Chinese Breakfast Redux

Posted in Breakfast, Chinese on March 20th, 2007 by mei| | .

“The World’s Soy Milk King” (世界豆漿大王） in Yonghe, Taipei County was where it all started. Despite warnings from my neighbor at the time that the foremost institution of traditional Chinese breakfast has been reduced to only a name, I decided to schelp over to the other side of the river to try it out.

I concur. I found even my most beloved rice balls underwhelming. The patrons at the Yonghe Soy Milk establishment seemed to be a mishmash of people living in the neighborhood, a handful of foreign toursits and curious Taipei-ren such as yours truly. Even for people watching purposes, the crowd is rather unspectacular.

Where to go for proper Chinese b-fast fare in Taipei then? Most neighborhood Yonghe Soy Milk lookalikes would do (don’t forget to bring your own pork floss!) but when I get foreign friends visiting I would take them to this one breakfast place on Fushing South Raod around the intersection of Ruian Street. I don’t believe there’s a name for the place but you can’t miss it. It’s the first store along the strip of Chinese breakfast (make that brunch and midnight snack) places and it’s the only one that sits pretty even in a dilapidated tenement with no a/c. I can’t even recall how many nights I’ve ended having breakfast there. Ah. Good times.

The breakfast place (along with the others on the strip 清粥街）are opened 24 hours 365 days a year. Supposedly. I’ve seen some places closed at times but this notwithstanding it makes for a great place to go for a chowfest anytime of the day and the downtown location makes it the place to check out the after hours crowds when Denny’s are far and few in between.

No-Name Chinese Breakfast Joint (not to be confused with another eatery in the vicinity actually called “No Name” but that’s another topic for another post)
Intersection of Fushing South Section 2
and Ruian Street
復興南路二段跟瑞安街

The Original World’s Soy Milk King
No. 284, Yonghe Road Section 2
Yonghe, Taipei County
02 89262233
世界豆將大王
台北縣永和市永和路二段284號

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    on April 25th, 2007 at 12:08 am

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