TaitungEat Recommendations

Chen-Jia Scallion Pancake and Oden on Section 1, Si-Wei Road in Taitung City is a thirty-year-old sidewalk stall. The menu is built around thick, fluffy scallion pancakes; oden sticks, rice-blood cake and corn from NT$10 each; and free daikon-radish soup on the side. Prices are gentle, flavours are honest and queues are routine. There is no decor to speak of — just an arcade stall — making it a perfect on-the-go fill-up.

Huang-Ji Scallion Pancake beside Taitung's Hai-Bin Park has been flipping dough since 1977 and opens only four hours a day, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. The thin, shatter-crisp pancake is layered with scallions and Thai basil and can be upgraded with an egg, a combination locals rank among Taitung's must-eats. There are no seats — customers take their pancakes to the park pavilions or the seaside — but prices are friendly and queues long.

The Twelve Kitchens buffet at Sheraton Taipei Hotel is seafood-forward, with more than thirty dishes spanning snow crab, horsehair crab, an array of sashimi, nigiri and a Thai-style seafood salad. The kitchen runs a 'no-surcharge menu upgrade' year-round, and during crab season guests can enjoy unlimited double-crab service. It is a top pick for diners who want a wide-ranging buffet with serious seafood credentials.

Xu-Ji (Often jokingly 'Xu-Ji II') is the upscale Japanese buffet flagship of the Xiang-Bin group. Spacious, calm dining is organised around nine themed counters, each modelled on a famous restaurant. Prices for selected sessions were updated in 2026. The spread covers a broad sweep of Japanese cuisine — seafood, sashimi, made-to-order hot dishes — making it a top pick for celebrations, birthdays and anyone chasing Taiwan's most extensive Japanese buffet experience.

Noble Family mini at the Taitung County Government branch is the city's only budget all-you-can-eat steakhouse. For NT$299 guests get a main — beef, pork, chicken or mackerel steak — plus the buffet bar, while a NT$380 pure-buffet option skips the steak. No service charge is added, and the bar runs more than twenty items including salads, fruit, bread, cream soup, fried snacks, pizza and ice cream, refilled constantly. A solid pick for group dinners, class reunions and family meals.

Hua-Qiao Seafood Steam Hotpot at 390 Han-Yang North Road in Taitung City is a bustling local seafood-and-hotpot spot. The signature is a 'live-seafood tower' — fresh shrimp, crab, fish and shellfish are steamed in stacked bamboo trays, then the same ingredients finish in a simmering broth so diners get sweet steamed seafood and a rich, seafood-laced hotpot in one meal. Ordering splits into seafood-tower tiers, a hotpot counter and à la carte sets. Single-layer seafood trays start at NT$350 and higher-end seafood sits around NT$500; opening hours run from 5 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.