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Breakfast trail · Tainan
台南舊城區早餐串吃
Overview
Five small stops between dawn and early afternoon along a short run of streets in West Central District: beef soup, milkfish congee, savory rice pudding, braised pork rice with side plates, and shaved ice to finish. Go on a Wednesday, Friday or Saturday, when every shop is open; most close on Mondays and Yuan Zai Hui also rests on Thursdays. Order small portions or share, or you will not make it to the end.
Opening days and hours change, so check before you set out.
Stop by stop
A Cun dates to 1968 and, per its Michelin listing, is now run by the third generation. It opens at 4:00 a.m. from Wednesday to Sunday (Tuesday is evening only). Three or four cuts of hand-sliced Taiwanese beef are scalded in beef-bone broth and dipped in sweet soy paste with ginger; the stir-fried beef with cabbage is worth adding. It closes early once the meat sells out, so do not dawdle.
About 1.2 km north of Baoan Road. Order the milkfish congee and add the milkfish belly with pork sauce; the queue builds early.
At this stop
A stall in Yongle Market on Guohua Street Section 3 that, per Michelin, sells only wagui and milkfish thick soup, and rests on Tuesdays. The pudding runs dark in the Tainan style; Michelin notes that locals eat half, then add wasabi or mashed garlic.
Opens at 10:00. Order a bowl of braised pork rice, then pick a few small plates and a bowl of meatball soup from the blackboard to get the 飯桌仔 (pn̄g-toh-á) experience. Closed Sunday and Monday, and Saturday is lunch only.
A shaved-ice shop run for three generations and more than fifty years; pick five house-made toppings, with tang yuan the signature. Closed Mondays and Thursdays.
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Keep going
Warm up with a bowl of danzai noodles at Small Park in the late afternoon, then head about 1.5 km north to Garden Night Market for oyster omelet, sausage and stinky tofu. Both are open together only on Thursday to Sunday evenings; on other days try the breakfast trail instead.
4 h 45 min6 stops
Start with a bowl of braised pork rice in Qianjin, wander Yancheng's Milk Tea Street and an old noodle shop, walk past the Pier-2 warehouses, then ride the ferry from Gushan to Cijin for seafood. Best Monday to Saturday, since the Qianjin shop is closed on Sunday.
8 h 30 min6 stops
Begin with gua bao in Xinxing, work through Liuhe Night Market, ride the metro Red Line four stops to Kaohsiung Arena for Ruifeng, and finish with a bowl of braised pork rice on Liwen Road. Ruifeng opens Tuesday and Thursday to Sunday and Chunlan Gua Bao is closed Sunday, so the best nights are Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
5 h 15 min5 stops
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