Guan asks the waitress, but she doesn't have the answer. Mongolian or not, they like the dish. It contains big shrimps, scallops, fish fillet, lobster meat, mushrooms, snow peas and onions, and is served with fine egg noodles. They also have the vegetarian garden, one of the chef's specialties. But still it is tasty and healthy food and the bean curd is good.
Price is a little too high for such inexpensive ingredients.
It's different from and better than the usual fare in most Chinese restaurants such as wonton soup, egg drop soup, hot and sour soup, etc., which all seem to be made from the same recipes. A Taiwanese couple, Bruce and Heather Liang, own Taipei-Tokyo. Several years ago Bruce opened Silk Pagoda in Squirrel Hill, and his sister Judy now runs that restaurant. In Taiwan, she says, sushi is quite popular. So far at Taipei-Tokyo, the Chinese food has been most popular, probably because a lot of people are not familiar with the Japanese dishes, she says.