Checked this place out for the first time last weekend - the food (I had a selection of sausages, my wife had a breakfast plate and my daughter had the breaded escalope) is well-prepared, and portions are decent, but overall, I find the prices a bit too high, particularly compared to Schindler's (who, in my opinion, has tastier sauerkraut). The ambiance was nice - very cozy and family-friendly and the staff are friendly and professional.

This review is about the hot dishes and for the haoyunjie location - there's not much to say about breads and cakes except that it's very good, yes it's expansive but not overpriced because it's really top quality- even back in Europe it would be considered good.

When it comes to hot dishes it somehow feels like a rip off though. Tried the flammenkuche and the breaded escalope as well as a kind of big guotie-like ravioli stuffed with spinach and mince, I forgot the name as I don't speak German. The flammenkuche was really good and big enough for 68 kuai, but the other 2 dishes were really overpriced. The escalope was 92 kuai, I mean it's just pork meat and bread with fries as a side, come on. I was expecting something more for this price. The other dish was actually 3 huge guotie in a funny tasting sauce of sweet onions and something else that I couldn't identify but tasted like toothpaste, 73 kuai.

I'm somehow disapointed because it's my first contact with German cuisine, so don't go there if you're looking for a real meal.

The Paulaner Pork Knuckle is dry and the bread dumplings poor.

Schindlers has great crispy skin - but too much bone and fat and the meat is not soft enough. Oh and only come with mash potatoes in place of the bread dumplings.

This place - while the skin is nit always crispy (hardly ever) they make roast a good knuckle. The sauerkraut and bread dumplings are great too. They even leave the bone in and don't take it out (thankyou very much Paulaner) when you da bao so your best friend can enjoy it as well.

They have a pork knuckle deal on Thursday nights - so I try and go on Thursday day - when they have knuckles and they are fresh. Sometimes on a Friday the knuckles have been a bit dry and flat - we suspect they were left overs from the previous Thursday night pork knuckle festivities.

Also compared to Paulaners - there is no sneaky 15% service charge hidden down the bottom in fine print.