Taichung
Award-winning Jimmy Lim, former head chef at the illustrious Le Mout, reimagines Singaporean street food at his elegant restaurant, and the results are a…
Must-see restaurants in Western Taiwan
Taichung
A no-frills restaurant where you can see the chef whipping up delicious and beautiful western vegan meals. Kale, quinoa, and fermented beans in all forms…
Chiayi
At this hugely popular restaurant featured on Netflix's Street Food, silver carp heads are deep-fried and simmered in a milky pork broth with vegetables,…
Chiayi
Do Right sure does it right. Students, professionals and expats come to this cafe for its hearty yet refined Taiwanese home cooking and delectable cakes…
Taichung
A multitalented family built this graceful rustic restaurant with scraps. The meals they prepare are tasty and honest using only organic ingredients …
Chiayi
There's always a crowd in front of this fabulous breakfast place in a small street next to Maison de Chine. They whip up five dozen varieties of…
Taichung
The owner of Miyahara has transformed an old bank (1966) into a trendy three-storey cafe and restaurant. The old vault doors and standing-height counter…
Nantou County
Tasty, fresh-off-the-wok stir-fries and nourishing soups are what this cheerful neighbourhood joint offers. The Sichuanese kungpao chicken (宮保雞丁, gōngbǎo…
Chiayi
This food bazaar that starts at a roundabout with a fountain is one of Taiwan's neater and less crowded night markets. Chiayi, Changhua and southern…
Taichung
Qinyuan Chun offers hearty, old-fashioned Shanghainese cooking. The restaurant opened in 1949, the year Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to Taiwan, and…
Taichung
The ecoconscious chef of this private kitchen takes great pains to source quality Taiwan ingredients for his skilful French-style meals – line-caught fish…
Taichung
Fermented cabbage is the star here and it appears in various dishes – the signature hotpot (酸菜鍋, suāncài guō) alongside dried shrimp, celery and whatever…
Taichung
This small shop is famous for its stepped-up bento classics: rice with succulent fried pork chop (香酥排骨飯, xiāngsū páigǔ fàn) or with flavourful fried…
Chiayi
Zhongle Rd, just across from Minxiong Train Station, is lined with shops selling a Minxiong speciality – goose! But this shop has the most customers. The…
Chiayi
Everyone in Taiwan knows that Chiayi is famous for its turkey-rice dish (火雞肉飯, huǒjīròu fàn). This is the place that started it all 60-odd years ago. It's…
Taichung
A sprawling night market well known for its innovative and cheap street food. Vegetarian nibbles are especially well represented. A taxi from Taichung…
Nantou County
A remnant of Cingjing's Yunnan and Southeast Asia connection, this restaurant was started by a woman of the Bayi tribe who set up house in Cingjing with…
Taichung
The flagship store of pineapple-cake specialist Dawncake (日出鳳梨酥) also sells ice cream in flavours such as Hakka lei cha (擂茶, léi chá) and, of course,…
Chiayi
This shop has been selling noodles since they were NT$1 a bowl. The signature strands (錦魯焿麵, jǐnlǔ gēngmiàn) come with fish meat in a thick soup. If you…
Chiayi
The old lady who runs this stall to support her two sick sons uses only natural ingredients and makes all her dessert soups and sweet drinks the old…
Chiayi
Behind Chaotian Temple, where Bo'ai Rd (博愛路) meets Datong Rd (大同路), a green awning and open frontage mark this old shop specialising in local beef (牛肉,…
Western Taiwan
The Changhua tourist website claims that this shop's special noodle dish is one of the three culinary treasures of the city. It's a stretch, but the tangy…
Chiayi
A no-frills family-run shop in the Wenhua Road Night Market specialising in turkey rice (雞肉飯) and savoury rice pudding in soup (粿仔湯), with an assortment…
Taichung
The crowd out front should tell you something about this much-loved goose specialist. Try the smoked (燻鵝, xūn’é) or drunken variety (醉鵝, zuì’é), or the…
Western Taiwan
This fifth-generation shop sells pastries purportedly based on original Qing-dynasty recipes. The phoenix-eye cake (鳳眼糕, fèngyǎn gāo), almond cookies (杏仁棗…
Taichung
A clean family-run institution that serves your order of spring roll – plain (原味, yuánwèi) or wasabi-flavoured (芥末, jièmò) – with a cup of bonito broth…
Nantou County
This old restaurant near Shueishe Pier is one of very few at Sun Moon Lake that serves more-than-reasonable-quality food at reasonable prices. The NT$600…
Nantou County
Sumama is famous for her glutinous rice balls either savoury with a pork filling, or sweet with a heart of sesame, peanut, red bean or taro. We prefer the…
Western Taiwan
Just behind the train station at the start of the 'old street', Fancylake is famous for its bento (鐵路便當, tǐelù biàndāng) meals...
Nantou County
Tasty and filling set meals with veggie and hotpot options. The main feature is the use of fruits in savoury dishes. The garden gets a bit too much noise…
Gongbing Vegetarian Restaurant
Chiayi
A modest vegetarian restaurant with buffet and a la carte options, and vegan foodstuff for sale.
