Can anyone recommend a good Cantonese style restaurant in Taipei or Taichung?
you could try ę°č”č (Xin Pu Yuan), its a nice and clean upper-middle scale Cantonese style Dim-Sum and other cantonese styled foods. Its by Zhongshan MRT, I donāt know the exact address sorry! but its next to the Taipei Film Theater across from the Regent Formosa Hotel, and the Royal Taipei Hotel. The price is about 500~800 Per/Person but the food is really good!
If by Cantonese style, you mean dim-sum restaurants where they push the carts around, then I recommend the Cantonese place on the second floor of the Brother Hotel. If you mean the Hong Kong Cha (tea) restaurants, then thereāre several good ones on Civic just west of Dunhua that are almost as authentic as those in HK.
Great thanks guys
Try this one, this is by Sogo in Taipei, on Civic Boulevard, this is not dim sum style restaurant, but good HK style tea restaurant.
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theres a good canto restaurant in taipei near the TV broadcasting station and right behind the MTR station. Itās in a strip with other restaurants that has a parking lot in the middle.
But, but, but . . . why?
HG
The OPs family is Cantonese.
I found out that you can get American style Chinese food in Hong Kong. Right out in the street. Sweet and sour.
You can get it here too. In that millet soup joint in Gongguan. Sweet nā sour viscous orange sauce over rockhard deep fried mysterymeat. Yum yum.
Grass is greener and all that
That is the one we ate at, right? It is at the Sun Yat-Sen station near Caponeās. They do a good seafood with crispy noodles dish.
Taiwanese food is, well mostly brown and deep fried. Zong zi and xiao long bao are good but ,I havenāt had anything else that can compare to the Cantonese, Sichuan,Shanghai etc. That China is famous for. Fujianese food isnāt regarded very highly in China.
Western food here is terrible and overpriced. oh and I like Cantonese food 
Enough reasons?
Thatās not mirroring my dining experience in Taiwan, but hey, go with the ersatz fishballs and mystery meat packages soaked in sweet gloopy sauce, itās your right!
Excuse my mad rantings on all things HK Canto, jimisgek, I unfortunately live here. 
But if this is for the folk in laws, they may want to taste something Taiwanese, which I define using a rather long bow to include seafood joints on Da An park, brilliant Japanese, etc. Lots of Hongkers fly to Taiwan to gorge themselves, which just leaves me wondering why they donāt up their game back home! Where is this supposed entrepreneurial spirit?
HG
We got a little place in the neighborhood that does those āCanton fried noodlesā really really good. From the outside it looks like just another hanging duck and red pork joint, you know, the places that pound out the ā3 Treasuresā bien tangs (can I have extra razor-sharp bone shards in mine, please?) by the boatload, of which my neighborhood has like 40, but this place does at least those noodles very nicely. Weāve never tried anything else on the menu.
Dim sum in Taipei just sucks ass.
Just another foreign cuisine that they donāt really get.
Even the āfamoursā places like the Brother hotel.
Anyone from anywhere with a decent Chinatown (and Iām talking about Edmonton, Chinatowns donāt get much more rudimentary than there) will find anything Taipei has to offer in that realm seriously disappointing.
Well, after much searching, I do believe itās good to revive this thread. Had my best dimsum to date in Taiwan, a good one even for HK standards.
Ming court, the cantonese restaurant of the royal nikko hotel in Taipei. Amazing chasiu, real cantonese style, not the dry and lean taiwanese version. Very good chasiubao (real sweet and the consistency like the pineapple bun, as it should be).
Love the ambience, not cheap but quality 100% worth since I felt like back to HK a bit.
Are you speaking of this hotel in Zhongshan?
Guy
Yes! Full of Japanese guests (same chain from Japan, pretty famous there)
I found Tim Ho Wan at Songshan Station good and different (I find the dim sum places in Taipei about all the same so it was refreshing to taste some different flavors).
Edit: Did it close? Thatās not it and I canāt find the store anymore. We ate there, what, two weeks ago?
As a former resident of Vancouver (where the quality of Cantonese food is off the charts), allow me to respectfully say that the Tim Ho Wans Iāve tried in Taiwan are horribleāpurveyors of garlic laden badness.
I have no experience with the Songshan Branch however so perhaps that one is the exception. 
Guy
Tim ho wan is very ātouristyā though, even in its birthplace of HK. Not bad, just only serving food palatable to mainlanders and, in places denser of westerners, westerners. Never tried the ones here (I know there r a few), but bot enticed that much.
Actually yesterday I saw a Cha Caan Teng at the A13 mallās food court in xinyi which seems promising. Their egg tarts were nice, will try the food soon too.