
They say that Taiwan has the best sushi you can find outside of Japan, and while we only really had a chance to try this out once (sushi, unremarkably, is quite expensive everywhere you go), it was definitely one of the best sushi experiences we’ve ever had. Addiction Aquatic Development上引水產 is a fish market ‘concept’ […]

We decided we’d waited too long to go try out some xiao long bao, and prompted by the Time Out London scandal, we headed to Hangzhou Xiao Long Bao 杭州小籠湯包. Din Tai Fung may have mass queues and a Michelin star in their Hong Kong branch, but Hangzhou has a wonderful atmosphere of familiarity that the […]

Re chao is Chinese for fried food. And while yes, it seems unlikely to claim that out of all the Taiwanese food that is fried, there is a particular kind of fried food within all that fried goodness that is a different kind of fried, but lo and behold, there is. 33 Re Chao can […]

Probably one of the most expensive dinners we had, but certainly one of the best tasting! James Kitchen 大隱酒食 serves traditional Taiwanese home cooking. It is one of those Lonely Planet favourites, which means it’s overrun with tourists, but if you can overlook this in favour of delicious food then this is the spot for you. For approx. […]

Lamb fried rice was one of those incredible things we discovered and were hooked immediately. Obviously, we’ve had fried rice before, but nothing like the Taiwanese grease covered massive boxes that was never stingy on the meat, egg or vegetables. Our favourite fried rice place was near exit M8 of Taipei Main Station. It’s a […]