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The best Chinese food in Taiwan, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, The 50, and the Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Le Palais comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Taipei.

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Silks House and aMaze hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. Rank 1. Le Palais

    Cantonese


  2. 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.


  3. Rank 3. aMaze

    Creative Zhejiang

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  4. Rank 3. Chuan Ya

    Sichuan

    The awards


  5. Rank 3. 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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  6. Rank 3. GEN

    Cantonese

    The camel-and-neutral dining room reads calmer than most Kaohsiung evenings, which suits the cooking: a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant where the Hong Kong chef, with decades in Hong Kong and Beijing kitchens, pulls classic technique in a quietly modern direction. Set menus run at a few price tiers, or there's à la carte. The crispy young pigeon, sourced from southern Taiwan and basted to a lacquered crackle, is the detail people mention on the way out.

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  7. Rank 3. Hābu

    Medicinal Chinese

    A one-Michelin-star restaurant in Kaohsiung where the kitchen builds flavor from broths and house-made sauces rather than butter or salt, leaning on Chinese medicinal herbs and global spices to do the heavy lifting. The kaiseki-influenced tasting menu shifts with the seasons, and the tea-based non-alcoholic pairings are the move. It's a quiet, considered room, the kind where subtlety reads as confidence rather than timidity.

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  8. Rank 3. SHINEYU

    Cantonese

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  11. Rank 3. Ya Ge

    Cantonese


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  13. Rank 12. Ajisai

    Zhejiang

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  14. Rank 12. Bebu

    Hakka Noodle Shop

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  17. Rank 12. Cat House

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  18. Rank 12. Ching Jiao

    Jiangzhe

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  22. The original location of a chain that now circles the globe, this Taipei dumpling institution is where xiaolongbao became a religion. Chefs in white baseball caps work behind glass in full view, folding each pouch with a precision that borders on performance art. The tick-box menu covers wontons, sticky rice parcels, and more. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the queue outside most hours tells you the rest.


  23. Rank 12. Dongmen Rice Noodle Soup

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  25. Rank 12. Garden.V

    Zhejiang

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  30. Rank 12. Hung Chin

    Seasonal Hakka

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  32. Rank 12. Ke Kou Beef Noodles

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  33. 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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  35. The braised pork knuckle here has been pulling in Kaohsiung locals for decades, lacquered in a spiced, herb-dark sauce that leaves a long peppery finish. It's a no-frills rice and noodle shop where the pork bone broth is quietly serious business, and even the pan-fried egg has regulars debating its merits. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which feels about right for a place this stubbornly focused on doing a few things well.

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  38. Rank 12. Monsoon

    Vegetarian Hakka

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  40. Rank 12. No Name Lamb Soup

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  41. Rank 12. No Name Noodles

    Shanghainese Noodle Shop

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  44. Rank 12. San Tung

    Chinese

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  45. Rank 12. Serenity (Zhongzheng)

    Vegetarian Sichuan

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  46. Rank 12. Shang Hao

    Chinese

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  47. 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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  50. Rank 12. Tang Tsao Yuan

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  54. Rank 12. Xie Shopkeeper

    Chinese Seafood

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  57. Rank 57. 85TD

    Modern Cantonese

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  58. The wooden tables are covered in what looks like a kindergarten art project, and the room is packed before you've found a seat. This is an old-school Taiwanese rice shop built around one thing: smoked duck over steamed rice with a sauce the family isn't explaining. The duck leg rice sells out daily, which means arriving with a plan. A bowl of duck offal soup alongside is the move regulars already know.

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  60. Rank 57. Chuan Mu Yuan

    Cantonese

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  61. Rank 57. Chun Yu Garden

    Creative Chinese

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  62. Rank 57. Eastern Castle Noodles

    Cantonese Noodle Shop

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  64. Rank 57. Gi Yuan

    Sichuan

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  65. Rank 57. Happy Hwa

    Chinese

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  66. Rank 57. Home Dishes

    Cantonese

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  67. Rank 57. HOYA

    Grilled Chinese

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  68. Rank 57. Hui Chung

    Vegetarian Cantonese Noodle Shop

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  69. Rank 57. JIA YEN

    Zhejiang

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  70. Rank 57. Joy Vegetarian Restaurant

    Vegetarian Chinese

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  71. Rank 57. JUNTO

    Cantonese

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  72. Rank 57. Jyu Dim

    Cantonese

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  77. Rank 57. Lin Ju

    Cantonese

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  81. Rank 57. Ming Juan Lou

    Cantonese

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  82. Rank 57. Moment in Beijing

    Northern Chinese

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  84. Rank 57. Muji Beef Noodles

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  85. Rank 57. PEI FULL

    Zhejiang

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  86. Rank 57. Rong Ju

    Cantonese

    Faux red brick overhead gives the dining room the feel of a modern Chinese home, warm without being heavy. This is a Cantonese set-menu restaurant inside the Capella hotel, where the kitchen layers contemporary touches onto the classics, truffle finding its way into the dim sum, sakura ebi into the stir-fried cabbage. The tea selection is curated to pair with the meal, which is the kind of detail that separates a thoughtful kitchen from a merely competent one.

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  89. Rank 57. Sansan Bistro

    Neo Sichuan

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  90. Miaoli Hakkanese-style glutinous rice balls are the whole point here, stuffed with pork and vegetables and made from year-old round-grain sticky rice for that particular chewy pull. It's a casual counter spot that's been around forever, with a second-generation owner still running the same recipe his mother built the place on. The scallion oil chicken drumsticks have their own following. Check social media before you go, because the hours are their own puzzle.

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  91. Rank 57. Shou Wu

    Hakka

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  93. Rank 57. The Dragon

    Cantonese

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  95. Smoke from the cooking pits reaches you before the menu does. This semi-open-air restaurant sits on a mountainside outside the city, framed by green hills, and the kitchen's centerpiece is lamb slow-cooked for a full day in rice wine and a rotating blend of Chinese herbs, tuned warmer in winter and cooler in summer. The broth is dark and medicinal in the best way. Wild greens and game meats round things out, and the savory rice runs weekends only.

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  98. Rank 57. Xiantaosu

    Vegetarian Chinese

    Rattan pendant lights and deep red walls give this cosy vegetarian restaurant in Zuoying a warmth that matches the cooking, which leans on grilling and fermentation to pull real depth from vegetables. The menu is carefully labeled for vegan and other dietary needs, so the table can sort itself out without fuss. A plant-based meal that takes technique seriously, in a room that doesn't feel like a compromise.

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