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15 Reviews This is one of the most well-known things that comes from Taiwan; however, this is typical Northern Chinese food. The place is not a really fancy place to go if you like quite and need a lot of time...

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Beef Noodle Taipei

4 Reviews The beef noodles were great and living in Japan, I know about Ramen but I was interested to check out the Beef Noodles that were apparentley, so famous so I did. This restaurant was great, although...

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Char for tea Taipei

4 Reviews If you're a big fan of green tea, then you must come to this resto. To be honest, I don't really like green tea BUT after I eat at this resto, well...I changed my mind^^I loveee this resto a lot!It...

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Ah Zhong Mian Xian Taipei

3 Reviews Having missed the previous time I visited Taipei a year back. I decided to make this one of the do-or-die items on our itinerary. I had originally planned to hunt down their outlet in Ximending, but...

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Formosa Regent Taipei

2 Reviews The buffet is one of the best in Taipei city for me. My colleagues recommeded it as the No. 1. The food are divided into small parts: Japanese, salad, steak, pasta, Hong Kong, Indian, Thai, dessert,...

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Chitaka Taipei

3 Reviews I came across this by accident. I've only heard about this chain that's value for money and the food isn't too shabby at all. I visited the branch at Ren Ai Road which was 90% full at 8pm. My friend...

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Ai Hu Restaurant Taipei

4 Reviews One has a huge selection of side dishes apart from the standard of vegetables and broth. We opted for the seafood with 5 additional items picked and the servings are HUGE!! The seafood items include...

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Sin Fa Ting: Snowflake Ice desserts

by jackiesg

I've tried icy desserts like Ice Kachang (Red bean ice dessert), but it was my first time trying ice desserts where the ice was SO fine that it just look like snow! With the toppings of your choice, the dessert, known as snow flake desserts, was interesting and delicious. This shop, along one of the street in Shilin night market, was really crowded during weekends. Try it! Try it!

Taro balls: Jiufen old street local delight

by jackiesg

As you walk along the Jiufen old street, you'll see many stalls selling taro balls desserts. Taro balls desserts: A bowl of yam balls and sweet potatos balls with sweet soup base. They have it hot or cold. I saw a very popular stall along the Jiufen old street called Lai Ah Po, was filled with people crowding around the small stall. I didn't try this stall because it was too crowded. I tried another award winning stall along the side lane of the main old street, Ah Gan Yi. The desserts tasted quite nice actually. This side lane was near the end of the Jiufen old street. There is a small insignificant signboard showing the directions to Ah Gan Yi at the beginning of the side lane. Next to the dessert stall is a small stairway to a primary school where you can take a rest while enjoying the dessert.

Li Yi Bing Ding: Tai Yang Bing

by jackiesg

Tai Yang Bing, a local pastry which is flaky on the outside and soft with malt filling on the inside. It's similar to Lao Po Bing, just that Lao Po Bing is filled with winter melon sugar while Tai Yang Bing is malt. When I read about Tai Yang Bing on the travel forum, I thought I won't be very interested in it. However, when I tried Li Yi's, hey, it's quite tasty. I've compared Tai Yang Bing from Li Yi's and from another popular shop near Keelung Miaokou night market, Li Gu. They are slightly different in that: Li Yi's Tai Yang Bing has a very smooth taste and soft texture. I feel so comfortable eating it. Li Gu's Tai Yang Bing has a flakier crust and is more dry.I've tried their lotus paste with salted egg pastry too but I prefer's Leechi's (Another pastry shop) one.You can find Li Yi's shop just opposite Jiu Fen old street, where alot of people are queuing for the bus to Keelung. If...

Taoyuan beef noodle: Beef Noodle

by jackiesg

If you've read forum replies in Tripadvisors, you may have read about this Taoyuan beef noodles, voted the best by many forumers. I've tried their beef noodle (Hong Shao flavour) and their beef slices are a notch above others. I find the noodle okay but the beef slices, although thick cuts, were so tender and well cooked that it breaks easily when held with a chopsticks. The Hong Shao soup base was too oily for me, so maybe I should have tried the clear soup flavour instead.They also have pork ribs noodles.A bowl of beef noodles cost $150 TWD.This beef noodle eatery has no signboard. Try to identify it by it's unit no. Unit no 15. At the junction between Taoyuan st and Bo Ai Lane 160.To go there: Exit Ximending station No 4. walk down Heng Yang road (away from XMD) until you see a building Taiwan Cooperative Bank. Taoyuan rd is on the right hand side. Walk into it and walk near to the...

Wax apple - "Hei Zhen Zhu (Black Pearl)"

by jackiesg

I'm not recommending any particular restaurant but introducing a local fruit "Wax Apple". In chinese it's called Lian Wu. It's also commonly known as "Jumbu". It taste very different from other fruits. A fresh good, ripe wax apple feels hard. When you bite it, it's very crunchy yet very juicy because it's very porous. The taste can be very sweet and very refreshing.Normal wax apple is red but there's one kind of wax apple known as the "black pearl" which is dark red in color, even near to reddish brown. I call it the "king of the king" wax apple. It's big and really sweet. Harvest season for wax apple is July to August and there are fruit farms in Taipei where you can pick your own wax apples from the trees!Highly recommended to try! Must try!

Taipei Leechi: Pineapple pastry

by jackiesg

One popular pastry that tourists love to buy back home from Taiwan would be the pineapple pastry. In Taiwan, it's butter pastry usually shaped in a cube filled with pineapple paste. The pineapple paste is usually made from real pineapples and so you could still taste the rough texture of real pineapple fruit when you eat the pastry.After being in Taipei for some days, I find nearly all the shops will claim that their pineapple pastry is the authentic one/ the real traditional one, so called. Hence, my suggestion to you is to believe in your taste bud rather than their claims. Since the most traditional taste may also not be of your taste, right!?I went all the way to look for this shop Leechi as I've heard many travel forumers talking about it. There is only one Leechi shop in Taipei and it's not along the way to major shopping malls or tourist attractions. Beside selling pineapple...

Wang Ji Fu Cheng Rou Zhong: Seow Bak Zang! (Hot rice meat dumpling)

by jackiesg

Taiwanese style of meat dumplings known as "Bak Zang" is made up of big chunks of pork meat, usually with a half dried chinese mushroom, a chestnut wrapped in glutinous rice that was pre stir fried with soya sauce and dried shrimps. Sometimes peanuts were also added.I was so deprived of such rice dumplings in GZ that I so wanted to eat them in Taipei. However, it was not as common as I thought it will, to find a rice dumpling stall in the city of Taipei. The one eatery that I finally found near Ximending is this "Wang Ji Fu Cheng Rou Zhong". The rice meat dumpling I've tried in this eatery is considered good. It's not fantastically superb but the taste is just nice, the glutinous rice well cooked and the fillings in the dumplings is sufficient. One rice meat dumpling cost $55 TWD.Beside selling rice meat dumplings, they also sell bean dumplings and veg dumplings.They have 5 stores in...

Everywhere in Taipei: Local food: Oyster Omelette

by jackiesg

Oyster omelette (commonly known as "Or R Jian") is another local dish easily found in street stalls, restaurants and night markets. Ingredients includes eggs, starch water and oyster and vegetables, pan fried into omelette. Served hot with a slightly sweet red sauce on top. It's quite nice, slightly different from those you find in say, Singapore. Singapore's style is more crispy, no veg in it and no sweet red sauce on top. Taiwanese style is softer with veg and has sauce on top.

Everywhere in Taipei: Local food: Ru Rou Fan (Braised meat rice)

by jackiesg

You'll find this dish everywhere in restaurants, in night markets, in roadside stalls or foodcourts etc. It's braised pork meat with gravy on plain rice. You can eat it by it's own because it's tasty and have pieces of tiny pork meat in it. Or, usually people will order it to go with other dishes, say, pork chop, preserved side dishes, soup etc, whatever you like to have.Usually a bowl of Ru Rou Fan cost around $20 TWD.

Night market local food: Big sausage wrap small sausage (direct translate)

by jackiesg

You can find this dish in almost all night market. In chinese, it's called "Da Chang Bao Xiao Chang". It's actually taiwanese sausage wrapped in a bigger sausage made of glutinous rice. When I read about it in other travel webpages, i thought it would not be anything special. But wow, the one I tried at Danshui old street, it was really good! At least I loved it! Wrapped with cucumber slices and sour veg, the entire combi tasted very good indeed! The taiwanese sausage with veg is crunchy and the glutinous rice sausage is soft. Both actually goes very well with each other!I bought it at $45 TWD.