One bite of this Allston beauty’s crisp, pillowy scallion-and-roast-beef pancakes, and you’ll never order those sad, green-flecked cardboard slabs from your local Chinese takeout joint again. Here, it’s all authentic Taiwanese dishes — like three-cup cuttlefish, spicy beef–noodle soup, and dry-cooked chicken with three peppers — and none of that greasy cream cheese–stuffed crab rangoon or gloppy General Gao’s chicken you get elsewhere.

Jo Jo Taipei | 103 Brighton Ave. | http://jojotaipeiboston.com