Rice Bowl Cafe

Yes! Yes! Yes!

An instant classic and a safe go-to Taiwanese cuisine spot that has already made it on my list of good eats. Being new to Austin, I am slowly but surely going to recalibrate and re-arrange my internal menu of restaurants that have good food.

Its always hard to find new spots to eat and call a regular spot, but stumbling upon this very unassuming restaurant was the highlight of my day. Very good service and even better food, the Sichuan Beef Noodle Soup I ordered was bomb!

The soup was packed to the brim with oodles and boodles of noodles along with beef that would fall apart in my mouth instantly. Not too spicy, but jam packed full of flavor, I'm glad I was sold on this from the many images here on Yelp of the dish.

Their eggrolls are also amazing which were ordered as an appetizer...full of filling and a nice crispy exterior. They also provide you with some small fried chip-like things accompanied by a sweet and sour sauce.

Definitely happy to have found this joint!

Great service and really good portions. My friends and I have been going here for over 2 years and nothing has changed. They are extremely consistent in their quantity AND quality.

They give you a TON of food for the price, and it arrived very quickly. I had enough food for two meals and then some. The food was standard Chinese, and the atmosphere was pretty cool. I took away a star because there was nothing extra special about the flavor or the dishes. But if you're looking for some basic cheap Chinese food (and apparently sushi as well), then check it out!

Pretty authentic Chinese restaurant. My go to is beef with Beijing sauce. A heap of really tender strips of beef garnished with strips of green onions. Three cup chicken is a sizzling specialty and really good too. Pretty much can't go wrong here. Portions are good too so you get a decent amount of food.

Stay away from their beef soups (if ordering delivery)... Fair warning, the pictures posted are vile. Almost as if out of a horror movie. A year ago I tried their Szechuan beef noodle soup and it was amazing, great flavor and consistency. I had gotten it almost every time after that and had no issue up until two of my most recent orders. None of the meat was edible, instead it was covered and loaded with fat. Most people can handle some good fat on meat, but this was gelatinous and not even my boyfriend, who's less picky than myself, could stomach it. Was super disappointed but willing to give them another chance, got their beef dumpling soup today and sadly it was practically the same result. Hardly any good meat, only a few chunks were semi-decent. The biggest piece(pictured) was the worst, at least I had dumplings this time to somewhat make up for the lack of meat. Still, frustrating and not acceptable. Maybe if I hadn't ordered near closing it wouldn't have been so bad but that isn't an excuse when it was never a problem before and you can obviously see that those pieces of meat should not have been sold, maybe if it was a small amount it could be passed off as an accident but now I know never to get anything from here with beef chunks in it again. Shame????