Long line but moves fast, delicious and nice soy milk (get cold on a humid night), the smells coming from this restaurant are amazing and it’s pretty affordable.
You can already see the line when walking up but the smells are what gets you definitely. The sizzling bubbling egg tarts coming fresh out of the oven, you can almost taste the flakiness and creamy egg tarts coming fresh. Fried doughnut (youtiao) is crunchy and nice, jianbing (kind of like a fried puff pastry with sesame seeds) is also very good especially the salad one(a little sweet from the peanut sauce but also savory/balanced out from the salad and jianbing itself. Egg tart was really good. Xiaolongbao was also very juicy and slurpable, add the sauce that comes with it and it’s very good
All of that and the soy milk to wash it down, it’s a very filling and crunchy meal to share. Yummy and would come again, inexpensive too! Also, the line is just long enough for you to be able to make a decision from the many many many options available. No place to sit though, there is a nearby park with benches but especially in the summer there are a lot of mosquitos so wouldn’t recommend and I think I also saw a...
Read moreThis is a wonderful breakfast and late-night spot. Open from 6pm to 11am. They have traditional food items like "you-tiao" (fried chinese donut), "fan-tuan" (sticky rice roll that's filled with you-tiao, pickled veggies, daikon, and dried pork), juicy pork dumplings (pronounced "xiao/shao long bao"), grilled stuffed buns (pronounced "shung-jian-bao") that are filled with either meat (pronounced "rou") or cabbage (pronounced "gao-lee-tsai/cai"), grilled radish cakes (pronounced "luo-buo-gao"), potstickers aka pan fried dumplings (pronounced "guo-teeyeh"), and several more items. I don't know if their staff speaks English, but there is an older gentleman there that speaks some. For drinks, they have soy milk that you can order hot (pronounced "re dou jiang" or "wen dou jiang") or cold (pronounced "lung dou jiang"). You can get it sweet ("tian") or salty ("xian/shien"). They also have rice milk ("mi jiang") which is brown with a sweet, nutty flavor. It's like drinking mochi. Great food,...
Read moreAbsolutely the best breakfast in Taipei! I’m always on the hunt for the best traditional breakfast and this place tops the cake (or tops the Portuguese Egg Tart) LOL! My favorite is the rice ball… full of delicious stuffing that every bite just surprised me. The Egg pancake is amazing as well. It’s too bad that they don’t have a place for dine-in, but I will be sure to go back again before I...
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