Village Mouth — Restaurant in Taipei

If you want to enjoy authentic dishes from military dependents' villages, this is the right place as there are various types of diverse dishes to choose from. Different from usual diners where most of the spotlight is on main dishes, here appetizers are the genuine leads.

Famous dishes like scallion-braised carp, kao fu (Shanghai-style wheat gluten), soy sprouts, sauteed string beans, edamame with mustard greens, braised eggplants, and so forth. Every dish tastes amazingly delicious, and may instantly bring you back to the village life during childhood. You can order these appetizers with dumplings or noodles to further complete your meal.

The owners are courteous and hospitable, and you just feel at home when dining in. Highly recommended to those who love dishes from military...

The service is utterly atrocious, and it’s has been always like this. I once called to order a take out of 5 dumplings and some side dishes, and the response from the owner was “ don’t make this call unless you are ordering 100 dumplings”. It left me completely speechless and I immediately canceled the order. The second time I went in person, bought some dumplings and asked the owner for soy sauce. The owner looked at me with an raise eyebrow, saying(literally word by word): “ soy sauce? for only 10 dumplings?”

Just wow. Wonder how the store can still survive in this competitive...

This place serves very authentic Taiwanese local cuisine in a very interesting ambiance. You could find some slogans across the walls and some soldier helmets hanging from the sides. If you are going for dinner, be sure to do some research beforehand as they have a big hidden menu (fish head hotpot/ fried stinky tofu/ deep fried shrimps, etc). As they don't really have a menu, you pretty much need to guess how much the bill is gonna cost. But it is totally budget friendly. We ordered more than enough and it only costs around 2000NTD for...