Where to eat in Taipei

Restaurants, cafés and street food in Taipei, Taiwan that locals actually go to — plus the local names for the chains you already know.

• Din Tai Fung (Xinyi original) — Xiaolongbao, Da'an / Xinyi Rd (2). Order the 18-fold xiaolongbao. The original shop of the world's most famous dumpling house.
• Jin Feng Braised Pork Rice — Lu rou fan, Zhongzheng (1). Order the Lu rou fan + braised egg. The definitive late-night lu rou fan.
• Ay-Chung Flour-Rice Noodle — Mian xian, Ximending (1). Order the Mian xian, add chili + garlic. Standing-only bowls of oyster-intestine mian xian since 1975.
• Yongkang Beef Noodle — Beef noodles, Da'an / Yongkang St (1). Order the Braised beef noodle soup. The braised-beef bowl that anchors the beef-noodle debate.
• Fuhang Soy Milk — Taiwanese breakfast, Zhongzheng / Huashan Market (1). Order the Thick soy milk + shaobing youtiao. The dawn queue for charcoal shaobing and warm doujiang.
• Addiction Aquatic Development — Seafood market, Zhongshan (2). Order the Standing-bar nigiri set. Standing sushi and live tanks in a glammed-up fish market.
• Fuzhou Shizu Pepper Bun — Pepper buns, Raohe Night Market (1). Order the Black pepper pork bun. Clay-oven hujiao bing at the market gate — Michelin street food.

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