A&J Restaurant

I'm from New Jersey to visit my daughter in DC and we decided to make a long trip just for the Taiwanese food, There's a chain restaurant in NJ and we love the food much there, but unfortunately the food is not the same here. It's far from satisfying compared the food quality to the NJ restaurant even under the same name. Not recommended if you want authentic Taiwanese food.

The best authentic Chinese food in the Rockville area. I lived in the DC area for 22 years and somehow just now came across A&J - I wish I had known about this restaurant my whole life. All dishes tasted incredible fresh. Be sure to order any noodle entree with the hand pulled thick noodles - perfectly chewy and delicious. The spicy beef noodle soup was bright and unctuous. We forgot to order the hand rolled dumplings which apparently are a crowd favorite… guess we’ll have to go back!

Nice place with reasonable prices and very fast service, especially on the cold appetizers. My favorite item I have tried is the Cucumber Salad, very refreshing and delicious. I also liked the Braised Pork Rice and the Beef Noodle w/o Soup. Would recommend!

Good casual atmosphere and very popular place. Service is good. Free hot tea and or cold water. I tend to eat the spicy beef tendon with wide noodles as I like the savory soup and I think tendon helps with collagen intake and the wide noodles are made in house. I also like their spicy wontons and cucumber salad. Their pan fried pork dumplings are popular also.

We've been wanting to try the food here for some time, and we were not disappointed. We really liked the Chinese style fried pork chop on rice- the pork was crunchy outside and very tender inside, Dan Dan Mian was creamy and just the right amount of heat for me, and the raft of Pan fried pork dumplings were also good. We can't wait to come back.