Yu Pin Yuan Iced and Hot Tangyuan - Raohe Branch — Restaurant in Taipei

Not even worth a single star. Ordered takeaway and ended up its like water and glutinous balls in it. What a joke!

Worst scenario. Went to ask if there is a toilet in the store that we can use and the lady staff at the front mention there is one at the back. So we went to the back and then there is this guy staff with rugged clothes with bad manners shout at us and chase us out saying we cant use the toilet. Explained to him about it and he shouted saying “不可能” then you tell me how the hell we know where the toilet located? Then when that rugged guy ask her lady colleague about it, that lady try to lie and say she thought i was mentioning about toilet paper. Please! If we are not allow to use your toilet how can we even access to take your toiler paper? And, Your toilet door is lock who the hell can also access toilet paper? You can just tell us nicely and we wont use your toilet. This place really got no standard at all. They can’t even talk nicely to customers when food is...

Tried both their osmanthus and rice wine flavored ice with peanut and black sesame tangyuan. The portion is quite generous and its an unique concept with piping hot tanyuan and flavored ice.

The osmanthus ice is basically plain ice and you can top it with a squeeze bottle of osmanthus syrup (which is quite nice and smells incredible), while the rice wine flavoured ice have the wine poured over it. The rice wine taste quite strong but the alcohol doesnt burn your throat.

The tangyuan are also just right with the ratio of skin to filling. The fillings were both very fragrant and "juicy". Each bowl comes with 6 tangyuans, so it was more than enough to share.

Not to be missed in Raohe night market, worth a try!! Quite...

Very interesting way of serving tangyuan. The inside filling is slightly more than warm while the outer skin is chilled by the ice that they sit on. The ice is mildly flavoured with yuzu (I think) that adds a refreshing touch. The hot and cold way of serving tangyuan captures the heart warming filling but a more Q and smooth tangyuan skin, with a tint of yuzu freshness in ice, is best of both worlds. Worth a try!!

I was too full from the street food at Raohe Night Market so I was not able to fully enjoy this. Some I lost the videos taken of the icy smoky effect around the bowl of tangyuan that is fun to whet the appetite. There are lotsa photos and videos the hot tangyuan over ice. Check them out and it does look like this...