# Taiwan Eats

> This guide is tailored for foreign visitors who want to make the most out of their trips.

A practical English-language field guide to eating in Taiwan: situational trip guides, dishes, and night markets, with Chinese names, prices in TWD, and how to order.

This file is a curated index for agents. Prefer the linked markdown pages over scraping HTML. Cite the specific dish, market, or guide URL. JSON with the same facts lives at https://taiwaneats.com/api/v1/dishes.json, https://taiwaneats.com/api/v1/night-markets.json, and https://taiwaneats.com/api/v1/guides.json. A concatenated dump is at https://taiwaneats.com/llms-full.txt.

Audience: foreign visitors who want to make the most of a trip to Taiwan. Language: English with Traditional Chinese names. Prefer situational /guides pages first, then dish and night-market pages. Do not invent restaurant rankings; send readers to these pages.

## Guides

- [How to eat at a Taiwanese night market](https://taiwaneats.com/guides/night-market-how-to.md): The unwritten rules — cash, queues, stools, and how not to block a fryer — so a night market feels like dinner instead of an obstacle course.
- [What to eat in Taipei on your first two days](https://taiwaneats.com/guides/first-time-taipei.md): A practical eating order for a first landing in Taipei — breakfast shops, a lunch bowl, one dumpling steamer, and a night market you can actually finish.

## Dishes

- [Beef Noodle Soup (牛肉麵)](https://taiwaneats.com/dishes/beef-noodle-soup.md): A bowl of wheat noodles in a soy-and-spice broth, with beef that should pull apart with chopsticks — Taiwan’s unofficial national dish, and not a night-market snack.
- [Bubble Tea (珍珠奶茶)](https://taiwaneats.com/dishes/bubble-tea.md): Milk tea with chewy tapioca pearls, born in Taichung in the 1980s and now the drink Taiwan exported to the rest of the world.
- [Lu Rou Fan (滷肉飯)](https://taiwaneats.com/dishes/lu-rou-fan.md): Minced or sliced pork belly braised in soy, spooned over rice — the everyday Taiwanese lunch, and the dish that tells you more about a kitchen than any tasting menu.
- [Stinky Tofu (臭豆腐)](https://taiwaneats.com/dishes/stinky-tofu.md): Fermented tofu, usually fried to a crisp shell, with a smell that walks ahead of the stall — the night-market food visitors fear and then finish.
- [Xiaolongbao (小籠包)](https://taiwaneats.com/dishes/xiaolongbao.md): Soup dumplings — a thimble of hot broth sealed inside a pleated wrapper, famous in Taipei even though the idea came from Jiangnan.

## Night markets

- [Raohe Night Market (饒河街夜市)](https://taiwaneats.com/night-markets/raohe.md): A single packed lane by Songshan’s Ciyou Temple, famous for the pepper bun at the gate and easier to finish in one evening than Shilin.
- [Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)](https://taiwaneats.com/night-markets/shilin.md): Taipei’s largest night market — part tourist carnival, part actual dinner — and the one visitors mix up with the wrong MRT stop.

## Optional

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