bc it may disturb the ONLY other table with two guests. Â We came with a party of 8 and ordered drinks!
Review Source:Been here a couple times due to boss treating us out. Â Nothing like free beer and food but I'm not gonna let that sway my opinions.
The food here isn't bad and its pretty typical of a Taiwanese beer house. Â Service is good and the manager is pretty chill, parking is ample enough on weekdays but I think big movie openings are gonna make it a PITA.
Stuff here is pretty cheap, skewers aren't bad, beer served in chilled glasses. Â Nothing exceptional but at least its a good place for a quiet drink since business is slow.
Freakin' A! This place is AWESOME! Â FREE COTTON CANDY!!!! Yeah they got a machine!!! ITS AWESOME!!
It's another one of those Taiwanese places with a theme (jurassics/indians)! But w/o the girls... :( Â
This place is cheap! Good/cheap booze, cheap food! Their menu is like the same as jurassics and indians too. But slightly cheaper (i guess if they add in the girls theyd have to raise their prices... so BYOG) and with free COTTON CANDY!!! YOU MAKE YOUR OWN!!! I mean WTF!?! right? Â AWESOME times.
There aren't that many people that go here, but who cares! It makes this place more cozy and comfortable. And much more relaxed. Especially when you ask them to bust out their KARAOKE on their giant projector! They have alot of oldies, but its good enough for when you're drunk, but not drunk enough to sing in front of alot of people. That's why this place was so crazy! I can say I karaoke'd in a restaurant!!! It felt like a giant private party, and my group bought out the place for the night!
All in all, this is a great place to drink and sing! Or just drink! Cant go wrong with booze! Oh they got cards and dice too fyi...
I usually go to Indian on San Gabriel blvd. Â Same style of place, but I don't think I will be coming back. Â The prices on everything was cheaper , but everything was down on quality and quantity. Â
The pitcher was $6-7 bucks for Amber Bock! Â That was the highlight for me, but at the same time their pitchers were a little smaller than I am used to. Â
We ordered egg plant with basil. Â The dish was smaller than I was used to, and there was no ground pork in it! Â It wasn't too bad though, at least they didn't use a ton of oil, and it was about $3 cheaper than most places.
We got chinese sausage served with raw garlic, Â it was good, but I really like how other places serve it with wasabe on the side. Â it was about 3/4 the quantity I'm used to getting , but also 3/4 of the price too. Â The wasabe would have been nice
I was really dissapointed with the 3 flavors combo meat dish we ordered. Â It had whole squid in there, ungutted. Â I'm super picky with my seafood. Â The chicken pieces in there were alright, but they put a ton of Intestines in there. Â I basically ate the chicken and left 2/3 of the dish. Â A little overcooked. Â
Since one of the dishes we ordered barely got touched, we tried to add grilled corn, but they didnt have any available. Â My buddy wanted watermelon juice, but they didn't have any of that either.
The place was dead on sat at 6:30pm. Â mainly older people in there. Â I would probably come back just to drink, and have a small snack, but not again for dinner
Am I a hater? Nah, but I'm pretty truthful, so I'll be blunt about Cotton Candy. I was pretty disappointed with this place.
In terms of TW beer houses, whether it's Indian (I love that place for it's decent Taiwanese food and cheap beer) or B20, to Jurassic in City of Industry, or hell, the ones I've frequented in my yearly visits back to my homeland of Taiwan. Grilled/fried food, cheap beer, filled with buzzed/drunken company are always good fun. Since I was going solo to Cotton Candy, I didn't expect to party it up, but the overall experience for me was one big blah.....
As what Tony said, it's a Taiwanese beer house, but not owned by someone from Taiwan. WTF? The menu was in English and Simplified Chinese. Again, WTF? I don't hate, and hell, I can read both the Simplified and Traditional Chinese equally well, but meh, this kinda killed the whole TW beer house experience. Anyways, back to the food, I came here for 2 things, $2.99 NRM (Beef Noodle Soup), and a plate of Stinky tofu. As you can tell, very good grub on my so called "diet."
First of all, the service here is slow, but I can't blame the waiter, yes singular, waiter. One person running the show on a Tuesday night and I swear he probably ran a good 2miles up and down the place while I was eating. It was like a dinner and a show like Benihana's! The NRM and the Stinky Fried Tofu came at the same time, and I noticed something, no foul odor around me. I like my stinky tofu STINKY! So maybe with that said, I didn't enjoy my plate of "stinky" goodness. Also, it was missing Chinese pickled vegetable. You can't serve this shit without pickled vegetables, but it took at good 5mins before I could get some from the aforementioned busy waiter. As Tony said, the tofu was fried well as the center remained soft and moist, but I can't really recommend that dish. The best stinky tofu place for me is still Tofu King in Rowland Heights (<a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/tofu-king-rowland-heights">http://www.yelp.com/biz/…</a>)
Do I really need to talk about the NRM? It's $2.99, the noodles stuck together, and truthfully I'd be just as happy as buying a package of Wei Chuan NRM (<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Framenlovers.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F03%2Fwei-chuan-stewed-beef-noodle-soup-with.html&s=704fb296a26fa1cb91dc73ddad7115f2168274bc2a94397b858b667093d7a70d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ramenlovers.blogs…</a>) and eating it in front of the TV.
Overall, this place was forgettable, but not horrible. The best part of the meal for me was seeing that poor waiter running around doing a job meant for 3 people and having a Mexicano busboy that didn't speak a lick of English helping him out up front. What a team! The food here was cheap, and it's hard to bad mouth a $2.99 bowl of NRM, but I'd much rather pay more money to eat elsewhere. The ambiance here is a bit weird, as what Tony mentioned in his review, it was a shoe store or something previously. If one is in the mood for some Taiwanese grubbing, check out Indian on San Gabriel, it's much better. Hell, since I'm going to be living down the street, call me up and you'll get 10% off on your food there! LOL
BTW, they really need to shut that CCTV or Phoenix channel crap off. Mainland TV channels in a TW beer house is whack. Put on GTV or TVBS or something. Hell, put on ESPN like Indian. It would be much better.
How much time do I give this place?? In that part of town, being fairly well hidden, maybe 8 months?? That $2.99 NRM won't save them.....
Best of Taiwan, Part I, stank-ass tofu.
Cotton Candy?!? Used to be called Amazon. Use to be a shoe store(?) before that. Now it's a Taiwanese-esque themed bar with a buncha jungle motif and other Hot Topix paraphernalia randomly strewn. Hell it's not even Taiwanese owned, and their schtick is.. cotton candy! But the cotton candy machines don't even work! Total strike-out, then?
WTF are you doing here, you ask? Beats me. The Vietnamese joint down the street was closed? And there was a sign for.. $2.99 niu rou mien. Are you kidding? $2.99 for beef noodle soup? Sign my big ass beer gut, up!
Wait! let's not go to the NRM yet. Let's talk about this plate of stinky tofu. It's fried perfectly. It's not cut up into penny-sized bitelets that always render the tofu too dry. And heck! the center's still soft! and moist.. and wet.. and... It smells like rancid sex dripping out the next morning! The sauce was simple, but it was garlicky and just good enough. It was probably just augmented Weichuan's soy paste dip, but Weichuan is OG Taiwanese yo. Not overly-fried large tofu cubes + garlicky soy paste & a side of Northern style cabbage kimchi = great stinky tofu! So great that I don't have to talk about about the $2.99 bowl of beef noodle soup!
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