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★ Michelin 2024 / Street Food Comparisons

Taipei (台北)

Michelin:“In a destination where delicacies, street food and small eats have always been a major part of the local lifestyle, we believe our Bib Gourmand selection is one of the best ways to explore Taiwan and its incredibly rich culinary scene,”

nguide.michelin.com/us/en/taipei-region/taipei/restaurants/bib-gourmand: The number of Taipei's Michelin "Bib Gourmand" street food is 9;
nguide.michelin.com/en/tw/restaurants/street-food: 12 street food in Taipei on the list

♦ 公館夜市/ Hsiung Chi Scallion Pancake (Gongguan Night Market, 2, Lane 108, Section 4, Luosifu Road)

♦ 饒河街夜市/ A Kuo Lu Wei (Raohe Street Night Market, 226 Raohe Street,)

♦ 南機場夜市/ Unnamed Clay Oven Roll (Nanjichang Night Market, Stall 74, Lane 311, Section 2, Zhonghua Road)

♦ 南機場夜市/ Wu Wang Tsai Chi (Nanjichang Night Market, 29, Lane 313, Section 2, Zhonghua Road)

♦ 延三夜市/ Cabbage Rice and Pork Rib Soup (Yansan Night Market, 2, Lane 17, Section 3,)

♦ 華西街夜市/ Yuan Fang Guabao (Huaxi Street Night Market, Stall 161, 17-2 Huaxi Street)

♦ 士林夜市/ Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao (Shilin Night Market, 38 Xiaodong Street)

♦ 華西街夜市/ Wang's Broth (Huaxi Street Night Market, Stall 153, 17-4 Huaxi Street,)

♦ 士林夜市/ Good Friend Cold Noodle (Shilin Night Market, 31 Danan Road)

Singapore (新加坡)

nThe number of Singapore's Michelin "Bib Gourmand" street food and hawker stalls is 65

nmothership.sg (2024-6-18): 7 new hawker stalls added to S'pore Michelin Bib Gourmand list 2024

nmothership.sg (2023-6-15): the international director of the Michelin Guide, said the 79 Bib Gourmand locations include 21 restaurants, 53 hawker centre stalls, and five street food establishments
nJetStar : Hawker centres are hubs of hawker stalls – small stands selling street food.

★ Yahoo News (2024-4-30): Taiwan's a number of restaurants including Michelin 3-star Le Palais Cantonese restaurant (君品頤宮) in Palais de Chine Hotel and Michelin one-star MiPon (米香), A-Cut, Tien Hsiang Lo (天香樓) repeatedly failed to pass public health inspections in recent 4 years. Taipei city councilor questions that if Michelin restaurants got food safety issues, what can our people eat ? tw.news.yahoo.com/米其林餐廳也不合格-議員揭-食安地雷-君品頤宮-天香樓都入列-095930855.html

TasteAtlas Best Rated Street Foods - July 15, 2024 comparisons among Asian countries - Taiwan is not included in top 25
Indonesia	world No.1 Siomay, No.4 Pempek, No.16 Batagor
China	world No.3 Guotie, No.14 Pan-fried pork buns, No. 24 Baozi
Vietnam	world No.7 Banh mi
Malaysia	world No.12 Roti Cannai
India	world No.20 Amritsari Kulcha
.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-street-foods-in-the-world

Michelin 2023 / street food comparisons among Asian countries
Singapore	17 newly awarded Bib Gourmand street hawker stalls 79 hawker stalls selected in 2023 Bib Gourmand
Hong Kong	25 Street Food restaurants guide.michelin.com/en/hk/hong-kong-region/hong-kong/restaurants/street-food
Taipei	12 Street Food restaurants guide.michelin.com/us/en/taipei-region/restaurants/street-food

Taste Atlas Nov. 2023 / best rated street foods in the world
Top 50 - Asian countries comparison - number of street foods selected
Indonesia ★★★★★★
China ★★★
Vietnam ★★★
India ★★
Malaysia ★
Lebanon ★
Taiwan - no any street foods was selected in world top 50
Indonesia	No.1 Siomay, No.2 Batagor, No.15 Pempek, No.43 Bubur ayam, No.44 Nasi uduk, No.45 Serabi
China	No.4 Guotie, No.14 Pan-fried pork buns (Shengji mantou), No.23 Baozi
Vietnam	No.9 Banh mi, No.16 Meat and Cold Cut Banh, No.38 Beef pho
India	No. 28 Tikka, No.49 Chole bhature
Malaysia	No.5 Roti canai
Lebanon	No.26 Shawarma
Taiwan	No. 84 Taiwanese Acallion Pancake (蔥抓餅, Taiwanese Green Onion Pancake): Though similar varieties of scallion pancakes can be found in other Asian countries, in Taiwan they are a common and sought-after treat that is usually enjoyed as a snack or an accompaniment to other dishes. The pancakes are prepared with an unleavened dough that is flattened, sprinkled with sliced scallions, and then rolled and pressed to form a flat pancake that is pan-fried until crispy.

news / ★National Geographic (2024-2-16): Today, Taiwan is a melting pot of East Asian tastes, traditions and culinary techniques. Taiwan has acted as a cultural crossroads for over 500 years, having played host to Japanese, Dutch, Spanish and Chinese settlers. With its spectacular street vendors and long list of Michelin-starred spots, the capital, Taipei, is often the go-to destination for food-focused visitors to Taiwan. nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/paid-content-three-cities-to-savour-taiwan

★ NPR (2024-2-22): Even though about 90% of people in Taiwan have Chinese ancestry, they have forged a cuisine that is, in many ways, their own. What distinguishes Chinese food from the unique flavors in Taiwanese food is a bit of a nebulous thing. Taiwanese food is, I would say, a combination of all of our waves of colonization and governance (Dutch, Japanese ...), key difference: Taiwanese food is sweet. Besides, Taiwan is the only subtropical country in the world where short-grain rice are the grain of choice npr.org/2024/02/22/1229886464/taiwan-food-china-colonization-history-cookbook brief Mallory Yu , Ailsa Chang , Patrick Jarenwattananon , Jonaki Mehta

★Yahoo Life, Daily Meal (2024-2-18): Breakfast In Taiwan Is All About Street Food / From traditional eats like turnip cakes and salted soy milk to more Western-familiar offerings like variations on porridge and fluffy scrambled eggs, Taiwanese breakfast is not just an important meal of the day, it's essential. yahoo.com/lifestyle/breakfast-taiwan-street-food-184551295.htmlMadalyn Mackarey

★NPR (2024-1-9): Taiwan's long history of colonization has forged its distinct cuisine npr.org/2024/01/09/1223788655/taiwan-s-long-history-of-colonization-has-forged-its-distinct-cuisine

★ DailyMail (UK), 2023-4-28: Young Australian student on his dream overseas exchange program is fighting for his life in Taiwan after eating street food laced with rat poison. He had been misdiagnosed in Taiwan with an immune disorder. Alex is at the Taipei Medical University Hospital ...The medical services in Taiwan don't currently have the right treatments or drugs to stabilise his condition, Alex's condition has grown worse and he needs to be flown to the Royal Prince Albert Hospital in Sydney via a specialised medical flight retrieval service. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12023841/Toowoomba-student-exchange-Taiwan-fighting-life-eating-food-laced-rat-poison.html
　

pic.: This site was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan night markets" on Bing (US), 2024-7-17, 2024-5-13, 2024-2-24 (Chinese version), No.1 on Bing at 2024-2-24, top 2 at 2024-5-13 (English version) 　　 pic.: This site was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan night markets" on Yandex of Russia, 2024-7-17 ( Chinese version); No.1 at 2024-5-13, 2024-2-24, 2024-2-18, 2023-6-10 　 pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan night markets"(Chinese version "評論台灣夜市" ) on US Google, 2023-6-10, 2022-10-7, 2022-9-13, 2022-3-30, 2021-9-28, 2021-8-8, 2021-5-30, 12-4-2020, 10-31-2020, 8-25-2020, 7-31-2020, 7-1-2020, 4-5-2020; No. 2 at 2024-2-24, 2024-2-18, 2022-6-13
Michelin 2022 / street food comparisons among Asian countries
Singapore	1 street food stall with 1 MICHELIN Star 5 Bib Gourmand street food stalls (including 1 new) 6 MICHELIN Selected street food stalls (including 1 new) 40 Bib Gourmand hawker centre stalls (including 3 new) 62 MICHELIN Selected hawker centre stalls (including 1 new)
Hong Kong	15 Street Food establishments (including 2 new additions)
Macau	8 Street Food establishments
Taipei	none PS: intro some street food: guide.michelin.com/us/en/taipei-region/restaurants/street-food

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● New York Times, 2023-3-16: Because of gentrification and noise complaints, many of Taipei's night markets aren't as robust as they were decades ago. Ningxia Night Market is a distinguished exception, ... many of the food stalls here... nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/16/travel/things-to-do-taipei.html

● BBC, 2024-1-7: Taiwan's scrumptiously rich cuisine showcases Taiwan's thorny politics / ...the food of Taiwan's indigenous tribes was almost impossible to find outside of the communities. But that has been changing as Taiwan's identity takes shape, often in defiance of Chinese claims. foodies swarm the island's markets to devour braised pork rice, crispy-fried Taiwanese popcorn chicken, overwhelmingly fermented "stinky" tofu and oyster omelettes. This is the food of Chinese immigrants who came from the 17th Century onwards. Most of them were from Fujian in the east and Guangdong to its south. But the flavours they brought have turned local. The Fujian version uses less batter, while in Guangdong it is crispier and dipped in fish sauce. The Taiwanese version pays a lot of attention to the batter. It tastes a bit thick and sticky but Taiwanese people love it. msn.com/en-xl/news/other/how-popcorn-chicken-and-bento-showcase-taiwans-thorny-politics/ar-AA1myW6K

● New York Times, 2022-6-28: Taiwanese Fried Chicken Meets the Moment / As crispy chicken soars in popularity, Taiwanese American chefs are reimagining the street-food classic. nytimes.com/2022/06/28/dining/Taiwanese-fried-chicken.html ● New York Times, 2022-1-19: Many of Taiwan's residents are now proud of their island's culinary offerings, whether it is the classic beef noodle soup — a mix of mainland influences unique to Taiwan — or bubble milk tea, a modern invention. nytimes.com/2022/01/19/world/asia/taiwan-china-identity.html ● BBC, 2022-3-30: Today, stinky tofu ( that's reminiscent of sour milk and rotting garbage) is still primarily a street food throughout Taiwan, where it’s as synonymous with the country’s outdoor night markets as beef noodle soup. Shenkeng Old Street is an entire boulevard dedicated to the dish, Dai's House of Stinky Tofu is Since 1989 ● Taipei Times, 2022-9-10: classic Taiwanese street food — oyster omelet, guabao (pork belly buns), beef noodles, xiansuji (Taiwanese-style crispy fried chicken), stinky tofu and pot stickers. taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/09/10/2003785064 ● Taiwan News, 2022-3-23: Pizza Hut unleashed the "Cilantro Century Egg Pig’s Blood Cake Pizza" (香菜皮蛋豬血糕比薩), which was well-received by some Taiwanese but met with disgust by many foreign readers. ● In Michelin 2021, Taipei's food was ranked behind Japan's Tokyo, Hong Kong, Kyoto, Osaka, Singapore, Seoul Korea, Shanghai

CNN: street foods in Asia, 2022-8-24
Taiwan	nBubble tea: No trip to Taiwan would be complete without at least one bubble tea. the classic recipe calls for rich, silky, shaken green or black tea with sizable black tapioca balls, which require a special straw to drink. nSalt & pepper fried chicken: Coated in sweet potato flour then double-fried to add crunch and lock in moisture... nStinky tofu: Essentially, vendors soak bean curd in brine, then let it ferment for hours, days, weeks or months at a time.
best street foods in other Asian countries	edition.cnn.com/travel/article/asia-best-street-foods-cmd/index.html

● Lonely Planet, 2022-9-30: What to eat and drink in Taiwan / Yongkang Beef Noodles, Taipei. pearl milk tea, zhenzhu naicha (珍珠奶茶) in Chun Shui Tang, Taipei. gooey oyster omelets (蚵仔煎), ‘salt-crisp’ fried chicken tossed with basil leaves and five-spice, and shaved ice desserts (剉冰) in Miaokou Night Market, Keelung. aboriginal Formosans cuisine: wild boar served with onions and greens, steamed rice stuffed into bamboo tubes, and millet wine – once the tonic of tribal rituals. You might also encounter dishes of betel-nut salad, bird’s nest fern and even flying squirrel try it in Taiya Popo, Yilain. lonelyplanet.com/articles/what-to-eat-and-drink-in-taiwan

　

Economist / Global Food Security Index 2022
Taiwan is not included

world rank country Overall Score Affordability Availability Quality & safety Sustainability & Adaptation

6 Japan 79.5 89.8 81.2 77.4 66.1

14 NZ 77.8 91.6 67.7 73.1 75.1

22 Australia 75.4 93.3 61.1 84 58.8

23 UAE 75.2 86.7 73.8 81.3 55.2

25 China 74.2 86.4 79.2 72.0 54.5

28 Singapore 73.1 93.2 77.8 69.7 44.3

30 Qatar 72.4 88.6 72.9 71.7 51.0

39 S Korea 70.2 76.8 71.5 71.5 58.5

41 Malaysia 69.9 87.0 59.5 74.7 53.7

46 Vietnam 67.9 84.0 60.7 70.2 52.2

63 Indonesia 60.2 81.4 50.9 56.2 46.3

64 Thailand 60.1 83.7 52.9 45.3 51.6

impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-security-index/

　

Best Cuisines in the world
Taste Atlas tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines
TasteAtlas Awards: World’s Best Cuisines - TasteAtlas Awards 2021

No. 1. Italy, score 4.72 14. Poland 26. Georgia Bosnia

2. Greece, score 4.68 15. Germany 27. Czech Malaysia

3. Spain, score 4.59 16. Indonesia 28. Bulgaria Lebanon

4. Japan, score 4.59 17. Croatia 29. UK Ukraine

5. India, score 4.54 18. Argentina 30. Thailand Palestine

6. Mexico 19. S. Korea Belgium Bangladesh

7. Turkey 20. Vietnam Nederland Lithuania

8. USA 21. Hungary Austria No. 45 Taiwan,
score 3.96

9. France 22. Romania Algeria

10. Peru 23. Philippines Denmark

11. China 24. Iran S. Africa

12. Brazil 25. Serbia Syria

13. Portugal 　　　

● Seattle Times, 2021-8-14: In Taiwan, big data turns pig’s blood and century eggs into hot pizza toppings / In 2019, Domino’s Pizza created the boba — a pizza served with sweet tapioca pearls as an homage to the popular bubble milk tea. ... ramen and spicy hot pot pizza. It even made a pizza topped with durian — a thorny fruit ... The latest invention — featuring a street delicacy made of sticky rice and pig’s blood, and preserved eggs. “Every now and then, Taiwanese will go crazy over a new popular, well-talked about food” . “Taste does not seem to be their top priority.” seattletimes.com/nation-world/in-taiwan-big-data-turns-pigs-blood-and-century-eggs-into-hot-pizza-toppings/ ● Bloomberg, 2021-4-16: Total arrivals last year crashed 88%... life isn’t quite normal. For example, at the Ningxia Night Market in Taipei, masks and plastic screens are among the precautions used to prevent the virus from spreading. With a lack of foreign tourists, Shilin’s market has been shifting its focus to the 100,000-plus students who study nearby. brief from: bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-15/in-taiwan-s-night-markets-locals-sip-bubble-tea-and-wait-for-tourists ● Apple Daily, 2021-3-12: Shi-lin night market "miserable street scene" , more bosses than customers, “expensive”, "smoke smells", "too homogeneous & unattractive", "delivery platforms are emerging", "no foreign tourists"... most ever stores closed in recent 30 yrs ● Apple Daily editorial, 1-5-2021: chaos ! Taiwanese people lost confidence in gov. pork control strategy. famous shop "Formosa Chang" was questioned too. AP 11-23-2020: Taiwanese business may not be ethical ... mix the U.S. pork ( Ractopamine pork banned by 150+ countries ) with Taiwan pork ● Yahoo News, 12-16-2020: Singapore’s hawker culture was officially approved (Dec.16, 2020) to be inscribed into UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. But Taiwan's night market hawker culture was not selected ● China Times 7-15-2020, till now the govt. only work on night market's toilet room, the rest is far behind the standard int'l metro's needs... ● Taipei mayor Ko: Our night markets and markets are too dirty ! ● The best-known expert in toxic study, professor Yen: Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health !
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pic.: This site was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan night markets" on Yahoo Taiwan, 2023-6-10, 2022-10-7, 2022-9-13, 2022-6-30, 7-16-2019; pic.: This site was ranked No.1 by "comment Taiwan night markets" on US Bing, at 2024-2-24, 2023-6-10, 2022-10-7, 2022-6-30, 7-16-2019, 1-29-2019, 10-15-2018, 9-3-2018, 3-19-2018; No.2 at 2022-9-13

pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan night markets" (Chinese version "評論台灣夜市") on Google, 2023-6-10, 2022-10-7, 2022-9-13, 2022-3-30, 2021-9-28, 2021-8-8, 2021-5-30, 2021-3-17, 12-4-2020, 10-31-2020, 8-25-2020, 7-31-2020, 7-1-2020, 4-5-2020; No. 2 at 2024-2-18, 2022-6-13

pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan night market" on Yahoo Japan (largest search engine in Japan), 2022-6-13, 2022-3-30, 12-11-2020, 10-31-2020, No.2 at 2022-6-30, No.3 at 2021-8-9

pic.: No.1 "comment Taiwan night market" on US Google, 2022-3-30; No.2 at 2022-6-13; "comment Taiwan restaurants" on google, 2023-6-10, 2022-3-30, 2021-9-18; No.2 at 2022-6-13;

pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan night markets" (Chinese version) on google, 2022-3-30, 2021-9-28, 2021-8-9, 2021-5-4, 10-31-2020, 8-25-2020,1-22-2020, 11-11-2019 ; No.2 at 2022-6-13
　

pic. : No.1 "comment Taiwan restaurants" on Yahoo Japan (largest search engine in Japan), 2022-3-30, 2021-8-9, 2021-5-4, 12-11-2020, 10-31-2020; top 3 at 2022-6-13

pic. left: No.1 "comment Taiwan restaurants" on google, 2021-8-9, 2021-5-4, 10-31-2020, 8-25-2020, 1-22-2020,
pic. right: No.1 "comment Taiwan night markets" (Chinese version) on google, 2021-8-9, 2021-5-4, 10-31-2020, 8-25-2020, 1-22-2020, 11-11-2019

　

● UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage / https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists
Unlike Singapore's hawker culture, Taiwan's night market culture was not selected

ranks
Asian country heritage items selected

1 China 40

2 Korea 24

3 Japan 20

4 Mongolia 15

5 India 13

6 Indonesia 10

7 Saudi Arabia 8

8 Cambodia 5

9 Philippines 4

10 Qatar 3

10 Malaysia 3

10 Pakistan 3

13 Thai 2

14 Singapore 1

14 Sri Lanka 1

14 Vietnam 1

14 UAE 1

18~3X
Myanmar, Laos, Nepal 0

Taiwan 0

　
◆ sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-hawker-culture-gets-nod-included-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list-140941296.html 12-16-2020: Singapore’s hawker culture was officially approved on Wednesday (16 December) to be inscribed into UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The biggest thanks must go to the generations of hawkers for nourishing a nation’s stomach and spirits. Taiwanese like its night market culture, but was not selected.

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Taiwan's street food , Michelin bib-gourmand , 2021
name	type	contact
Da-Qiao-Tou Tube Rice Pudding	street food	41, Section 3, Yanping North Road, Datong District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Shih Chia Big Rice Ball	street food	02-25857655
Lo Chi Hsiao Chao	street food	27, Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Da'an District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Yu Pin Yuan Iced and Hot Tangyuan	street food	0955861816
Liang Chi Lu Wei梁記滷味	street food	Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Da'an District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Liu Yu Zi	street food	Ningxia Road, Datong District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Yi Jia Zi	small eats	02-23115241
Fang Chia Shredded Chicken on the Rice	street food	44-2 Ningxia Road, Datong District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Wu Wang Tsai Chi	Street Food	0930406677
Unnamed Clay Oven Roll	Street Food	Lane 311, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Chang Hung Noodles	Street Food	15 Huaxi Street, Wanhua District, Taipei, 108, Taipei & Taichung
Yuan Fang Guabao	Street Food	02-23810249
Stinky Tofu Boss	Street Food	02-2305 2078
Wang's Broth	Street Food	17-4 Huaxi Street, Wanhua District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Lan Chia Guabao	Street Food	3, Alley 8, Lane 316, Section 3, Luosifu Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Beef Noodles and Beef Entrails Soup	Street Food	63 Raohe Street, Songshan District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Hsiung Chi Scallion Pancake	Street Food	2, Lane 108, Section 4, Luosifu Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Good Friend Cold Noodles	Street Food	31 Danan Road, Shilin District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Chen Tung Pork Ribs Medicinal Herbs Soup	Street Food	160 Raohe Street, Songshan District, Taipei, 105, Taipei & Taichung
Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao	Street Food	38 Xiaodong Street, Shilin District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Hai Yu Pork Ribs	Street Food	49 Dadong Road, Shilin District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
A Kuo Lu Wei	Street Food	226 Raohe Street, Songshan District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Cabbage Rice and Pork Rib Soup	street food	2, Lane 17, Section 3, Yanping North Road, Datong District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung
Rong's Pork Liver	street food	68 Ningxia Road, Datong District, Taipei, 110, Taipei & Taichung

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33 new-winning street food, Michelin 2020 The MICHELIN Plate, Bib Gourmand, 8-24-2020
name	signature food	address	title
Da Qiao Tou Tube Rice Pudding	The steamed sticky rice is chewy but never mushy. Choose lean or fatty pork and drizzle with homemade sauce.	41, Section 3, Yanping North Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Liu Yu Zi	Plain taro balls boast creamy mashed taro; those with salted egg yolk and pork floss have extra flavour.	Ningxia Road, Taipei, 110, Taiwan	Bib Gourmand
Fang Chia Shredded Chicken on the Rice	The chicken rice is irresistibly aromatic while the tofu in a spiced marinade is velvety beyond imagination.	44-2 Ningxia Road, Taipei, 110, Taiwan	Bib Gourmand
Yuan Huan Pien Oyster Egg Omelette,	asty omelettes, with oysters from Tainan drizzled in homemade sweet hot sauce, since 1965.,	46 Ningxia Road, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
Beef Noodles and Beef Entrails Soup,	Beef offal soup and dry noodles with meat sauce are both good.	63 Raohe Street, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand:
Rong's Pork Liver	Crunchy liver slices in a rich broth are never grainy. Don’t miss the pork zongzi with sweet hot sauce.	68 Ningxia Road, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Cabbage Rice and Pork Rib Soup	Simple but addictive, cabbage rice and clear pork rib radish soup are the comfort food everyone craves	Lane 17, Section 3, Yanping North Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Shih Chia Big Rice Ball	Its gooey glutinous rice balls with juicy pork filling have been hugely popular with locals since the 1960s.	58, Section 3, Yanping North Road, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Lo Chi Hsiao Chao	Tucked away but worth seeking out. The menu is small, with fried lamb, beef or clams the highlights.	27, Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Yu Pin Yuan Iced and Hot Tangyuan	Hot sesame or peanut dumplings on shaved ice drizzled with osmanthus syrup create interesting contrasts.	31, Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Liang Chi Lu Wei	This busy stall boasts 20+ types of marinated food such as dried tofu, chicken offal, kelp and duck wings.	Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Golden Fried Chicken	Both chicken and tempura are fried-to-order, but the piping hot and perfectly fried items are worth the wait	35, Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Taipei,	The MICHELIN Plate
A Nan Sesame Oil Chicken	It serves revitalising sesame oil chicken soup all year round. Come early as chicken legs often run out by 7 pm	34, Lane 311, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Taipei,	The MICHELIN Plate
Wu Wang Tsai Chi	Rechristened and moved into an alley, but expect the same tasty popiah roll with 10 different fillings that are packed with layered flavours	29, Lane 313, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Unnamed Clay Oven Roll	This push cart near the end of the market always attracts a queue. Try their sweet pastry and long shaobing	Lane 311, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Corn House Grilled Corn	Sweet corn from Yunlin city is grilled and coated in spice mix – choose between original, cumin or fiery hot	Lane 311, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
Shan-Nei Chicken	Good-value steamed chicken is feted for its springy skin and juicy flesh. Come before 8 pm for chicken legs	20-3, Lane 307, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
Stinky Tofu Boss	Silky and porous, the vegan stinky tofu is steamed to order with mushrooms and basil adding extra aroma	6, Lane 313, Section 2, Zhonghua Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Chang Hung Noodles	For almost 50 years, regulars have been coming for its pork cheek noodle soup, boiled chicken and pork tail.	15 Huaxi Street, Taipei, 108	Bib Gourmand
Yuan Fang Guabao	A 60-year-old shop selling buns stuffed with marinated pork belly, pickles, ground peanuts and coriander	17-2 Huaxi Street, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Wang's Broth	As well as minced pork and pickled cucumber in broth, try their steamed rice with ‘black gold’ pork sauce	17-4 Huaxi Street, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Lan Chia Guabao	Buns stuffed with ground peanuts, coriander, pickles and braised pork build layers of textures and flavours	3, Alley 8, Lane 316, Section 3, Luosifu Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Hsiung Chi Scallion Pancake	Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, the pancake matches perfectly with the honey mustard and basil.	2, Lane 108, Section 4, Luosifu Road, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Beef Noodles and Beef Entrails Soup	Look for the comic cow head on the unnamed cart. Beef offal soup and dry noodles with meat sauce are both good	63 Raohe Street, Taipei,	Bib Gourmand
Tung Fa Hao	The second-generation owner makes tasty baby oyster vermicelli soup the same way as her father did when he started in 1937.	94 Raohe Street, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
Mochi Baby	The transparent case houses gooey mocha – they’re freshly made every day and have a strong sticky rice fragrance.	111 Raohe Street, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
Chen Tung Pork Ribs Medicinal Herbs Soup	Running for over 30 years, it’s famous for pork ribs stewed in herbal stock. Lamb is recommendated in winter	160 Raohe Street, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Fuzhou Black Pepper Bun	Freshly made crusty buns burst with pork juices and pepperiness. Expect a queue.	249 Raohe Street, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
A Kuo Lu Wei	It sells a range of items braised in a spiced marinade. Try their duck wings, pork uterus and baby sweetcorn	226 Raohe Street, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Good Friend Cold Noodles	Noodles dressed in sesame sauce impart a hint of lemony fragrance, a perfect match for egg drop miso soup	31 Danan Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao	This stall sells pan-fried buns with crispy bottoms and fluffy tops. Choose between cabbage and pork fillings	38 Xiaodong Street, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
A Hui Vermicelli	This stall by the temple with no seating serves no-frills vermicelli soup with pork chitterlings or cuttlefish	52-1 Danan Road, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
Hai Yu Pork Ribs	For over 40 years, a secret recipe has been used to make the tasty and healthy pork rib soup with over 15 herbs.	49 Dadong Road, Taipei	Bib Gourmand
Jingmei Thick Rice Noodles	Noodles soak up the flavourful pork bone soup; deep-fried seafood trio with cucumber is another must-try	119 Jingmei Street, Taipei	The MICHELIN Plate
https://guide.michelin.com/tw/en/taipei-region/taipei/restaurant/fang-chia-shredded-chicken-on-the-rice

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★1. Street foods in Taiwan / night markets, street food, small-eats (cheap eats)

   ● Scientific Reports Journal, Food Navigator Asia, 2-9-2021: Fish fraud findings: Almost 20% of fish in Taiwan found to be mislabelled - study. https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2021/02/09/Fish-fraud-findings-Almost-20-of-fish-in-Taiwan-found-to-be-mislabelled-study Nature, 12-15-2020: The rates and consequences of seafood substitution frauds in Taiwan were elusive. Snapper, cod and surimi products are particularly vulnerable to fraudulent substitutions. The high abundance of Pseudomonas in tilapia sashimi mislabeled as snapper unveils a potential health issue pertaining to the consumption of raw mislabeled seafood. modern seafood products often appear in the form of fish pieces, filets or even ready-to-eat meals instead of whole fishes. The food processing technologies can also change the original color and luster of the meat. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79070-y ● Financial Times, 8-28-2020: Taiwan eventually eases restrictions on US pork and beef imports. Must bear in mind you may eat beef and pork with controversial Ractopamine (banned by 150+ countries) from 2021 on, because the cost of local meat is much more expensive. ● CTS news, 10-26-2020: Due to CovID19 and lacking of int'l tourists, about 300 stalls in Shilin Night Market were closed ● China Times 7-15-2020, former transportation govt. minister 陳建宇 : Recreating a new tourists-friendly environment is starting from tourist night market, till now the govt. only work on night market's toilet room, the rest is far behind the standard int'l metro's needs...     ● Taipei mayor Ko: Our night markets and markets are too dirty ! United Daily 1-20-2020: Ko wants them to be cleaner, and the food safety standard should be upgraded.   ● Liberty Times (自由時報) 1-6-2019 : Taipei City Hall's "Model Night Markets" project, aims at " Japanese tourists are willing to sit down to eat "，however, quite many stalls of Nin-Xia night market, an used to be highly cooperative tourists site, opposed, in that elevating the hygienic level and class increases their running costs (new tables & seats, tableware, etc)， and might loses their characteristics, and human touch ... ● Chang Gung Mem. Hospital Toxicology expert professor Yen Tzung-Hai M.D. (顏宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health ! ( ref. to book <食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how to survive in this bad food-security time", April 2016))
    ● Michelin Guide Taipei announced at 4-10-2019 starred restaurants of Taipei Taiwan. Unlike other Asian street food stalls earning some Michelin stars (e.g., Singapore's Liao Fan soya sauce chicken rice & noodle, Hong Kong's Mammy Pancake and Thailand Bangkok's Jay Fai's wok-fired dishes), there's no any Taiwanese local specialty (night market cheap eats, street food) won any starred title.   Furthermore, even Michelin 3 star winner Le Palais Hotel was found snacks containing Hydrogen peroxide (過氧化氫) and Benzoic acid (苯甲酸), many tourism hotels / 5 star hotels were found food hygiene not up to standard, e.g., 5 star hotels used expired no-good ingredients, such as HsinChu and Taipei's Ambassador Hotel, The Grand Hotel, Regent Formosa, and so on, reported by CTV evening news, BCC , LTN (12-19-2019) https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3014179 , therefore it's within reason for us to suspect food-safety of night market's cheap eats. WEF <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> of 2019 shows Taiwan had the sub-region's largest decline in competitiveness, Taiwan ranks 10th in Asia, Taiwan's prioritization of travel & tourism ranks world No.75 ... travel & tourism New !

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● Michelin Guide Taipei Bib Gourmand newly included night market signature hawkers, stalls, and their street foods; 4-3-2019

"good value" food, NT30 ~ NT1300 (avg. 1000)

night market	signature hawkers	known for	ps
◆ newly included in 2019 https://guide.michelin.com/tw/en/taipei/news-and-views/michelin-guide-taipei-2019-bib-gourmand-selection-street-foods/news
Gongguan Night Market (公館夜市)	Hsiung Chi Scallion Pancake (「雄記蔥抓餅」)	Scallion Pancake	seem to be a never-ending queue
Gongguan Night Market (公館夜市)	Lan Chia GuaBao (「藍家割包」)	soft buns stuffed with braised pork, ground peanut, coriander and pickles	Diners can decide preferred amount of fat in the slab of pork
Yansan Night Market (延三夜市)	no shop sign (捷運大橋頭站附近)	Cabbage Rice and Pork Rib Soup	soup sweet and beautiful
	Da-Qiao-Tou Tube Rice Pudding (「大橋頭老牌筒仔米糕」)	Rice Pudding	50 yrs brand; sticky rice, lean or fatty pork, homemade sauce
	Shih Chia Big Rice Ball (「施家鮮肉湯圓」)	Big Rice Ball	glutinous rice balls with juicy pork fillings; since 1964
Huaxi Street Night Market (華西街夜市)	Hsiao Wang Steamed Minced Pork with Pickles in Broth (「小王清湯瓜仔肉」)	minced pork with pickled cucumbers、 “black gold” pork rice	black pepper's special flavor matches well with the clear broth
Nanjichang Night Market (南機場夜市)	Sung Ching Taiwanese Burrito (「松青潤餅」)	Taiwanese Burrito	popiah roll containing 10+ fillings ( bean sprouts, shredded carrots, radish, fried pork ) delivers sophisticated textures and flavors
Nanjichang Night Market (南機場夜市)	Unnamed Oven Clay Roll stall (「無名推車燒餅」)	sweet pastry(甜酥餅)、 savoury pastry or long shaobing (長燒餅、鹹酥餅)	best-loved items
Raohe Night Market (饒河夜市)	A Kuo Lu Wei (「阿國滷味」)	Duck wings, pork uterus and baby sweet-corn are recommended.	deep flavor、various items (marinated meat, offal and bean-curd)
Raohe Night Market (饒河夜市)	no shop sign (a bull-head cartoon on its stall)	Beef Noodles and Beef Entrails Soup. (「紅燒牛肉麵牛雜湯」)	must-eats : assorted side dishes and dried noodles
Ningxia Night Market (寧夏夜市)	Fang Chia Shredded Chicken With Rice (「方家雞肉飯」)	A simple bowl of shredded chicken + rice (雞肉飯), a velvety tofu in marinade (滷豆腐)	warm your stomach & heart
Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)	Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao (「鍾家原上海生煎包」)	buns (生煎包)	fillings: cabbage or pork , crispy bottoms
Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)	Good Friend Cold Noodles (「好朋友涼麵」)	Cold Noodles	famous, fragrant sesame sauce
Linjiang Street Night Market (臨江街夜市)	Tien Hsiang Stinky Tofu (「天香臭豆腐」)	Stinky Tofu	juicy, aroma
Linjiang Street Night Market (臨江街夜市)	Yu Pin Yuan Iced and Hot Tangyuan (「御品元冰火湯圓」)	tangyuan (湯圓)	hot sweet glutinous rice dumplings on shaved ice, an interesting contrast in one's palate


shop	tel	address	remarks
◆ night markets hawkers selected in 2018 and 2019
饒河夜市: 陳董藥燉排骨 (Chen Dong Pork Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs)	910 901 933	160, Rao-he St. (Raohe St. Night Market 慈祐宮前八德路旁, 饒河街160號路邊攤)	stewed with lots rack of pork-ribs and medicinal herbs
饒河夜市:福州世祖胡椒餅(FuZhou Black Pepper bun)Pepper cakes/Hujiao bing / wheat buns more accurately, pies or pockets	2311 5098	Rao-he St. Night Market (饒河夜市)	cook for immediate consumption, paper-thin wrappings, crispy & good-smell, rich hot broth with spicy pepper flavour (「現做現賣，皮薄香脆，餡料肉汁淋漓且充滿辛香胡椒味)
南機場夜市:臭老闆臭豆腐(Stinky Tofu Boss)	2305 2078	6, Ln.313, sec.2, Zhong-hua Rd. (中華路二段313巷6號)	Chou doufu / stinky tofu : cook for immediate consumption, no milk-products added, good for Vegetarian
南機場夜市:阿男麻油雞( A Nan sesame Chicken)	0955-572-506	Ln.313, sec.2, Zhong-hua Rd..(中華路二段311巷)	health preserving sesame oil chicken soup (not very greasy) for all four seasons (四季合宜的養生麻油)
寧夏夜市: 豬肝榮仔(Rong's Pork Liver)	2553-9710 / 0935-937-231	68 Nin-Xia Rd. (Nin-Xia night market, 寧夏路68號前)	Pig liver and pig bag only (只賣豬肝湯和豬肚湯，湯底肉香味濃，豬肝熟度完美，豬肚軟腍入味，配以香辛薑絲)
寧夏夜市: 劉芋仔 (Liu Yu Zi Taiwan's taro - similar to sweet potato)	0920 091 595	34-4, Nin-Xia Rd. (寧夏路34之4號, 蓬萊國小旁 Nin-Xia night market, )	the reason of being selected is its fresh ingredients, and cook for immediate consumption. chef specials are chicken-egg taro balls, taro pie ( 蛋黃芋餅、香酥芋丸 )
臨江街夜市:梁記滷味 ( Liang Ji Lou Wei)	2738-5052	83 Lin-Jiang Str (Nin-Jian night market , 臨江街83號)	Braised food/snacks : crispy duck intestines taste best
臨江街夜市:駱記小炒(Lou Ji Xiao Chao)	2708 1027	27, alley 50, Lane 39, Tong-Hua Str. (通化街39巷50弄27號Nin-Jian night market )	all stir fried dishes (beef, snail, etc) are its signature
Hi-Yu Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs(士林夜市: 海友十全排骨)	2888 1959	49, Da-Dong Rd. (大東路49, Shilin night market)	Ribs stewed in 15 different kinds of secret-recipe medicinal herbs (15種以上的中藥秘方烹調出美味養生的藥膳排骨湯)
ps: Shi Boss Spicy Tofu in Rao-he St. Night Market is the only one hawker no long in the 2019's list

◆ ps: some info. from Apple Daily headlines, UDN, 3-7-2018 ; https://guide.michelin.com/tw/en/taipei

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● Michelin Guide Taipei Plate , 4-10-2019

◆ night market / street food (夜市街頭小吃)
小吃 (stall)	contact	intro. in Chinese	intro.
圓環邊蚵仔煎-寧夏夜市 (Yuan Huan Pien Oyster Egg Omelette)	Tel.+886 2 2558 0198 46 Ningxia Road	創立於1965年，蚵仔煎選用每天從臺南直送的蚵仔，特調醬汁十分惹味。蒸米糕也值得一試。	Has been making its tasty omelettes, with oysters from Tainan drizzled in homemade sweet hot sauce, since 1965.
山內雞肉-南機場夜市 (Shan-Nei Chicken)	+886 2 2305 010020-3, Lane 307, Section 2, Zhonghua Road	皮爽肉嫰，份量頗多，十分超值。關門時間不定，若要點選雞腿，建議八時前到達	Good-value steamed chicken is feted for its springy skin and juicy flesh. Come before 8 pm for chicken legs.
玉米家烤玉米-南機場夜市 (Corn House Grilled Corn)	Tel.+886 931 504 865 Lane 311, Section 2, Zhonghua Road	選用雲林小農生產的玉米，配以店家調配的粉料烤製，有原味、新孜然及地獄勁辣三種口味。	Sweet corn from Yunlin city is grilled and coated in spice mix - choose between original, cumin or fiery hot.
阿輝麵線-士林廟口 (A Hui Vermicelli)	士林廟口	攤子臨近廟口，不設座位。麵線帶蔬菜甜味，實而不華，設兩種份量，也可加配花枝或大腸。	This stall by the temple with no seating serves no-frills vermicelli soup with pork chitterlings or cuttlefish
斌大腸包小腸-正宗士林創始店 (Pin Taiwanese Sausage with Sticky Rice)	84 Danan Road, Shilin	店主在電轉爐前應接不暇，全因其帶蒜香的香腸和軟綿綿的糯米包極受歡迎，更備有十多款醬汁。	There's always a queue for their garlic sausage in fluffy, sticky rice. Jazz it up with one of the sauces.
景美米粉湯-景美夜市 (Jingmei Thick Rice Noodles)	119, Jingmei Street	粗米粉吸盡大骨精華，滑嫩而不軟爛。炸三鮮外酥內嫩，搭配脆口的醃黃瓜，不容錯過	Noodles soak up the flavourful pork bone soup; deep-fried seafood trio with cucumber is another must-try
鵝媽媽鵝肉切仔麵-景美夜市 (Mother Goose Noodles)	37-3, Jingmei Street	招牌鵝肉肉質柔嫩，白切的清甜，煙燻的香氣濃郁。另有鴨肉與鴨肉麵類可供選擇	Steamed or smoked, the goose is always juicy and velvety. The offal and duck noodles also stand out
格登炸雞-通化夜市 ( Golden Fried Chicken)	35, Alley 50, Lane 39, Tonghua Street, Da’an, Tel.+886 983 186 080	必點招牌炸雞和甜不辣外脆內軟，老闆堅持現點現炸，故製作需時；建議趁熱食用。	Both chicken and tempura are fried-to-order, but the piping hot and perfectly fried items are worth the wait.
東發號油飯麵線-饒河街夜市 (Tung Fa Hao)	Tel.+886 2 2769 5739 94 Raohe Street	顏老先生於1937年創立，繼承的女兒繼續以清湯烹煮蚵仔麵線，成品鮮甜甘美。	The second-generation owner makes tasty baby oyster vermicelli soup the same way as her father did when he started in 1937
麻糬寶寶-饒河街夜市 (Mochi Baby )	111, Raohe Street	透明廚櫃在此經營十多年，所賣的小麻糬每天鮮做，口感軟糯且帶糯米香	The transparent case houses chewy mocha - they're freshly made every day and have a strong sticky rice fragrance.
ps: 小王清湯瓜仔肉-華西街夜市

● Liberty Times (自由時報) 1-6-2019 : Taipei City Hall's "Model Night Markets" project, aims at " Japanese tourists are willing to sit down to eat "，however, quite many stalls of Nin-Xia night market, an used to be highly cooperative tourists site, opposed, in that elevating the hygienic level and class increases their running costs (new tables & seats, tableware, etc)， and might loses their characteristics, and so-called human touch ...

Michelin Taipei 2018

● Michelin Guide Taipei announced at 3-14-2018 starred restaurants of Taipei Taiwan. Unlike other Asian street food stalls earning some Michelin stars (e.g., Singapore's Liao Fan soya sauce chicken rice & noodle, Hong Kong's Mammy Pancake and Thailand Bangkok's Jay Fai's wok-fired dishes), there's no any Taiwanese local specialty (night market cheap eats, street food) won any starred title. Besides, Liao Fan was just a stall in Singapore, was upgraded to a restaurant in Taipei's prime and expensive location, still failed to win any title in Michelin Guide Taipei, including Bib Gourmand, and Plate (L'Assiette Michelin). Further info. about Taiwan's night market street food in Michelin non-starred list is in the next web-page.

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Bloomberg 3-15-2018 : Taiwan ranks about the last in number of Michelin 3-Stars among Asian cities; Taiwan's night market street food fails to win any Michelin star, but Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand did. tbl.: Total number of Michelin Stars comparison among Chinese-world cities
Michelin Guide 2018	3 star	2 star	1 star	num. of stars (星數)
Hong Kong, Macau (港澳)	8	16	57	81
Singapore (新加坡) jun'17	1	7	30	38
Shanghai (上海) sept'17	2	6	22	30
Taipei (台北)	1	2	17	20

1. Michelin Bib Gourmand, street food, 3-6-2018　

Michelin Taipei - "good value" street food, NT30 ~ NT1300 (avg. 1000)

shop

tel

address

remarks

◆ night markets

饒河夜市: 陳董藥燉排骨 (Chen Dong Pork Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs) 910 901 933 160, Rao-he St. (Raohe St. Night Market 慈祐宮前八德路旁, 饒河街160號路邊攤) stewed with lots rack of pork-ribs and medicinal herbs

饒河夜市:福州世祖胡椒餅(FuZhou Black Pepper bun)Pepper cakes/Hujiao bing / wheat buns more accurately, pies or pockets 2311 5098 Rao-he St. Night Market (饒河夜市) cook for immediate consumption, paper-thin wrappings, crispy & good-smell, rich hot broth with spicy pepper flavour (「現做現賣，皮薄香脆，餡料肉汁淋漓且充滿辛香胡椒味)

饒河夜市, 施老闆麻辣臭豆腐(Shi Boss Spicy Tofu) 910 163 404 191, Rao-he St. (Raohe St. Night Market 饒河街191號) Chou doufu / stinky tofu : hot spicy stinky tofu soup, tender duck blood, pickled cabbage & deep-fried stinky tofu (麻辣臭豆腐湯加嫩滑鴨血必點，配以醃白菜的炸臭豆腐)

南機場夜市:臭老闆臭豆腐(Stinky Tofu Boss) 2305 2078 6, Ln.313, sec.2, Zhong-hua Rd. (中華路二段313巷6號) Chou doufu / stinky tofu : cook for immediate consumption, no milk-products added, good for Vegetarian

南機場夜市:阿男麻油雞( A Nan sesame Chicken) 0955-572-506 Ln.313, sec.2, Zhong-hua Rd..(中華路二段311巷) health preserving sesame oil chicken soup (not very greasy) for all four seasons (四季合宜的養生麻油)

寧夏夜市: 豬肝榮仔(Rong's Pork Liver) 2553-9710 / 0935-937-231 68 Nin-Xia Rd. (Nin-Xia night market, 寧夏路68號前) Pig liver and pig bag only (只賣豬肝湯和豬肚湯，湯底肉香味濃，豬肝熟度完美，豬肚軟腍入味，配以香辛薑絲)

寧夏夜市: 劉芋仔 (Liu Yu Zi Taiwan's taro - similar to sweet potato) 0920 091 595 34-4, Nin-Xia Rd. (寧夏路34之4號, 蓬萊國小旁 Nin-Xia night market, )
the reason of being selected is its fresh ingredients, and cook for immediate consumption. chef specials are chicken-egg taro balls, taro pie ( 蛋黃芋餅、香酥芋丸 )

臨江街夜市:梁記滷味 ( Liang Ji Lou Wei) 2738-5052 83 Lin-Jiang Str (Nin-Jian night market , 臨江街83號) Braised food/snacks : crispy duck intestines taste best

臨江街夜市:駱記小炒(Lou Ji Xiao Chao) 2708 1027 27, alley 50, Lane 39, Tong-Hua Str. (通化街39巷50弄27號Nin-Jian night market ) all stir fried dishes (beef, snail, etc) are its signature

Hi-Yu Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs(士林夜市: 海友十全排骨) 2888 1959 49, Da-Dong Rd. (大東路49, Shilin night market) Ribs stewed in 15 different kinds of secret-recipe medicinal herbs (15種以上的中藥秘方烹調出美味養生的藥膳排骨湯)

　

◆ ps: some info. from Apple Daily headlines, UDN, 3-7-2018 ; https://guide.michelin.com/tw/en/taipei

　

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2. Michelin Plate (L'Assiette Michelin), 6/70 are street food , 3-14-2018

Michelin Plate - street food 3-14-2018
stall/shop name	tel	location	specialty
◆夜市
東發號	2769 5739; no 94, Rao-he St.	Rao-he St. Night Market(饒河夜市)	Oyster vermicelli / Oa misua (蚵仔麵線), avg. consumption NTD60; since 1937, soup made by big bones, not sticky
麻糬寶寶	2311 5098; no 111~105, Rao-he St.	Rao-he St. Night Market(饒河夜市)	soft-rice pie (麻糬) using local rice and rice imported from Thailand, avg. consumption NTD30
圓環邊	2558 0198; 46 Nin-Xia Rd	Nin-Xia night market(寧夏夜市)	Oyster omelette、oyster soup (蚵仔湯), etc, avg. NTD65; since 1965, made by oyster delivered from Tai-nan daily. ps: 3-10-'18 6:30pm , both this shop and Lai-zi (賴記蚵仔煎) have long queue, but Michelin does not select Lai-Zi
斌大腸包小腸	0910-396195; 84 Da-Nan Rd	Shi-lin night market(士林夜市)	Da chang bao xiao chang / big sausage wrapped around small sausage (大腸包小腸), avg. NTD55; 10+ similar stalls in the market, but this stall got long queue.
阿輝麵線	0952-672655; 67 Da-Nan Rd	Shi-lin night market(士林夜市)	Oyster vermicelli / Oa misua (蚵仔麵線), avg. NTD25; To keep low price, they replace oyster by squid...
山內雞肉	2305 0010; 20, ln307 sec2, ChingHua Rd	Southern Airport night market (南機場夜市)	chicken meat, avg. NTD70; good value.
ps: Michelin Plate's full list pls. ref. to Apple Daily (蘋果日報) 3-15-2018 ; ps2: Michelin Plate is not an award, it helps foodies' to expand quality-food restaurants choices. ps3: ref to UDN 4-2-2018

ps. New York Times, 2017 introduced Taiwan's stinky tofu : 戴記獨臭之家; Michelin (2018) introduced Shi Boss Spicy Tofu and Stinky Tofu Boss.
United Daily News (聯合報, UDN) at 9-27-2018 introduced Taiwan's popular stinky tofu : TaiChung's 花蓮瑞穗臭豆腐 (Got highest score on Google), HuaLien (花蓮)'s玉里橋頭臭豆腐、TaiTung's 林家臭豆腐 (excellent scores on Google) , Taoyuan's 簡師傅臭豆腐、Kaohsiung's 江豪記臭豆腐、Eelan's 宜蘭財記臭豆腐 were also included...

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● comparison of 5 remarkable night markets <The Liberty Times, 自由時報>, 1-27-2019
night markets	remark	attractions	small eats
Southern Airport night market (南機場夜市)	most economic	best CP (cost-performance ratio), Pork Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs(藥燉排骨) NTD75, deep-fried chicken cutlet (雞排) NTD45, stinky tofu (臭豆腐) NTD40	deep-fried chicken cutlet (雞排)、deep fried stinky tofu (炸臭豆腐)、steamed stinky tofu (蒸臭豆腐)、steamed dumplings (知名水餃)
Shi-Lin night market (士林夜市)	most diversified	in addition to street foods, there're hats, apparels, shoes, purses, toys, accessories, 3C, ... but small-eats are not cheap, one piece of deep-fried chicken cutlet wants NTD70 (USD2+), fruit shops are notorious for ripping tourists off , apparels are various and cheap, about same as whole-sale market "五分埔"	Fried Cuttlefish Soup / sautéed octopus/ stir fried octopus, squids (生炒花枝)、small bun wrapped in large bun(大餅包小餅)、Taiwan sausage with sticky rice (Da chang bao xiao chang大腸包小腸)、large deep-fried chicken cutlet (大雞排)、avg. price steak (平價牛排)、large sausage (士林大香腸)
Nin-Xia night market (寧夏夜市)	a great variety	up to 800 different kinds of cheap eats, by different ways, grilled, deep fried, steamed, cooked, pan fried ...	Oyster Omelette (蚵仔煎)、Braised pork rice (滷肉飯)、pork liver soup(豬肝湯)、deep fried egg-yolk taro cake(蛋黃芋餅)、old fashion tofu pudding(古早味豆花)、麻油雞、Pork Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs(藥燉排骨)、g ko pork with rice (知高飯)、pork blood cake (豬血糕)
Hua-Xi street night market (華西街夜市)	unique	snake soup is widely known	snake and fresh-water turtle cuisine (蛇鱉料理); Bangka night market is nearby (龍山寺艋舺夜市), their prices are in middle range
Raohe St. Night Market (饒河街夜市)	convenient transportation	near SongShan railway station, and high-way	Black Pepper bun(胡椒餅) NTD50 not cheap、seafood soup(海鮮羹)、藥燉排骨; cheap steaks adding eggs and noodles (夜市牛排加蛋麵) about NTD100+ makes you full, filet mignon tenderloin steak (菲力牛排) tastes good for NT290~390
ref to LTN (自由時報), 1-27-2019

● Jiang So-San M.D. (江守山, 12-2018, <早安健康 - 名醫餐桌> ) : 「Food safety issue matters !」"generally speaking, what we eat nowadays are "very dirty". Minimize the times of eating/dining out to control poison exposure to be within a margin of safety (控制毒物暴露量在一定程度之內)，Taiwan ranks world No.1 in usage of pesticides per unit of land area (單位土地面積使用農藥)，according to a study by National Yang-Ming University, 98% of urine samples randomly chosen from kids in Taipei, Taiwan, contain pesticide, the Plasticizer of dust in our houses as well as pregnant women's urine both rank world No.1. Besides, there're really too much addictives inside our food 。 More than most of Taiwan's restaurants currently use artificial chemical soy sauce(化學水解醬油)，which inevitably produces chemical 3-MCPD (單氯丙二醇) and may results in tongue cancer, kidney cancer, lliver cancer, we all ate them too much already ! Taiwanese over-value economic price, therefore we got too many terrible stuffs in home or in our body.

● Chang Gung Mem. Hospital Toxicology expert professor Yen Tzung-Hai M.D. (顏宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health ! ( ref. to book <食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how to survive in this bad food-security time", April 2016))

● The China Times, 10-20-2018 opinion (editorial) https://opinion.chinatimes.com/20181019003889-262101 :

Taiwan's food safety failed again and again, Dioxin, Fipronil poison-eggs in last year, Nicarbazin illegal drug residue event in this year. Europe was very cautious about Fipronil event, in contrast, Taiwan did nothing about it. Even worse, Taiwan officials hide Nicarbazin issue from Taiwanese people to baby related business ― indulge business to retrieve problematic eggs and then resell them as promotion goods..

Why do high-ranking officials always fudge Taiwanese people's only, and humblest request ？? (brief)

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● The China Times (中國時報), 2-28-2019, opinion (editorial) questions Taiwan officials are trying very hard to hide the epidemic state of Marek's virus in chicken eggs ...

● The Apple Daily (蘋果日報), 2-22-2019: Food safety is still Taiwanese most concern issue since Melamine event of 2008, Fipronil residue in eggs and pesticide residue in vegetables recently drew attentions again. (brief) / by legislator & National Taiwan Univ. professor Wu (吳焜裕)

● CNN, 12-11-2020 :Today, what was once a roadside stall is now a burgeoning empire, whose growing fame on the Taiwan food scene owes far more to its delicious specialty than it does its brush with international fame ...

Tainan is known as the epicenter of Taiwanese street food culture, but turkey rice is a bit of an anomaly there. The dish actually hails from Chiayi ... they were recruited into their third location, a stall at the food court in Taipei 101 -- the tallest building on the island. There's a proud CNN logo on their signage ... In Taiwan, there's prestige attached to being mentioned by international media. edition.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-turkey-rice-rou-bo/index.html

The secret of gua bao: The Taiwanese street food ... "With the perfect gua bao, everything dissolves, the softness of the braised pork belly is only met with a slight texture of the fermented mustard greens and peanut powder. Sweet and savory with a sourness from the pickle in one go." ( edition.cnn.com/travel/article/gua-bao-taiwan/index.html)

● CBS, 12-9-2020 : The diverse selection of sweet and savory items can be found throughout different parts of Taiwan, ...There is “something for everyone’s price range,” ; ... Like any metropolis, the food in Taipei is just better. core Taiwanese dishes like lu rou fan, shabu shabu, beef noodle soup, Taiwanese breakfast, and more. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/12/09/explore-taiwans-food-scene-with-hailey-and-adam/ video; https://www.willflyforfood.net/taipei-food-13-must-eat-restaurants-night-markets-in-taipei-taiwan/

● BBC (UK), Dec. 12, 2018: New York is the city never sleeps, Taiwan must be the island never gets full - there's a fourth and final meal (Xiaoye) in Taiwan... loud messy night life has stinky tofu (Li Zhang Bo, NingXia night market), oyster pancakes, blow-torched steak, honey sweet pearl milk tea, comically fat pork sausages ...

● New York Times 2-24-2017: Taipei ... has a street food scene as vibrant as that of Bangkok; restaurants that specialize in both Taiwanese and regional cuisines from around China; thousands of cheap and cheerful joints at which to drink cold beer with small plates and quick stir-fries; .... ref to https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/travel/taipei-taiwan-restaurants-local.html
● SETV news, 3-23-2018: About half number of stalls in Liu-Ho night market, once Taiwan's No.1 popular "charming" night market aged 60, was closed, for lacking of Chinese tourists, being a greedy market ripping tourists off (the other two are Shi-Lin and Keng-Tin night market), and being highly homogenous (all about the same).

Taiwan, a ripping-tourists-off paradise

Shi-lin night market

Shi-Mun Din (西門町)

Keng-Tin (墾丁大街)

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pic.: Apple Daily headline news 4-8-2018: Taiwan became a ripping-tourists-off paradise, scholars criticized
Taiwan government kept blind eyes and did nothing about this.
ps: CTS 4-11-2018: Keng-Tin's ripping tourists off already seriously damaged Taiwan image.

United Daily 10-24-2019: some of the night markets or street food stalls in Taipei do not provide tourists or customers
with price-list menu, or their menu is not clear enough, now Taipei gov. is trying to do something for this ...

蘋果日報 (Apple Daily), 12-9-2018:

ripping-off controversies

what's about

Dec., 2018 / Yi-Lan City, LuoDong night market (宜蘭羅東夜市)
(was blamed as 2nd Keng-Tin) crispy spare-ribs (排骨酥), NTD 60 for only 4 pieces

Dec., 2018 / Rei-Feng night market, Kao-hsiung (高雄瑞豐夜市) water-boiled corns, NTD 220 for 4 pieces, was scolded if chose leaving

April, 2018 / Shi-Lin or Shih-Lin night market, Taipei (士林夜市) fresh-cut fruits , NTD 30 for 100g ,
NT1500 for 7 bags (Korean tourist complained)

April, 2018 / Keng-Tin night market, Kao-hsiung (墾丁夜市) both look alike,
minced pork on noodles (肉燥乾麵) NT180,
3-colored plain noodles (三色拌麵) NT220

Dec. , 2017 / Keng-Tin night market, Kao-hsiung (墾丁夜市) <吳師傅魯味> - braised flavour (滷味2盤) 2 plates NTD1845

Jan., 2017 / Kao-hsiung City, Liu-Ho night market (六和夜市) stir fried La's Jargon (炒烏魚膘) NT1680,
price down to NTD840 after reporting to the police

ps: Consumer Ombudsman Officer (消保官) advises asking price and quantity in advance for self- protection

ps2: apple daily 2-22-2019: Taipei City Gov. gave 147 penalty-fine tickets to Shih-Lin night market

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     ● All night-market districts across Taiwan have safety problem similar to the big gas-cylinder LPG-explosion in Fengjia (逢甲) night market (known as largest night-market business district in Taiwan) / The China Times, 7-19-2017.
     ● Chang Gung Mem. Hospital professor T.H. Yen M.D. : "Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health !". ● Apple Daily, 11-20-2017 : Almost all world countries are more and more strict with food safety, only Taiwan is more and more relaxed in legislating for food safety.   In this way, how can Taiwan have a reputation on "fine food kingdom" ? (breif) / by 邱致穎, chair, and teacher of food science, TungHai University.

● United Daily, 10-20-2017: Taiwan tourism needs new positioning and image, ads on street food and night markets are no longer good enough ; CTN head page 10-22-2017: Gov. gave wrong solution to save tourism, Thailand's night market was ahead of Taiwan's long time ago.

● The United Daily (3-1-2017): Many Taiwanese night markets closed down due to lacking of distinguishing feature or quality, and the number of Chinese tourists sudden decreasing.

● The Liberty Times (10-22-2015): Legislator criticized Taiwan's tourism ads. flattering & focusing on "small eat" (street foods), but those small eats in each night markets are highly homogenous (all about the same), and lack of "culture".
● The China Times (5-26-2015), a critique in media commentary<掉漆的文創> :"Something we should pay attention to is, a Hong Kong poll on the net selected Taiwan as the most disappointed point of attraction on this planet ― Taiwan's night market is the only place being worthy of visiting".
★ ● The China Times (8-8-2015) : Taiwan failed to establish a high-quality image of tourism & travel, but just impressed tourists a place filled with cheap goods, e.g., small-eat, that's a bad marketing strategy.

● In UK's Economist Intelligence Unit - Global Food Security Index ( Sept., 2017), Taiwan is not included , China's score of 2017 is 63.7, ranks 45th among 113 nations ( Singapore 4, Japan 18, Korea 24, Ireland 1, US 2, UK 3,); In EIU Liveability Country Level Index (Jan. 2015), Taipei's "Food Security Index" ("1" means "Most Secure") is "42", same as all other communist China's major cities, e.g., GuangZhou, TianJin, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai. Asia best Singapore's index from "5" in 2014 rises to "2" in 2015 (5-28-2015). Most-secure-food cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., all are Index "1", Paris Index is "3" , Zurich and Amsterdam index "5", Brussels "7". The Economist (11-29-2014) analyzed Taiwanese black-heart foods caused ruling party "has suffered one of its worst electoral defeats" since 1949, "The failure of Mr Ma’s government to prevent a series of food scandals has also upset many"。The New York times (9.8.2014): The authorities in Taiwan are scrambling to control a tainted-cooking-oil scandal that has affected hundreds of manufacturers and raised fears about health risks posed in many commonly consumed food items... the new scandal shows that there is still not enough being done to eliminate lawbreaking production lines”. BusinessWeek (9-8-2014): "The new gutter-oil scandal has “shocked local consumers” in Taiwan". BBC (11-19-2013): Consumers in Taiwan have been shocked by a series of food safety scandals.

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◎ Discovery (USA) called oyster omelette as "Taiwanese Viagra". Oyster omelet is best dish / most typical snack in Taiwan. ◎ Taiwanese government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) announced via Guardian (UK) and United Daily (Taiwan) in 2010 that Taiwan will spend NT1 billion dollars on promoting "country brand" by popularizing typical foods, oyster omelet and stinky tofu... Although Bizarre Foods of Andrew Zimmern in Nov. '15 mentioned Americans are afraid of street foods ... ◎ Apple Daily's Next magazine (12-16-2015): gov. statistics - night market is No.1 attraction tourists visited. ◎ United Daily (10-31-2015): "Many Chinese tourists, Small incomes ... they took lots of photo, spent little "
		ShiLin night market's "Grandmom's family" (「阿婆之家」) oyster omelet was one of 2 stores earliest-selling oyster omelets in Taiwan. "Loyalty" / "Zhong Cheng" (「忠誠號」) is another most famous Taiwanese oyster omelette in ShiLin night market. The Liberty Times (12-13-2015) also intro. oyster omelette : TaiChung ZhongXiao (忠孝) night market, 大胖蚵仔煎、ZhongHua night market, Chen - a 40 yrs old shop (陳四十年老店, 一段197號), Kasohsiung, a popular shop, Tsai (蔡家in軍校路54) etc.	pic.: BBC UK 12-12-2018: Taiwan's loud messy night life has stinky tofu (Li Zhang Bo, NingXia night market) ...
Discovery (USA) visited and introduced "The Circle Side" ("圓環邊") oyster omelet (46 Nin-Xia Rd. Taipei). Michelin Plate at 3-14-2018 included this shop.	CNN (July 24, 2015) ranked "Lai Ji" oyster omelet as No.3 among "40 Taiwanese foods we can't live without" .	ps: The Liberty Times (9-18-2015 Weekender): some businesses used soaking in phosphatic water to enlarger oysters, formaldehyde (HCHO) to extend oysters expiration, borax(硼砂) to whiten (or avoid dark / black color) oysters ... better select shops with reputation.

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best street food - braised pork rice in Taiwan

pic.: CNN（ 7-24-2015）"40 Taiwanese foods we can't live without" -
ranking No.1 is Gin-Fon(金鋒)Braised pork rice,
which is next to Nan-Men Market (on Roosevelt Rd. - for honoring US former president);

NT50 for Large-sized , NT30 Small-sized.
But, pls. note no braised egg (NT10) in CNN website's pic. (8-4-2015) included in the pork rice,
　

besides, according to United Daily (4-30-2011, 6-5-2014),
braised pork rice was selected as one of 10 unhealthy, dangerous Taiwanese foods
in night market (see tbl. below),
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CNN（7-24-2015）recommands 40 Taiwanese foods that we can't live without, the picture
above is No.2 food ― Lin-Dong-Fang beef noodle in Ba-de road,
Taipei. (neighborhood of the headquarter of KMT, Taiwan's ruling political-party '08 ~ '16)
you can see a long queue in each weekday's dining time , but, It looks bit awful, even it tastes awesome,
how do Westerners feel about the "restaurant"? another one CNN recommended is Tao-Yuan Street Lao Wang beef noodle, their beef is sort of pink-colored
(look like roast beef), very tender, and less salty than Lin DongFang's.

pic. right: Mar 11, 2019, newly decor. Lin-Dong-Fang beef noodle
grand opening in Ba-de road (near Fu-Xing N. Rd)
, but later in April, it lost its Michelin title「必比登推介」
just won in 2018,
however, a queue continues ...

Pic. above: 90% of what we eat and use contain poison or toxin - The secret
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pic. left: Most 5 star hotel restaurants in Taiwan don't wash the vegetables, they just soak in water and cut them... It's 5 star restaurants' "S.O.P", not to mention average Taiwanese restaurants... , besides, the food-safety specialty of 5 star restaurants deserves my concerns. A 5 star hotel restaurant made Japanese sashimi by fresh-water fishes, this may causes serious infection and even cancer, according to Japanese studies in 2013...hence, people should minimize the number of times dining out to assure safety / Jiang M.D.'s book "食在安心"(by 江守山 M.D., Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Veterans General Hospital, etc. ), printed in Oct, 2014. Another book "Fruits , Vegetables" (Chinese namely, "遠離毒蔬果") written by IMEI (義美) group's leader Luis Ko (高志明), page 162 quoted Dr. Gaston J.C. Wu (professor & dean, Taiwan Normal University) that Taiwan's vegetables and fruits should be flush thoroughly with plenty of flowing water, those tiny gaps and hollows need to be brushed before cooking or/and eating. No just soaking vegetables and fruits in water in a large basin ...

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More street foods

Although Bizarre Foods of Andrew Zimmern in Nov. '15 mentioned Americans are afraid of street foods, but ... Below are some better street food stalls/shops in Taiwan's night markets

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CNN（7-24-2015）recommanded in large sized webpage that "40 Taiwanese foods we can't live without"，
       No.1 is Braised pork rice ("金鋒滷肉飯" 10 Roosevelt Road, Section 1, Taipei).
       No.2 is beef noodle ( ◆Lin Dong Fang store, Taipei, 274 Ba-de Rd., and ◆Lao Wang, 15 Tao Yuan Street ，◆Pin Chuan Lan "品川蘭" , No. 10, Alley 11, Lane 216, Zhongxiao East Road, Section 2, Taipei)。
       No.3 is oyster omelet ( Taipei Nin-Xia night market, Lai Ji 198-22 Min-sen W. Rd.),
       No.4 is Bubble tea ("台中春水堂"48 Yi-shu St., Longjing, Taichung , and "台南翰林茶館"313, Section 2, Minzu Road, Tainan 。
       No. 5 is Milkfish (虱目魚/ "小隱私廚"65 Yongkang St., Taipei) 。ps: this site thinks the grilled/roast sea-milkfish (烤虱目魚, one piece for NT295) smells good but probably too salty or bit burned for some people - my families.

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     6. 擔仔麵Slack Season danzai noodles(16 Jhongjheng Road, Tainan )、
      7. 生煎包Pan-fried buns(Hsu Ji, Shida Night Market) 、
      8. 割包Gua bao(3, Alley 8, Lane 316, Section 3, Rooservelt Road)、
      9. 鐵蛋Iron egg(Seaside A-Po, 151-1, Jhongjheng Road, Tamshui; A-Po, 135-1, Jhongjheng Road, Tamshui)、
      10. 鳳梨酥Pineapple cake(1/F, No. 1, Alley 4, Lane 36, Section 5, Minsheng East Riad)、
      11. 甜不辣Tian bu la (Taiwanese oden,95 Xining South Road, Wanhua )、
      12. 肉圓Ba wan (Giant meat dumplings, 17, Lane 16, Renai Street, Kaohsiung)、
      13. 鹽酥雞Salty Fried chicken(530-1, Bei'an Road)、
      14. 蔥抓餅Flaky scallion pancakes、
      15. 蚵仔麵線Oyster vermicelli(Ay-Chung, 8-1 Emei St., Wanhua) 、
      16. 炸臭豆腐Stinky tofu(No. 347, Jiangong Road, Sanmin Dist, Kaohsiung) 、
      17. 地瓜稀飯Sweet potato soft rice、
      18. 刨冰Shaved ice mountain、
      19. 胡椒餅Pepper cakes(Raohe night market, north end of Kee Lung Road)、
      20. 鼎泰豐小籠包Dumplings at Din Tai Fung、
      21. 魚丸湯Fish ball soup(No. 21, Lane 210, Section 2, Yanping North Road, Datong)、
      22. 藥燉排骨Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs(Nanya Night Market, Nanya East Road, Taipei )、
      23.~ 40 pls. ref. to CNN web-site http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/23/travel/40-taiwan-food/

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USA CNNGO (3-23-2012) introduced Asia's 10 greatest street-foods cities ( http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/eat/asia-street-food-cities-612721?page=0,2 ) , and Taiwanese street-side snacks in night markets. CNN ranked Taipei as No. 2 among Asia's 10 greatest street foods cities. No.1 city is Malaysia's Penang, No.3 is Thailand's Bangkok, No.4 Vietnam's 河內, No.5 Singapore, No.6 Korea Seoul, No.7 China's XiAnn, No.8 Philippines Manila...
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Taiwanese small eat street-foods intro. by CNN :

Taipei's night market foods	Try it at market	ps:
1. Sheng jian bao (生煎包)	Taiwan Normal Univ. night market (師大夜市)	...They hail from Shanghai, ...
2.Chou doufu / stinky tofu (臭豆腐)	Raohe St. Night Market (饒河夜市)	is a Taipei night market specialty. ...... Those new to the dish often find ... less intimidating and less, well, stinky.
3.Oa misua / oyster vermicelli (蚵仔麵線)	Shilin night market(士林夜市)	A Taiwanese specialty...
4.Gua bao / pork belly bun or "Taiwanese burger," as it's sometimes called (掛包)	Taiwan Normal Univ. night market (師大夜市)	... creating one of the world’s greatest snacks.
5. Hujiao bing / wheat buns more accurately, pies or pockets (胡椒餅)	Raohe St. Night Market (饒河夜市)	...savory filling is impossible to resist.
6. Niu rou mian / spicy beef soup with hand-pulled noodles (牛肉麵)	LaoPai Niurou La Mian Da Wang, Chongqing Nan Lu Yi Duan 46 Gang, Taipei	PS: A famous Taiwanese MD suggests not to have this for health's sake.
7.Douhua (豆花)	士林夜市 (Shilin night market)	Taiwanese dessert made from the softest, silkiest tofu ...
8.Ba wan / Taiwanese meatballs (肉丸)	Taiwan Normal Univ. night market (師大夜市)	a traditional Taiwanese snack food considered by many to be the country's national dish
9.Cong you bing / a flaky scallion pancake made with hand-rolled dough ( 蔥油餅)	Shilin night market(士林夜市)	Another dish with its roots in China...
10.Da chang bao xiao chang / big sausage wrapped around small sausage (大腸包小腸)	Shilin night market(士林夜市)

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CNN's article ( 2 -11- 2015) "10 things Taiwan does better than anywhere else", Taiwan sure has a lot of night markets -- an estimated 300 island-wide.", "some 70% of tourists to Taiwan will visit a night market.".
★ CNN Go (3-23-2012) selected Taiwan's Taipei as No.2 city among "Asia's 10 greatest street foods cities", only next to Malaysia's Penang, better than No.3 Thailand's Bangkok, No.4 Vietnam's 河內, No.5 Singapore, No.6 Korea Seoul, No.7 China's XiAnn, No.8 Philippines Manila... ref. to ps2.

★ CNN readers to Vote (June 15, 2015): "Which destination has the world's best food? ", Taiwan ranks world No.1 (8,242 votes) in that open Facebook poll. CNN stated that the culinary philosophy in Taiwan is simple. Eat often and eat well. Small eats -- but lots of them -- are the big thing here. CNN mentioned 3 foods - best streetside bao, the most incredible stinky tofu or mind-blowing beef noodle soup。
★ Business Insider (6-10-2015) introduced Taiwan's tour ―― Let's start with the food. Taiwanese people love to eat. The dishes people miss the most when they leave include beef noodle soup, soup dumplings from Din Tai Fung, and the uniquely Taiwanese oyster omelets.

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But, this web-site comments:

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(1) stinky tofu (臭豆腐): This tasteful food may has some problems, including G.M.(genetic modified) soy as material, and deep-fried food being not healthy ― widely known already.

(2) beef noodle (牛肉麵): They usually use a source namely DorBanJian(豆瓣醬), so, better select restaurants with reputation to avoid aflatoxin which may contains in 豆瓣醬 and may leads to liver cancer.

(3) oyster omelet (蚵仔煎) : It is most typical Taiwanese food ( you can see this street snack in any night market), but not exquisite & elaborated food. The oyster omelet in Discovery channel uses grounded-peanut. Be careful of fatal aflatoxin may be in peanut-powder in infamous shops, since a famous peanut product made in USA found aflatoxin before.

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(CourageWorld.ch is a part of this website)

Pic. left: mall's version of night markets, small-eat street is the Cash Cow
for most dept. stores (malls) in Taiwan.

The most popular small eats in Taipei 101 snack court:

tourists: No1 Liao Fan soya sauce chicken (了凡油雞飯)
No.2 Indonesian flavor pepper beef rice (胡椒廚房胡椒牛肉飯)

本地客:No.1 oyster pancake/omelete (興葉蚵仔煎)
No.2 vegetables (蔬河)
No.3 小南門豆花湯圓牛捲餅

/ Apple Daily 12-26-2018

Pic. right: Ranking No.1 on google by "comment Taiwan night market " in Chinese, 7-16-2019,
10-15-2018, 2-20-2018, 2-14-2017, Sept. 2, 2015.

No.1 "comment Taiwan foods" on US Google, 1-29-2019, 9-3-2018

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Are those "Taiwanese small eat & night market street foods" healthy to humans??

◆ Chang Gung Mem. Hospital professor Yen M.D. (顏宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London ): "Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health !" ( ref. to book <食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how to survive in this bad food-security time", April 2016))

◆ Jiang So-San M.D. (江守山, 12-2018, <早安健康 - 名醫餐桌> ) : 「Food safety issue matters !」"generally speaking, what we eat nowadays are "very dirty". Minimize the times of eating/dining out to control poison exposure to be within a margin of safety (控制毒物暴露量在一定程度之內)，Taiwan ranks world No.1 in usage of pesticides per unit of land area (單位土地面積使用農藥)，according to a study by National Yang-Ming University, 98% of urine samples randomly chosen from kids in Taipei, Taiwan, contain pesticide, the Plasticizer of dust in our houses as well as pregnant women's urine both rank world No.1. Besides, there're really too much addictives inside our food 。 More than most of Taiwan's restaurants currently use artificial chemical soy sauce(化學水解醬油)，which inevitably produces chemical 3-MCPD (單氯丙二醇) and may results in tongue cancer, kidney cancer, lliver cancer, we all ate them too much already ! Taiwanese over-value economic price, therefore we got too many terrible stuffs in home or inside our body.

      ◆ China Times, 10-22-2017 : 84 out of 100 int'l tourist in time choose going to night market, 11+% local people go to night market.

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　 ◆ Apple Daily News (蘋果日報) 8-28-2015, A2 Prime News Edition
          The incidence rate of Taiwanese people suffering colon/rectal cancer was ranked world No.1 (2nd is Korea, 3rd Slovakia) , Taipei Medical University Hospital's director of surgeons expressed Taiwan's food scandals constantly happened in recent years, many black-heart tainted foods containing Carcinogen (cancer producer) is a factor causing high incidence rate.

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◆ United Daily News, 10-13-2015: "A great survey to Taiwan's aged-100 centenarians" found that "... they seldom dine out".
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◆ The Liberty Times - Weekender 9.18.2015   Industrial bleaching agent, plumping agent with Aluminum, Industrial adhesives Maleic Acid, Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate dihydrate (CH3NaO3S) , Gypsum of pharmaceutic , corn starch, phosphatic, formaldehyde (HCHO), borax, etc were used as foods addictives for better selling. (for full details pls. ref. to Liberty Times)

Business Today.no.856, 2013 : not only banned colouring agent, copper chlorophyllin cooking oil, toxic ('poisonous') starch, dangerous levels of industrial plasticisers, poor-quality rice, deceptive advertising bakery ... were exposed in Taiwan media, but also dangerous materials/ingredients like hydrogen peroxide, Rongalite (Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate dihydrate 吊白塊 ) , Formaldehyde Solution(福馬林), borax(硼砂) , salicylic acid (水楊酸), NaNO2   nitrite (亞硝酸鹽), fluorescent whitening/bleaching agent (螢光增白劑), copper salts (铜鹽), Sudan (蘇丹红), Butter Yellow(奶油黃), Rhodamine B (鹽基桃紅精), Auramine (黃色色素鹽基性芥黃), H202 (過氧化氫), 4-ethoxyphenylurea(乙氧基苯脲), Lead oxide (氧化铅), potassium bromate；bromic acid potassium salt (溴酸钾) etc food additives were found in Taiwan's black-heart food and cuisine industries. ● CLICK for dangerous foods in details : food scare in Taiwan

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◆ Apple Daily News (蘋果日報) 8-29-2015,   Prime News Edition

          Dark brown sugars commercially available all contain Carcinogen ("丙烯醯胺", acrylamide , inspected results - max up to 2740 ppb ). Drinking one cup (700 c.c.) of Pearl Milk Tea (full brown sugar) per day, may have risk of getting cancer.

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◆ The China Times, the Liberty Times (10-22-2015): Lead pipes passed Shi-Lin night Market, Raohe St. (饒河夜市) Night Market, Normal University (師大) night market, Yong-Kang (永康) street business area. (Nin-Xia night market is fine) Taiwan university experts expressed that high lead level in blood may cause infertility for adults, lower IQ and ability of cognition & social contact for kids, Taipei City government stated lead pipes will be replaced soon within 3 years.

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◆ Top 10 dangerous street food in Shih-lin night market
(<Liberty Times自由時報> & <United Daily News聯合報>, 10.1.2013)

night market food

heat
(Kcal)大卡

Deep fried chicken breast
(炸雞排)
657

蚵仔煎
   Oyster Omelet
525

油炸臭豆府腐
deep fried Stinky Tofu                      496

天婦羅 482

士林大香腸
Large Sausage          385

大餅包小餅
Small pie in Large pie 385

士林大煎包
Pan-fried Pork Dumpling (Large sheng jian bao)                 340

fruits/fruits slices水果 297

    Fried Cuttlefish Soup / sautéed octopus/ stir fried octopus, squids 生炒花枝 209

十全排骨 175

Ps: (1) advice: share food with your friend, peel the fried chicken skin, etc
(2) measure Kcal compared with : 1 bowl of cooked rice has about 280 Kcal

　

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◆ National Taiwan Normal University - graduate school of Chemistry, dean Dr. Wu (化學所長吳家誠教授)'s book <Those black-heart products toxin-experts never buy (毒物專家絕不買的黑心商品)> (Nov. 2013): Most of the time I eat at home, and has never dined out in street-side shops / small-eat markets (路邊攤), because those small-eat shops usually/always do not meet the minimum standards of cleanliness. In case I can't reject some dinner party or must dine out, I select only some restaurants I fully trust. Besides, I've never touched processed food or cured products, and any drinks commercially available(市售飲料) in Taiwan, particularly, pearl milk tea which already is a world known Taiwanese food. PS: The China Times (8-15-2015): Taiwanese favorite drinks contain high Kcal/g heat, you will gain 5.1kg if having pearl milk tea one regular cup (not less-sugar option) per day for 2 months. Green Tea with Yakult(多多)'s Heat 341 Kcal/g, which is 3.2 times the upper limit of free sugar(游離糖) advised by WHO., Yakult drink, Orange juice, milk tea are high-heat too.

　

90% of what we eat and use contain poison or toxin - The secret that Taiwanese business won't tell you.   pic. is the cover of consultant of Taiwan's government & professor Wu's book <Those black-heart products poison-experts never buy (毒物專家絕不買的黑心商品)>
　

　

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◆ <The China Times> (8-15-2015):

products ml Heat (Kcal/g)熱量每瓶含糖等同方糖顆數

Green Tea (多多綠茶) 700 341 14

Pearl Milk Tea (珍珠奶茶全糖) 700 653 12

Yakult drink (發酵乳飲料) 330 243 11

Orange Juice 400 192 10

Milk Tea奶茶 400 212 9

　

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◆ Apple Daily (蘋果日報) 8-29-2015,   Prime News Edition ; United Daily News(聯合報) 8-29-2015,
      Dark brown sugars commercially available all contain Carcinogen ("丙烯醯胺", acrylamide , inspected results - max up to 2740 ppb ). Drinking one cup (700 c.c.) of Pearl Milk Tea (full brown sugar) per day, may have risk of getting cancer.

　

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◆ night markets / Risks everywhere

Black heart addictives harm the whole Taiwan, including almost all night markets, small eat shops, restaurants(幾近全淪陷)

Taiwanese government lacks of ability to handle this food-scare

(<今周刊Business Today>健康生活專刊04, Sept. 2013)
　

small-eat street-foods
j addictives
why dangerous ?

(大腸包小腸) Small Sausage in Large Sausage

nitrite, NIT,NaNO2(亞硝酸鹽)
Used to add red-color addictive for sausage,
Eating too many may cause cancer增加紅色並防腐，過量食用恐致癌

(珍珠奶茶)Pearl milk tea、(青蛙下蛋粉圓)Tapioca (ball) tea

(防腐劑)Preservative
Eating too many increases burden of liver and kidney, and may cause cancer過量食用增肝腎負擔，恐致癌

(炸雞排)Deep fried chicken breast、grilled chicken breast (烤雞排)

(嫩精) Tenderizer
Used for soften the texture, Eating too many may lead to cardiopalmus, lips numb/tingle, temporary ageusia/loss of taste sense (心悸、唇麻、短暫失味覺)

(現切水果)fresh cut fruits、(糖葫蘆)sugar coated Chinese hawthorn fruit

(糖精)Saccharin、 (甘精)glargine
Eating too many hurts liver and alimentary canal or may cause urinary bladder cancer過量甘精傷肝與消化道、過量糖精致膀胱癌危險

(泰國蝦、烤蝦、蝦仁煎) Thailand shrimp, grilled shrimp, shrimp prawn Omelet

(硼砂)borax
May get roseola、feel like throwing up、diarrhea 、shock to stupor; coma; muzziness. Taiwan law already prohibited the use of food/ food products患者皮紅疹、嘔吐、腹瀉diarrhea 、休克致昏迷、已禁用於食品

ps: expert M.D. expressed :
(1)Taiwan's law is behind of medical studies, we already ate lots of legal but suspicious dangerous food addictives.
(2) medical tests only for single chemical compound, not for 2+ chemical compounds (which may be interactive to increase probability of getting cancer) .台灣美食風險(1)法律落後醫學，我們早已吃下許多合法但疑慮食品添加物 (2)檢驗只針對單一化合物，若化合物相互作用則不查   English version : Food in Taiwan( 危險美食)

　
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◆ <CTV> (中視 "新聞一點通"), 9.25.2013 13:35pm

      Even you cook by yourself, still have chance to eat some black-heart ingredients/materials... ("台灣小吃幾乎淪陷" 就算你三餐自己烹調也不見得避開所有黑心食材)

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◆ <BBC>, 6-6-2013 "台湾来鸿：危机四伏的饮食"

      High-risk industrial starch foods like oden (黑轮, fish cake), Taiwanese meatball, black tapioca pearl (粉圆) are popular Taiwanese small eats in night markets, Most of toxic/poisonous soy sauce were sold and delivered to night markets, including best-known Shih-Lin night markets... Taiwan is the only country eating cured products made by animal-feed, G.M.(genetic modified) soya beans. (主妇联盟说台湾是世界上唯一直接食用饲料级基改黄豆加工的豆制品国家。)

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◆ Top 10 Most Dangerous Taiwanese Snacks
(<United Daily News 聯合報> 4.30.2011)

small eat
heat density
(大卡Kcal/克g) quantity of heat calorie
(大卡Kcal/克g)

鹽酥雞Taiwan's fried chicken
3.9 585/150

蔥油餅Scallion Cake or Chinese Pizza
3.78 541/143

鍋貼Fried-Dumpling                                     3.06 753/246

大腸包小腸
Small Sausage in Large Sausage 2.68 582/217

滷肉飯
Braised Pork Rice                         2.25 648/288

油炸臭豆府腐
deep fried Stinky Tofu 2.13 565/265

米糕
Gutinous Rice Pudding                    1.98 672/340

肉圓Meatball 1.85 324/185

蚵仔煎
   Oyster Omelet                               1.55 516/332

蚵仔麵線Oyster thin/soft Noodles 1.01 415/412

(above may be: Top 10 Most Popular Local Delicacies)

　

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Taiwan
food ◆ <Business Today>, Taiwan Pic. above: The secret that restaurant bosses don't dare to speak out !
Fatal & Horrible cooking materials/ingredients !
A top chef : "These cuisine are made for customers, you guys (assistants in kitchen) don't eat them ! "
Pic. right: Taiwan's government is unable to do administration on food industry, all Taiwanese people are in deep risk !
Black hearted soy sauce harms the whole Taiwan! it appears almost all night markets, snack shops, restaurants ... <Business Today> no. 856

◆ The New York Times, The Economist (11.29.2014) comment and analyzed that a series of food safety scandals is one of few main factors causing the KMT, Taiwan's ruling party, has suffered one of its worst electoral defeats since Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to the island at the end of Chinese civil war in 1949.

　

◆ Taiwanese government never does some soul searching and corrects the wrong, according to Business Weekly (No. 1436, June 2015), "It's weirdo !!, Taiwanese government's food-safety check only focuses on 3 dried products - dried daylily, dried radish, and preserved fruits (snacks)", National Taiwan University professor Wu K.Y. comments it as "Completely evading the crucial point", "those 3 items are very low risky products", and "Taiwan's food safety is nothing but a slogan" (台灣食安只有口號-apple daily 3-28-2015 http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20150328/582381/)".

　
　
　

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◆ United Daily News(聯合報)/Liberty Times(自由時報)/China Times(中國時報) etc, 6.5.2014

Top 10 horrible combination-food in Taiwan for office ladies/men (十大恐怖外食)

horrible index

hamburger + French fries (middle sized) + coke (600 cc)
　
too much greasy, sugar, salty

Spareribs (pork-rib) lunch box排骨便當 + pearl milk tea (500cc)


Fried-Dumpling鍋貼 + bean sauce (350cc)

Baked Italia noodle + Puff pastry on creamy soup

Korea fried chicken + beer

Fried rice + pork-ball soup貢丸

Ramen (Japanese noodle)拉麵 + soft ice-cream

Braised Pork Rice滷肉飯   + fish-ball soup

  beef noodle + pickle vegetable酸菜

deep-fried meat-ball炸肉圓 + olen (Japanese style Kantoni)關東煮

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★ Taiwan dangerous food, pls. click Food Scare for full details !

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★ Taiwan administration and vendors may learn something or be inspired by research article :   https://www.cookly.me/10-cities-where-you-can-eat-amazing-street-food

　

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other night markets intro. by local/chinese media

         ● Asia Travel channel, Chef Nic (12道鋒味), 11-2-2018: 舒琪 intro. Kee-long City, Miaokou night market
                 ● No. 15 stall (天婦羅)    ● Wu Family's Din-Bian-Tsou / Potside sticker soup (百年吳家鼎邊銼)   ● No. 58 stall Nutritious Sandwich (營養三明治)
                 ● Chen Ji Pao-Pao Ice / bubble ice (甜品陳記泡泡冰) ● Deep fried chicken - opposite of No. 42 stall
                  Chef Nic (HK star 謝霆鋒) comments : "fantastic atmosphere, solid foundations (氣氛非常棒基礎很扎實)"

● United Daily (3-1-2017 聯合報): Nin-Xia night market became the model of all this kind due to its creative business strategy which includes first non-smoking night-market, heat (Kcal) remarks, and outdoor-style catering "千歲宴"...

● United Daily (1-13-2016): Taipei mayor Ko expressed Shi-Lin night market and Nin-Xia night market are 2 most popular Taipei markets selected by tourists.

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◎ Taiwan's best night markets ― in more details:
★ 士林夜市 ( Shi-Lin or Shih-Lin night market)	★ Shih-Lin night market's brand-foods
◎ "Grandmom's family"「阿婆之家」(ps: was one of 2 stores earliest-selling oyster omelet in Taiwan.)、	(Liberty Times 自由時報, news reported at 2-7-2013) 1) "Zhong Cheng Hou"「忠誠號」 since 1972，brand foods are stir-fried cuttlefish thick soup (生炒花枝羹)，pig liver soup with sesame oil (麻油豬肝湯), and oyster omelet。 2) Widely known "Hao-Da" (豪大) XL deep fried chicken breast has 2 branches，one is at front of theater (陽明戲院)、another is near night market in Gin-Ho Rd. 　 3) Others like Small pie in Large pie (大餅包小餅)、Oyster vermicelli /thin, soft Noodles (阿亮麵線)、Tapioca ball tea(青蛙下蛋)、 seafood & herb regimen food (海友十全藥膳) are good-tasted foods 。
◎"Loyalty" / "Zhong Cheng Hou"「忠誠號」― oyster omelette or 天婦羅
◎ Chou doufu (stinky tofu) in Shi-Lin night market
◎ 538 (original shop number) ― 大香腸 (Large-sized Sausage)
◎ 501 (original shop number) ― 大餅包小餅 (Small pie in Large pie)
◎ Hao-Da XL (「豪大」大雞排) Deep fried chicken breast
◎ stir-fried cuttlefish thick soup (生炒花枝羹)
PS: Tzeng oyster omelette was voted as No.1 award winner among 6 shops in Shi-Lin night market by consumers and juries at 2-19-2012。

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Taiwan's night markets
★ The Liberty Times (自由時報), reported at 2-7-2013	★ The Liberty Times, (自由時報), Weekender , 10-16-2015.
Taiwanese flavored foods	Exotic food-shops run by foreigners
★ 寧夏夜市 (Taipei NinShia or Nin Xia night market) ◎ G KO pork with rice (「知高飯」) no. 034攤(since 50 yrs ago)、蛋包蝦仁湯 ◎ old fashioned but 2nd generation steamed spring roll / lumpia (since 60 yrs ago) 第二代古早味潤餅店 no. 043攤(60年) ◎ coke cake or koroke pie(「梅可樂」可樂餅) no. 071攤(since 5 years ago 開店5年) ◎ "Lon" pig liver (「榮仔」豬肝) , since 60 yrs ago ◎ "Circle" chicken soup with sesame oil (「環記」麻油雞) ◎ "Cow's mom" Taiwanese barbecued sauce beef noodle (「牛媽媽」沙茶牛肉麵) 2011 on file: ◎ 44-2 Nin Xia Rd. 「圓環邊」Oyster Omelet ◎ 「圓環」麻油雞 ("Taipei Circle" sesame oil chicken soup) ◎ 「榮仔」"Lon" Pig livers	● Egyptian chickens and beefs - Taipei Gongguan (or Kungkuan 公館商圈) business area, tel: 0933268677 ● Turkish roast meat - Taoyuan Xing-Ren (桃園興仁花園夜市) Garden night market, tel: 0976097585 ● Iran's Alibaba Middle East roast meat - TaiChung Feng-Chia (逢甲夜市) night market, tel:0919846270 ● Brazilian Gaucho - Taichung Da-Lee (大里大里國際觀光夜市) int'l tourism night market, address: 478, sec. 2, Zhong-Hsin Rd. ● Pakistan Hola Mexican - TaiNan DaDong night market (大東花園夜市), tel: 0929005000 ● Pakistan chicken curry bao - Kaohsiung FonShan (鳳山區大明路流動夜市) area, tel: 0988105509 ● Eastern Germany Das sausage - Kaohsiung Rei-Fon (瑞豐夜市)night market, tel: 0956730609 ● Italia cakes - Taipei Ton-Hua night market (通化夜市), tel: 0921617581 ● Polish hand-made Paul Papa dessert - TaiChung Han-Si (旱溪夜市)night market, Address: sec.1 , Han-Si E. Rd., TaiChung ● Korean cakes - TaiChung Gateway cultural-creativity tourism night market (水湳經貿文創觀光夜市), tel: 0978153925 ● Spanish cakes, bread, potato egg omeletes - TaiNan DaDong night market(大東花園夜市), tel:0935016171 ● British Mr. Fox cakes - Kaohsiung Rei-Fon (瑞豐夜市)night market, tel: 0911736361 ● GNA apple pie, cakes (boss: German, boss's wife : Polish) - Kaohsiung Rei-Fon (瑞豐夜市) night market, tel: 0910816504 ● Turkish ice cream - Kaohsiung Liu-Ho (六合夜市) night market, addr: front of no. 64, Liu-Ho 2 Rd. ● French / delices de France - Kaohsiung Rei-Fon (瑞豐夜市)night market, tel:0986006218 　 PS: To find English / Chinese names of night market foods - pls. refer to: http://eservice.seti.com.tw/PrivateList.aspx?Model=%E5%A4%9C%E5%B8%82%E5%B0%8F%E5%90%83
★ 高雄六合夜市(Kaohsiung City, Liu-Ho night market) ◎ "Cheng old" papaya milk (鄭老牌木瓜牛奶) ◎ seafood soft rice (海產粥) ― choose the shop with most number of staffs ◎ mullet roe (烏魚子烏魚腱)
★ 基隆廟口夜市 (Kee-long City, Miaokou night market) ◎ Din-Bian-Tsou / Potside sticker soup (頂邊銼)、a mouthful sausage (一口吃香腸)、Pao-Pao Ice / bubble ice (泡泡冰)
★ 華西街夜市 (Hua-Xi Street night market, Taipei) ◎ Angelica sinensis / Danggui herb pig feet soup (當歸豬腳)、"Little Wang" Steamed Minced Pork with Pickles and soup (小王清湯瓜仔肉)、"Norther port/ Bei-Gun" sticky soft sweet-tasted rice ball (北港甜點麻糬)
★ 宜蘭羅東夜市 (Yi-Lan City, LuoDong night market) ◎ "Uncle Zao" mutton hot pot (阿灶伯羊肉爐), Tapioca (ball) tea (包心粉圓), braised chicken legs and shelled shrimps(龍鳳腿), "E-Fung" Cong you bing / a flaky scallion pancake made with hand-rolled dough (義豐蔥油餅)
★ 台中逢甲夜市 (Tai-Chung City, feng-chia night market) ◎ "Japanese Boat / Tseung Kwan O" takoyaki / octopus meat ball (日船章魚小丸子)、"Guan Chi Lin" Small Sausage in Large Sausage (官芝霖大腸包小腸) ◎Dai Gwan Hujiao bing (wheat buns more accurately, pies or pockets, 台灣帝鈞碳烤胡椒餅)
★ 快炒&海鮮 (NT100 quick served stir-fried sea-foods & vegetables) ◎ US TV program introduced Taipei's "Central Market" (「中央市場」) fast served Stir-fries located in Chang-An E. Rd.(長安東路). Many dishes cost NT100 for each.

★ 10 biggest temple side night markets : Keelong (奠濟宮), Taipei (大稻埕/慈聖宮&霞海城隍廟), HsinChu(城隍廟) , TaiChung FoonYuan(豐原慈濟宮) , TaiChung Da-Gia (大甲鎮瀾宮) , ChangHua Lu-Port (鹿港天后宮), Yuan-Lin (北港朝天宮), TaiNan (保安宮), TaiNan (祀典武廟) , Kaohsiung (武廟) - ref. to the Liberty Times Weekender, Nov. 1, 2015

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◎ China Times Weekly ( 時報周刊) issue No. 1983, ~ 2-25-2016:

"Follow Taiwan's President Tsai to enjoy Ba Wan (Taiwanese pork ball ) ! " ( "跟著小英(蔡英文)瞌總統肉圓")
　

★ New Taipei City/ Ah-Dian meat-ball 新北三重阿典肉圓 tel:22863475

★ Chang Hua/ Ah-Chang meat-ball 彰化阿璋肉圓 tel:04-7229517

★ PingTong/ Chang-Chi meat-ball 屏東潮州張記肉圓 tel:08-7899686
★ YunLin/ Fu-Chi BBQ goose 雲林福記炭烤鵝肉 tel:05-5867007

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Eating in Taiwan / Chinese restaurants

中餐廳 (Chinese cuisine in Taiwan)

Best Chinese cuisine restaurants in Taiwan include:

★Din Tai Fung ( 鼎泰豐), CNN (July 2015) dropped it to No.20 in Taiwan, Daily Meal (Oct. 2014) dropped it by 6 positions. Din Tai Fung has been using MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) till present, being suspicious of getting involved in Taiwan food scandal, and used G.M.(genetic modified) material until July of 2015.

★ YinYih restaurant - belongs to Chinese HuaiYang cuisine, intro. by Discovery of USA ("銀翼", 淮揚菜系, 美國Discovery介紹 ) tel: 02-23417799

★ "Lon" restaurant - Shanghai original flavor, intro. once by Wall Street Journal, USA (隆記菜館, 上海本幫菜, 美國華爾街日報Wall Street專文介紹)

★ Celestial restaurant, known for its Beijing Roast duck, intro. by Japanese magazine (天廚, 北京烤鴨, 日本刊物介紹)

★ Peng Yuan restaurant, Chinese HuNan province cuisine (彭園, 湖南菜系, 台灣大報介紹)

★ Beijing Do It True, intro. by Discovery USA (北平都一處since 1949, 醬肉燒餅etc, 美國Discovery介紹 )

★ Chin Garden - SiChuan province cuisine, In XiMun Din there's a SiChuan cuisine street ("黔園", 台灣大報介紹, 四川菜系, 西門酊康定路25巷是川菜街 )、

★ Chinese two provinces - Yunnan and Kweichow cuisin 人和園(雲貴菜)

★ NanMen market, a most famous cuisine shop - ycyf.com.tw ("億長御坊", 年菜、中國傳統家常菜 - 自由時報等介紹)、a branch in Taipei 101 F1 supermarket (南門市場內有些知名年菜店如合興糕餅、隆記等)、

★ Braised snacks / munchies: JengJi.com.tw(正記, salty ducks鹽水鴨etc)、LauTianLu.com.tw(老天祿,braised duck tongue滷鴨舌etc)、LaoTianLu.com.tw(上海老天祿 braised duck tongue 滷鴨舌etc )、信遠齋(smoked chicken燻雞etc)。

★ some Chinese restaurants in some best 5 star hotels。

★ Taiwanese cuisin, YongKang beef noodle, other widely known beef noodles include Lao Wang, 15 Tao Yuan St., Lao Dong which won 1st award in 2006 int'l beef-noodle contest (news report: " Japanese and HongKongers heard YongKang's name and came (永康牛肉麵, 日本、香港客聞風來")", but I personal feel YongKang beef noodle is more soy-sauce flavour according to experience about 5 years ago , so I agree CNN's evaluation in July 2015)

the Brand personality?

Din Tai Fung's Hong Kong branches were just eliminated their Michelin one star
title at Oct. 31, 2014,
Taiwan's Din Tai Fung never won any Michelin star title, but it is advertising itself a Michelin star restaurant by posters at front of largest Japanese mall, Mitsukoshi Dpt. Store in Taipei. (photo Aug. 22 2015)

Din Tai Fung USA website (http://DinTaiFungusa.com) has also been advertising a similar one in its front-page. (tests till present at 9-17-2015)
more critiques ...

ps: the China Times analyzed losing Michelin most likely it's because of inconsistent quality problem. (http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20141031001358-260405)

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★ You may ref. to Apple Daily's Next Magazine "The Best Restaurants 2013, Taiwan - high end and low end ones" ( <壹周刊>出版之「美食大賞2013」之"高檔餐廳"與"平價餐廳"二版本)。

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Taiwanese foods
Beaviss : dummy ! there's no poison, addictives, MSG, lard oil, gutter oil, etc being added in these Chinese heritage arts - pork stone and cabbage jade
Butter-Head: so, we can eat these health foods now?!

a creativity by Z. Zu

pic. below: former US president Bush was in Taiwan's restaurant - Beijing Do It True.
ps: DIT doesn't have Bush's favorite, Beijing roast duck, the best duck in Taiwan is in Celestial (天廚) restaurant.

US president Bush was in Taiwanese restaurant

Snake Alley, HuaXi street's special ― snake (Cobra, etc) soup (a bowl for USD 5 ), snake gall, snake blood
Pic. above is a huge golden-color Patteraless (python)
Vedio below shows peeling a painful, curling, long snake for a regimen-meal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUX6sVx3pFU

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M.D.s advised Taiwanese favorite new-in spicy hot-pot may causes illness if having much; pic. above is tranditional Chinese ShanXi hot pot in Taiwan for instant boiled meat, was no longer popular.

I ate turtles and alligator-tail in Florida before, a widely saying in China & Taiwan ― eating soft-shell turtles is good for regimen, however, Taiwan just found turtles (甲魚/水魚) in a famous restaurant chain contain poisonous LMG, etc. (CNA, 7-25-2015)
pic. above is a tourism site in S. TW.

Hong Kong's TimHoWan is a Michelin restaurant, but Taiwan's branch restaurant is not.

Since 1953,

Original Shanghai flavor foods was Introduced by Wall Street Journal.
Chiang (Jiang) G.K. (蔣經國),

Former president's favorite-food restaurant was no longer crowded.

closed 1-1-2019 , for urban renewal...

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Eating in Taiwan / int'l & Chinese cuisine

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★ <The Daily Meal> 101 Best Restaurants in Asia, The Daily Meal celebrates the most exemplary epicurean endeavors in Asia :

At 10-10-2014, http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-restaurants-asia , ranks best restaurants in Taiwan:
No.6 Din Tai Fung (was already wiped out of Michelin star list of 2014/2015)
No.43 Le Mout, Taichung (the official website spelt wrongly - "Taiching")
No.42 DN innovation, Taipei, Taiwan
No.61 Osteria de Angie, Taipei, Taiwan
No.73 La Cocotte, a French restaurant, Taipei, TW
No.79 七十二牛肉麵 (Seventy-Two beef noodle restaurant, Taipei, Taiwan)

In its report of May 16, 2013, 4 out of top 5 are communist Chinese restaurants (全鴨季,Beijing; 紫雲軒茶事,Beijing; Temple Restaurant, Beijing; 前門M餐廳, Beijing).
There're 6 restaurants in Taipei rank "Top 101 Asian best restaurants", in addition to 鼎泰豐:
No. 43: Tainan Tu Hsiao Yueh Danzai noodle (台南度小月擔仔麵).
No. 50: Non-zero restaurant, Taipei(非零餐廳).
No. 70: Osteria by Angie, Taipei, Taiwan, it's an Italia restaurant.
No. 74: Seventy-Two beef noodle restaurant, Taipei, Taiwan (七十二牛肉麵).
No. 76: La Cocotte, a French restaurant, Taipei, TW.
No. 86: Hiroshima, Taipei , TW (鐵匠鐵板燒居酒屋).

ps: Best dish in Taiwan : oyster omelet (introduced by Discovery channel of USA) ― it is most typical Taiwanese food( street snack everywhere in night markets), but not exquisite & elaborated food.

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★ According to New York Times (12-12-2015), French La Liste's top 10 best restaurants include 3 Asian restaurants, but no any Taiwanese restaurant was included, the Liberty Times (12-13-2015) mentioned no Taiwan's restaurants included in top 1000 list.

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★ According to < Miele Guide> of 2011/2012, There's no Taiwanese restaurants is included in top 20 Asian best, but inside Taiwan, 5 restaurants are listed as below:
   (1) Din Tai Fung, ps: This restaurant admits they do use Monosodium Glutamate as addictive, and won't change this policy so as to keep major cuisine (e.g., steamed bun, chicken soup) delicious, according to United Daily News 5.9.2013.
   (2) 銀翼 (best dishes:文思豆腐,蔥開煨麵)
   (3) ShinYeh Taiwanese cuisin 欣葉 (02-25963255, best: 煎豬肝, 菜埔蛋)
   (4) Le Mout French restaurant 樂沐法式餐廳, a French restaurant (excellent, evaluated by Relais & Chateaux in 2011)
        in Taichung city (04)23753002(best dish: 經典套餐NT3800)
   (5) La Cocotte, a traditional French cuisine restaurant own by Fabien Verge (02)33223289 (best dish: NT980白酒墩牛肚)

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★ According to < Country Brand Index> of 2007( 2008 Top Country Brand Index Ranking )，Japan is the only Asian country ranking top 10, Red China is a rising star.

"Fine dining" category: 2007-2008	Italia, Singapore, Japan, US, UK, UAE, Malaysia, Spain, Argentina .( underscore for Eastern nations)
"Food" category: 2011-2012	1 Italy, 2France, 3 Japan, 4Spain, 5 Singapore, 6 Thailand, 7 India, 8 Brasil, 9 Malaysia, 10 Swiss, 11 Germany, 12 Vietnam, 13 Greece, 14 Australia, 15 USA (underscore for Asian nations)

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★ The World's 50 Best Restaurants 1-50, 2013 sponsored by S. Pellegrino & Acqua Panna, April 29, 2013 http://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50-winners/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_50_Best_Restaurants (by Wikipedia)

In this list, top 10 are in Western world (Spain, Denmark, Italia, USA, UK, Austria, Germany), Hong Kong's 龍景軒 is the highest ranking (No.75) Chinese restaurant, no any Taiwanese restaurant included. Taiwanese chef Jiang (江振誠)'s "Restaurant Andre" located in Singapore ranks No.38.

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★ The Best Restaurants 2013, Taiwan / High End restaurants list , published by Apple Daily's Next Magazine, Taiwan. (「美食大賞2013」高價餐廳， <壹周刊>出版)。

    (1) ●Taipei City & New Taipei City/
          3 star high end restaurants:明福Taiwanese cuisine 。
          2 star high end restaurants:
                ● Chinese Dishes(中菜): Bamboo Village Cantonese cuisine(竹家莊粵菜香港料理)、真的好Cantonese seafood cuisine、Le Meridien艾美酒店寒舍食譜Cantonese cuisine、Palais de Chine 君品酒店頤宮Si-Chuan&Cantonese cuisine、軒維小館Ze-Jian & Jian-Su cuisine、客家小館Hakka & Ze-Jian cuisine、新東南Taiwanese cuisine 。
                ● Western & other cuisine (西菜與其他):  n/a.
    (2) ●West (Tao-Yuan City, Tai-Chung, Tai-Nan, Kaohsiung, Jia-E City, etc)/
           3 star high end restaurants: Thomas Chien French cuisine,
           2 star high end restaurants:
              ● Chinese Dishes(中菜): Tai-Nan City台南阿美飯店Taiwanese cuisine, Tai-Nan City阿霞飯店Taiwanese cuisine, Kaohsiung City高雄海天下Taiwanese seafood cuisine。
            ● Western & other cuisine (西菜與其他):    n/a。
           1 star high end restaurants: n/a.

    (3) ●East (Kee-lung, New Taipei coast, Yi-Lan, Hua-Nien, Tai-Dong, remote tiny islands Ludao, Sanasay, Jitanasey)/
            3 star high end restaurants: none was selected,
          2 star high end restaurants :阿國Taiwanese seafood、陶甕百合春天Taiwanese aborigines cuisine,
            1 star high end restaurants: n/a.

(n/a restaurant-names, Pls. contact Next Magazine <壹周刊>。)

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★ "Michelin Star" restaurants in Taiwan:

Actually, There's no Michelin starred restaurant in Taiwan by mar. 2018.

● TimHoWan (添好運): With nick-name "Global cheapest Michelin Star restaurant", Hong Kong's TimHoWan 3 branches in 北角、深水埗, 大角咀 at 10-30-2014 gained Michelin one star title respectively。At Nov. 5, 2015, their Hong Kong (not Taiwan) restaurants won again. But CTV evening news (12-12-2015 7:15pm) criticized some foods in Taiwan TaiChung branch is not up to Michelin level.

● YeShanghai (夜上海): Hong Kong's YeShanghai obtained Michelin 2 stars in 2012, one star in 2013, 2014(10-30-2014)。

● L'ATELIER de Joël Robuchon (侯布雄法式餐廳,Taipei) : Taipei's L'ATELIER ( Robuchon ) located in Bellavita is not a Michelin starred restaurant, although their branches in Paris, Tokyo, etc obtained Michelin star titles in recent years, for full details pls. check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Michelin_starred_restaurants。

● Din Tai Fung / 台灣鼎泰豐自我宣傳為米其林餐廳, 但even其香港分店剛失去2015米其林title (ps: 2016年也落選)，台灣總店則從未摘星。http://hk.ulifestyle.com.hk/topic/detail.html?id=ABFGD1ozBwlZFQNo

● The 2016 Michelin Guide is now featuring wallet-friendly street food in the latest instalment of its Hong Kong and Macau hospitality guide edition (no "star" awarded). The 'branch' of Taiwan's Dai Gwan Hujiao bing (wheat buns more accurately, pies or pockets, 台灣帝鈞碳烤胡椒餅) in Feng-Chia (逢甲) night market is included in 2016's street food list of Macau. The boss said there're some difference between Taiwan's and Macau's. The Hujiao bing in Macau's branch taste more salty, those in Taiwan taste more spicy (SETV news 11-6-2015).

● For further details pls click Le Guide Michelin Mar. 2018

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Eating in Taiwan - buffet

SET TV news ( 三立新聞網), 9-14-2018 "a clever chef revealed the cruel truth of all-you-can-eat-buffet in Taiwan": 「You turn into a loser as soon as you step in buffet restaurant ! 」―― Why ? You will see all about in this website !

Although world media always introduced Taiwan's "small eat", Taiwanese also love "big eat" ―― There's a widely-known slang in here: Taiwan has 3 "worth-the-value" stuffs: health insurance, labor insurance, and all you can eat buffet.(台灣有三"寶"，健保、勞保、吃到飽) Apple Daily of Taiwan, 9-5-2018: All you can eat buffet is very popular in Taiwan, main-stream buffet emphasizes themed, diversified, and delicate, average price is about NT1000. The China Times (中國時報) 2-3-2018 , United Daily (聯合報) 9-23-2017: Taiwanese love having all-you-can-eat buffet, even economic is still bad. Apple Daily (10-31-2015): Euro. style all you can eat buffet turned into "Cash Cow".

The article, Taiwan's 5 star hotel - all you can eat buffet, has been ranking world top on google and yahoo for years, pls. click for full text.

● 5 star hotel scandals - A book (Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Veterans General Hospital's physician Jiang So-San M.D. 江守山 "食在安心" (10-2014)) said many 5 star hotel restaurants don't wash vegetables ... some 5 star hotels made sashimi raw fish slices by using fresh-water fishes, this may increase the probability to get cancer (for details 台灣餐廳 or 台灣美食Taiwan Night Markets ) ; Epoch Times (大紀元, 3-14-2017):Okura Prestige Tpe (大倉久和, a 5 star hotel) sold expired frozen shrimps, molded taro (vegetable 芋) etc; SETN news ( 三立新聞 5-16-2016): Some 5 star hotels in northern Taiwan sold black-hearted expired seafoods ; LTN (5-17-2016): 5 star hotels Ambassador and Howard (國賓、福華) clarified this news; Apple Daily (蘋果日報 6-7-2016): Sheraton (喜來登) 's white shrimps contained bleaching agent (漂白劑)，4 times higher than the legal standard，Ranina (Spanner crabs 旭蟹) contained heavy medal Cadmium poisoning (重金屬镉) 14% higher than the standard...; Apple Daily (蘋果日報 7-2-'13): Taiwan's tourist hotels' food ingredients expired 2 years, only 3 out of 21 hotels passed the security check and sanitary examination etc conducting by Taiwan Administration, e.g., Shangri-La's (tnn) did not separate their cutting tools for cooked foods and raw foods; FTV news, 5-18-2017: 13 ingredients / materials expired were found in a 5 star hotel of Taiwan; CTI TV news (5-17-2017, 19:33): What can we eat in Taiwan? people are uneasy for food here...

● Cheaper/economic-price buffet restaurants are everywhere too, but "Eastern Broadcasting Co., Ltd.，EBC (東森) TV" evening news (11-30-2015, 8:42pm): having those fake / restructured / glued meat (beef, pork, mutton, seafood: abalone, calamari, etc) is easy to get food poisoning.

5 star hotel all you can eat buffet in Taiwan

5 star hotel

Mandarin Oriental
Taipei (文華東方)

Hyatt
(君悅)

Sheraton

(喜來登)

Hi-Lai Harbour Taipei
(漢來)

饗食天堂

Sherwood
(西華)

Howard(福華)1F, 4F, 2F

Ambassador
Hotel(國賓)

Grand Taipei (圓山飯店)

Le Meridien, (艾美)

Shangri-La's(香格里拉遠東)

Regent Taipei

all you can eat buffet

1-29-2019 data:

weekdays buffet:

Beijing duck, US strip sirloin, braised US beef in red wine sauce, pan-fried salmon dill cream sauce, sweet sour pork vegetables w dried scallop, braised mushroom, wok fried prawn soy sauce stewed sea bass, pan fried Radish cake XO sauce,US beef Bolognaise Lasagna), deep fried dim sum, Thai seafood fried rice w pineapple, crab sweet corn soup, clam chowder, wined chicken. seafood bar: snow crab, brown crab, mussel, sea shell, mussel, shrimp, etc

Sat. and Sun. 'semi' all-you-can-eat buffet feast serves various red crabs (12-1-2018 data)

2-18-2019 updated

seafood bar added: scallops, ,mussel,catfish,whelks, ... hot dish: wok fried lily asparagus shrimps...

12-26-2018 data

Western signature dish: roasted US beef rib eye chimichurri (weekdays), Sirloin steak (weekends);

Western: sauteed pork knuckle green pepper, Caribbean grilled fish, char grull lamb chop rosemarry, pork piccata,

5-6 kinds Japanese raw fish, sea whelks, crab, shrimp, a-bu-ri-su-shi ;

Chinese main: made to order mutton soup (weekdays), made to order seafood (fish, shell, squid or tiny oyster 蚵)soft rice;
Ningbo style braised eel fillet yellow chive, braised sea cucumber, Shanghai dumpling, roast duck, wok fried chicken basil, braised pork belly bamboo shout preserved bean curd sauce, wok braised fish preserved vegetable...;

8 Häagen-Dazs, blue cheese, cheese cake, kiwi, orange juice

3-4-2019 updated

hot dishes same, add clam chowder soup, fruits add kiwi and small apple

2-22-2019: updated hot dish: soak rice with abalone、braised crabs w wine sauce、 grilled salmon w sea salt 、braised fish vegetable Turmeric、beer stewed pork、roast chicken w Truffles, nuts、pork spare rib w salt pepper、stir-fried pork w black pepper、rose ginger marinated chicken、

5-6 raw fish slices : salmon, cobia, snapper, swordfish, etc (no tuna 11-13-'18);

seafood bar : shrimp, small crab、、mussels , squid;

NZ Natural ice cream 6 items, Haagen-Dazs 4 items;

12-10-2018 updated /
Hot dishes:soak rice with abalone..., ox-tongue garlic butter, grilled salmon w sea salt, spicy spare-ribs pork, stir fried beef w water bamboo, green onion, grilled pork w herb, crab & onion w curry, braised pork w sweet sour sauce, roast beef ...

11-13-2018 data / hot dishes: braised pork rib w sweet olive, fried crab w egg yolk, stir fried vegetable, chicken w chili, stewed fish (basa) w SiChun(四川) sauce or steamed fresh-water fish w lemon, wok fried squid w celery, grilled salmon w sea salt ...

updated 3-13-2019:11 different sashimi, but raw fish about 7 :salmon、swordfish, tuna、snapper, sand barracuda、Aishin、cuttlefish; attractions:

spanner crabs and crabs; mussels (

黑貽貝與孔雀), beef a-bu-ri-su-shi(握壽司),assembled abalone(貴妃鮑)

hot: Kung Pao frog legs, Si-Chuan spicy prawn, Xi-Lin sausage, beef soup, Beijing roast duck, 滷大腸、BBQ chicken thigh, steamed sparerib w Fermented black beans, steamed crab shiao-Mai(蟹黃燒賣)、Fried shrimps ball, Thai green curry w duck, seared scallop, German pork knuckle, US roast beef, smoked salmon fried rice, abalone soup, stir-fried cuttlefish w snap bean,Japan deep fried shrimp;

8 items Häagen-Dazs icecream.sorbet,

lots dissert, home-made yogurt

EBC (東森/靖天育樂TV) 5-4-2018 3:00pm :

Hi-Lai serves 10 different kinds of Japanese raw fish slices,

and abalone;

Middle-east Blue Crab (奶油蒜香中東花蟹)、

Thai style spicy pepper Pacific White shrimps(泰式辛辣胡椒藍鑽蝦)

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steak(

肋眼牛排)、

fried scallop(煎干貝)、

French style shoulder mutton(法式羊肩排)、

Sushi( Japan's beef a-bu-ri-su-shi和牛握壽司)、

baked oyster(焗烤生蠔)

3 different items of raw fish slices : Dolphin fish (鬼頭刀), Nagao Coast snapper(雞紅鯛), Bonito (鰹), from Tai-Dong, Taiwan.

Germany cuisine festival ~ 10-21-2018 (德國美食節 ― 包括德國豬腳, 烤蜂蜜帶皮火腿, etc)

3-4-2019 updated:

lunch, mainly, serves South-East Asian (Thai, Malaysia) cuisine, all are cooked foods, no raw fish sushi those cuisine, dinner adds shrimps (L) and duck, etc

afternoon tea buffet:

South-East Asian (Thai, Malaysia) cuisine,

cold seafood bar : shrimps, crabs, etc,

hot dishes : Malaysia spicy assorted seafood, Thai style steamed fish, fried mussels, Singapore fried rice-noodle, vegetables, HK style disserts (4 different kinds);

small sweet cake/dissert should be taken by working staff, not allowed to take freely.

Haagen-Dazs ice cream.

4th floor is American style buffet, dinner's main are oven ribeye steak, baked scallops, shrimps (明蝦), 3kinds of raw fishes (price about : mon~thur 950, 1050; 1050, 1150, from 2019)

2nd floor offers semi-buffet or economic buffet

4 items of raw fish slices : : Tuna、Cobia、Salmon、竹莢魚or swordfish，all are fresh cut upon req. (it's fresh cut, but not too "free" for foodie);

deep fried shrimp, and

、deep fried 4-season beans (四季豆)、corn flour (玉米粉);

crabs: Three-spotted Crab (三點蟹)、Spanner/Crimson (旭蟹)、white shrimp (熟白蝦) ;

rib (牛小排) and prime steak in dinner only, lunch only serves roast beef

Häagen-Dazs and Cold Stoneice cream, 8 flavors each brand

4 different kinds (afternoon tea usually 2~3 kinds) of raw fish slices (生魚片) : BigHead Carp (鰱魚?), Cobia(海儷), Swordfish(旗魚) and Great Amberjack(紅魽);

lunch and dinner attractions: N.Z. roast beef，all-u-can-drink beer(生啤酒)，seafood include shrimps and crabs, hot dishes usually varies day by day

various hot dishes(蘿蔔絲餅(Crispy pasrty with silky turnip ) 、燴香菇(braised mushroom)、海鮮小干貝(braised small scallops), etc), more items than those in Sheraton's afternoon tea buffet ;

But, LTN (自由時報)10-13-2018 gave bad score to their buffet - see http://ent.ltn.com.tw/news
/breakingnews/2579148

raw fish slices 3~4 items;

emperor crabs soup out, oyster & pork rib soup in (原帝王蟹改香菇鮑魚雞湯現再改為牡蠣排骨湯);

oven ribeye steak(爐烤肋眼牛), HK dim-sum(蒸籠港點)、grilled chicken(烤雞)、grilled large shrimp (烤大蝦);

厚切赤味噌烤牛舌(grilled Miso thick-cut beef tongue )、鳳梨蒲燒鰻(grilled eel w pineapple)假日不定時提供;

脆皮烤乳豬(crispy bbq suckling pig), 焗烤生蠔(baked oyster), served irregularly

Seafood bar serves tiny snail, tiny octopus, mussel, shrimps, sushi,

and Japanese raw-fish slices : tuna/ swordfish, salmon, Great Amberjack(紅魽)

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Haagen-Dazs4 items;

India style cuisine 5 items;

Candonese style Siu Mei / Barbecued cuisine (廣式燒臘) , a few items;

data of Sept., 2018

3-12-2019 updated/
buffet's main attractions:seafood bar: Three-spotted Crab (三點蟹)、Spanner/Crimson (旭蟹)、sakura crab(櫻花蟹),

手卷bar: a-bu-ri-su-shi(握壽司)、炙燒、12~15 different sauces;

raw fish slices about 5~6 different kinds;

signature hot food: oven roast beef(爐燒牛排), Japanese wine (清酒) steamed clam;

CTV(中視)evening news, 12-18-2018: Regent's breakfast buffet serves many Chinese style cuisine, which was intro. by CNN;

Deputy mayor of Shanghai has breakfast in Regent buffet restaurant, has dinner in Grand Taipei (圓山飯店)

price

lunch Mon ~Thurs NTD 1580, weekend lunch NTD 1980~3380, depends which main dish you order; 02-27156888

weekdays 1480, Sat., Sun.1680, fri, sat. 8:30 pm~10pm 30% off late bird price

lunch NTD1090,
dinner1190

Taipei Dun-Hua(敦化),天母 branches: 850,600,980;

Others: lunch 730, afternoon580,dinner 850;

reservation: 02-87736656

lunch NTD 798,
dinner 898

lunch 888, Fri, Sat, Sun dinner 1288, Mon~ Thurs no dinner

afternoon tea buffet about 600; Mon.~Thur.750, 800; Fri, Sat, Sun 800, 880

NTD 980 , NTD 1280

afternoon tea buffet about NTD 600;

lunch 900、dinner 1080;
weekend lunch 1100、dunner 1180

Mon~Thur lunch, dinner NTD 1590;
Fri, Sat, Sun 1690

Mon~Fri lunch 1090; Mon~Thu, sun, dinner 1290;
Fri, Sat dinner 1390

lunch 1180、dinner 1380;
weekend lunch 1480、dunner1480

ps: Marriott Hotel : SEMI buffet, need to order a main dish, together with salad & dissert bar, Sat. Sun. have seafood bar, but number of seafood are limited, weekdays NTD 980-2280, weekends NTD1280-2880, ps2: Palais de Chin Hotel buffet are semi too; ps3: Westin Taipei's closed in Dec. 2018; ps 4: further details pls. ref. to the web-pages

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Taiwan / 5 star buffet brief of The Liberty Times (自由時報), 7-15-2016, 7-16-2016, 7-17-2016
oven roast pib-rib tender, various countries flavors for more choices, but, pork chops in Chinese medicine soup(藥燉排骨) tasted not tender & juicy; part of seafood open for freely taking ; cakes limited	Emperor crab、mussels(貽貝)、stone-crabs(石蟳)high class and fresh, lots of Sashimi raw fish slices served , various and fresh seafood in mini-bar refrigerator, but 3-Spot-swimming-Crab (三點蟹) not fresh; various-items and fine quality desserts	roast duck、oil-chicken(油雞)、roast beef steak and roast mutton are high quality ; Sashimi raw fish slices、white shrimps(白蝦)、whelk meat (香螺) are fresh ; crabs not too fresh ; desserts are 5 star ranking	special made roast Ribeye Steak(乾式熟成肋眼牛排)smells great; frozen Boston lobster tasted bit too soft after being defrosted, more than 50 hot dishes tasted great, lots of drinking options	India curry flavor is great, various meats , HaiNan chicken tender, India spicy meat overdone, fresh appetizer , high class vegetables	shrimp, scallop(扇貝) fresh, advice starting from seafood; Grilled pork ribs(炭烤豬肋排)、ham(火腿) tender; traditional style desserts	meat is not upto 5 star ranking, roast duck not tender; Haagen-Dazs ice cream without clear marks ; white shrimps, (旭蟹)Spanner Crabs are fresh, 3 Spot swimming Crab (三點蟹) not fresh，large shrimps, middle-sized Inshore squids(中捲) good flavor(海味足)，fish soup taste good	flagship food is various seafood: 4 kinds of fresh crabs, Assorted Sashimi(綜合生魚片)、smoked shark(鯊魚煙)、meat roll with green onion (三星蔥肉捲)、roast pork rib with plum sauce(蘇梅醬燒豬肋排) are good	angle red shrimps、epicure beef steak, Grilled pork ribs(炭烤豬肋排)、freshly-made Frei(現烤布蕾)、brown-sugar bee-nested cake(黑糖蜂巢蛋糕) good; Sashimi fresh, 3 kinds of crabs	flagship food is seafood: Spanner Crab、Mangrove crab(旭蟹), Mud crab　 (紅蟳)，lots ice at the bottom to keep them fresh; Hong Kong style pot boilcookcrab with XO sauce(港式XO蟹煲)、grilled Ayu(烤香魚)taste good; grilled beef suppose US Prime ramk, various desserts for selection	8~10 different kinds of Sashimi raw fish slices，seafood are various kinds and fresh，cold dishes and hot dishes both are excellent; 30+ different kinds of desserts	beef ribs(牛小排) great，，bratwurst sausage(德式香腸)smells good ; various cooking styles of seafood cuisine (料理手法多元), particularly Pan-fried Sea Bass fillet(鐵板煎鱸魚排); many items and high quality desserts	a lot fresh and different items of cold plate seafood	Emperor crabs fresh ，short-necked clam(熱炒海瓜子)no good; pan fried chicken、oven roast beef(爐烤牛肉)、india flavor curry clay oven rolls(印度咖哩燒餅)、 Vietnamese noodle soup usually served with beef (pho bo) or chicken (pho ga 越南河粉) Good; most of cold-plate meats are Semifinished products; desserts less items and bit too sweet	Sashimi raw fish slices fresh ; not enough meats on the bar, but the balance of rare and well done is controlled in right place ; desserts are not open for freely taking (須服務人員協取)
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How to eat & worth-the-value?

1.Focus on seafood and roast beef/steak
2. Pay attention to: where those food came from, materials ranking, current season fresh food? how's the sauce, staff taking care the buffet bar often? room-lighting, desserts kept in ice/cool box? too much addictives or original flavor? etc.

Health info. see full text
1. FTV (民視) - July 5, 2012 : British latest studies found eating 60% full in each meal can last your life for 20 years more.
2. TTV news 2-27-2015: Buffet triple your stomach in size - A study found 65% buffet restaurant customers' gastric capacity increased from about 800 c.c. up to 2000~3200 c.c., which can be main reason to be a fatty.

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★ 台灣五星級飯店 buffet ★

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Fast foods/burgers in Taiwan

◆ US Wendy's already pull back from Taiwan market, McDonald's already announced withdrawing in the near future, You can have some others - Western business, e.g., Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, 7-Eleven, StarBucks, Subway, etc, and Japanese MOS Hamburger (摩斯), Family Mart, etc。 click for Controversy of McDonald's in Asia .
◆ some markets have fast foods, like RT-Mart, Costco, etc

◆ As for Taiwanese-Brand hamburgers, pls. ref. to the Liberty Times - Weekend Life(9-12-2015) :"You must have a bite - A List of Super Evil Delicious Hamburgers (超邪惡美味漢堡 - 必咬名店大公開)"。

                  ● Must eat in Northern Taiwan:
                        ● Burger Ray (Cardiac Heart-disease burger ) 8771-5811;
                              ● Burger Fix 27516628 Ambassador Hotel (國賓大飯店) 1Bite2Go restaurant;
                              ● Burger&Co 27840182;
                              ● Cali burger (Mexico flavor) ZhongXiao E. Rd., Sec. 4, Ln.205, Alley 7, No.1;
                              ● Bravo Burger 8771-9787;
                        ● Palais de Chine Hotel (君品酒店) Le Bar 2181-9999 (Alaska Crab Beef burger NT680),
                  ● Must eat in Central Taiwan: ●傻子漢堡 04-2375-9113; ●牛逼洋行 04-2372-1755; ●For Farm Burger 04-2234-3535
                  ● Must eat in Southern Taiwan: ●A J Burger 06-2095171; ●布雷克漢堡 07-5224205; ●豐盛廚房 07-5509893
                   for reference

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"評論台灣餐廳" 排名 Bing 第1, 9-3-2018

pic.: "評論台灣美食"排名Google 第1, 9-3-2018 (英文版)

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"comment Taiwan night markets" (Chinese) on Baidu of China, at 3-9-2018

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pS1:

Taiwan president Tsai's favorite food (蔡英文美食地圖)

Taipei	street-front shops / address	Taiwanese cuisines
	華山6165小吃殿/北平東路二八號	Japanese style olen/Kantoni & "prince noodle& half-done-egg bun 甜不辣&王子麵&半熟蛋包
	正宗台南意面/鎮江街七-1號	Tainan style spaghetti noodle意麵
	歐華酒店/林森北	euro. steak 地中海牛排
	老爺酒店	deep fried shrimp 炸明蝦
	逸香園/忠孝東一152	Hakka ethnic group quick-fry客家小炒
	美濃屋拉麵/長安東一段22-18	Ramen (Japanese noodle)喜多方拉麵, 煎餃
	田園台菜/東豐2	fried eel 炒鱔
	三峽山泉/民生街149	Douhua (dessert made from the softest, silkiest tofu )水豆花
	金合和/新莊路269	salty pancake/pies 鹹光餅
	板橋第一家/南雅夜市後段	pig-blood pie 豬血糕
	鶯歌勇伯/中正一路157	Taiwanese "trash" noodle垃圾麵
	三峽池家/大同105	Ba wan (Giant meat dumplings) 肉圓
	油庫口/文化路一188巷44	Oa misua / oyster vermicelli 蚵仔麵線
	阿典/三重雙園58	Ba wan (Giant meat dumplings) 肉圓
	無名/蘆洲信義146	Taiwanese Checkr Dry Noodle 切仔面
The China Times, 5-29-2016

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Taoyuan桃園	street-front shops / address	Taiwanese cuisines
	楊記/中壢新生路109號	Flat rice noodles美濃粄條
	大江屋/龍潭大北坑街1998巷65號	stuffy local Crucian carp 闷土鯽魚、spicy& wine pork knuckle五香醉豬腳
HsinChu新竹	城隍廟柳家/中山75	ground pork & mushroom with rice肉燥飯
HsinChu新竹	清香/關西中豐一段422號	Fried flat rice noodles炒粄條
MiaoLi苗栗	楊文忠/寶樹路10	yolk noodle蛋黃麵、 wonton餛飩
TaiChung台中	阿嬤/后里民生149-3	pig-blood soup豬血湯
	阿二現炒/南屯黎明路二79	tilapia fish吳郭魚
	Frajo法爵/南屯公益路二1	state banquet combo meal國宴套餐
ZhangHua彰化	阿璋/長安144	Ba wan (Giant meat dumplings)肉圓
ZhangHua彰化	阿添/民族455	clam noodle蛤仔麵
YuanLin雲林	西螺福記/建興277	smoked goose noodle煙燻鵝麵
YuanLin雲林	阿貴/虎尾林森路一311	small steam bun小籠包
JiaEe嘉義	林聰明/中正路361	fish head en casserole沙鍋魚頭
The China Times, 5-30-2016

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Tainan 台南	street-front shops / address	Taiwanese cuisines
	灣裡火城麵/南區灣裡404號	soup noodle火城羹麵
	無米樂米食館/後壁墨林里292號	fa cakes 發粿
	連得堂/北區崇安54	pancake煎餅
Kaohsiung 高雄	阿香廚房/美濃中山二635號	choppork山茶排骨
	華仔店/三民同盟二路 61號	hot pot筒骨鍋
	高雄婆婆冰/七賢三路135	shaved ice with mango and milk/cream芒果牛奶冰
	魚壽司/前金成功一路358	egg fried bamboo shoots 蛋炒綠竹筍
	吳媽媽饺子/左營翠峰8	boiled dumpling 水餃
TaiDong 台東	楊記家傳/大同149-1	fried sweet potato balls 地瓜酥
	陳記麻糬/博愛186	swordfish mochi/Rice cake旗魚麻糬
	海草健康輕食/中山205	chicken soup steamed dumpling 海草雞汁湯包
	金花軒卑南包仔/卑南更生北182	pork bun with bamboo shoots筍丁肉包
	津芳/正氣358	salty ice candy鹹冰棒
	寶桑/正氣192	sweet (rice) dumplings 湯圓
PinDong 屏東	東港/勝利196-2	boiled dumpling水餃
	大埔/柳州19	rice cake; rice pudding米糕
	張記/潮州育英35-1	Taiwanese meatball/ba wan 肉圓
	旭功/枋山光復70	Sweet and sour pork ribs糖醋排骨
	The China Times, 6-5-2016

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PS2: Legislators tips street foods, make u full / The China Times 中國時報, 2-20-2018

*legislators*	city	favorite cuisines
蔡適應	基隆Keeling city	孝三路 - 簡家蚵仔煎(雙醬), 基隆傳統燒賣
蔡易餘	嘉義JiaEe	景山國小旁古早味肉嗲(NT25)豆菜麵(NT20)
張麗善	雲林Yuan-Lin	虎尾近福安宮河堤大腸包小腸
王惠美	鹿港Lu-Gun	樂群路阿桑麵線糊 (NT30)

PS3: 蚵仔煎 Oyster omelet in night market / The China Times 中國時報, 4-1-2018

city	name	contacts
南投埔里	王記	049-2989208
桃園觀光夜市	嘉義順	北埔59
基隆	洪記肉圓	安一路36
台南	七股	中山路自由街交會
新北中和	漢口家	02-86681167
高雄旗津	霞姐	0917586839
No.1 "comment Taiwan night markets" on Bing, 2021-8-9, 2021-5-4, 8-25-2020, 1-22-2020

Michelin Taipei - "good value" street food, NT30 ~ NT1300 (avg. 1000)
shop	tel	address	remarks
◆ night markets
饒河夜市: 陳董藥燉排骨 (Chen Dong Pork Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs)	910 901 933	160, Rao-he St. (Raohe St. Night Market 慈祐宮前八德路旁, 饒河街160號路邊攤)	stewed with lots rack of pork-ribs and medicinal herbs
饒河夜市:福州世祖胡椒餅(FuZhou Black Pepper bun)Pepper cakes/Hujiao bing / wheat buns more accurately, pies or pockets	2311 5098	Rao-he St. Night Market (饒河夜市)	cook for immediate consumption, paper-thin wrappings, crispy & good-smell, rich hot broth with spicy pepper flavour (「現做現賣，皮薄香脆，餡料肉汁淋漓且充滿辛香胡椒味)
饒河夜市, 施老闆麻辣臭豆腐(Shi Boss Spicy Tofu)	910 163 404	191, Rao-he St. (Raohe St. Night Market 饒河街191號)	Chou doufu / stinky tofu : hot spicy stinky tofu soup, tender duck blood, pickled cabbage & deep-fried stinky tofu (麻辣臭豆腐湯加嫩滑鴨血必點，配以醃白菜的炸臭豆腐)
南機場夜市:臭老闆臭豆腐(Stinky Tofu Boss)	2305 2078	6, Ln.313, sec.2, Zhong-hua Rd. (中華路二段313巷6號)	Chou doufu / stinky tofu : cook for immediate consumption, no milk-products added, good for Vegetarian
南機場夜市:阿男麻油雞( A Nan sesame Chicken)	0955-572-506	Ln.313, sec.2, Zhong-hua Rd..(中華路二段311巷)	health preserving sesame oil chicken soup (not very greasy) for all four seasons (四季合宜的養生麻油)
寧夏夜市: 豬肝榮仔(Rong's Pork Liver)	2553-9710 / 0935-937-231	68 Nin-Xia Rd. (Nin-Xia night market, 寧夏路68號前)	Pig liver and pig bag only (只賣豬肝湯和豬肚湯，湯底肉香味濃，豬肝熟度完美，豬肚軟腍入味，配以香辛薑絲)
寧夏夜市: 劉芋仔 (Liu Yu Zi Taiwan's taro - similar to sweet potato)	0920 091 595	34-4, Nin-Xia Rd. (寧夏路34之4號, 蓬萊國小旁 Nin-Xia night market, )	the reason of being selected is its fresh ingredients, and cook for immediate consumption. chef specials are chicken-egg taro balls, taro pie ( 蛋黃芋餅、香酥芋丸 )
臨江街夜市:梁記滷味 ( Liang Ji Lou Wei)	2738-5052	83 Lin-Jiang Str (Nin-Jian night market , 臨江街83號)	Braised food/snacks : crispy duck intestines taste best
臨江街夜市:駱記小炒(Lou Ji Xiao Chao)	2708 1027	27, alley 50, Lane 39, Tong-Hua Str. (通化街39巷50弄27號Nin-Jian night market )	all stir fried dishes (beef, snail, etc) are its signature
Hi-Yu Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs(士林夜市: 海友十全排骨)	2888 1959	49, Da-Dong Rd. (大東路49, Shilin night market)	Ribs stewed in 15 different kinds of secret-recipe medicinal herbs (15種以上的中藥秘方烹調出美味養生的藥膳排骨湯)

Da-Qiao-Tou Tube Rice Pudding

Shih Chia Big Rice Ball

Lo Chi Hsiao Chao

Yu Pin Yuan Iced and Hot Tangyuan

Liang Chi Lu Wei梁記滷味

Yi Jia Zi

Wu Wang Tsai Chi

Unnamed Clay Oven Roll

Chang Hung Noodles

Yuan Fang Guabao

Stinky Tofu Boss

Wang's Broth

Lan Chia Guabao

Beef Noodles and Beef Entrails Soup

Hsiung Chi Scallion Pancake

Good Friend Cold Noodles

Chen Tung Pork Ribs Medicinal Herbs Soup

Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao

Hai Yu Pork Ribs

A Kuo Lu Wei

Cabbage Rice and Pork Rib Soup

Lo Chi Hsiao Chao

Yu Pin Yuan Iced and Hot Tangyuan

Liang Chi Lu Wei

Golden Fried Chicken

A Nan Sesame Oil Chicken

Wu Wang Tsai Chi

Unnamed Clay Oven Roll

Corn House Grilled Corn

Shan-Nei Chicken

Stinky Tofu Boss

Chang Hung Noodles

Yuan Fang Guabao

Wang's Broth

Lan Chia Guabao

Hsiung Chi Scallion Pancake

Beef Noodles and Beef Entrails Soup

Tung Fa Hao

Mochi Baby

Chen Tung Pork Ribs Medicinal Herbs Soup

Fuzhou Black Pepper Bun

A Kuo Lu Wei

Good Friend Cold Noodles

Chung Chia Sheng Jian Bao

A Hui Vermicelli

Hai Yu Pork Ribs

Jingmei Thick Rice Noodles

● CNN, 12-11-2020 :Today, what was once a roadside stall is now a burgeoning empire, whose growing fame on the Taiwan food scene owes far more to its delicious specialty than it does its brush with international fame ...