Jo Jo Taipei
103 Brighton Ave, Allston, MA, 02134
Jo Jo Taipei Menu
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Haiwanese Speciality Appetizers
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Soup
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Haiwnese Special Noodles Soups & Rice Dish
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Grilled And Fried Dishes
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Homemade Flour Corner
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Haiwanese Speciality Appetizers
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Soup
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Haiwnese Special Noodles Soups & Rice Dish
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Grilled And Fried Dishes
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Homemade Flour Corner
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Address :
103 Brighton Ave
Allston, MA, 02134 - Phone (617) 254-8889
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Opening Hours
- Mon :11:30 am - 11
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch, Dinner
Parking : Street
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
Categories
Chinese Cuisine
The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.
Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.
There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.
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Lindley E.
I've been craving oyster pancake for a few years now. Really craving oyster pancake. There's nothing quite like great oyster pancake - sauteed greens on the bottom, egg and starch pancake, ketchup-ginger sauce - it's Taiwan streetfood at its' finest. And at Jo Jo Taipei, it is the very first item on the menu. Oh Jo Jo, I could kiss you. Let me be perfectly honest: the oyster pancake here is good, but not great, and that's true of just about everything I tried here. Everything I tried was very tasty, but I've had better in other cities, even at other RIP Boston establishments. That being said, I'd recommend Jo Jo TaiPei in a heartbeat. We started out with the complimentary snacks - spicy edamame, a little bit of sweet pickled cabbage, and some peanuts (they also offered up seitan and mushrooms, pig's ear and beef tongue). We tried the Taiwanese hot & sour soup (a new vice - I used to never order it but in my old age I've decided I can't live without it) which had a ton of white pepper heat, tasted bright & fresh, and was full of tofu, mushrooms, and eggs. The aforementioned pancake was delicious, but not the best I've had, and instead of sauteed greens, was served on sauteed lettuce. We then had san bei ji - three cup chicken (one of my favorites), kon shin sai (chinese watercress), and some orange shrimp thing. All were very good. Very good, not great. Flavors weren't bright enough, sauces weren't saucy enough, greens were slightly overcooked. That being said, it was absolutely delicious and we both agreed we'd go back to try more things. Service was well-intentioned and nice, if a bit fumbling and awkward. Sometimes they spoke in Mandarin to us, sometimes English. It didn't much matter. We got the gist of it. I'll have to go back and try some of the dumplings and the other categories on the menu. We just scratched the surface with this visit.
(4)Jennafir E.
If I was on death row and had to choose my final meal, JoJo's spring rolls would be front and center. Seriously, Can spring rolls be any better? I think not. Sadly for 7 dollars, you only get 2. Overpriced yes, but worth well beyond every penny spent. Yes, they are THAT good. The beef teriyaki was cold and on lettuce, which took away some of the deliciousness. I've had better, but it was inedible. The lo mien was a thicker noodle than you would get at most Chinese places, which was a different texture I was use to, but it was still great. The pork fried rice was flavorful and addicting. The crab Rangoon was missing the crab. It seemed due to overcooking. My bf had a few pieces hoping it was a terrible mistake, only to throw 2/3 of the box away due to a lack of crab. We did delivery through mixed menu, as they don't deliver from JoJo's. I plan to return as it is the best Chinese in Allston, so far.
(4)Frank S.
Probably the best Taiwanese place in Boston. They open usually until midnight for those late night munchies. Jean is great and very open to suggestions and new ideas. Their vegetable dishes remind me of homemade food my mother used to make (watercress and A-tzai(?)). Hopefully, next time they can get a liquor license and we can get some Taiwan Beer!
(5)Busy L.
Been here twice and very good and consistent. A nice alternate to the cantonese style in Chinatown. Dumpling House and Taiwan Cafe in Chinatown are also very good.
(4)Michael M.
this place has potential. they've been open for a couple months and they are PACKED! we went on a tuesday night around 8:30 and we had to wait for a bit. we looked at the menu and they had some stuff i had never seen before. we ordered a few apps and also our dishes around 8:45. strange, we waited for about 20 minutes and we finally got 1 order of 2 of the same app. waited another 10 minutes and asked the waitress what the holdup was, she wasn't sure either. we know the place was packed and sometimes the kitchen was backed up but at least give us more apps. she came back out and said the kitchen messed up and never got the order. wtf?? she said she put the order into the computer and they never got it. at that point i don't care who screwed the pooch, we just want our food asap. she apologized and got the order in. our whole table was like "what are you going to do about this??" we didn't get an answer. the manager came by and said sorry too. we finally get our foods another 15 minutes later. the food itself was alright. the stinky tofu was actually not that stinky (not a good thing). the veggies were pretty tasty but portion was a little on the skimpy side. the 3 cup pot was pretty flavorful. i like the deep fried battered eggplant but my girlfriend said it reminded her of fake chinese food. the manager did bring out an order of stinky tofu (of another kind, a little more stinky) and said was making up for being the blunder. ok, that's cool of them. the item i liked the most was the fried buns with condensed milk. really good...crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. drizzled with condensed milk. yummmmmm. $4 for 4 small buns...not the great bang for the buck but if you want to try something different and good, go for it. afterwards, they brought out the shaved ice dessert. it has a bunch of stuff in there you find in other asian desserts like tapioca, pearls, jelly, condensed milk, sweet beans, etc. the ice itself is more like italian ice consistancy. it was alright...a bit pricy. i'd rather go to fun food snackery down the block for some better shaved ice. the place would have gotten 3 stars regardless...nothing really wowed me (except for the buns). decor was a little dim. waiters were pretty friendly though didn't seem fully capable of handling a busy place. i would try another place before i'd go back.
(3)Ann C.
nicely decorated for a chinese restaurant. oops my bad, i mean taiwanese restaurant. it's clean too! taiwanese cuisine is still very new to me but i love their soup dumplings and they have the shaved ice dessert. also, during dinner time- servers come around offering you what looks like marinated beef tendons - but be aware! it's not free! theyll charge you for it. they also have stinky tofu but i havent had it yet but it really does stink.
(3)Mary M.
I had to throw in an update, because right now Jo Jo Taipei has a New Year's menu which is worth a visit all by itself. We had another fabulous meal last night featuring sugarcane-smoked chicken -- woohoo! This menu probably won't last for much longer, so get it while you can!
(5)Sham Y.
I took a date here. I've had better but it was pretty solid-especially as an introduction to Taiwanese food. Not bad but not spectacular.
(3)Fortress A.
This place wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. We had chive flowers with dried tofu slices, there were strands of chive flowers mixed with copious amount of tofu slices and lots of oil which makes this simple exciting dish not so exciting.:( Then we had mala niu zha, which tastes almost exactly like a hot pot paste that we get from our grocery store when we try to make hot pot at home.:( Then the stuffed eggplant...I have always had that dish with a really thin layer of flour batter on the outside of each stuffed eggplant, but here, basically your first bite would almost be completely batter... and they had a Vietnamese type of dipping sauce for this dish, which is also new to me. Over all I was really disappointed about this dish, because I usually love anything with eggplant. Then we had the sugar cane chicken which was very good, just light enough for the flavors to go in the meat but not too salty or greasy. I will probably come back to try something else next time.
(3)fallon n.
My friends and I stopped in here for dinner after a meeting. The food is ok to good but no super stellar fantastic I have to come back for more type of restaurant. We ordered sweet and sour ribs, steamed buns, tomato, ginger shrimp, and spicy beef noodles. Most of the food was good. However, the restaurant was one of the rudest places I have been to. I first like to say I'm Chinese and I'm use to the bad service, and help your self attitude because we all are here really for the food. I was outraged when my friend and I went to the counter to pay the bill, and the cashier kept insisting that we did NOT pay ENOUGH TIPS, and she was asking for MORE TIP money. I could not believe what she was asking, and I had to tell her that TIPS are to be earned and not DEMANDED and infront of all her own guests in the waiting area. First of all there wasn't any service to warrant a 20% customary tip money: i had to get my own napkins and walk up from the table to get my friend some silverware. They ignored us from the time we walked in. The very end she angrily says "Happy Chinese Year"
(1)S C.
My sister brought me here once a few months ago. Then my parents decided to go the other night and their food is consistently good. Fairly authentic Taiwanese dishes. The salted fried chicken has really good flavour but it'd be better boneless. I would definitely recommend the stinky tofu! It's just stinky enough. :) Can't get enough of the oyster pancakes. They lost a star for service because it takes a while to get the attention of the wait staff, but the food is definitely worth the wait.
(4)Laura T.
Come here with lots of friends because you'll want to order everything on the menu. The xiao long bao (soupy dumplings) are a must order. Other good apps are the Scallion Pancake and the Pancakes with Roasted Beef. When it comes to the entrees, you can't go wrong with the Beef and Cilantro, Ja Jun Noodles, Szechuan Style Fish, and the Three Cup Chicken or Tofu. Don't forget to leave room for dessert-the Large Shaved Ice easily feeds 6 people. Smaller plates are about $4-6 while Entrees run around $8-12. Oh, and the service is incredibly fast.
(5)Domino P.
Forget my good review from before. All I can think about my last visit here is that Gordon Ramsey would have a meltdown if he experienced the rudeness we were met with today! A waiter, who knows we go there all the time, seated me and my friend came in 30 seconds later and signaled the waitress from across the room to ask if we could switch to the corner table with the bench. She coldly approved the move. The waiter then came over with water and proceeded to condescendingly scold us like we were employees. He claimed that the table we were at was for 2 and the new table was for four and we can't just "walk into a restaurant and change seats unless we got his permission". Um, we're the customers, dude. I was shocked but I did manage to point out that both tables were exactly the same size and the first table (that he claimed was "for 2, maximum 3 people") had four chairs. I felt like I was being both scolded and bullsh**ted all in one. If I wasn't so blown away by how jerky this guy was, I would have also pointed out that there were about 20 empty 4 tops. I seriously wished I had a hidden camera so I could send this footage to Gordon Ramsey because he'd fly right over and make this his next project. Needless to say, we got right up and walked out of there! We headed over the Blue Asia and the contrast was amazing. We had a great lunch with awesome service, as usual! I'm never setting foot in JJT again unless it's as a secret shopper to bust them being jerks. **************************************************Â** Review from before the waiter was a jerk. too bad the food is so good and the service is so poor. I do want to add that I overlooked the rudeness of the waitress the first time we went to JJT, but she wasn't bad at all compared to the above. I lived in Hong Kong for 3 years when I was in Junior High so I'm pretty picky about any type of Chinese cuisine. This is Taiwanese and that is generally considered the holy grail of Chinese food. Jojo Taipei is really good, especially compared to any other Chinese restaurant I've been to in the Northeast, except for Blue Asia next door which is amazing. Favorites: shimp and vermicelli w/ curry powder, spicy lamb and spicy bamboo shoot app (you have to really like spicy), and chicken and sour cabbage. DON'T get the fried ice cream. It's not that great and the cherry tasted like garlic. I don't care much about dessert so I don't judge a restaurant by desert (unless they are famous for it). The reason I'm not giving JoJo Taipei 5 stars is because the A-vegetable is too oily and Blue Asia's is so much fresher tasting. There are so so many great things on the menu at JJT that I think I could keep going there for years and not get sick of the food!
(1)R.G. W.
I like Jo Jo Taipei: The restaurant is clean; the menu is well organized and understandable (whether or not you speak/read Chinese, or have eaten Taiwanese food before); there's a wide variety of dishes; and most importantly, everything is very tasty. Unfortunately when we went, there was some price trickery going on... our waitress offered us our choice of small dishes before ordering; we thought it was on the house, only to find that we'd been charged for each dish later. Nevertheless, I want to go back and try a bunch of other things that looked good. The restaurant reminds me a little bit of Shanghai Gate which is nearby and is also one of my favorite places to eat.
(4)Zizzles A.
Jo Jo Taipei is a lot like Shanghai Gate in decor and in its place in the spectrum of Chinese flavors. Don't be fooled by light and dark brown sauces, the food here is not rich, nor heavily seasoned with salt or msg. Cornstarch basically doesn't exist here so when you're finished with your meal, you don't feel the usual bouts of lethargy and malaise. If only my beloved Cantonese food could have a restaurant this consistent (I guess for specific dishes, there are some quite outstanding options) in Boston! Until that happens, Jo Jo Taipei and Shanghai Gate will remain my two favorite Chinese restaurants in the Boston area. I went for a weekend lunch, so they had a few fried dim sum pastries that I gather are normally not on the menu. They had turnip turnovers, and others that looked reasonably similar to dimsum offerings. I didn't try any, but did order the seaweed salad, which has more cucumbers than most Japanese versions I have had, cold cuttle fish, and the complimentary pickled cabbage and peanuts. The peanuts are roasted perfectly, and those were really delicious. The seaweed salad was good and refreshing, as was the cabbage. the cuttlefish had great flavor and texture, but were really salty, and rather difficult to eat without rice, which hadn't come at that point. The XLB look just like the ones at Ding Tai Feng. They're tiny, and bite sized, which I generally prefer, as it offers a little more skin to filling ratio so I don't feel like I'm eating a gigantic meatball. While I still prefer the simple, shanghai style ones at Wing's, these will have to do if the Ding Tai Feng XLB are what you crave. The filling was delicate and tender, and it was very tasty overall. The Cong Bao lamb was by far the weakest dish of the meal, but even then it wasn't terrible. The lamb wasn't marinated long enough or perhaps it wasn't cooked at a high enough temperature. It was mostly flavorless. The sauce was delicate, and again, different from a standard, really dark sauced but lightly dressed mainland version. The sauce here is lighter, much less salty, and the lamb was soaked in it. The eggplant with basil had wonderful basil aroma, and despite it's dark brown sauce that suggests a heavy amount of soy sauce, it was really light in flavor and not salty at all. The eggplants were perfectly cooked to a tenderness that allowed all of that basil aroma to permeate the flesh. The 3 cups chicken was quite delicious, especially the braising broth. The chicken itself was tender chunks of bone in dark meat (mostly). It's lightly sweet and has a little bit of a rich sesame nuttyness. Again it was not too salty at all. The whole meal was just so easy to pick at and scarf down. It's one of the few chinese meals I've had in the US where I only needed one bowl of rice to counteract the salt and msg. My parents wanted the shaved ice desert despite my protests, but I was pleasantly surprised by the bow bin. Bao Bing in China usually involves nasty artificial syrups mixed in with frozen red beans. Bleh. This though, is quite good. I don't think condensed milk was listed as an ingredient, but I could have sworn I saw some. There is no fruit to speak of in the Bow Bin. It's shaved ice topped with tapioca balls, green beans, red beans, some yellow gelatin/tapioca chunks and taro. A lightly sweet, mollassy brown syrup seeps into the bottom of the shaved ice. Many of the items on top are naturally sweet, like the taro and the tapioca bits. I think they add the beans as is, not sweetened at all, so the only added sugar comes from the syrup and the condensed milk topping. This isn't what I would call decadent, but it is so delicious and supremely craveable. A small held off me and both my parents. The prices are reasonable as well. They're about the same as the nicer C town joints. I must come back. to this place...soon.
(5)youngmi a.
love jo jo taipei! i've been here for weekend brunch, lunch, and dinner and it's almost always packed but service is friendly, speedy, and accurate. definitely order the "a" vegetable; it's garlicky, crisp, and light. my other favs include scallion pancakes and rice noodles with mustard greens. the rice noodles aren't actually noodles but sliced rice cakes also known as dduk to koreans. my boyfriend always gets the sausage which comes out with raw slices of garlic. feeling brave? try the crispy smelly bean curd AKA stinky tofu. it's not as smelly as the stinky tofu that you find in taiwanese night markets but still stinky. if you're not too full, order the shaved ice for dessert. a mountain of ice, red beans, grass jelly, sweet green beans, boba, and sweetened condensed milk. amazing on hot summer days.
(5)miranda z.
it's my first time to try jo jo taipei,i love it so much, definitely gonna come back more often.everything we order is awesome,especially the lamb, and soup....and i love their special tea,it tastes good and it's good for the health and skin. recommend it to all the ladies..... to be honest, it's the best taiwanese restaurant in boston. A cute girl called "lucy" is our server today, she's so pretty, cute, and outgoing,love her so much..... btw, make sure if have cash when you go to this place,cuz if you pay cash,u gonna get 10% off.......
(5)fraulein v.
Amazing! Great! Never had a bad meal. They let you choose mini appetizers for free, and they have tons of veggie dishes.
(5)Jonathan J.
I'm Cantonese, so I have limited knowledge of Taiwanese food. With that caveat, Jo Jo Taipei was quite good. The four of us shared an order of xiao leung bao, three cups tofu, cilantro beef, and those dry noodles with bean sauce whose name I can't remember. All of them were great, though the dry noodles could have used a touch more flavor. Everyone in the restaurant was Chinese and Mandarin-speaking, which I viewed as a good thing. We didn't have any of the desserts, but we saw a few of the shaved ice plates at other tables and they looked *intense*. Very big with many various toppings (kind of like Korean patbingsoo). The service was pretty brusque, but it was a pretty authentic Chinese restaurant so that is par for the course. It also seemed like all of the waiters were wearing visors (though not matching ones) for some reason. We ended up paying about $15 per person, so it was mid-priced. Overall, I was pretty impressed since I normally don't associate Boston with great Chinese food and I was definitely satisfied leaving Jo Jo Taipei.
(4)Elizabeth J.
Good "buns". I'ved eaten here a couple of times.
(3)Melissa Y.
Great food and menu! I definately want to keep coming back until I've tried everything on the menu. My favorites...3 cups chicken and shredded pork with bean paste.
(4)Qiang W.
the waitresses there were so arrogant
(1)Jean C.
never disappoints... everything is good, especially their desserts.
(5)Sunny K.
I've been to Jo Jo many times, sometimes going every Saturday, and everytime, the food has been awesome. Service would sometimes be slow but never enough to really affect me. However, the last time I went, the service was so terrible, that I just had to log in and write a review. When we were waiting to be seated, we noticed that the restaurant was crowded and full. However, after ten minutes of waiting for a table, we saw the crowd diminish as customers were finishing up their meals and leaving. A waitress came by and cleaned up those tables. That left about 5-6 open tables that were CLEAN. Yet we were still not seated. After walking by us a third time, the waiter remembered us and took us to our seats. We didn't take long to decide what we wanted to eat and waited for the waiter to come over and take our order. He never came. Each time we tried to catch his attention, he'd be rushing by to clean up a table, or to set up a new table. By this point, the restaurant was barely half full and all of the customers already had been served their meals. We saw that our waiter was setting up empty tables with new plates and glasses... Even though there was no one waiting to be seated and we were sitting there with our orders not yet been taken. At one point he rushed by, looked at me, and nodded. Which I took to be a sign that he did see us catching his attention and was going to come to us and take our order. Nope. 20 minutes later, after many tries to get his attention and the attention of another waitress, we decided to leave. It was only at that point that our waiter noticed us. He didn't even acknowledge that we were leaving or to say sorry for the wait. He just looked at us and then went back to setting up the empty tables even though there was STILL no one waiting in line! As much as I loved this restaurant, this bad service turned me off from ever returning. You lost a good customer, Jo Jo.
(1)J L.
I went to this place after hearing about the famous smelly beancurd. my bf and I went there with high hopes even though he insists that there is no good Taiwanese food out there because of 2 bad experiences. We were utterly disappointed because the waitresses put couple of appetizer dishes on our table before we order anything and charged us for them.!! I mean I thought there were free since she just placed them on our table. Anyways, we tried the smelly bean curd and wanted to cancel the rest of our orders. It was neither smelly (stinky) nor tasty at all!...So much for a 6 dollar dish...by the way I think everything on the menu is overpriced for that kind of quality! The spicy beef noodle soup i ordered wasn't even spicy at all, all I taste is saltiness and this weird herbal flavor. Stay away from most of the stuff on the menu. that's not even the worst part. The smoothie wasnt smooth at all and the green bean one had a burnt taste to it. I thought I ordered a roasted green bean milkshake. When we saw the bill in the end, we were shocked to find out that it came up to over 50 dollars for 2 people. wow! I don't think I will go back unless I'm starving and that's the only place open.
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