No barkberry with rat meat pate??? That’s my favorite.
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No rat, but this has roach
For Bagels, I like 飽貝 bo’bagel - 貝果專賣店
+886 2 8786 2086
https://maps.app.goo.gl/tB1HESqBejQyZSgy6?g_st=ic
they open early, have a selection of cream cheeses etc…
Costco for so-so bagels i take home and freeze!
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Do they still do them?
I went to the banqiao store yesterday and didnt see any sign of bagels.
I know the store in zhong shan elementary school is better.
If they don’t have them im probably going to get a costco card just for bagels.
I can’t help you with that anymore. I am in a place where I can walk down to the corner and get an amazing bagel right now 
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I thought I recommended this place already … anyway, Double O’s Bagels Cafe has good bagels in a rather obscure corner of Danshui, behind Aletheia University. Big and welcome range of bagel sandwiches available: today I had a Philly cheesesteak. They also sell different types of store-made cream cheese.
Not exactly cheap: the bagel sandwich was $450 (other flavours are much cheaper, and this did have a very generous pile of meat!); a bag of four everything bagels (yes, with poppyseed!) were $340; the very big container of sesame-bacon cream cheese was $350. Plus a range of good cheesecakes and other desserts, and the usual range of coffees. Take-out only unless you’re willing to sit on one of the benches they have for people waiting; the nearby campus probably has nice places to sit outside.
Open 10am-4pm, closed Mondays. When I was there in May I had to wait a long time. Today no wait. Apparently they got weirdly screwed by someone informing Google they had permanently closed, which is what I saw on Google Maps for a while, which is definitely why I hadn’t gone there since May, and is perhaps why I didn’t recommend them before.
EDIT: Cash only! And like a bunch of mid-range restaurants, they’re at that price point where it’d be pretty easy to want to buy more than the cash you’ve got in your wallet.
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Looks awesome but the price is WTF.
If you’re buying a bag of bagels, the prices are somewhat higher than places like Good Cho’s, but not that much higher, and these are the most North American-ish bagels I’ve had in Taiwan in a long while. Far pricier than Costco, but I’ve gone off the Costco bagels, mainly because my preferred cheese flavour disappeared a while back.
It definitely feels odd seeing downtown-Taipei restaurant prices for a take-out place in the boonies of Danshui, and spending around $1400 to walk out with a sandwich, a bag of bagels, a piece of cheesecake, and a container of cream cheese … yeah, it was a lot.
These days it also seems like there’s getting to be an increasingly big price gap between the merely affordable (Bafang, Subway, random lunchbox places) and the mid-range non-Taiwanese food that I’d usually prefer to be eating.
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I mean they look great but Jesus christ over 300 for a bagel? I just feel offended by that price. Thats the price of a pizza!
Whats the justification ? I feel like foriegn food has its own price tag regardless of whether its Taiwanese run (and the flavours still miss the mark)
The 300 is for a bagel sandwich, not just a bagel. And the two meat-based ones I’ve had have been VERY generous with the amounts of meat–maybe more generous than any of the different barbecue places I’ve been to around town?
Pricy, yes, absolutely. Insanely overpriced, eh, for western food in Taiwan these days, not particularly. I had a quick look online at Toasteria’s prices, and those are only a little cheaper and, from my memory at least, not as good. The somewhat nearby Twentytwo Sandwiches (Google maps link) has offerings that are somewhat cheaper but also smaller. I assume there are more comparable places, but all the other sandwich places I can currently recall have closed!
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The “affordable” places like Bafang etc are selling factory made (i.e. industrial) products which are then heated or cooked and served on site. People making things from scratch like the few remaining excellent northern Chinese shaobing places seem to make it work by owning the property on which their shop is located (thereby leading to prices like NT$17-28 for their excellent products). The jump up into the NT$300 range sounds like Daan District located foreigner operated foreigner food pricing at a shop located on a property that is rented and not owned. I’d be amazed if a bagel place with no seating in that part of Danshui can survive at that price point, not matter how excellent their product is . . .
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Yeah, my aim is to enjoy it while it lasts, despite the expense. I suppose I can also lie to myself about how I’m saving money by not taking the MRT in and out of Taipei!
I’m curious how they wound up there. It’s such a weird location. Campuses often get an interesting selection of restaurants, but not at that price point!
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It does look really good, maybe more like traditional sandwich ingredients than bagel. Curious about the everything bagel and how that happened.
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If you’re in the Danshui area, I strongly recommend checking it out, although sometimes there can apparently be quite a wait (maybe not now; Google falsely saying they were closed lost of them a lot of business).
Coming from elsewhere? Eh, it’s a big trek. And while I like bagel sandwiches, they’re still just bagel sandwiches.
She did say the everything bagels sometimes have poppy seeds, sometimes not, depending on what’s being allowed into the country.
Bafang has more or less the same price point as any other dumpling shop. The dumplings are made in the shop you can watch the ayis making them infront of you usually. The skins are pre made but most dumpling shops are like this.
And shao brings are basically just dough and a filling. Not expensive or complicated. They also dont need a restaurant, its take out food. They need a rusty barrel to cook them in and some kind of stall to stand in front of.
There are plenty of independent affordable ‘ping jia’ restaurants in Taiwan serving dumplings, noodles, fried rice etc.. Its one of the great things about it here.