Pretty surprised to find this place in Palo Alto, and it is very good. It is normally crowded so better to make reservation ahead of time.
Nice food
Our friend who lives in the area, took us to this restaurant the first moment we arrived in town for lunch. It's located in the heart of Palo Alto and the decor is very Chinese. We ordered about 6 different Dim Sums to share for 3 people. The food was exquisite. It was as good as any dim sum that we have had in top end restaurants while we visited China. They were perfectly cooked, great flavors and spice sauces, sweet or spicy, were perfect. The service was fast and excellent and made a great welcoming to our visit in the area. The sticky rice was perfect, the green beans with pork were excellent and even the vegetarian dishes were delicious. This is a place you do not want to miss. Unfortunately, Dim Sum is only prepared a lunch time.
Located in Palo Alto, this popular Chinese restaurant serves good dim sum, Cantonese cuisine. There are private rooms for large groups, and dishes are enjoyable.
Delicious!
(Translated by Google) If you can play negative points, you must give this one - 5 stars! He tried the refreshments of hundreds of Cantonese restaurants on both sides of the United States. If this one is the worst, there must be no one who is too good to fight with it. The rotten place is: 1, the food is messed up, Chaozhou naked fruit actually joined the soy sauce? And the taste is messy. 2, see people take attitude, suspected of discrimination. I was dining alone, and with the two-person table next to me, the two had already started to order food. But no one gave Menu! Just because the two are Korean women with white? After two requests, someone dropped Manu on the table. 3, the price is very high! I only spent four desserts for nearly forty dollars. These foods are almost $20 in Los Angeles. And in New York it is just $30. In short, if you want to come here to eat, you don't have to have any expectations. The psychological preparation of “filling your stomach is good” may make you and your relatives and friends a little pleasant and good luck.(Original)如果可以打负分，俺一定给这里个—5星！俺在美国东西两岸尝试过上百家广东酒楼的茶点。这一家如果说是最烂的，肯定没有谁好意思与它争更烂。烂的地方是：1，食品乱做，潮州裸果里面竟然加入老抽？且味道杂乱。2，看人采取态度，疑似歧视。俺是一个人用餐，与随俺之后入座的二人座邻桌，那二人已经开始点食物了俺这里却没人给Menu！只因为那二人是高丽女配白佬？经过俺两次要求后才有人将Manu丢在俺桌上。3，价钱奇高！俺只点了4个点心花了近四十美金。这几样食物在洛杉矶$20就差不多了。而在纽约也就是$30而已。总之，如果你想来这里用餐，不必抱有任何期待，“填饱肚子便好”的心理准备可能会使你和亲友们会产生些许愉快，祝好运。
Tai Pan is our go to spot to Chinese take out although it’s a very nice restaurant with high end decor and service. Kids love the pot stickers and the dim sum is awesome but every dish is always good.
Lovely atmosphere, spacious and quiet interior. Very attentive service and very good food. We had dim sum, five dishes that were all delicious.
Ate here for the first time at the suggestion of a friend. Pretty inside but quite formal looking. We had 3 dishes...appetizer lettuce wraps that were ok but needed some spice or duck sauce like on moo shu pork but was quite bland. Next we had shrimp dumpling soup. Got 2 cups which we thought was one order but turns out it was 2 orders at $12 each! The dumplings were delicious with 4 in each bowl but the broth was quite tasteless, even after we added soy sauce (that we had to ask for). Our 3rd dish was noodles with seafood. Lots of crunchy noodles with 2 shrimp and a few pieces of scallops and calamari. Had several baby boy Choi on it. Again, no flavor. Maybe we just like the spiciness of other Chinese restaurants but the cooking here left us feeling quite blah. Price for these 3 dishes, $61 plus tip.
this is a dim sum place where you mark a sheet rather than having carts pushed around, which i think is what makes it upscale? we were a party of 25 people split into a table of 15 and a table of 10, so many dishes were sampled. our vegetarians and non-shellfish eaters were very happy--lots for them to sample. (the pea shoots with garlic were outstanding.) i recall shrimp dumplings (i am a shellfish eater) and shu mai, and soinach/seafood cumplings, and salt and pepper calamari, and lord knows what else--it's all a blur but at the end we were very full and very happy.