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Taipei restaurant – Emperor Foods: the best pork chop in town!
This is it, look no further, I’ve found what you’ve been looking for! I’m guessing you’ve seen this place around, there are a few branches dotted around Taipei. The name is 君悅 排骨 (jun1yue4pai2gu3). The menu isn’t extensive, but it doesn’t need to be because what it does well, it really does do well. What […]
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Taipei restaurant – 小六食堂 Little Six Restaurant
Like sushi? Well, Taiwan is a pretty good place for it, with a plethora of different places offering sashimi, rolls or nigiri. This place is tucked behind a few back streets not too far from XingTian Temple Station 捷運行天宮站. The outside is not too dissimilar to many other sushi places, but the line at the […]
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Taipei breakfast – 高三孝 Breakfast Sandwich
There are many places to get your fill of in Taipei, or New Taipei. But this, this one has me returning again and again. It is behind NanMen Market 南門市場 on Roosevelt Road 羅斯福路, so it is primely placed. It does get quite busy here in the mornings, so be prepared to wait. If you […]
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Taipei restaurant – 杭州小籠湯包 Hang Zhou Steamed Soup Dumplings
So, we’ve probably all been to DingTaiFung 鼎泰豐 once, twice, maybe even more if you’re a big fan of Soup Dumplings. But, for a change, we decided to check out this place. It comes highly recommended as the ‘next best thing’ to 鼎泰豐, so I was excited to check it out. It didn’t disappoint: It […]
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Taipei restaurant – ChangJi Street Pigs Blood Soup 天然紅豆腐豬血湯
This restaurant is a firm favourite of mine to get my fill of pig’s blood soup (豬血湯 zhu1xie3tang1) and gravy rice (滷肉飯 lu3rou4fan4). When I say ‘gravy’, its not like those Northerners drinking it by the cup full, its a Taiwanese ‘gravy’ that is basically stewed salty meats. If you haven’t had it, you need […]
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Taipei market – XiHu Market 西湖市場
XiHu Market (西湖市場) is in the North of Taipei, and the market is connected to XiHu MRT station, inbetween JiaNan Road Station and NeiHu Station on the Brown Line. This place is perfectly convenient for a stroll around Northern Taipei, and maybe over to Miramar/The NeiHu Wheel for the afternoon. Inside XiHu market, you can […]
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New Taipei City breakfast – April Trip Breakfast
Down a back alley in DanShui, this may have just be a good place to go and get a delicious sandwich, a nice coffee and a comfortable atmosphere to awake your day. The decor inside is quirky and fun, mostly comprising of American brand stickers, fun musical instruments, book cases full of books and magazines, […]
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Taipei restaurant – TianMu’s PuLi Restaurant 埔里小吃
This place was one hell of a find! This restaurant is dedicated to the cuisine made famous in PuLi Town, NanTou county, in the centre of Taiwan. PuLi is known for its amazing vegetables and also their sugar cane. PuLi has a large buddhist community, so there is a huge abundance of vegetarian restaurants for […]