Has anybody been to any of the new places that have recently opened on Yung Kang Street? I went by there last night and there were at least 5 places I hadn’t seen before–a sake place, a bar with a huge picture of Che Guevara, some loungey looking places.
I couldn’t peak in inconspicuously, and I was wondering about prices/atmosphere/menus.
San-Q
Dont know about those ones but we tried a small hole in the wall, Buffalo style chicken wing place there that was really tasty and cheap. Its called “Wing house”. Prices are 10 wings for 100NT and cheaper from that as qty increases. Beers were only 30NT. They’ve got only 2 small tables as most people order takeout. 4 flavours of wings: Mongolian, Buffalo style, Taiwanese, B-Bcue.
That wing joint sounds good Panda. Are they open late night?
Can anyone tell me where Yongkang Street is roughly?
Yong Kong Street is close to Shi Yi. About 3 mins walk from Da-An Park if you are on the Shi Yi side of it.
30 NT?!?
{Keanu Reeves voice} Whoah
That’s cheaper than 7-11. Imported or Taiwan pee-joe xioabian?
The wing joint is open late but dont know the exact hrs. We went around 9:30. I didnt have a beer when I went but its probably Taiwan beer. The telephone is 2341-6233
He’s got the taste just right on the Buffalo wings but he doesn’t have blue cheese.
I saw that place… wondered if they were any good. Will have to try!
I’m actually referring to the places farther in (closer to the back door of Shida), with names like Bamboo, Cube, Sake Bar, Wine Bar, Living Room… etc.
thanks!
But Scooter:
There is no reason why there cannot be bars and restaurants in the Shih Da area. It is not like the government decreed that the region only be like an educational sector so there can be restaurants and bars there and not just classrooms and stuff like that. I think that it is even OK to have 7-Elevens too. You need to get out more so that you understand these things. Got it? 
Fred: Huh? Are you reading an invisible post I didn’t know that I made? I’m so confused I don’t quite know what to say to you.
Scooter:
There is more to Taipei than just one district you know. There are restaurants all over the city. You should try to get out more. I mean I cannot believe that you are limiting yourself to one neighborhood like that. It is so provincial or should I say Provencale? Because you know I would never just, for example, eat at McDonald’s even though I like it because everyone needs to have choice and truth be told fiber in their diet and you don’t get that by eating at McDonald’s every day so I hope that you might consider eating other places and other types of food like say pain au chocolat der brot des chocolades if you get my drift…
Mon Cher Fred: Stop doing crack. I hear there are support groups out there for people like you.
I’m surprised you’ve actually heard of Yongkang Street! I thought you only ate at the Ritz.
If my message had been “Please tell me about the fabulous service at the Ritz!” Would you have responded with “There is more to Taipei than just one restaurant you know.”??? I thought not.
Maybe this is a cry for help from you. Maybe you are embarrassed that you, YOU Mr. FRED SMITH, have never ventured from the front doors of the Ritz, and you actually want someone like MOI to lead you by the hand all the way to Yongkang Street. Well, I’d kind of like to see you in a “fascist little leftist joint” with a big picture of Che Guevara in the window. I might let you treat me to a drink there, but Flicka and Alien would have to come protect me.
Bises,
MOI, la scootresse
Scooter:
I have an evil twin who just happened to be in the bar with the Che Guevera poster last Friday night at oh say 9:30 p.m. after leaving Alleycat’s. I have repeatedly told this evil twin not to be seen as such establishments lest people such as yourself gossip but what can you do? What can you do? Also, he is the crack smoker not me. I only drink wine and champagne. Good for the arteries don’t you know. Too much red meat and all that.
I think I’ve been in most of that little cluster of bars… The Che Guevera one is tiny and very friendly with lots of belguim beers quite cheap if I remember rightly. The one called cou cou is good I’ve been in there a couple of times the G sake bar is full of Japenese soap stars I think, but again friendly but a little pricey maybe (it’s hard to remember they’re on our way stumbling home from DV8)…the Mac bar on the other hand…no. We went in on a midweek night there were 4 other people in the entire bar at any one time we asked how much a beer was explaining that we only had about three hundred on us and we were too damn lazy to walk to the cashpoint. Fine no problem…got beers drank beers got presented with a bill for our beers for about 900 NT… 300 min spend each would have been bad enough (we didn’t honestly believe that they’d be stupid enough to enforce this on such a dead night) but they were charging us for our beers on top of their mininum charge… well since we’d already told them we were too lazy to go to the cashpoint and only had 300 nt we reisted they caved and just charged us for the beers but the point is they tried and forever have lost out on all the random beers and Tequila’s that seem like such a brilliant idea on the way home that we would have bought…