Taipei Restaurant – 阿仁炒飯 Ah Ren Fried Rice
DaTong’s best kept secret – incredible fried rice.
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Taipei restaurant – 陳新一酸辣抄手 Spicy Wantons
Updated September, 2022 Updated to reflect menu changes and price changes Who doesn’t love a good wanton? I mean, really, how many times have you been to that awesom red and white wanton shop and ordered their 紅油抄手? Yeh, I know, I’ve done it countless times, too. But sometimes, you want to swtich it up.
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Taipei restaurant – 施家鮮肉湯圓 savoury soup dumplings, DaQiaoTou.
Disclaimer – This was my first ever savoury soup dumplings I won’t be returning for the savoury soup dumplings, but that doesn’t always mean that it’s game over for this restaurant… 鮮肉湯圓 Savoury soup dumplings in soup $55 Not for me. I understand that not everyone has the same taste in food. And the slimey,
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Taipei restaurant – 小王煮瓜（小王清湯瓜仔肉）Wanhua pickled melon soup
Updated September, 2022 Menu changes have meant price changes I don’t know how you guys feel about LongShan Temple, but I am a big fan. If I could cut out LongShan Temple, carry it to another part of the city, and drop it down, then I’d like it even more, because the area around the
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Taipei street food – 藍家割包 Lan Family’s GuaBao
A Taiwanese classic, done oh so well. GuaBao.
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Taipei night market – 大統大牛排(原大統一) ShiLin Steakhouse
Updated, September 2022 Prices updated So we aren’t talking A-Cut, Le Blanc or Steak Inn here, we are talking a nightmarket steak that is deliciously inexpensive (and won’t give you stomach issues, like some) Fortunately for you guys, the picture below explains what is what in the steak world in Taiwan. Now, I stand by
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Taipei restaurant–帥哥滷肉飯 Handsome man’s rice
Naturally, as a handsome man (cough cough), I found myself craving some fatty pork with rice the other day – likely story. To mix it up, I fancied it done with mouth numbing heat, just for kicks. Alas, Handsome Man’s Rice (really, why would you call your own place that?) Serves up traditional style Taiwanese
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Taipei hotel – Regent Buffet
Updated, September 2022 Prices updated The Regent Hotel might not be much to look at, but if you can look past the dull exterior you’ll find a few good places inside, such as Lady M (get the Matcha mille feuille pancake, thank me later) and Brasserie (for a pretty damn good buffet lunch). Buffet Lunch
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Hualien City – 阿傳師麻糬 GOMAJI Mochi
Mochi from the popular GOMAJI in Hualien. We arrived at 07:30 to this tiny side street house in Hualien, walked in the front door and down a hallway where a long line of customers were already waiting! Inside the kitchen of this house, many hands were at work moulding mochi around either red bean paste,
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Taipei City – ShiLin Nightmarket
At no point is this an exhaustive list of what to eat at ShiLin nightmarket, this is just some recommendations of places to check out if you’re feeling that way inclined. Cheng Zu’s pepper buns 丞祖胡椒餅 I usually can never get enough of a good pepper bun, especially red hot out of the ‘oven’. Essentially
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