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Moon Star Rotating Restaurant

Posted in Coffee and Tea, Desserts on January 22nd, 2008 by mei| | 2 Comments.

I may be cheap but who’d ever thought that I’d start eating out of a garbage dump?

If I could muster the courage to eat out of the loo (at Marton. Boy, was that a shitty restaurant. Pun very intended ) this should be a piece of cake. Or two.

Moon Star Rotating Restaurant is located on the 120th floor of the Beitou Incinerator (åŒ—æŠ•ç„šåŒ–å» ). It is the only rotating restaurant in Taipei and I daresay it’s the only one in the world that sits atop a municipal refuse burner.

Yours truly missed out on lunch but made it there for Moon Star’s afternoon tea buffet. It’s all you can eat cakes, sandwiches, and miscellaneous nonsense (drinks included) for 299nt plus tax. As you can probably tell, I was not impressed. The tea sandwiches were ridiculously tiny and have as much substance as a piece of floor wipe. I had two bites of my chocolate cake but I did finish all of the pumpkin cheese cake. The latter was smooth and light and the pumpkin flavor was just subtle enough. I would have to say, however, that most of the cakes look unimpressive and could pass a the fodder available in any ol’ Taiwanese bakery. The selection wasn’t even that great and ran out pretty fast (I got there around half past two and supposedly the afternoon tea session only started at two).

My verdict – don’t go for the food, go for the view.

I even thought the service to be pretty dismal. You have to fetch your own cakes at the counter. Normally, so spake the waitstaff, sandwiches are displayed along side the cakes but since there were quite a number of people there that day the staff brought them to you as soon as they were made. Well, they took a darn long time making them and usually ran out before reaching my table. I also thought it rather rude to be asked to pay upfront. For somebody who used to work in restaurants, this is tantamount to shooing away your customer. And oh, forget having a romantic tÃªte-Ã -tÃªte here. The afternoon tea was a family affair with kids running around creating miniature melees.

The view was great, however. The restaurant is situated even higher than the observatory (which is four floors down, on the 116th). Even on a cloudy day, I was quite happy with the vista. The ambience really perked up in the evening when the streets below and the restaurant were lighted. I can’t say much about dinner since I didn’t get to dine there but a nice lady who was in the elevator with me on the way up told me that the food is terrible. And with prices from 500nt to 100nt for dinner sets, it hardly sounds like a good deal.

In fact, eating at this dumpster was pretty darn expensive.

Moon Star Revolving Restaurant æ˜Ÿæœˆæ—‹è½‰é¤å»³
www.moonstar2007.com for the restaurant’s site (still under construction)
www.ptrip.gov.tw for the Beitou Incinerator website
120F, No. 271 Chou Mei Street, Beitou
åŒ—æŠ•å€æ´²ç¾Žè¡—271è™Ÿ120F
(It is about a kilometer away from the closest MRT station, Qulian.)
02 2837 7122

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Jonathan Biddle said,

on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm

hey hey – I ate there! Read my 5-star review here!

http://www.heresjonny.com/taiwan/2005/08/starcatcher.html
mei said,

on January 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm

hey there! so what did you think of the food? from the photo i take it that you had dinner there? was there anything on the dinner menu you’d recommend?

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