The Top 70 Places to Eat Near Isagi
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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. Isagi
Japanese
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Rank 3. 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 4. Oretachi No Nikuya
Barbecue
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Rank 5. Ajisai
Zhejiang
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Rank 6. Fu Juang Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 7. Küisine (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 8. Shin Yuan (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 9. Night School Braised Pork Rice
Taiwanese
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Rank 10. Kung Fu Shanghai Fish Ball
Shanghainese
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Rank 11. huist
Taiwanese
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Rank 12. Moment in Beijing
Northern Chinese
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Rank 13. Dongyin Fisherman
Seafood
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Rank 14. NIKU RYOURI FUKU
Creative Japanese
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Rank 15. Yuan
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 16. UNA-VERSE
Dessert Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Fu Din Wang (Central)
Taiwanese
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Rank 18. Ming Juan Lou
Cantonese
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Rank 19. Sur-
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 20. 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 21. Fu Kuei Ting
Noodles
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Rank 22. Don Moo
Noodles
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Rank 23. 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 24. Sushi Noru
Sushi
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Rank 26. No Name Noodles
Shanghainese
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Rank 27. Ke Kou Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 28. FIRNS
Franco-Asian French
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Rank 29. SHINEYU
Cantonese
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Rank 30. House of Dawn
Artisan Noodles
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Rank 31. Ji Zai Ten
Vegan Noodles
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Rank 32. Chien Wei Seafood
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. Chin Chih Yuan (Central)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 34. A Kun Mian
Taiwanese
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Rank 35. 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 36. Orient Dragon
Taiwanese
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Rank 37. Moon Pavilion
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. Taichung Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 39. L'Atelier par Yao
Modern French
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Rank 40. YUENJI
Taiwanese
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Rank 41. Lou's (Nantun)
Taiwanese
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Rank 42. Rong Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 44. 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 45. Forchetta
Taiwanese
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Rank 46. KR Prime Steak
Steakhouse
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Rank 47. Shoal Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Peng Cheng Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 49. Fleur de Sel
Contemporary French
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Rank 50. meatGQ
Steakhouse
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Rank 51. 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 52. Hibiki Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 53. Wen Tao
Taiwanese
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Rank 55. Hui Chung
Hong Kong Vegetarian
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Rank 56. Yùn: La Cuisine
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 57. Saka
Taiwanese
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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. 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 61. Meidz Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 62. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Rank 63. Master of Mushroom (Xinshe)
Taiwanese
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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. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 67. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 68. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 69. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 70. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese