Taipei
This authentic and ever-crowded eatery asks you to choose both your broth flavour and thickness, as well as noodle thickness and texture. Extra noodles…
Must-see restaurants in Taiwan
Madame Jill's Vietnamese Cuisine
Taipei
Opened by Chinese fleeing the Vietnam War in 1974, Madame Jill's was Taipei's first Vietnamese restaurant and is still one of the best. This enduring…
Hualien
Popular for years, this comfortable family restaurant is run by a jovial Burmese gentleman, but cuisine covers wider Southeast Asian bases with good Thai…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
One of the most reliable main-strip eateries, the specialities here revolve predominantly around fresh seafood, including catch of the day, garlic scallop…
Taroko National Park
At the Silks Place Hotel, only guests can enjoy the dinner buffets but at lunchtime, when business is slow, the low-voltage Mei Yuan accepts all comers…
Taichung
The flagship store of pineapple-cake specialist Dawncake (日出鳳梨酥) also sells ice cream in flavours such as Hakka lei cha (擂茶, léi chá) and, of course,…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
Far more appealing than most of the other boxy shop-cafes in central Ruisui, this recently modernised ramen specialist also serves a typical range of…
Kaohsiung
For fresh seafood, locals recommend Ya Jiao on Cijin Island. It's the kind of place for eating sautéed clams or local fish sashimi, drinking cheap beer,…
Taipei
Disco lives – or at least glitter balls, mirrored walls and stained-glass ceilings do – at this welcoming restaurant specialising in simple, well-prepared…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
This bright yellow cafe has an attractive open-sided perch for tasting local Tao food or sipping coffee with views across stone-walled lotus ponds towards…
Taipei
As soon as you walk in, you can smell the Sichuan peppercorns and hot oil. Old Sichuan is a theatrical experience from the decor, an over-the-top red-and…
Eight Immortals Barbecue Grill
Taipei
One of the city's best rèchǎo (熱炒) joints. Facing Da'an Park, this superpopular restaurant dishes up plate after plate of fried and grilled delights –…
Taipei
An upscale branch of a famous Tainan-based snack restaurant. 'Slack Season' (which refers to the style of tangy noodles served during the fishing low…
Oma Ursel's German Bakery & Restaurant
Taipei
With its two-storey cottage design, including a pleasant brick terrace, this is a charming place to enjoy classic German fare such as sausages, pork…
Northern Taiwan
Several shops all sell the same bento boxes outside Fulong train station. Choose from the standard Fulong bento (福隆便當; Fúlóng biàndāng) with pork, egg,…
Taipei
One of Taipei's more interesting food courts. This one, owned by a Singaporean company, is decorated to look like old-fashioned outdoor hawker stalls. The…
Taipei
In a historic building on Dihua St, this moody purple-walled cafe is a good place to stop for lunch. The short menu, true to its German name meaning …
Meinong Traditional Hakka Restaurant
Southern Taiwan
A proper sit-down restaurant favoured by families, this busy place dishes out simple bowls of stirfried bantiao noodles (flat-rice noodles, 炒粄條, chǎo…
Taipei
Three great things about Herban: the little leafy garden, its wine bar, and the sheer imaginative variety of very yummy meatless dishes from aubergine…
Taipei
The yellow walls and palm trees bestow a fun tropical feel on this busy Taiwan-tamed Thai restaurant, about 1.2km northwest from the ferry pier along the…
Taipei
Hugely popular, this Taiwan-influenced Japanese izakaya (gastropub) is a rowdy, happy place, where skewers of fish, mushrooms, squid and chicken are…
Taipei
This long-running and often hectic place serves Taiwanese comfort food quickly and cheaply, without fuss or atmosphere. Try the lǔròu fàn (魯肉飯, rice and…
Taipei
This long-running family favourite (and famous restaurant) serves up bowls of noodles steeped in a light bone stew tempered with medicinal herbs…
Taipei
This extremely cute breakfast nook is famous for its melted-cheese toasties that are literally a sea of delicious diary. Additional fillings are very…
Western Taiwan
The Changhua tourist website claims that this shop's special noodle dish is one of the three culinary treasures of the city. It's a stretch, but the tangy…
Kaohsiung
A chilled cafe in an old Japanese-Taiwanese house (c 1900s) that's nostalgic and elegant without trying too hard. You can spend a relaxing hour here under…
Taipei
Because of its location (next to Shida University), this vegetarian buffet is popular with expat students. It has a larger choice of dishes than many…
Taipei
This Israeli-American venture has been serving delicious, healthy, authentic Middle Eastern staples such as stuffed pittas and hummus for years now, and…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
This bland-looking diner with its stainless-steel tables has been serving filling bowls of classic Yuli noodles since 1971 and still has the locals…
Tainan
There are a dozen items on the menu in this celebrated eatery, and its claim to fame is the bean jelly (or bean curd; 豆花, dòuhuā), made with organic…
Taipei
Formerly called James Kitchen, this top spot for Taiwanese food seems to have regained its favoured status after an ownership change. Try the oysters with…
Taichung
The crowd out front should tell you something about this much-loved goose specialist. Try the smoked (燻鵝, xūn’é) or drunken variety (醉鵝, zuì’é), or the…
Penghu Islands
Delicious little crispy stuffed pancakes (土司, tǔsī) wash down well with NT$20 iced coffee in this inexpensive cafe decorated with 1940s Japanese-era…
Western Taiwan
This fifth-generation shop sells pastries purportedly based on original Qing-dynasty recipes. The phoenix-eye cake (鳳眼糕, fèngyǎn gāo), almond cookies (杏仁棗…
An-Ping Gui Ji Local Cuisine Cultural Restaurant
Tainan
If you want to try an assortment of Tainan snacks in one plac, head here rather than hopping all over town in search of the 'best' place for each. This is…
Taichung
A clean family-run institution that serves your order of spring roll – plain (原味, yuánwèi) or wasabi-flavoured (芥末, jièmò) – with a cup of bonito broth…
Kenting National Park
This cafe sits on the main drag in Nanwan, across from the beach. Sandwiches are filling, the beef-cheek stew is hearty, and the cheesecake wows the kids…
Taipei
Just behind the information centre in Huashan 1914 is this ever-popular stone-oven pizza restaurant. With walls painted devilishly red and a soaring…
Ming Long Vegetarian Restaurant
Taitung
The interior is blandly neutral but Ming Long's wholewheat vegan wraps are the draw here, not the decor.
Taipei
This popular market street by the MRT has stacks of stalls and shops selling local snacks such as a-gei (fried tofu stuffed with noodles), grilled squid,…
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