My fave dim sum! Cheaper and better service than Koi Palace, more variety and better quality than King Wah, and less crowded than either place. I went with my friend who is a vegetarian (why would you get dimsum if you don't eat meat...?), but they actually had a lot of tasty vegetarian options - friend tofu, stuffed mushrooms, leek dumplings - and they were almost worth the extra calories. Almost.

I don't know why I haven't been here sooner since I live so close but they have my favs: Porridge with the preserved duck egg and duck with those steamed buns! YES. Very happy. Tea was watered down, but I don't care if the food is good!

Dim sum! Never seems to get old when you're Chinese!Came here with the fam. There were ladies going around with the cart, but we prefer ordering off the paper. Service is kinda slow though - I don't know if it's because they have to make our orders individually but all our orders came out at random times. At least they were hot and fresh.All the food was pretty good. I didn't really have a complaint about anything. I got my usuals of any dish with shrimp, sui mai and turnip cake. I also tried a scallop dumpling, which was pretty pricey and the dumpling was okay but the broth was soo good! Pour me just a cup of that!Overall, service was spotty, but the food was good. I'd probably end up back here eventually.

Great place! Food is on par (and sometimes better) than Koi and the service is great! Everyone is very friendly and quick to serve you!

There is a fine line between hiring adequate staff and making a profit with minimal over worked staff. This place is just right. I could go on about how great the food is but I wont because the food is suppose to be good. I could talk about the prices too but there isn't a reason to talk about how cheap or expensive it is.I like it because of the service. There is never a shortage of wait staff bringing food to the tables. They are polite and the restaurant is clean. That is huge for me.By the way, the food is really good too. Daly City? King Plaza? What...? Never would have thought.

I was here with my family on a Sunday morning for dim sum. Man, it was BUSY outside, but we sat in the VIP room so it was a little better. The only downside to being in the VIP rooms is that the waitresses come around with dim sum trays and shout at you like they are shouting outside in the main dining room and it is really annoying.But they have good shiu mai, fried milk, chicken feet, rice rolls, fresh noodles and REALLY good XO sauce.Would probably come back when I'm in the city!

The staff here is friendly, most of their dim sum are good to go so don't be afraid to try this place. Always come here to eat lunch on my days off, better come here early on the weekends or you will have to wait for a very long time. Dinner dishes are also good to go, try every plate on the menu majority of them will be to everyone's liking.

Best authentic chinese food in the area. Less pricey than koi palace, and tastes great.

The outside of the restaurant looks pretty dumpy, but the inside is really clean and it's not too big. I went here on a Friday afternoon to have a late lunch with the parentals, and I was not disappointed. The pan fried chive dumpings...YUM, a definite must try if you're there! I have to say this place is my new go to in Daly City.

What a valuable find this place was! It occupies a small corner space in King Plaza. There's a BBQ station by the door with several delectable looking roasted ducks hanging in the window. To the left is a small dining area which can accommodate about 30. There is a constant stream of food flying out of the kitchen, and staff maintaining the restaurant. Despite the wait for a seat, they are quite efficient in here with people not loitering at the tables. They have an extensive variety of yummy dishes ranging from seafood/meat variety clay pot, rice dishes, noodles, appetizers, vegetables and of course soup. Did I mention they offer hand made noodles too? I had the pleasure of the roasted duck noodle soup, loaded with roasted duck, bok choy and scallions. -pretty simple but very satisfying with the hand made noodles... The service is quite attentive too. Some of the ladies can be a bit crass by nature, but everyone maintains their friendliness in this loud, busy spot. Don't expect much in decor. It's casual and fast. It's all about the food in here.

I came here to eat lunch today. I ordered the "chicken and vegetable chow mein" It was very good with bok choy, carrots, and water chestnut. The price was $7.50, but they give big portions! (So it's worth it!) I recommend coming here if you want to have a big lunch (:

My brother-in-law brought us to this place for dinner. The decor is very nice for a Chinese restaurant. Service was really good. They replace your dinner plate when it gets a little dirty.The food was good. The beef was tender. The duck was really good. Crab was tender and fish was good. Overall I though to food was good not great but better than most Chinese food.

this is my second time here and my mom was impressed with their food.. i was too, and so was my dad! really fresh dim sum trays and they taste really good too, if youve been to any other dim sum places, theyre not as good. this one is fresh and the service is actually very good!i will definitely come back again and bring more people with me, finally i can reccomend good chinese food!oh! and theres lots of parking so no need to go all the way to chinatown for authentic dim sum.

Review for DinnerI highly do not recommend dinner here because it was a bit overpriced and the food is not the quality expected. The person who took my order was up selling many dishes to us that people probably would not order. As for the dinner, it was not what we expected where the sweet and sour pork chops were a bit dark, we also got a rock cod that did not seem to be fresh due to it being deep fried when it is steamed at most restaurants. We were also not able to order over a certain items on the menu because we have a small party, who does this anyways.

During Chinese New Year, it is hard to eat in this restaurant if you are not Chinese. BTW, I am Asian. I wanted to order a clay pot dish and was told the kitchen is busy and it will take a loooooong time. The waiter highly recommended beef in Maggi sauce - not good and portion was small. Other orders were: combination HK noodle - meh; Peking Duck $25 - maybe not newly cooked because some skin were not crispy; bokhoy with tofu & mushroom - bland. Overall, the food quality and service was bad. Waiters were quite friendly only with regular customers.This is quite sad because Tai Wu was much better for dimsum or dinner during ordinary times.Beware!

(+) the dim sum we ate was good(+) dim sum was served nice & hot(+) no wait for table; big restaurant(+) attached bakery, for "To-go" orders(+) really good hot sauce (wasn't "crazy rooster")

This place is ridiculous. They chase after other customers if they believe you didn't give enough tip. O_o Sorry, but that's shitty horrible customer service. 1 star for even giving semi decent food. Otherwise, not a place I'd go back to anytime soon.

Gave our reserved table away twicePoor serviceLong WaitPricyPoor tasting food

funny thing is we missed those ladies who push around carts and you can see what they have and decide if you want it or not....not really!!! this place hustled like no otherrrrr, LEAVE ME ALONEEEE. lolwe came around 10:15am on a Sunday, parking wasn't too bad. Grabbed a table easily for 7. Ordered tea and sat. Saw that there was a menu to mark off, but no need, ladies start bombarding you in every direction! (well some things you had to mark off)everything was pretty tasty I must say. Nothing was blah, except maybe the beef chern fun.no good, the shrimp one was yummier.it was a lil pricier than other dimsum places i felt.....but yea I'd come again, if only my mother would learn to say NO to those ladies!!

Came here for dim sum a few times and came here for dinner once. The place gets packed for breakfast because they are so much better than Dim Sum King and Filipinos love anything salty. Well if one happens to be in the area for Dim Sum, not bad of a choice. Dinner, there are so many other options especially considering the prices.

This review is for dim sum only. We arrived at 10:45AM on a Saturday and found a parking space right the way. The place was about half full. The last and only time I ate at Tai Wu was in the 90s and that was for dinner, so I didn't know what to expect.FOOD- Steamed beef tripe with ginger and scallion. The taste is right on!- Beef rice roll (cheung fun). Very thick rice roll, I didn't even want to give it a try. Bad!- Sticky fried rice. Looked really good but I'm just not a rice guy. I'll try that the next time.- Pork blood cakes with chives. Awesome! The blood cakes are firm and packed with favors. I wish they would put in more chives. It's about the best blood cake in the Bay Area!- Chinese donut wrapped in rice roll (jar leung). I don't understand why they could manage to messed up the cheung fun. The rice roll that to be used for both of these dishes are the same but this time it's nice and thin.- Beef ball. OMG, the color is in sadness pale. No!- Shark fin dumpling in soup (gurn tong gau, actually soup filled dumpling with shark fin but you know, it doesn't exist here in the US). First, go ahead and hate me, I like shark fin alright. Second, they're making it right except that the soup is inside out, of course, like I said at the beginning. I would definitely come back for this alone.- Clam porridge (hin jook). It took forever to come out after we ordered it but totally worth the wait. It's served in a hotpot. The clams were soft and the porridge base was smooth and full of clam favors. Other restaurants may serve this dish with scallions and deep fried dough pieces (bok chui) on the side as add-ons but this place came with scallions and pickled vegi (choi po). Though I was completely full I still finished two bowls. It's just that good.SERVICEVery prompt and quick on cleaning up finished dishes and refilling tea pot. I'm not a big fan on the old school dim sum cart pushing system tho. However, I appreciate the way the sim sum ladies sell their offerings.All in all, the food is a hit or miss. Why four stars? Because what they're doing great is truly great! Some dim sum restaurants are jack of all trades and I have no problem with that, like Dim Sum King. I am going to come back for this master of SOME!

Not a bad dim sum place but service is annoying as hell. How many times do I have to say no before I can convince the dim sum lady that I don't want her crap? I believe the dim sum servers are paid on commission so they really like to hustle here.

The place was packed at 11am on Sunday. Not a clean restaurant but food is decent. Very, very noisy as the restaurant has low ceilings - but hey, it's the busy sound of a tea house. Also good variety. Has the typical:- Har Guo- Sui Mai- Cheong Fun- Don TatAdditionally, the place has:- Fried Milk- Gum Jah (made with dried shrimp and diced vegetables- my mother makes it's better with pork belly and red bean paste). This is a rural Jong San dish.- Fried Pumpkin with Salted Egg- Po Tat (Portugese Egg Tart - Hung To Seafood makes it the best)They charge $1 per person for tea....as I said, the place is not very clean....take 1 star off for the lack of cleanliness.

For everyone who's wondering who Tai Wu and Mr.Fong is, Tai Wu is a place (or a lake, rather http://en.wikipedia.org/…), and Mr.Fong is...well some one from Tai Wu area with the last name Fong I guess. It's like Dorothy from Kansas, or LA Lakers.A solid dim sum place. Good tea and food, reasonable price, LARGE portion. It's really big for dim sum, so don't be greedy and order too much like I did.It's in this Chinese shopping plaza kinda area where every business is named after Tai Wu. It's a little bizarre even for a Chinese person. On the plus side, there are some pretty decent bakeries and a grocery store just like 99 ranch but cheaper.This place is about 10 minutes drive from Koi Palace. So if you are tired of waiting for 2 hours in Koi Palace, give this place a try. It's not as nice, but the difference in food quality is insignificant comparing to the wait time.The only gotcha is that it seems none of the servers speak anything other than Cantonese (not even Mandarin, except for the hostess). But since everything is on push carts, all you need to do is pointing at the things you want.

We had my cousin's graduation party here. It's in some random strip mall that's not that close to the highway, but I have no issue with the location because it's just another in a long line of those lengthy drives up from San Jose to visit a not-so-special restaurant that my uncle's family invites us out to. Check Yelp or something for once before you pick a restaurant, geez.Anyway, on to the stuff that you would care about. Decor is that of a typical Chinese restaurant. The service was alright in terms of bringing out dishes and responding to requests. However, I had a problem with the waiters continually bumping into me while reaching for something in the middle of the table. Also, they didn't bring us water refills, which is kinda the staple of asian restaurants, isn't it?Sadly, the food was mostly mediocre, and the biggest problem was that the honey walnut prawns - my favorite dish - were below average. It just didn't carry flavor, and some pieces were pretty mushy, which is not a good shrimp texture. The best dishes were the crispy chicken and the house special crab. The house BBQ combination platter was decent too, but pretty much everything else was disappointingly bland. Overall, I wouldn't want to come back here judging from the prices on the menu.

4 stars for dim sum. I have been here for years. After I moved to the area for about 4 years ago. I am here almost every weekend for dim sum with my parents. Find a parking spot is much harder compare to couple years ago. Couple times I had to park my car back to home after drop off my parents and walk back. Usually we get seated within 5 mins on Saturday (small table) Sunday is around 15-30 mins. Way better then Koi Palalce.3 stars for dinner. Just feel like their weren't that much choice for weeknight casual dinning.

This place has some very good dim sum........get there earlier to grab a table....Parking is a little tough because it is located in a shopping plaza and its packed on weekends....The dim sum variety is awesome and the food is very fresh, the one thing it does not lack is msg as in all dim sum....but tea will wash that away.....This is great for family style gatherings....

We had a "celebration of life" dinner at Tai Wu Restaurant for a large group of about 90 people after a recent funeral. I was not familiar with the place, so Yelped it for directions and an idea of what we were in for. We were pleasantly surprised with the food.Our banquet of 10 tables was served 9 or 10 dishes which included pork, chicken, fish, beef, vegetables, noodles and rice. We thought the food was very good as everything we ordered was very fresh and flavorful. The service was very good as well, with plenty of wait staff for our large group who were all attentive, polite and helpful.One observation that was made was regarding the restrooms. I know Chinese restaurants are notorious for never being very clean; however, the men's room at Tai Wu was absolutely disgusting. No need to explain in detail but they were in major need of attention. Scary!With that said, we thought the food was 4 stars out of 5, but wondering nervously how clean the kitchen might be after seeing the restrooms. So, being generous and hoping it was just a bad night for clean ups I'm giving them a 3.

i've only been to this place for dim sum. it has really good food. the main room gets a little bit cramped so if you are lucky enough to get a private room it's a bit nicer. there's also flat screen tvs in the private rooms so you can ...?

As the previous poster said, I also have only been here for their dimsum, but it's one of the best dimsum places i've ever been to. They have a good selection and it's always packed! Get their early or you will wait. ...?

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Being in San Francisco Bay as Chinese, we are picky in eating Chinese food. However, Tai Wu is certainly the winner amongst all. Their delicious seafood and their efficient operation gained repeated customer like me. We love to go and enjoy the meal.

The variety of dim sum is amazing!

Their food is uber delicious! I have had great experience with their service too. The last time I ate there, this goober name Jessica provided me with the best hospitality. I've had a lot of Chinese food before, but this one takes the cake! I always have to make time to stop in to this place for a good meal whenever I visit Norcal. :)

The best Chinese restaurant ever and I've eaten at plenty of chinese restaurants. The food tastes great, the service is superb and unlike many other Asian restaurants, it is extremely clean!

The best Chinese restaurant ever! The food tastes great, the service is superb and unlike many other Asian restaurants, it is extremely clean!

we always look forward to indulging ourselves with Tai Wu's excellent, delicious food, especially the dim sum!!

we visited family in SF and they took us to the most fabulous meal at Mr Fongs Tai Wu restaurant. Absolutely great food at very good prices. Very fresh fish ..... makes my mouth water when I think about the tasty food

Not only do you get filled with chinese food goodness, but it's an elegant setting yet comfortable and relaxing. It's a definite place to visit if you're in town.

Not only do you get filled with chinese food goodness, but it's an elegant setting yet comfortable and relaxing. It's a definite place to visit if you're in town.

Excellent dim-sum, lots of varity that you don't find elsewhere. Inovative new items come out all the time. I always look forward to find new surprises on the trays and love the standard dishes as well.

awesome service, wonderful food. great management!

We travel from Jersey in the channel Islands uk, to visit this restuarant..wow!

taiwu is good place for a eat.the dimsum are excellen.

the service over there is pretty good. especial the guy names Jacky. he provides outstanding service. it's a good place to go for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

the food is very good.