Ordered fried lamb, 3-cup chicken, Hakka style stir-fry. Below average Taiwanese dishes, but pricy. Lot of fat in both the lamb dish and the Hakka dish, half of which are trashed. The chicken dish is too dry and not well cooked with lots of bone, fat and skin. Vegetables in all dishes are not fresh and hard to chew like grass. Not recommend. Not going any more. Seattle should have much better Taiwanese / Chinese food than this.
This place is great! The popcorn chicken smells so good in the car and I totally should’ve finished it before it gets cold! The tofu dish is also so yummy and authentic. Loved all the pork dishes! Will definitely come back for more!
(Edit 1/30: the owner reached out to us and offered a make up meal for ourIssues last order. I’m revising to 4* because of customer service. Still imperfections on the second order, but I appreciate their effort to care for customers. I had their pork chop and rice, which was delicious. My wife has issues with sauce containing an allergy ingredient, but they rectified that.With a take-out order business, we rely on staff to get the order right, or at least call to disambiguate an allergy. Customers aren’t sitting in the store to have their order corrected. We have to drive back to the restaurant and pick up.)Didn’t enjoy the beef noodle soup with “thick noodles” for my New Years Eve dinner. Noodles were dried, and then reboiled. However, when they arrived to me they weren’t completely rehydrated.I had to finish cooking the noodles myself, and even then, they tasted terrible. I threw the noodles out and saved the soup for my own fresh noodles.For the money spent, and the reputation of the restaurant, I would expect fresh made noodles.Many other restaurants in the area serve fresh noodles, not rehydrated noodles for a signature dish.
Facing East is a great place for taiwanese food. Their beef and pork are some of the best I've had in Bellevue. I highly recommend the braised pork and beef noodle soup in particular. I didn't enjoy the Hakka style stir fry, but that was an adventurous choice on my part.Note that the location recently moved from downtown Bellevue to a couple miles east.
This restaurant used to be one of my favorites in downtown Bellevue (as an affordable, decent and lovely place to dine-in / buy takeout). Since a couple months back they moved to this new location on Bel-Red, they have switched to a take-out only operational model (no dine-in option completely). Their cost of operations has clearly dropped (smaller store rental, a more remote location as opposed to the prime downtown location, and drastically reduced staffing level), but their dish prices have gone up significantly (and the portion seems to have reduced too). Look, I'm keenly aware of the inflation and the challenges for restaurants to stay afloat for the past 2 years. But the way they have changed their operating model and prices didn't come across as sincere / caring for their customers.Not sure if it's the impression or what, the dish flavor seems to also fade a little (moving from above-average to just so-so), particularly considering their new price point and the location (distance that we have to drive to pickup) they are in now.As such, I'm not sure if we'd be back to this restaurant. Hence the 3 star rating. There are quite a few new restaurants (Taiwanese restaurants) in similar distance /perimeters with same / better cooks and lower price point (or bigger portion).A bit disappointing to see them going down this path. But happy to see more Chinese restaurants popping up all over the east side with high quality similar / alternative food options.
The quality went downhill (and the quantity also shrinked by a lot) after moving to this takeout-only location. It used to be much better. I was shocked to hear them say that there will be no dine in, ever. The plaza is also nasty. Just one tiny takeout window among other auto body shops. I cannot understand what did the owner of Facing East was thinking, by making this absurd decision and ruining a well established brand - switching to takeout-only and moving to an unfriendly location.
Blow your mind good! The pork bun is absolutely a must! One our favorite new places.
Every time we visit family in Seattle we make it a point to stop here for top-quality, mouth-watering Taiwanese food. We love the beef rolls, salted egg pumpkin, haka chow fun, gua bao, beef noodle soup, and sliced braised beef. They make better Taiwanese food than most spots we have here in California and we always rave about them to everyone we know when we go home. Their food never fails to hit the spot when we're craving authentic Taiwanese cuisine. Just fyi, they are currently doing take-out only but rest-assured everything still tastes amazing when you get home.
I ordered delivery through an app, but it was well packaged and delicious for the most part. The only unsettling thing was the legs remaining on the shrimp, which I've genuinely never seen even with extensive travel through the Asian Pacific and--for me--kind of ruined my appetite a little.That seems more like a flaw on my part than a real issue with the food, so I'll only knock a star off for it because I can't imagine the majority of people wanting to see them on their shrimp and its a pretty simple step in the prepping proces to remove.
My wife and I had the pork burger, the twice cooked beef shank with leeks and fresno chilies, the soy flavored chicken with fresh basil, and the braised pork stew over rice. All were delicious. The only complaint I have about this restaurant is that the parking is tough.