Tao Tao Noodle Bar

This place is good, but you have to be careful of what you order. I'm one of those people who is constantly searching for authentic Chinese and other Asian cuisine- so it's not that I'm afraid of "weird" food. Most people really love this place and call it authentic but I personally find China Jade to be far superior. Their hot and sour soup (and I like to think this means something because it is one of my favorite foods and I try it everywhere) is just OK. I have never had a craving for it and personally would rather eat a bowl from PF Chang's (don't hate on the chains, that one has good H&S soup). The beef with pickled vegetables IS very good and authentic, although I'm not crazy about the sweetness- would have been just as good simply sour. The one thing I've had there that I absolutely didn't like was this "spicy" chicken dish. It was NOT spicy (even though I'm white so they specifically asked me if I could handle the heat and I said yes) and the chicken was still attached to what appeared to be vertebrae. If you're going to be eating with chopsticks, while the right size, this is not how you serve chicken. What am I supposed to do? Put the whole thing in my mouth, eat the chicken and spit out the bone? No good. I do have to say the flavor was nice though. It would even have been redeemable if there was enough flavor/sauce on the chicken to get the rice wet. It is a cute little place and a lot of Asians frequent it if that's how you judge your Asian restaurants. I may go back in the future to try their beef noodle soup, which i hear is good.