T'ai-nan Restaurants

Lily fruit shop sells not only fruit, but also ice.
It's very well-known among the local people.

Favorite Dish: The most recommended ice is mango milk.
1 bowl NT$70 only. In Taipei can cost NT$120.
Don't forget that Tainan is origin of Taiwanese mango.

For the traveling people, finding a place where it all comes together - ambiance, appearance, service and above all taste - is like striking oil. When this happens in a location where the selection is relatively small (mostly because the local cuisine is far from being my cup of tea), this would be equal to striking oil on the same day of winning the lottery and the jackpot.

The corner steak house is like striking oil. I'm still hoping to win the lottery, and very flexible about the jackpot - it doesn't all have to happen on the same day.

The place is on a side alley in the vicinity of the University in Tainan. We tried to get there the night before, but we didn't have reservation. You probably don't need it during the weekdays, but on the weekend, it's highly recommended if you're coming for dinner.

The food was excellent. We went for the 8oz Fillet Minion on the grill, and was almost in tears after the first bite. It was so good....It came with a side of mashed potetoes, and a couple of vegetables, but don't let that distract you from the delicious piece of meet right there in the middle.

The service was excellent, as is most places in Asia, and the staff knows enough English to split the bill, which is all that we need.

The selection was not big, but there's little to no chance i'll be eating anything else there, every week...

Favorite Dish: The Fillet Minion on the Grill. Go For it, it'll make your day.
The meal comes with Salad, Soup and Desert, which were all very good and tasty. The bread was slightly flat, but blended well in the Beef Broth soup.

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I must admit that I don't fancy Chinese food all that much. There are very few dishes that appeal to my taste buds, but for the most part, I find it too flat or too sweet, while I on the other hand like spicy and picante food, so the sea food centered kitchen is not my cup of tea. However, Fu Lou has a huge selection of all sorts of dishes, (allot of sea food still), so more than likely everyone will find something to eat there.
The place itself is nicely decorated, with the clean Asian decor you will see in many of the more upscale Chinese restaurants, and the staff speaks English, as well as offers an English menu to list the assorted dishes.
The place is close to the City Hall, right across the street from the shopping mall near by.

Favorite Dish: The Kong Pau chicken is very nice and the stir fried cabbage is a must, with is excellent garlic flavor. The stir fried rice is also good, and our friends that were dining with us mentioned that the grilled gigantic shrimp were wonderful.

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Very local, very famous, and very delicious!! This restaurant used to be a little food stand in Tainan; however, with growth of customer numbers, it has become a real restaurant which you can hold a banquet. Like all restaurants in this island, being boisterous is one of the most important elements here; students, family and friends gather here to enjoy a meal. It could be casual and easy yet it can also be solemn and compliacted.

Favorite Dish: Absolutely shrimp rolls, it is the paragon of all in Taiwan. Bon appetite.

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Wujiaochuanban (伍角船板) is an avant-garde franchise with restaurants throughout Taiwan. (See mattofasia’s Taichung page for information on the restaurant in Taichung). Wujiaochuanban is interesting in that most of the restaurant is built of driftwood, with various sculptures and oddly-placed beams and columns; quite an interesting sight. Their food isn’t too bad, either; we were there for afternoon tea, and many of their dumpling-related dishes were quite good.

Favorite Dish: Wujiaochuanban serves a variety of dumpling-related foods (mostly pork and shrimp), many of which are very good.

This is Tainan's 'local' food: The shrimp roll.
First: prepare a shrimp, freshly twitching its little claws from a bucket.
Then boil the f*** out of it.
Rip his little legs and head and shell off.
put his meaty tasty body into a flour shell, similar to a spring roll.
add some veggies
roll up the corpse. roll it in bread crumbs.
Fry the F*** out of it.
Deee licous!

When you walk around in the street you stumble over a local restaurant every minute. Though the language can be a problem, it's possible to point to what you like to eat.

According to some, the best places are on Jiankang Road, west of Martyrs' shrine.

And you can find McDonalds and Moss-burger too in downtown city, if you like that kind of food...

I'm not really one for eating Western food when I travel in the far east, but I heard of this very famous restaurant, serving specially prepared steaks, so I thought lets give it a try.
This restaurant specializes in a steak dish called "Wang steak". You have no choice to how it's cooked because it is prepared and served in a traditional way. Each steak is marinated for 6 day's before it is cooked, and comes still on the bone.
This isn't a cheap night out but both the ambiance and the food is good.

Favorite Dish: Check at the Menu in my Photo. I had the traditional Wang Steak and it was very tender and tasty, my girlfriend took the Lamb.