Shin Yeh Japanese Buffet 欣葉日本料理 is a popular restaurant chain in Taiwan that offers a wide variety of Japanese cuisine in a buffet format. They have several locations throughout Taiwan, including Taipei, Taoyuan, and Kaohsiung.
Ningxia Night Market 寧夏夜市 located in Taipei, Taiwan has so many tasty food stalls and places to shop! It was a fun place to visit, and really made me wish I had a bigger stomach so I could eat even more things than I did (which was a lot!).
I was going to a super exciting first dinner in Taiwan on this trip, and it was exciting for two reasons – 1) I heard this Tan Zuo Ma Li 碳佐麻里 restaurant has delicious BBQ, and 2) I was going to meet my first GRAND niece ever!
My first full day in Taiwan and my sister brought me to a nearby cafe for brunch called A Little More Cafe (多一點咖啡館). Pretty much every Taiwanese cafe is so incredibly adorable, including this one, and I super enjoyed the food!
After 30+ hours of travel, I finally arrived in Taiwan. I hadn’t been back in 11 years, the longest time for me as I used to go back pretty much every year! When I was little I used to go back multiple times a year with my mom as she used to have many art …
Chef Teng is a well known restaurant chain in Taiwan. Like any other chains though it started with one restaurant. I learned that the background of Chef Teng is that he studied some French cuisine in Japan a while back and incorporated some French cuisine in to Taiwanese food, which I found interesting.
I’ve spoken of Bada Forest in Pingtung, Taiwan before in a previous post. Well, I got to visit it again a second time. This time we had the chance to enjoy some tea in a forest of Mahogany trees.
Duck blood is eaten in some European and Asian countries. For example, there’s the Czernina from Poland, and there’s Duck blood and vermicelli soup from China. In Taiwan, it is usually made in to a tofu shape and is basically cubes of clotted duck blood. (The redness of the soup is just Spicy Chili Sauce and NOT the …
I know you are curious about what American or Western food is like in Taiwan… but before I jump in to all the yummy food, let me give you some info in regards to this Art District because it’s pretty interesting:
If this stuff was at food courts at the same price as Taiwan (like $8 US dollars) I would eat there ALL THE TIME. There was hibachi right there in the food court! (By the way, Interesting fact: What we call “Hibachi” here is actually called Teppanyaki in Japanese, and Hibachi means something else.)