The Top 74 Restaurants 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. SHINEYU
Cantonese
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Rank 4. YUENJI
Taiwanese
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Rank 5. 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 6. L'Atelier par Yao
Modern French
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Rank 7. Sur-
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 8. Yùn: La Cuisine
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 9. Don Moo
Noodles
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Rank 10. Ke Kou Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 11. House of Dawn
Artisan Noodles
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Rank 12. Kung Fu Shanghai Fish Ball
Shanghainese
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Rank 13. Fu Juang Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 14. Night School Braised Pork Rice
Taiwanese
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Rank 15. Küisine (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Ajisai
Zhejiang
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Rank 17. Shin Yuan (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 18. Fu Din Wang (Central)
Taiwanese
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Rank 19. Shoal Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 20. A Kun Mian
Taiwanese
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Rank 21. Fu Kuei Ting
Noodles
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Rank 22. Chin Chih Yuan (Central)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 23. No Name Noodles
Shanghainese
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Rank 24. Lou's (Nantun)
Taiwanese
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Rank 25. 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 26. Moon Pavilion
Taiwanese
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Rank 27. Saka
Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Taichung Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 29. FIRNS
Franco-Asian French
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Rank 30. 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 32. Wen Tao
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. 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 34. 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 35. Ming Juan Lou
Cantonese
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Rank 36. Peng Cheng Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 37. Forchetta
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. Hibiki Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 39. Yuan
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 40. Fleur de Sel
Contemporary French
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Rank 41. NIKU RYOURI FUKU
Creative Japanese
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Rank 42. Hui Chung
Hong Kong Vegetarian
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Rank 43. huist
Taiwanese
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Rank 44. Orient Dragon
Taiwanese
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Rank 45. Isagi
Japanese
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Rank 46. 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 47. UNA-VERSE
Dessert Taiwanese
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Rank 48. Moment in Beijing
Northern Chinese
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Rank 49. Rong Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 51. Chien Wei Seafood
Taiwanese
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Rank 52. Ji Zai Ten
Vegan Noodles
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Rank 53. Feng Chi Goose
Taiwanese
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Rank 54. Lao Shih Kuan Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 55. 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 56. Master of Mushroom (Xinshe)
Taiwanese
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Rank 57. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Rank 58. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 59. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 61. Nung Wei Hsiao Chu
Hakkanese
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Rank 62. Hung Chin
Hakkanese
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Rank 63. Cat House
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 64. Yuan Wei Duck Noodle
Taiwanese
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Rank 65. Jiu Tian Fu
Taiwanese
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Rank 66. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 67. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 68. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese
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Rank 69. Yi Hsuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 70. Ying Wang Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 71. Tang Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 73. No.10 Nanmen
Noodles
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Rank 74. Shih Fang Hsiao Ching
Taiwanese