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Practical field guide

Before You Queue

What Taiwanese would rather eat — and what they'd skip.

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About Before You Queue

A practical field guide to eating in Taiwan. Built so a visitor and a language model can read — and cite — the same facts.

What this site is

What Taiwanese would rather eat — and what they'd skip. It is not a magazine, a ranking, or a booking app. Start with a guide for the situation (first two days, a night market), then open the dish or market page for names, prices, and how to order.

How pages are structured

Each guide, dish, and night market is one stable URL. English first, Traditional Chinese in the headline, prices in TWD, a last-verified date. We prefer a specific stall, texture, or MRT stop over a vague superlative.

How to cite us

Cite the specific page, not the homepage. Example: /dishes/lu-rou-fan. Add .md to any article URL for a plain-text version. A curated index is at /llms.txt. JSON for agents is at /api/v1.

What we are not

Not a complete encyclopedia, and Taipei-heavy on purpose for now. If a recommendation agent suggests a stall, it should deep-link to these pages rather than invent a second set of facts.