Eat Recommendations
Late-night ramen, market kushikatsu, century-old shops — eating is the fastest way to travel.
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![[Illustrative] Dong Family Three Brothers Meatballs](/api/images/entities/nantou-tw-2b749a34329b/hero.webp)
Illustrative Dong Jia San Xiong Di Ba Wan is a Shui Li, Nantou institution with more than seventy years of history, famous for freshly handmade ba wan dumplings paired with complimentary pork bone broth. The small shop has only about twenty four seats and frequently sees queues, with weekday hours roughly 2 pm to 6 pm and holiday closures often triggered by early sellouts. The dumpling skin is translucent, glossy, and springy, the filling juicy, and the house chili and numbing spicy sauces can also be dipped directly in the bone broth. Beloved by locals and tourists alike, it is a Shui Li must try snack.
![[Illustrative] Yami Buffet](/api/images/entities/kinmen-tw-3f8e393c9ff0/hero.webp)
Illustrative Ya-Mi Buffet in Kinmen County's JinCheng Township is a Chinese-style buffet. The doors open at 11 AM, with the spread rotating through a wide range of dishes - the affordable crispy fried chicken steak is a particular highlight. The dining room is kept clean, prices are wallet-friendly and the food quality has earned positive feedback online with an average rating of about 3.7 stars. A great pick for travellers who want to sample many Chinese dishes in one sitting without spending much.
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![[Illustrative] Komatsu Don Don](/api/images/entities/changhua-tw-6a76825f3ba9/hero.webp)
Illustrative →Komatsu Don Don
Xiao-Song-Don-Don is a Japanese quick-service chain across Changhua County that focuses on affordable rice bowls, grilled-meat donburi, grilled-meat yakisoba and hot-pot noodles. The dining rooms are deliberately Japanese in style, with free-flow iced tea and miso soup. A la carte bowls start around NT$80-110 and portions are generous on meat. Weekday hours are 11:30-13:30 and 17:00-22:00; weekends 11:30-14:00 and 17:00-22:00, with some branches adding a 11:30-14:00 lunch window. Expect a queue — the prices keep students and office workers coming back.
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![[Illustrative] Alley Oyster Fritters](/api/images/entities/changhua-tw-ad5956b82f4b/hero.webp)
Illustrative →Alley Oyster Fritters
Xiang-Zi-Nei Oyster Fritters is an old-school snack shop near Wang-Gong Fishing Harbor in Fang-Yuan Township, Changhua County, founded around 1948 and standing for over seventy years. Tucked down an alley, it perpetually queues and serves five kinds of freshly-fried fritters — oyster, squid, pork, oyster-and-pork, and a mixed platter — all at a flat NT$30 each. The owner hand-picks fresh oysters every morning and fries them to a crisp-tender finish that keeps locals and tourists coming back. An unmissable stop on any Wang-Gong day trip.
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![[Illustrative] Changhua Papaya Milk King](/api/images/entities/changhua-tw-295a83971073/hero.webp)
Illustrative →Changhua Papaya Milk King
Chang-Hua Mu-Gua Niu-Nai Da-Wang (Papaya Milk King) is a sixty-plus-year-old drink shop in the centre of Changhua City, famous for freshly-blended papaya milk alongside a wide range of juices and shaved-ice desserts. The store sits near the Confucius Temple and the train station on Zhong-Hua Road, with a clean interior and milkshakes that never feel cloying. The classic recipe uses fresh milk, papaya, crushed ice and just a touch of sugar — sweet but still carrying the slight bitter undertone of real papaya. Variations include red-bean milk ice, peanut milk ice, and assorted shaved ice with pudding. Summer queues are long; it is one of Changhua's signature thirst-quenchers.
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![[Illustrative] Mingfengzhen Ox Tongue Pastry](/api/images/entities/changhua-tw-d5fbdc92a7d1/hero.webp)
Illustrative →Mingfengzhen Ox Tongue Pastry
Ming-Feng-Zhen (Tu-Zi-Liao) Ox-Tongue Pastry is a sought-after souvenir bakery in Lukang, Changhua County, hailed online as the town's best ox-tongue pastry. The pastry itself is thick, chewy and crisp, with a deeply satisfying bite. Because word-of-mouth is so strong, customers must take a number ticket and there is a strict five-pack-per-person limit; tickets run out quickly, a clear signal of both popularity and scarcity. Equally good as a local snack or a hand-carried gift, it is one of Lukang's signature must-buys.
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![[Illustrative] Shanxing Bowl Rice Cake](/api/images/entities/changhua-tw-c28672a55425/hero.webp)
Illustrative →Shanxing Bowl Rice Cake
Shan-Hang Wan-Guei is a long-running rice-pudding snack shop in Changhua City, founded in 1972 and now over fifty years old. Each bowl is built on hand-milled rice batter that comes out soft and springy, loaded with large pieces of pork and toppings such as shiitake, dried scallop and salted egg yolk, finished with the shop's house garlic sauce. The flavour is unmistakably old-school and the price friendly, which keeps the queue long. Google sits at around 4.2 stars across more than a thousand reviews.
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![[Illustrative] Shuigen Dried Meat](/api/images/entities/changhua-tw-5a60ace401ad/hero.webp)
Illustrative →Shuigen Dried Meat
Shui-Gen Dried Meat is a third-generation dried-meat and souvenir shop in Changhua County that still follows old-school recipes and refuses to add any of six common preservatives, flavourings or nitrites. The line-up includes round slices, strips, thin sheets, paper-thin crisps and more, plus dried fruit and imported candy. Recent years have brought vacuum travel boxes (12-packs) and individually-wrapped slices that are perfect for travel, sports or gifting. During Lunar New Year a wide range of gift boxes is rolled out, with online ordering and pickup at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi B2 counter in Taichung also available.
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