Places to eat in Taipei

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This is a restaurant at National palace museum. I have been brought there by a local friend, else I would have never had this nice experience.
It is a restaurant but you can also have a tea with some small cakes, the taste of the cakes is does not matter as you really eat them more with eyes than with mouth.

Favorite Dish: The small cakes.

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This is a local food restaurant in the city centre.
The food was nice and the atmosphear relaxed. There was no tourist though it was full at dinner, so it is appreciated by locals.

Favorite Dish: The best unusual dish I had there was the tofu pasta with broad bean.

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The name of this restaurant means 'delicious Tan Jai Men'. As it shows, Tan Jai Men is the attraction of this resautrant. (Tan Jai Men is fine noodle in soup with a topping of spicy minced pork .)
Besides Tan Jai Men, they serve delicious Taiwanese dishes and fresh seafood. When you order a dish, go out of the restaurant and go to the samples placed in front of the restaurant. There are 20 or 30 REAL dishes, from which you can choose what you want to eat. Tell the man or the woman who are in charge of your order what you want or you have only to point at the dishes you like. This is a very unique way of ordering. It will be helpful for you even if you can't read Kanji characters or you can't imagine what the dish is like.

Favorite Dish: The soup of the Tan Jai Men served here is clear and light one. So even after you have eaten other dishes much, you will be able to enjoy the noodle.
Deep Fried Squid Dumplings were very delicious. I couldn't stop eating the small balls.
Taiwanese Omelette looks like Spanish Omelette. But dried white radish is used instead of potatoes.
Simmered Pork, Roasted Duck, Bean-starch Vermicelli Simmered with Dried Shrimps, these were all delicious.

Pink, pink, pink... all is pink. The room of the restaurant is sweet, warm and creative, pink and cherry are well used.

There one can order dishes, but the most popular one on the menu is the buffet it offers. Many people especially girls come to enjoy the "pink" food. It's full of people on weekend and one is allowed for 2 hours dining. What makes it charming? Cakes.

It offers around 20 kinds of cakes. One can eat as many pieces as she likes. Besides cakes, there serves also fried rice, fried noodles, pizza, french fried, fried onlion, To-Gan, Pig-Blood-Cake, cheese baked vegetable, soda water, fruit tea, coffee etc.

The price is 199NTD (+10% service charge). It's supposed, the second important reason for being popular among students. Do you have pink dream?

Favorite Dish: Fried noodles is well cooked, not normal at all.
New York Cheese cake is the finest.
Pizza are maybe not the best, but not bad.
Fruit tea is tasty.

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The New York Times adores it: one of the TOP 10 Best Restaurant in the wolrd.

Ding-Tai-Fung is world famous. Wanna eat there, if you do not order your seats, you have to stand in a long line. Who are your competitors? Not only the local, but also Japanese and the other foreign tourists.

Ding-Tai-Fong's service is good. One day we order Shao-Long-Bow, 10 pieces per dish. Unfortunately one of them its cover was broken and the soup flows out. The waiter apologied and gave us immediately one extra piece. Very kind and impressive.

Favorite Dish: Shao-Long-Bow (Chinese bread with meat & soup inside):170 NTD/10pcs/dish
Its cover is very thin, but the soup inside is super rich. Give you a tip, please do not eat bite one bite. Just put it in your mouth and chew. The soup flows out in your mouth and you have one word for it, SUPER.

Shrimp-Sha-Mei (HK tea dessert): 190 NTD/10pcs/dish
HK style, the taste is fresh and you will never forget.

Fried rice: 120 NTD/plate
Seems an easy fish, but the rice is well cooked, grains are clear and the taste is great.

In the fourth floor of Taipei 101 mall, the restaurant offer you authentic Japanese taste from service to food. The food is standard Japanese type, including row fish, multi-flavour shisi, ramen, Japanese BBQ, Their food is fancy and nice to eat. However, as rule of thumb, I suggest you to eat row fish, which has higher marginal benefits, first.

Favorite Dish: Their dessert has a wide selection. From Japanese type to Western type, they even have sweet red bean soup to offer, which is always the best choice in cool winter time. And I like their fresh row fish with wasabi sauce, which makes the best cool stuff in the winter.
Their ramen is not a bad choice, you can chose from OuLong to ramen and add side dish that you like.
Their Japanese fried starter is very good, too. I like their cheese potato, which reminds me of a lot of childhood memories.
After the meal, you can chose Chinese tea, coffee, or ice cream to balance you tone and stomach.

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Throughout my tour of Taipei, I ate most of my meals at street vendors. I usually had no idea as to what I was eating, but I enjoyed it anyway. Street vendors are also dirt cheap, usually running me US$1 to US$2 for a full meal. The big dumplings are my favorite.

Now that I have made other trips in the region, particularly Hong Kong, I realize I was eating some form of dim sum, usually a variation of Cha siu bau, or pork-filled dumpling. I also like to grab a dragonfruit if I could find it.

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This is a bathroom-themed restaurant, one of a kind! Located off the blue line:

No. 7號, Lane 50, XiNíng South Road, Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 108

Order your food and it will come to you served in a toilet or a urinal. Even the mascot is a big pink poo.
Sit on toilets and dine on a table of sinks next to a shower head. It's exactly what it sounds like. Very reasonably priced!
Good fun. Clean and upbeat. Somewhat difficult to find, but if you are on the right street, when you see the 7-11, look up and across the street for the toilet.