A Fabulous Cantonese Restaurant with World Class Cuisine & Service near Taipei 101
I was invited to attend a small gathering party of 10 people
to experience excellent roast duck in Taipei.
I love roast duck, and have reviewed a few others in my past blogs, but
I must say this was simply the best I have ever had in Taiwan.
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Our Host Chef Jackfy Chan and Chef Eason Yang
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| Chang Ju's signature dish Roast Duck!!!! |
Chang Ju is so easy to get to. Just take the MRT to Taipei Main Station and
take Exit No. 3. As you exit, turn right
and take the stairs down to level B1 and you are there. This restaurant is just a few minutes walk
from Taipei 101.
From the moment I walked into this restaurant coming from
outside in the rain, I was impressed.
This is a gorgeous, modern, ultra clean restaurant with a very nice
ambience and well decorated. There are
impressive wall hangings and paintings everywhere.
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| Restaurant Lobby |
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| Servers Station Area |
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| One of several Dining areas |
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| Beautiful Wall Hangings |
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| Our Private Dining Room |
We were escorted to a large private room
that was also well decorated where we met our friend and host, Jackfy Chen, a
famous Cantonese chef that currently is the head chef and Executive Director of
the Ming Yue Xuan restaurant in Taichung City, Taiwan.
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| Chef Jackfy waiting for more guests to arrive |
As the guests started to arrive, we had the opportunity to also meet our chef for the evening, Eason Yang, Operating Officer of the Chang Ju
Restaurant.
Also attending including Jackfy’s friend, Chef Huang, an
award winning International chef; Kelin, Marketing Consultant; Nina, Famous
Blogger; Leo, Information Center Manager; Pinhsin, Successful Business Woman;
I-Fang, Artist; plus Ruby and Fen, Co-Owners of a successful food company.
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| We're all here now |
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| 3 Famous Chefs: Guest Chef Huang, Chang Ju's Chef Yang and our Host Chef Chan |
Of course we opened a few bottles of special drinks
including two well-aged Scottish Whiskies.
As the many courses began being served to our large round
table, I was anxious to taste the food being served.
The first serving was scrumptious sliced
barbecued pork, a signature dish at the restaurant. What made this dish so special was crispy
sweet topping over the pork. This was followed
by a tasty deep fried tofu that melted in your mouth and then a spring roll
full of luscious mushrooms and vegetables.
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| Tofu |
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| Signature Dish Crispy Roast Pork |
Next was a pan/stir fried dish of fish cubes and sliced
onions and vegetables. This fish was
very soft and tender. I loved it. Also served was a dish of fried shrimp in an
XO sauce and cilantro and then stir fried loofah vegetable with clams and mixed
mushrooms.
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| Stir Fry Fish |
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| Fried Shrimp |
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| Stir fried loofah vegetable with clams and mixed
mushrooms |
Ahh, the chef brought out the roasted duck and presented it
to us at the table. He then took the
duck and carved it table side and prepared generous servings of rolled duck
pancakes with sauce, green onion and baby sliced cucumber. Oh My God, this was simply fabulous. The pancakes were delicate and thin, and the
duck had a crispy skin with just a little fat and lots of meat. So Delicious!!!!
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| Our chef carving the roast duck |
Next was another one of my favorites….. Sweet and Sour fried
pork with a generous amount of sliced pineapple, green pepper and onions. The sweet and sour sauce was so tasty, that I
did help myself to several portions of this dish.
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| Sweet & Sour Pork |
We were then pleasantly surprised to see and taste another
signature dish of “Selected Beef” rolled and cooked in braided rice leafs with
sweet potato and broccoli. This beef was
so deliciously tender and most and went well with a beef sauce served with the
dish.
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| Select Beef......Unique and Gorgeous cooking style and presentation |
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| This beef was so juicy and tender !!! |
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| Adding a little Beef sauce to the meat |
One of my favorite Cantonese dishes is steamed cod or “catch
of the day”. This fish was served over a
lite soy sauce, garnished with lots of sliced green onions. This fish was so tender and delightful, that I
had to have several helpings of this marvelous tasting fish.
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| Steamed Fish in Soy Sauce |
The final dish before the desserts was a very special noodle
soup with meat from our roasted duck.
Everyone so much enjoyed this wonderful soup!
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| Noodle Soup with meat from our Roast Duck! |
For dessert, they first served us hot Red Bean Soup then
delicious sweet and creamy steamed buns.
Of course the last course is almost always fresh fruit and we were
served watermelon, dragon fruit and guava.
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| Delicious Red Bean Dessert |
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| Very Tasty Steamed Sweet Buns |
What a marvelous culinary feast we had.
We had wonderful dishes, superb tastes
Cantonese style, and exciting dishes I have never eaten before.
If you love great Chinese & Cantonese
food, this is a must place to eat downtown Taipei!
Thank You Chef Jackfy Chan !!!!!
Bravo Chef Yang !!!!!
Chang Ju Cantonese
Restaurant
B1 No. 25 Section 4,
Renai Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Phone: 02-2751-6116
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