Taxim Chinese Restaurant

• Overall 0 - Food 0, Ambience 0, Value 0, Service 0

  Very rude owner, manager and staff. Very slow service. No variety for yum cha and very greasy and overpriced. Never go back again.   (John - July, 2012)

• Overall 2.5 - Food 3, Ambience 1, Value 4, Service 2

  I have been living in the area for around 4 yrs and now live right across the pathway from this place. I have been there many times, but I always found the service rude and dismissive, waiters ignoring us unless we call out to them several times. The owner (an old man) is quite arrogant, and everyone who works there speaks very poor English, making it difficult to get sense out of them when I want to ask about a dish. I once asked the owner if the vermicelli in the dish was bean or potato flour variety and he could not understand me at all. The food for dinner is ok, but not cheap for Hornsby standards. Yum cha is terrible, very limited choice, very greasy, and today was the last straw - we went in (2 of us plus 1 child) around 1.30pm and sat at our table for at least 30 mins and in that time 3 trolleys came out, that's it. And all the dishes were boring old choices of dim sim, fried noodle, deep fried spring rollls. We waited for another 10 or so minutes, no trolleys appeared and I asked the waiters - WHERE IS ALL THE FOOD? And they said "No more, finished" - at this point the restaurant was full of people clearly waiting for some more, as they all had bowls, plates and NO FOOD on the tables... and they all had the expectant look in the direction of the kitchen... We paid and left. It was terrible, and we were hungry.

  The one other thing I hate there is lighting - it's way too bright, they have so many different lamps, small and big, above you, and it's just blinding... I would not go there with a romantic date, you'd do better sitting on a park bench.

  I think it's sad that Hornsby has no other options for decent Chinese and no other yum cha. This place just doesn't seem to cut it and, most importantly, they don't seem to CARE if they are doing badly. They never seem to improve.   (kiska - June, 2010)

Plus Overall 6.8 - Food 7, Ambience 7, Value 7, Service 6 From 25 reviews