Breakfast in Taiwan is an unmissable food experience. Taiwanese cities are dotted by restaurants specializing in traditional breakfast dishes, sometimes opening as early as 3am in the morning (and a few even open 24h). I had my breakfast experience on a Sunday morning in a popular restaurant in Daan district near Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall.
The visit
I found a Taiwanese diner serving breakfast dishes near the exit of Sun Yat-Sen Memorial station (2 and 3). It is indicated in English as Jiang Yellow Beef Noodle Shop but the signs are in Chinese. It is correctly indicated on Google Maps.
As the name suggests, it is a noodle shop, but until 11am they have a breakfast menu. They have a menu with English translations, so ordering was pretty easy.
The kitchen was pretty busy as they were about to start to serve noodles.
My first dish was the warm soybean milk. It was better than I thought.
Then I had one of the shop’s specialties: a sesame cake rolled around fried bread and a scallion egg omelette. I am a big fan of the fried bread (someone calls it Chinese donuts). All together it was a monster dish, very filling as you can imagine.
At this point my breakfast could have already come to an end, but I also tried their rice roll. This was the version with pork floss and sweet sauce. They had on the menu also a vegetarian version that may be better.
As a side dish I had their radish cake, which was ok.
The check
I ended up paying 194 NTD (or 6.30 USD). By the way, by mistake I ordered two radish cakes (one was more than enough), so the total could have been even lower (one cake was 38 NTD).
I did not like all the food equally (the three-in-one was my favorite dish), but it was a super-filling breakfast. I could not have lunch later on (a pity, as there was a Saboten branch just around the corner).
I cannot judge whether this was a good or a just average Taiwanese breakfast, but I liked the fact that they had an English menu and the ordering process was painless.
Where in Taipei:
No. 1, Lane 240, Guangfu South Road, Da’an District.
In Chinese: 106台北市大安區光復南路240巷1號.