The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Monsoon
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Rank 1. Monsoon
Hakkanese Vegetarian
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Rank 2. Shou Wu EAT
Hakkanese
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Rank 3. 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 4. Piccola Enoteca
Italian
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Rank 5. Shan Guo Tang
Vegetarian Taiwanese
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Rank 6. Pho Xŭ
Vietnamese Noodles
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Rank 7. Firoo
Wood-fired Taiwanese
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Rank 8. Happy Hwa
Chinese
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Rank 9. SABI
Modern Japanese
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Rank 10. Tang Tsao Yuan
Noodles
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Rank 11. HOYA
Grilled Chinese
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Rank 12. Chuan Fu
Wagyu Japanese
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Rank 14. Home Dishes
Cantonese
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Rank 16. He Jih Hsiang (Minzu Road)
Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Garden.V
Zhejiang
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Rank 19. Cat House
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 20. Yuan Wei Duck Noodle
Taiwanese
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Rank 22. Jiu Tian Fu
Taiwanese
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Rank 23. Hung Chin
Hakkanese
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Rank 24. Jun
Japanese
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Rank 25. Yeh Shu
Taiwanese
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Rank 26. Mo Chien Tan
Taiwanese
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Rank 27. Yummy
Taiwanese
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Rank 29. Chang Chang Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. TAIVII
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 31. Kao Jai
Thai
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Rank 32. Ho Chu Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. Nung Wei Hsiao Chu
Hakkanese
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Rank 34. No.10 Nanmen
Noodles
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Rank 35. Lao Chen Chia
Chinese
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Rank 38. Shih Fang Hsiao Ching
Taiwanese
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Rank 39. Tang Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 41. Yi Hsuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 42. Ying Wang Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 43. Yi Ge Rice Vermicelli
Noodles
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Rank 44. Wan Wan
Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Hai Kou Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 49. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese
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Rank 50. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 51. Ang Gu
Noodles
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Rank 52. Noon Turnip Cake
Hakkanese
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Rank 53. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 54. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 55. Abba Hakka
Hakkanese
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Rank 56. Circum-
Chinese
The name comes from the Latin for "around," a nod to how Chinese food travels and changes as it crosses borders. This fine dining room in the Regent Hotel follows that migration, tracing emigrant foodways through history and reassembling them with French technique. The dishes land somewhere between a childhood memory and a chef's thesis, which sounds more cerebral than it eats. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 57. Na Ka Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 58. Xun Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 59. Jhen Pin
Taiwanese
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Rank 60. Shang Hao
Chinese
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Rank 61. Shou Wu
Hakkanese
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Rank 62. Da One Gone Lamb
Chinese
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Rank 63. JIA YEN
Zhejiang
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Rank 64. Hai Shan
Taiwanese
Queues form early and don't thin out much at this Banqiao spot, a no-frills Taiwanese small-eats counter with nostalgic decor that reads less "curated" and more "has always looked this way." Braised pork rice and a clear spareribs-and-wax-gourd soup are the draws, the kind of quietly satisfying classics regulars order without glancing at the menu. Set menus let you mix and match sides, which keeps things moving at a pace the line outside will appreciate.
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Rank 67. Gino Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan-style gas oven sits on full display as you walk in, which sets expectations immediately at this casual pizza shop in Xinzhuang. The room is high-ceilinged and easygoing, with a small blue room tucked toward the back for when you want to pretend you're somewhere quieter. The menu covers white and red pizzas, Italian-style pastas, and desserts, with a short Italian beer list to wash it down. It ranked 45th on 50 Top Pizza Asia-Pacific.
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Rank 68. Le Palais
Cantonese
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Rank 69. Happy Garden
Taiwanese
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Rank 70. Eika
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 71. Silks House
Taipei
Cantonese fine dining on the third floor of the Regent Taipei, with a Michelin star and a spot on Asia's 50 Best list. The chef came up through Hong Kong's Lei Garden and built a career across the region, arriving here with a deep command of the classical repertoire. Roasted meats, double-boiled soups, wok-fried dishes, and dim sum all get the full treatment, with Taiwan's own produce quietly threaded through.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best #64 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #15 · Elite 15 Asia
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Rank 72. Su Lai Chuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 73. NOBUO
Japanese
A Japanese façade gives way to a Scandinavian-spare interior where the room itself signals what's coming: nothing extraneous. This two-Michelin-star tasting counter builds a single menu around seafood and seasonal local vegetables, with modern technique used to pull flavors forward rather than show off. The team walks you through each dish, which sounds fussy until it genuinely helps. Clean, quiet, and layered in ways that take a moment to catch up with you.
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Rank 74. A-ba's Taro Ball
Taiwanese
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Rank 75. The Guest House
Sichuan
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Rank 76. GARDEN h
Hakka
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Rank 77. Yonghe Chia Hsiang Soy Milk
Taiwanese
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Rank 78. Wang's Broth
Chinese
The scent of braised pork hits you before you find the stall number. What started as a night market cart has been around forever and grown into a proper sit-down spot in Huaxi Street, bright and clean inside. The draw is braised pork rice, the sauce glossy and dark, sweet-savory and sticky in the best sense. Stewed cabbage cuts through it neatly. The Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd knows what they're doing ordering nothing else.
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Rank 79. Yuan Fang Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 80. Unnamed Clay Oven Roll
Chinese
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Rank 82. San Tung
Chinese
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Rank 83. Tsai Chia Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 84. Yi Jia Zi
Tainan Chinese
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Rank 85. Mountain and Sea House
Taiwanese
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Rank 86. SÒNG JHAO
Taiwanese
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Rank 87. Impromptu by Paul Lee
Modern Taiwanese
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Rank 89. Bitan Chiao Tou Goose
Chinese
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Rank 90. Bei Ya Duck Thick Soup
Chinese
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Rank 91. Sushi Ryu
Sushi
Solid wood countertops imported from Canada anchor a room that reads as quietly, deliberately Japanese. This is an omakase-only sushi counter, the kind where the chef controls the entire arc of the meal. Fish comes in from Japan three times a week, and the rice is seasoned with three different vinegars, which sounds fussy until you taste it. The place holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 92. Molino de Urdániz
Contemporary Spanish
A stone wall and a wine cellar anchor the room at this two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant inside Hotel MVSA, where a Spanish kitchen transplanted to Taipei works through seafood with modern technique and a painter's sense of color. The cooking takes its cues from Spanish landscapes, and the plating looks like it. Dress well and clear your evening.
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Rank 94. Sushi Kajin
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 95. A
Contemporary French
White walls, flower arrangements, and tasting menus that read like gallery notes: this two-Michelin-starred contemporary French restaurant inside a Taipei department store commits fully to the art-world vibe. The chef builds on classic French sauces with quiet Asian inflections, and the plating is the kind that makes people reach for their phones before their forks. A mushroom cappuccino course has its own name, which tells you something about the level of seriousness on offer.
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Rank 96. Ming Fu
Taiwanese
Home-style Taiwanese cooking served in the kind of generous portions that assume you brought people. Ming Fu holds a Michelin star, which surprises no one who has had the stuffed chicken, a whole free-range bird filled with glutinous rice, red dates, and goji berries, then simmered for the better part of a day into a golden, deeply umami broth. The menu also reaches for ingredients like mullet tripe and fresh fish maw that most restaurants don't bother with.
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Rank 98. Mudan
Tempura Japanese
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Rank 99. Lai Kang Shan
Chinese
The lamb soup here comes five ways, each cut slow-cooked with Chinese angelica until the amber broth runs clean and faintly sweet. This is an old-school Chinese soup shop that's been around forever and recently moved into a brighter two-storey space. The braised pork sauce, simmered low from pork skin and fat, goes over both the rice and the noodles, making the choice between them harder than it should be. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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