Sihai Soy Milk — Restaurant in Datong District

After waiting in line for Fuhang Soy Milk, and realizing that the queue will take around 1.5-2 hour wait, I decided to go to Sihai Soy Milk to skip the wait and save time for other things. Food was served quick, and everything hit the spot. Having been to Fuhang before, I think Fuhang is still better (9.5/10), but Sihai is still up there at a solid 8/10, and you get 2 hours of your day back :)

We got the usual - shaobing with egg & green onion, mantou, salty soy milk, sweet soy milk, milk tea, danbing, radish cake, xiaolongbaos, and a steamed meat bun. Everything! The meal was very filling and acted as a brunch. I will say that the shaobing was underwhelming - lacking in layers and flavor. I had better shaobing before. Ended up piling heaps of chili sauce per bite to give it flavor.

Solid choice if you're in the area. Only thing that I'll say is we went as a group of 7, and they split our group. There were two tables open right next to each other, but they decided to seat 4 of us first, and then a table of 4 from a party at the table next to us. Our remaining 3 people got placed farther away, so we asked them to put us together since we were sharing food. Not sure why they took the party in the line behind us and seated them with a table that could've seated our whole party together. You also go up to grab your food, and it was gestured in a very impatient way. I don't really care for service, but the attitude...

Went straight to this place upon arrival as not many breakfast place are opened at that time (not any of the chain breakfast eateries). It was not hard to locate this place, but do note that the nearest underground walkway exit is R4.

I was expecting a queue since it was the morning rush hour, surprisingly plenty seats were available. There was a queue for takeaways. This place is indeed popular among locals. Upon seated, I asked for the menu and order chit at the counter. While there was no English menu, I used Google translate app instead without much issues. The order process is quite simple - fill up the chit, pass it to the staff at the counter and you will be given a restaurant beeper. Upon collection of the food when the beeper vibrates, payment was collected as well. The staff were very helpful and friendly in general.

I ordered the salty soya bean milk and a carrot cake. It is hard to get good salty soya bean milk but this place serves one of the better salty soya milk that I have tried before.

While the carrot cake was small (or rather thin) in size, it was reasonable for its price. The carrot cake was lightly pan-fried; quite delicious when paired with the sweet sauce at the side. There are other food items on the menu but my stomach space is limited. I shall be back for others on...

This is a local place that feels safe to eat at as a foreigner. I’m personally on the more wary side of just trying anything out of food stalls when I travel since I know my stomach can’t handle as much as much as a local and and there’s not really any food practice regulations in Taiwan, but I really wanted to try a traditional Taiwanese breakfast and this place was very popular with local families, and there were no issues for me afterwards.

I got soymilk (hot and sweet ver) and this savory pancake thing (I always forget what it’s called) to-go. (Takeout bottle for the soymilk was paper cup, nice.) It can get pretty packed in the seating area, even though it was only around 8 am, and there’s a quick-moving line of people grabbing to go, so be prepared to just get takeout. The food tasted great, super fresh.

The cashier was really nice even though I didn’t speak English, and they have menus with clear photographs so it’s pretty simple ordering. It’s pretty fast paced, I would bring cash in case it’s one of those places that don’t take card. (Most everyone ordering looked like they were doing cash.)

Location: it’s right around the corner from a nice area that gets pretty busy with young people and nightlife in the evenings with nice buildings and well maintained...