The Top 81 Places to Eat Near Chef Ah-Hsi's Old Time Restaurant
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A fine dining restaurant in Taichung where the chef grew up eating at his father's hawker stall in Singapore and never quite got over it. Three Michelin stars and a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, yet the animating idea is street food: childhood flavors pulled into a tasting menu format without being dismantled just to prove a point. The kaya toast dessert, served inside a frozen coconut shell, is the kind of thing that makes you stop mid-bite.
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Rank 3. Oretachi No Nikuya
Barbecue
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Rank 4. SHINEYU
Cantonese
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Rank 5. YUENJI
Taiwanese
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Rank 6. Li Xiao Lou
Taiwanese
A low-key Taiwanese home-cooking spot tucked down an alley, where a renovated old property has been fitted out with a Japanese-style wooden counter framing an open kitchen. The menu is short and the portions are small, the kind of place that quietly earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand without making a fuss about it. Stir-fried eel cooked in house-made goose fat is the dish regulars plan around: rich, bouncy, and sweet-sour enough to demand a bowl of rice alongside.
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Rank 7. L'Atelier par Yao
Modern French
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Rank 8. Sur-
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 9. Yùn: La Cuisine
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 10. Don Moo
Noodles
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Rank 11. Ke Kou Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 12. House of Dawn
Artisan Noodles
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Rank 13. Kung Fu Shanghai Fish Ball
Shanghainese
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Rank 14. Fu Juang Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 15. Night School Braised Pork Rice
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Küisine (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Ajisai
Zhejiang
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Rank 18. Shin Yuan (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 19. Fu Din Wang (Central)
Taiwanese
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Rank 20. Shoal Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 21. A Kun Mian
Taiwanese
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Rank 22. Fu Kuei Ting
Noodles
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Rank 23. Chin Chih Yuan (Central)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 24. No Name Noodles
Shanghainese
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Rank 25. Lou's (Nantun)
Taiwanese
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Rank 26. Shanghai Food (Nantun)
Chinese
Pan-fried buns are the whole point here, and the owner spent three years working from memory before he felt they were right. This small dim sum shop in Nantun turns out pork buns with a soupy, fatty-to-lean filling that got there the long way, plus veggie buns packed with bok choy, dried tofu, and mushroom. The steamed dumplings have a chewy, satisfying pull. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place that earns it quietly.
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Rank 27. Moon Pavilion
Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Saka
Taiwanese
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Rank 29. Taichung Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. FIRNS
Franco-Asian French
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Rank 31. Torien Yakitori
Yakitori Japanese
A dinky Japanese garden leads into a yakitori counter where local chickens, prepped fresh each day, go over the grill with nothing but salt so each cut can argue for itself. The chef spent time honing the craft in Japan, and the set menu moves through cuts most people have never thought to order. Counter seats watch the kitchen the whole time, which is half the point. Call ahead if you want chicken sashimi or squab.
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Rank 33. Wen Tao
Taiwanese
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Rank 34. Munchi
Modern Vietnamese
Counter seats facing an open kitchen give Munchi the feel of a wine cellar that accidentally got very good at food. This casual neo-bistro in Taichung reworks Vietnamese flavors through a contemporary lens, with a two-chef team and a sommelier steering the room toward natural wines and cocktails. The Munchi-style pho alongside a glass of something orange is the kind of pairing that makes you reconsider what a Vietnamese restaurant can be.
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Rank 35. enPure
Modern Taiwanese
A garden path leads you in before the food even starts, which sets the tone: this is a tasting menu restaurant in a minimalist room of brick red and grey, where a former interior designer runs the kitchen. The cooking is modern Taiwanese, built around local produce, and the rice cooked in a claypot with tea seed oil from a partner farm is the kind of dish that makes the sourcing worth mentioning. The tea pairing is an easy yes.
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Rank 36. KR Prime Steak
Steakhouse
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Rank 37. Ming Juan Lou
Cantonese
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Rank 38. Peng Cheng Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 39. Forchetta
Taiwanese
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Rank 40. Hibiki Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 41. Yuan
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 42. Fleur de Sel
Contemporary French
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Rank 43. NIKU RYOURI FUKU
Creative Japanese
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Rank 44. Dongyin Fisherman
Seafood
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Rank 45. Hui Chung
Hong Kong Vegetarian
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Rank 46. Sushi Noru
Sushi
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Rank 47. huist
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Orient Dragon
Taiwanese
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Rank 49. Isagi
Japanese
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Rank 50. Le Plein
Taiwanese
Bare concrete and exposed brick share space with warm wood across two floors and a courtyard, which gives Le Plein the look of a loft that took a wrong turn into something more considered. It's a tasting-menu-only restaurant built around Taiwan's seasonal produce, with the number of courses shifting between lunch and dinner. The cold-brewed tea pairings are the quiet argument for skipping wine altogether.
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Rank 51. UNA-VERSE
Dessert Taiwanese
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Rank 52. meatGQ
Steakhouse
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Rank 53. Moment in Beijing
Northern Chinese
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Rank 54. Rong Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 56. Chien Wei Seafood
Taiwanese
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Rank 57. Ji Zai Ten
Vegan Noodles
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Rank 58. Feng Chi Goose
Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Lao Shih Kuan Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 60. Meidz Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 61. Inflorescence
Japanese
Perched on a mountainside nearly 500 meters up, this Zen-inspired Japanese restaurant frames lush hills by day and city lights by night through its immaculate gardens. Inside, a 10-course omakase built on kaiseki traditions unfolds with tea rituals woven between dishes, and the team narrates each course with enough context that it feels like a seminar you didn't want to skip. The kind of meal that earns its altitude.
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Rank 62. Master of Mushroom (Xinshe)
Taiwanese
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Rank 63. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Fried pizza sits on the menu alongside the baked kind, which tells you this Neapolitan pizzeria in Lukang takes its Campanian credentials seriously. The dough is soft and well-leavened, the crust fragrant, and the toppings are chosen with real restraint. A gorgonzola and coppa combination turns out to be the quiet standout. Ranked on 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific, Vesuvio is a long way from Naples and seems entirely unbothered by that fact.
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Rank 65. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 66. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 68. Nung Wei Hsiao Chu
Hakkanese
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Rank 69. Hung Chin
Hakkanese
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Rank 70. Cat House
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 71. Yuan Wei Duck Noodle
Taiwanese
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Rank 72. Jiu Tian Fu
Taiwanese
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Rank 73. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 74. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 75. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese
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Rank 76. Yi Hsuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 77. Ying Wang Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 78. Tang Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 80. No.10 Nanmen
Noodles
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Rank 81. Shih Fang Hsiao Ching
Taiwanese