Yongkang Street Food District

Yongkang Street is Taipei's most famous food street — a tree-lined lane in the Da'an district where Din Tai Fung (the xiao long bao dumpling restaurant that started here in 1972 and has since expanded to a global chain with Michelin stars) sits alongside independent noodle shops, mango shaved ice parlours, and the kind of small, family-run restaurants that make Taipei one of the great eating cities.

Smoothie House (Sì Bǐng Mùguā Niú Nǎi) serves the mango shaved ice that has become Yongkang Street's second most famous dish (after Din Tai Fung's dumplings), and the surrounding lanes contain beef noodle soup shops (niúròu miàn, Taipei's signature dish), scallion pancake stalls, and the Taiwanese comfort food that international food media has been discovering over the past decade. The street is walkable, compact, and eating your way from one end to the other is the best concentrated food experience in Taipei.