I’m meeting a friend for breakfast and she’ll be at the Westin. Is there any nice breakfast place nearby? I thought a traditional Taiwanese breakfast of youtiao with shaobing if possible.
We’ll probably end up at the Palace Museum, so someplace near there would be fine too.
If all else fails I suppose it’s Din Tai Fung though it’s only the 2 of us.
A nice place for a traditional Taiwanese breakfast is a contradiction of terms.
Staying at the Westin but opting for a traditional Taiwanese breakfast? Doesn’t the Westin toss in a breakfast buffet for free? Well, you could hit those 24-hour porridge places on Fushing S, or hit the stalls near just about any park…
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A nice place for a traditional Taiwanese breakfast is a contradiction of terms.[/quote]
Hehe. May not be nice, but you’ll have a nice breakfast. I’ve passed by one on Changchun rd just off Fuxing, east side. Never ate there.
You can’t walk down a street without finding a breakfast shop.
They need a Denny’s in Taiwan.
They need alot of things here. Denny’s wouldn’t work. They need an International House of Pancakes
I have noticed that it is the small things that make me home sick, not family etc… For example when I read Denny’s and IHOP about made me cry… I havent had Waffle House in such a long time… That is what we need!! 
Maoman: Nice as in food. Shaobing places are notoriously spartan.
Grasshopper: True, but most of them are sandwich places, aren’t they.
Getting back to the original question. There’s a lot fo bad traditional breakfast places actually, but I like the shaobing, fan tuan, cai bao kindof brekkie every now and then, and there are a few good ones. The one right in the middle of the Shida nightmarket, is pretty good (and open in the evening too). And yeah, I’m talking about the traditional places, not the Mei er Mei, sandwhich and danbing places.
Brian
Slurpcheese: Yeah, the Westin does throw breakfast in for free. They also went and told my friend that she could bring a guest, so we ended up eating breakfast there instead - after which the Westin charged her for my breakfast.
You’d think that they meant ‘bring a guest for free’ wouldn’t you.
What’s wrong with the To-jian places on Fushing South Rd.? Young-he To-jian, for example? I live in Argentina now, and would kill for a some of their zhou/shi-fan (water rice) for brekkie! Or a sao-bing tan, or better yet, sao-bin tan jya yo tyao (with some la-jiao). Great stuff!
But, what I miss the most for Taiwanese breakfast has to be, as bu-lai-en mentioned, fan-twan! (sticky rice balls) I lived in Taiwan for 12 years and only got into fan-twan in my last year there. If you don’t already eat them - seek them out, and give them a try. They are awesome! Of all the great food in Taiwan, I miss fan-twan and a good liang-mien the most (vegetarian perspective).
Fan-twan can be found all over the city, so you need not head over to Young-he, or to Fushing Nan Lu to find one. I should think if you poked around the lanes near the Westin, you’d hit pay dirt pretty easily.
There is a Taiwanese community here in Buenos Aires, by the way, and I often make my way over to the Barrio Chino for dinner. There’s even a pretty good Veggie resto run by a family from Panchiao - but, alas, no one does breakfast.
Mwalimu: Nothing. We originally planned to hit a doujiang type place, but my friend changed her mind.