The Top 92 Restaurants Near Lao Shih Kuan Noodles
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Rank 1. Lao Shih Kuan Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 2. Feng Chi Goose
Taiwanese
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Rank 3. YUENJI
Taiwanese
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Rank 4. Saka
Taiwanese
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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 6. SHINEYU
Cantonese
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Rank 7. Hui Chung
Hong Kong Vegetarian
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Rank 8. 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 9. Sur-
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 10. L'Atelier par Yao
Modern French
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Rank 11. Hibiki Seafood
Seafood Taiwanese
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Rank 12. House of Dawn
Artisan Noodles
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Rank 14. Ke Kou Beef Noodles
Noodles
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Rank 15. Lou's (Nantun)
Taiwanese
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Rank 16. Fleur de Sel
Contemporary French
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Rank 17. 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 18. Night School Braised Pork Rice
Taiwanese
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Rank 19. Kung Fu Shanghai Fish Ball
Shanghainese
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Rank 20. Forchetta
Taiwanese
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Rank 21. Don Moo
Noodles
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Rank 22. Fu Juang Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 23. Ajisai
Zhejiang
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Rank 24. Küisine (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 25. Yùn: La Cuisine
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 26. Shin Yuan (West)
Taiwanese
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Rank 27. Fu Din Wang (Central)
Taiwanese
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Rank 28. Fu Kuei Ting
Noodles
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Rank 29. A Kun Mian
Taiwanese
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Rank 30. No Name Noodles
Shanghainese
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Rank 31. Chin Chih Yuan (Central)
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 32. Moon Pavilion
Taiwanese
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Rank 33. Taichung Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 34. Orient Dragon
Taiwanese
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Rank 35. FIRNS
Franco-Asian French
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Rank 36. Peng Cheng Tang
Taiwanese
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Rank 38. 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 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. Yuan
contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 41. Ming Juan Lou
Cantonese
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Rank 42. Shoal Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 43. Niou Jia Juang
Hakkanese
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Rank 44. UNA-VERSE
Dessert Taiwanese
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Rank 45. NIKU RYOURI FUKU
Creative Japanese
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Rank 46. huist
Taiwanese
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Rank 47. Wen Tao
Taiwanese
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Rank 48. 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 49. Isagi
Japanese
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Rank 50. 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 51. Chien Wei Seafood
Taiwanese
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Rank 52. Moment in Beijing
Northern Chinese
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Rank 53. Ji Zai Ten
Vegan Noodles
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Rank 54. Rong Cuisine
Taiwanese
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Rank 56. 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 57. Master of Mushroom (Xinshe)
Taiwanese
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Rank 58. Geng Ye Yue Mei
Hakkanese
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Rank 60. Bebu
Hakkanese
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Rank 61. Nung Wei Hsiao Chu
Hakkanese
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Rank 62. Cat House
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 63. Yuan Wei Duck Noodle
Taiwanese
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Rank 64. Jiu Tian Fu
Taiwanese
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Rank 66. Hung Chin
Hakkanese
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Rank 67. Garden.V
Zhejiang
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Rank 68. He Jih Hsiang (Minzu Road)
Taiwanese
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Rank 69. Lao Tou Pai
Hakkanese
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Rank 70. Ko Chia Pen Se
Hakkanese
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Rank 71. Mud Brick House
Hakkanese
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Rank 72. Yi Hsuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 73. Ying Wang Meatball
Taiwanese
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Rank 74. Tang Ming
Taiwanese
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Rank 75. Hai Kou Guabao
Taiwanese
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Rank 77. No.10 Nanmen
Noodles
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Rank 78. Shih Fang Hsiao Ching
Taiwanese
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Rank 81. Lao Chen Chia
Chinese
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Rank 82. TAIVII
Contemporary Taiwanese
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Rank 83. Kao Jai
Thai
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Rank 84. Yeh Shu
Taiwanese
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Rank 86. Yummy
Taiwanese
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Rank 87. Mo Chien Tan
Taiwanese
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Rank 88. Ho Chu Yuan
Taiwanese
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Rank 89. Chang Chang Kitchen
Taiwanese
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Rank 90. Mu Fan Bloom
Noodles
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Rank 91. Jun
Japanese
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