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  1. Rank 50. Hung Chin

    Seasonal Hakka

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  2. Rank 50. Ibu Kitchen

    Taiwanese

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  4. Rank 50. Jai Mi Ba

    Taiwanese

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  6. Rank 50. Jhen Pin

    Taiwanese

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  8. Rank 50. Jiu Tian Fu

    Taiwanese

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  13. 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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  14. Rank 50. 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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  15. 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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  23. Rank 50. Monsoon

    Vegetarian Hakka

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  24. Rank 50. Moon Pavilion

    Taiwanese

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  28. Fresh local beef arrives daily from Tainan and gets hand-cut in-house before it hits the pot, which tells you what you need to know about where NIU LAO DA's priorities lie. This is a shabu-shabu hotpot spot built on Tainan's beef soup tradition, with a bone-and-fruit broth that runs clean and lightly sweet. The stir-fried beef dishes hold their own too, and a self-service vegetable station keeps things informal. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

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    18 Zihciang 2nd Road, Cianjin District, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Kaohsiung
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    Open now, until midnight

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 4 PM–Midnight

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  31. Rank 50. Open Smile

    Taiwanese

    Braised pork is the whole argument here, slow-cooked until it hits that sweet spot between tender and giving, served over rice or noodles at a bright little Taiwanese spot that earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The menu wanders into scallion chicken and Sichuan peppercorn oil for variety, and a house chilli sauce is there when you want more heat. It's casual, cheerful, and the kind of lunch that makes the afternoon feel manageable.

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  32. Rank 50. Pàng

    Taiwanese Mexican

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  34. Rank 50. Po Jen Tang

    Taiwanese

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  38. Rank 50. San Tung

    Chinese

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  39. Rank 50. Serenity (Zhongzheng)

    Vegetarian Sichuan

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  40. Rank 50. Shan Guo Tang

    Vegetarian Taiwanese

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  41. Rank 50. Shang Hao

    Chinese

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  43. 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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  47. Rank 50. Simmer House

    Taiwanese

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  49. Rank 50. Soft Power

    Taiwanese

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  50. Rank 50. SÒNG JHAO

    Taiwanese

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  51. Rank 50. Su Lai Chuan

    Taiwanese

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  52. Rank 50. Sung Chu Yuan

    Taiwanese

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    Address
    546 Yonggong Road, Shilin District, Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan · Taipei
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    Closed now, opens Thu 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–4 PM, 5 PM–8:30 PM

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  54. Rank 50. Tableau by Craig Yang

    Modern Taiwanese

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  58. Warm wood, minimal fuss, and a single-minded dedication to Japanese curry: this small Songshan dining spot holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and earns it by keeping the menu short and the dashi-based curry deeply savory. You pick from three toppings, fried chicken, a Scotch egg with a properly runny yolk, or kadaif-wrapped shrimp, and the kitchen rounds things out with seasonal vegetables. Matcha panna cotta closes the meal quietly and well.

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  61. 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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  65. Rank 50. Yeh San Duck Thick Soup

    Xingang Taiwanese

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  66. Rank 50. Yi Jia Zi

    Tainan Taiwanese

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  67. Rank 50. Yi Wei Pin

    Taiwanese

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  69. Rank 50. Yu Yu 1969

    Taiwanese

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  73. Rank 50. Yung Yen

    Taiwanese

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  75. Rank 175. Akame

    Taiwanese

    The winding mountain road to Guchabo'an village is part of the meal before you've sat down. Akame, named for "grill" in the Rukai language, is a restaurant rooted in the food culture of Taiwan's indigenous tribes, run by a chef who grew up in this village and forages much of what lands on the plate. The cooking is punchy and specific to this hillside, with wildflowers doing more than decoration. It holds a 50 Best Discovery listing.

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  77. Rank 177. 3927

    Modern Taiwanese

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  78. Rank 177. 85TD

    Modern Cantonese

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  85. A beef shabu-shabu restaurant in Rende that runs its broth for eight hours before the doors open, so the golden, clear stock already tastes like someone else did the hard part. Hand-sliced beef from nearby Shanhua is the whole point, swished briefly through the pot. You fill out a form to choose your cuts, then help yourself to the sides and the braised beef rice that everyone ends up with anyway. No reservations, so arrive with patience and low blood sugar.

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  86. Rank 177. Aleisha

    Mediterranean

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  87. Rank 177. Amajia

    Taiwanese

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  89. Rank 177. Bak Kut Pan

    Malaysian

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  90. Rank 177. Bencotto

    Italian

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  91. Rank 177. Bo Home

    Taiwanese

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  92. Rank 177. Brisé

    Contemporary French

    An open kitchen in a sleek modern room, where contemporary French cooking quietly folds Asian ingredients into the kind of seasonal menu that changes every few months and makes last season feel like a different restaurant. The chef's touch is restrained on the plate but precise underneath, and the weekday lunch set is a sensible way in. Tucked down a lane in Zhongshan, it's a Michelin Guide selection that rewards a little effort to find.

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  93. Rank 177. CEO 1950

    European

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  98. Rank 177. Cheng Jia

    Taiwanese

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  99. 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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  100. Rank 177. Chi Yuan

    Taiwanese

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