Kaohsiung — Places to eat
Harbour sunsets, warehouse streets, T-shirts in January.
- Ya Rou Zhen (duck rice) — Sliced duck over braised-pork rice: Yancheng's queue-worthy bowl
- Gang Yuan Beef Noodles — Yancheng beef noodles with a foreign-tourist queue; try the dry noodles and trotters
- Cianjin Braised Pork Rice — Braised pork rice for breakfast since 1959, topped with a fried duck egg
- Bei Gang Tsai Rice Tube (Yancheng) — Sticky rice steamed in metal tubs, flipped out and paired with egg custard soup
- Chun Lan Gua Bao — Braised pork belly and peanut sugar in a fluffy bun, worth the queue
- Xing Long Ju (Taiwanese breakfast) — A 60-year-old pre-dawn breakfast shop: juicy tangbao and soy milk
- A-Zhong Rice Noodle Soup (milkfish) — A signless 60-year milkfish shop that cooks the fish head to spine
- Ruifeng Night Market — A night market packed more with locals than tourists
- Wan San (Cijin seafood stir-fry) — Taiwanese seafood stir-fries at around NT$100 a plate, on the island
- Liang Chia Pig Knuckle — Herb-braised trotters in amber sauce, served over rice for 30+ years
- Kaohsiung Milk King (papaya milk) — A papaya-milk veteran said to date from 1966: thick, no water added
- Hai Zhi Bing (giant shaved ice) — Fruit shaved ice from double to 20x size, served in basin-sized bowls
- Hua Da Milk Tea (Yancheng flagship) — The Kaohsiung-born milk tea brand's home shop, queue included
- Shuang Fei Milk Tea — Black tea milk on Sinle Street, where pearls cost nothing extra
- Lee Family Tangyuan Soup (sweet soups & ice) — Just four sweets, with tangyuan hand-rolled daily
- Hung Chi Rice Shop — Braised pork rice with a soft egg, in a pig-themed shop
- Chao Ming (Taiwanese home cooking) — 60-year-old home-style place famed for pork belly with garlic sprouts
- Simmer House — Chinese stewed-soup sets in a converted old staff dormitory
- Hsiu Ming Pig Heart Glass Noodle — Pig-heart glass noodles and egg-topped meat rice in old Qishan
- Cheng Tsung Duck Rice — Hand-cut duck leg over rice, gone early in Zuoying
- Hai Coffee — KONO pour-over in a 1950s shipping-agent house
- Akau Coffee — House-roasted coffee under the trees at Neiwei
- Kau Kee Sik Tong Shui — Hong Kong-style sweet soups, sesame and almond