People don’t say it when it doesn’t work. Especially in Mainland big city, politely asking someone to yield is useless. But they might say it while they charge ahead elbows out
Yeah, nah, that’s a whole other kettle of pangolins.
When you’re absolutely stuck, just shout out 嘿，讓一下！ as if you were about to give birth. Problem solved, no elbows required! 
In HK mgoi jeje used to work, not sure if it still does… 
Or the plot devised in a famous Taiwan crosstalk bit about trying to get on a refugee boat to Taiwan in 1949 could be useful.
Just yell “燙喔! 燙喔! 借光借光! 船上人叫了大火鍋 、燙到不負責。大火鍋來囉!”
Don’t know to type this in pinyin and my Mandarin instructor taught me to use the Taiwanese phrase/word which sounds like “pie-say”, works perfectly.
I think that is Taiwanese. Oh nevermind you already said it is Taiwanese.
DING DING DING.
… except this doesn’t really work in Taiwan even when you are on a bicycle.
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Yes is Taiwanese and if you’re wanting to use a phrase that works as well as excuse me does in the States, try pie-say. A crowd of shoppers at Costco will part like the Red sea.
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