Really good Chinese Menu. Traditional dishes not the more Americanized versions of various things. Service was great. Food was exceptional. I love hot and sour soup which was just the right mix and spicy and sour. Overall the food was authentic. I really enjoyed the Kung Po Beef, everyone at the table (whole family) really enjoyed the food they were served. This was a great experience. Cost was reasonable - family of 5 eating out for less than 100 dollars makes it a double bargain! I highly recommend XO Taste. Very traditional cooking and dishes. Wonderful wait staff. I wish I could go more than 5 stars...

Every time I am in the area, I make it a point to come and eat here. The food is really authentic and makes me feel at home. The staff is super friendly and the price is very reasonable. If you're looking for real Chinese food, this is the place. Give this place a try, if you haven't already. So much better than the fast food Chinese we have in Frederick. Thumbs up to delicious, fresh cooked, made to order, authentic, and good portion for the price food.

Read some of the reviews and had to check it out myself. We ordered the seafood pan fried noodle, deep fried squid, soy sauce chicken, Chinese watercress, wonton soup, and lobster with scallions. Here are my thoughts: Service: Exceptionally well; the waiters and waitresses were very attentive and pleasant. Food: I can't complain, the chicken was moist with just enough sauce to keep you wanting more; not too salty. The seafood pan fried noodle was a bit bland but because I tend to go easy on the sodium intake, this was perfect for me. The squid and shrimp on the plate were huge! The wonton soup would have to be the star of the meal, it was the best I've had in a long time. The wontons were huge, plentiful, and soft though not mushy, the meat filling was fresh, the broth was delicious. There was a good balance in taste and texture. Overall, the food was good. Cleanliness: I am a major germaphobe and although I'm not sure if it was because of the time when I was there but the place looked clean and open. Very spacious and bright, better use of space than the last restaurant. Overall rating would be a B...only reason is I had asked for soy milk for my kids, which was on the menu, and was told that they didn't have it. It's not good for a restaurant to note that they have something and be out of it...but it's not a good enough reason to not go back. X O Taste, I will be back. :-)

We usually have take-out, and all the food so far has been excellent. It's hard finding a place with good Chinese food these days, but this place works for us. I recommend the X O cube steak it's great!

After two couples of friend's gave X O Taste excited thumbs up in emails, this was my first choice for dinner last night, and I'm very glad. Nice dinner-style (paper) napkins, extremely friendly and quick service, and a large metal thermos-style pot of very hot tea, made choosing from the extraordinary menu less daunting. When a dish that made my nose go up like an infield fly, and I was told that it was Seafood With Lotus' Root In XO Sauce, I knew that we had one of our choices. If a restaurant named "X O" has a dish that smells so good and that has XO sauce, I'm going to try it! With Hong-Kong style dishes as the house speciality, I had a feeling that the wonton soup would not be the usual ball of tasteless mystery meat wrapped in thick chewy noodle in a small ball of canned chicken soup, and I sure was right! Two supple-wrapped wontons with enough fresh-tasting big-pieced shrimp two warrant eating in two bites in a mild, garlic-laced broth. Nice! Speaking of dumplings, the pan-fried dumplings appetizer weren't tough or soggy, and the tender meat filling stayed in the wrapper instead of slipping out. The Sweet & Sour Rib Hong Kong Style had slices of bone-in rib with the usual pineapple in a fruity, not too sweet and slightly sour sauce with a little bit of heat that even flavored the green pepper pieces. With no batter, they don't kill the rest of your meal like the usual Chinese sweet and sour dishes you find in most restaurants. Oh, yeah. The Seafood With Lotus' Root In XO Sauce is funky. Wikipedia get's it right when they describe XO sauce as "Developed in the 1980s in Hong Kong for Cantonese cuisine, it is made of roughly chopped dried seafoods including scallops, dried fish and shrimp and cooked with chili peppers, onions, garlic and oil," and it's the real deal at X O Taste. When you couple a sauce like that with more dried seafood and what seemed to be jellyfish (we love cold jellyfish appetizer, so we'll try it here the next time that we go) or or very tender cuttlefish tentacle, you get a dish that takes a few bites for your mouth to get accustomed to, and it's not for most Western tastes, but we cleaned it up and ended up taking home a little bit of leftover Sweet and Sour Rib. We'll be back soon, preferably with another couple or two so that we can sample more dishes, including some of the casseroles and congees. They now take credit cards, by the way. Did I mention that the food wasn't as salty or oily as most Chinese restaurants? I will!

I am so happy there is a solid Cantonese-style restaurant in this area now! * Roasted pork: Delicious, crispy skin, with the perfect proportion of fat. The meat was correctly spiced on the inside with that slight sweetness that makes this dish a mainstay in my life. [♥] * Roasted duck: Good, but I've had better. The portion we received was on the super fatty & bony side. * Steamed fish with soy sauce and scallions: Pretty standard dish, nicely done. * Beef Ho Fun with XO Sauce: Definitely had to try a dish with their XO sauce! This classic dish did not disappoint. Chewy noodles and tender beef float my boat any day. Interestingly enough, even though the restaurant is called XO Taste, they don't provide the XO sauce as a side condiment for free. They provide the standard hot chili sauce, but I spotted freshly sliced green hot peppers at the service station that seem to be available if you ask for them. Service was phenomenal!! Almost reminds me of the fancy pants Chinese restaurants back in Hong Kong. (I wish they improved the decor; we spotted a sound system with an old generation iPod docked up near the ceiling with the wiring hanging around. Providing nice... scenery...) It might be because they're still new, but the servers will actually pour your tea for you, frequently refill your water, and make room on your table for more dishes to come instead of blankly stare at you and watch you try to awkwardly re-fengshui your plates so they can drop the food off. They'll even change your plate for you if they see you've accumulated too many bones!! So awesome. I'LL BE BACK. FOR MORE. FOR SURE~

I love this place! I can't get enough of the shrimp fried rice. I've tried many things on the menu all ready and love it all. For those of you who don't eat pork, all the dumplings have pork in them.