The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Hoshinoya Guguan
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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 2. L'Atelier par Yao
Modern French
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Rank 3. Sur-
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 4. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Rank 5. Oretachi No Nikuya
Barbecue
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Rank 6. SHINEYU
Cantonese
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Rank 7. Peng Cheng Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 8. Master of Mushroom (Xinshe)
Taiwanese
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Rank 9. 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 10. YUENJI
Taiwanese
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Rank 11. A Kun Mian
Taiwanese
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Rank 12. Moon Pavilion
Taiwanese
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Rank 13. Chin Chih Yuan (Central)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 14. Taichung Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 15. No Name Noodles
Shanghainese
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Rank 16. Fu Kuei Ting
Noodles
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Rank 17. Fu Din Wang (Central)
Taiwanese
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Rank 18. Don Moo
Noodles
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Rank 19. Shin Yuan (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 20. Küisine (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 21. Ajisai
Zhejiang
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Rank 22. Fu Juang Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 23. Kung Fu Shanghai Fish Ball
Shanghainese
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Rank 24. Wen Tao
Taiwanese
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Rank 25. Yùn: La Cuisine
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 26. 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 27. Night School Braised Pork Rice
Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Ke Kou Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 30. Rong Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 31. House of Dawn
Artisan Noodles
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Rank 32. Shoal Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. 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 35. Ming Juan Lou
Cantonese
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Rank 36. Dongyin Fisherman
Seafood
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Rank 37. huist
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. NIKU RYOURI FUKU
Creative Japanese
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Rank 39. 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 40. 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 41. Moment in Beijing
Northern Chinese
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Rank 42. 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 43. Isagi
Japanese
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Rank 44. Ji Zai Ten
Vegan Noodles
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Rank 45. 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 46. Lou's (Nantun)
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. FIRNS
Franco-Asian French
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Rank 49. Yuan
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 50. Saka
Taiwanese
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Rank 51. Sushi Noru
Sushi
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Rank 52. UNA-VERSE
Dessert Taiwanese
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Rank 53. KR Prime Steak
Steakhouse
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Rank 54. Orient Dragon
Taiwanese
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Rank 55. Forchetta
Taiwanese
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Rank 56. Chien Wei Seafood
Taiwanese
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Rank 57. Hibiki Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 58. Fleur de Sel
Contemporary French
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Rank 59. meatGQ
Steakhouse
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Rank 60. Hui Chung
Hong Kong Vegetarian
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Rank 61. Feng Chi Goose
Taiwanese
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Rank 62. Lao Shih Kuan Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 63. Meidz Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 64. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 65. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 66. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 68. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 69. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese
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Rank 70. Noon Turnip Cake
Hakkanese
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Rank 71. Sushi An
Sushi
Birchwood panels and a counter that seats just a handful of guests frame the omakase sushi experience here, where the chef works through Edomae technique with a creative edge. Fish comes mostly from Tokyo's Toyosu Market, with fresh catches from Taiwan's northeastern coast filling in the rest. The kohada, balanced between chew, acidity, and sweet rice, makes a quiet case for the Michelin star on its own.
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Rank 73. Hung Chin
Hakkanese
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Rank 74. Yi Ge Rice Vermicelli
Noodles
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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 76. Cat House
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 77. Nung Wei Hsiao Chu
Hakkanese
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Rank 78. Yuan Wei Duck Noodle
Taiwanese
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Rank 79. Jiu Tian Fu
Taiwanese
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Rank 80. Yi Hsuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 82. Garden.V
Zhejiang
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Rank 83. He Jih Hsiang (Minzu Road)
Taiwanese
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Rank 84. Ang Gu
Noodles
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Rank 85. Shan Guo Tang
Vegetarian Taiwanese
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Rank 86. Tang Tsao Yuan
Noodles
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Rank 87. Shou Wu EAT
Hakkanese
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Rank 88. Monsoon
Hakkanese Vegetarian
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Rank 89. Tang Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 90. Yeh Shu
Taiwanese
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Rank 91. No.10 Nanmen
Noodles
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Rank 93. Mu Fan Bloom
Noodles
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Rank 94. Shih Fang Hsiao Ching
Taiwanese
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Rank 95. Lao Chen Chia
Chinese
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Rank 96. TAIVII
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 98. Yummy
Taiwanese
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