周家小籠包蒸餃（花商店） — Restaurant in Hualien City

Here we are on the Taiwan east coast just finishing our tour of the Taroko Route attractions.

Before settling in for the night at the local Goodness Hotel, it was time to seek dinner out. The hotel gives out complimentary use of bicycles so that how we found this restaurant.

The mission was simple. Seek out famous Taiwanese eats so we ordered 10 Shoalin Bow 50 NTD and Soup 35 NTD.

The bow were tasty (3.5 stars) but nada for the soup (generous 2 stars) so I rounded up to 3 overall.

Oh well, it’s back to the hotel for a free...

To all the Westerners, this is a side in the wall restaurant. It’s humid. Came twice in an hour to pick up soup dumplings and niu-rou-fan （牛肉饭）.

Excellent combo for roughly 90NT ($3USD). I went again with a friend to try the dumplings: he loved it but me? It was solid. There’s a spice that I don’t prefer but only in subtle nature (5 spice).

Overall, they were popping at 8:30 and 9:30 on a Wednesday night. People were coming in and/or picking up to go.

They’re good. 5 star overall but I only tried 2 dishes, their main 2...

We went to this dumpling house per recommendation of our hostel and it did not disappoint! We ordered small hot and sour soup, large garlic pork rice and two orders of xiaolongbao. The xiaolongbao are huge compared to what we're used to, so we only ended up eating half! We also didn't realize the garlic pork rice would be a soup but it was a happy mistake because everything we ate was absolutely delicious! Price is very reasonable. All of this was...