Restaurants in Taiwan
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Very Thai
Dark and cool Thai with black-on-black decor and lovely dishes.
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Yu Shen Restaurant
A popular vegetarian restaurant serving à la carte dishes including noodles, dumplings and salads.
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Liaochen Niuroumian
On a lane loaded with street-food stalls, come here for its famous beef noodle soup and ignore the basic atmosphere.
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Wudu Organic House
The health conscious can head to this place, an organic restaurant and shop.
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Chunghsiao Night Market
Behind the train station; well known for its good, traditional, cheap food.
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Shantung Dumplings & Beef Noodles
Year after year this place serves consistently tasty traditional home-cooked dumplings, beef noodles and other staples with a Shantung province flavour. English menu.
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Escargot
Just north of Zhishan Garden, this take-away place serves some of the best cakes in the neighbourhood.
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Finga's Base Camp
A deli, restaurant, butchery and bakery all in one.
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Yu Chen Chai
This fifth-generation shop sells pastries based on original Qing-dynasty recipes. Try the phoenix eye cake (鳳眼糕; fèngyǎn gāo) or the green bean cake (綠豆糕; lùdoù gāo).
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Yuan Yuan Yuan
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Yong Ming
This kitschy little place on a small alley off the main Nanjing E Rd hub is a rare find indeed. Traditional Thai dishes such as lemon fish share the menu with more traditional Chinese fare such as Kung Pao chicken and hybrid items such as dragon balls (long zhu), a dry deep-fried squid mouth served with green onion, garlic and hot pepper. Alas, there's no English menu, though courteous staff will be happy to help you choose your food. We've saved the best for last: self-serve all-you-can-drink Taiwan beer on tap; NT$199 buys you three hours of unlimited refills of the local brew.
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Yogurt Art
Heavenly frozen yoghurt with self-serve toppings!
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Ye Hsiang Shi Dian
'Hualien dumplings' rings with brand-name cachet to the ears of most Taiwanese. Ye Hsiang Shi Dian has been serving steaming bowls of pork and seafood dumplings for over 70 years.
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Wu Hua Ma Dumpling House
Taipei is rich with restaurants serving dumplings, and this one is among the best. Dumpling choices include a variety of pork/vegetable mixtures, beef, shrimp and even the less common scallop. Dumplings go for a fixed price of NT$8 per dumpling, with a minimum order of 10 per type. One of the main joys of a meal here is making mix-and-match condiments using ingredients from the well-stocked condiment bar. For those who aren't dumpling fans, a variety of soups and noodle dishes are also available for between NT$50 and NT$100.
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Vegetary Restaurant
A comfortable vegie place with set meals and à la carte dishes. The speciality here is hot pot.
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Umeko
A very traditional Taiwanese banquet-style restaurant, from the seafood-filled glass counter to the huge round tables (complete with lazy Susans).
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Tianmu Takashimaya
Sashimi, Indian, bratwurst and doughnuts. What more could you ask for in the basement of an upmarket department store? Also home to one of the best Korean hot-pot places in town.
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Tianmu Sogo
New on the food court scene, what this one lacks in size (there are only a dozen or so stalls, far fewer than at nearby Takashimaya) it makes up for in quality and excellent ice-cream crêpes.
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Taiya Popo
This long-running restaurant on the tourist street in Wulai village serves some great if obscure aboriginal dishes such as déma miàn (得麼面; fermented pork), betel-nut salad, and fried bees (they taste like popcorn chicken; NT$350).
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Taipei 101
Though most people are drawn to Asia's tallest building by its height, some folks never leave the basement. Expect sandwiches, sushi, pasta, prime rib and more. Freeloaders take note: Jason's – a very upmarket supermarket in the basement – doles out free samples liberally.
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Tai G
The Shipai Night Market has a plethora of spots to eat, but Tai G (a pun meaning 'Taiwan Chicken') may trump them all in health benefits, serving a variety of medicinal chicken soups. For maximum benefit, bring a Chinese speaker with you to explain what ails you (lethargy…cold…allergies) and ask to be served the appropriate remedy.
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Sushi Express
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Shingong Tower
Two floors of food stalls to choose from, including hard-to-find items such as duck-meat sandwiches and fish-ball soup. Many of the shops on the lower level offer samples, making the Shingong food court a moocher's paradise.
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Santa Cruz
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Salt Peanuts
This unique cafe and restaurant (it even has a small art gallery in the back) offers a great selection of mixed Western and Chinese fare. At NT$220 for a small dish, roasted Italian sausage with tomatoes is more than enough to fill an average eater. We absolutely went crazy for the lightly grilled duck breast, served with pasta, bread and homemade jam (NT$320). Salt Peanuts also has great desserts and a wide selection of beers.
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