Where is your favorite place to grap lunch or dinner that is relatively inexpensive?
I love the guotie (pot stickers) at the place on Da’an Rd. between Ren’ai and Xinyi. 10 guotie for NT$50. It’s also open all day, clean and air conditioned. This is about the only place I will eat guotie.
Also love the sushi place in Tonghua Jie Night market. Very fresh, very cheap.
The Thai restaurant at the Shida night market is pretty good for the price.
Also, the Curria in Shida has pretty good curry for cheap prices, although their prices just went up to something like NT150.
NT$50 for 10 guotie? Seems a little on the high side. They are usually NT$4 each most places.
Big question: Does anyone remember the shop called Shandong Shuijiao Da Wang that used to be along Lin Sen North Road nnear the place they washed taxis before Kang Leh village was razed? Definitely the best shuijiao I have ever eaten in Taipei. When A-bian decided to destroy this neighborhood to put in a park, which I notice Mayor Ma has destroyed in his turn – what is about Taipei mayors that makes them think they are Godzilla – does anybody know where this shuijiao place went, if anywhere?
Lol, I too remember fondly that Shandong Shuijiao place. I would love to know where they’re operating now. I’ve never found a place that makes Shuijiao as good as that place did. Washed down with some “Tai Pi” on a hot summer night, it was one of my Friday night traditions…
McDonalds, because it’s guaranteed to taste the same everywhere in the world …
Actually I do like the Shanghai Tea House at Warner Village, great food IMHO according to my bad taste … not really a friend of local Taiwanese food (which is missing that little something).
There is a place near Cihu. coming from Daxi, before you reach the parking lot at peanut’s tomb, you’ll see a big green/white wooden sign pointing to the right. turn down the road (very narrow- leave the mercedes s class at home) and drive down. You can’t miss it. It’ll be at your right. It’s an art gallery/restaurant. You can sit outside, drink some tea and ear some of the best barbecued lamb chops available in Taiwan.
The toilets are better than the ones at peanut’s place, but not much…
I go through phases, as would be the case with so many new restaurants popping up all the time.
But there are two that the [color=green]mere mention of make my mouth[/color] water (aliteration, babeee!)
If anyone is in the Taichung area, you must go to “Marihuana.” That’s right. You won’t miss it, it has a big Marijuana leaf hanging on the wall, but it is spelled with a H. The food was very soothing and the people there seemed sooooo relaxed.
It is behind the Zhong You department store. Good chicks too. I hope they didn’t put anything illegal in the food. Haaaa
I fell in love with Japanese food here. Hundreds of Japanese restaurants here and i rarely find one that i wouldn’t go back to. My favourite restaurant is Kichi (#8, Lane 19, Ta-An Rd., Sec. 1, Taipei). First time i went there i was amazed to find many of the patrons and staff speaking Japanese. Excellent, excellent sashimi (most flown in from Tokyo). Draught Orion beer. Sit at the bar and watch the man do his work. Not cheap; a grand a head including drinks but that’s probably a third of what you’d pay for similar fare in London.
I like to eat way too much to have only one favorite resaurant. I like each of the following:
Ruth’s Chris… US beef
Cosi o Cosi… thin crust pizza
Jake’s on Heping… breakfast (renamed Juke’s. Supposedly Mexican)
Tandoor… Indian
Taiwanese Restaurant / basement of Howard Plaza
Subway on Jinshan S. Rd. … sandwiches
Airforce Officers’ Club at Fuxing and Jenai… nothern cuisine
Uli’s Diner in Tienmu… German wursts and beer
the restaurant in the bottom of howard hotel is called formosa. it’s pretty good. i’ve been there a few times with relatives who want to take guests out for traditional taiwanese food without wading through a night market. relatively pricey(about nt$250-300 a dish…and the dishes aren’t exactly huge), but good quality and a pretty good selection of tainan-style taiwanese food. the first time i went we had oyster pancakes(uh-a tsen) and it was the best i’ve ever had. of course it cost like 5 times what you’d pay in a night market food stall. anyway, haven’t seen it on the menu since.
Anyone can go into the officer’s club. Actually, there are two different restaurants in there. One is northern cuisine and has tables with benches, the other is more typical mish-mash Chinese fare with round tables and chairs. I like the northern cuisine… nothing fancy, but good food and very inexpensive.
You’re right… it is called the Formosa. And you’re also correct that it has lots of tainan style foods. Pricey… a bit… but everything is pricey compared to stall food. The Formosa is a nice place to take guests and semi-impress them and not go broke doing so.
I went to Tony Diamond’s in Tienmu and was preparing to do a restaruant review of the place. It was so profoundly bad that I had to give up the idea of a review (English papers here don’t publish negative reviews).
You name it, it was wrong – the service was the worst I’d ever been subjected to – wrong food brought from the skimmpy and overpriced menu – dishes all coming at 15 minute intervals – drafty and cold environment – small portions – even waiting to try to pay…you get the drift.
I wouldn’t go there again if it was free.
there are many, but for years I’ve been getting damn good damn cheap sichuan dinners at the “fubin” in the alley behind the McDonalds at roosevelt and hopingb[/b].
living in shipai i’ve been having a lot of meals at the “a-hui” thai restaurant next to the train station and they ain’t getting any worse.
i’ll always head to the basement of the wan-nian dept store when i’m in shimendingb[/b] just for the cold noodles stand.
if i’m near szepingb[/b] street i won’t pass the daoxiaomian joint close to chienguob[/b] n. rd, their tomato soup is the best.
in tienmu the guotie joint on the corner of tienmu west and north roads is always worth a stop.
