Taiwanese rice dishes and oolong tea

Taiwan milk tea, 14 yuan/Photos provided by Mellow Tea

 

By Annie Wei

The number of Taiwanese restaurants in town has kept up with Beijing’s growing Taiwanese population. On the inexpensive end of the spectrum is Mellow Tea, known for sumptuous meals and refreshing tea drinks.

Office workers love its rice meals, which come in 10 varieties. Our favorite is stewed pork with rice (22 yuan), a classic Taiwanese dish of pork chunks that are first browned then stewed in a fragrant, soy-based sauce until tender.

Stewed beef and potato with red wine sauce and rice (25 yuan) is cooked in non-alcoholic “red wine” and tastes really creamy. Steamed chicken drumstick with soy sauce and rice (25 yuan) is chicken meat than is marinated and then steamed.