Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine 欣葉台菜

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Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine is an authentic Taiwanese banquet-style fine dining restaurant ​in Taipei. This restaurant has also been featured in Taiwan's Michelin Guide for multiple years in a row. Here you can enjoy quality made traditional Taiwanese dishes with immaculate service. If you are looking to enjoy the best that Taiwanese cuisine has to offer, you should definitely give this restaurant a try. 

Planning your trip to Taipei?

Here are some top travel tips for you:

• Book a discount meal voucher to Shin Ye Taiwanese Cuisine on KKday here
• Best places to stay: Yuanshan Grand Hotel or Fu Chang Hotel
• How to get there: Taiwan High Speed Railway and Inter-City Bus
• Book tours and activities in Taipei on Klook
• Stay connected with a local SIM
• Rent a car to explore distant sights

Background:
From the company website: "Shin Yeh Taiwanese Cuisine got its start in 1977 in Taipei on ShuangCheng Street and was the founding brand of the restaurant group. At that time,  Taiwanese food was not generally considered as banquet food. For the most part it was sold from streetside stores only as small dishes.  If you wanted Taiwanese banquet style, you would go to north Taipei, to Bei Tou, or you could get a full meal under a tarp by the side of the road.   
 
The natural terrain of Taiwan, being a mountainous island, provides food ingredients that are incredibly flavorful, juicy and fresh.  Shin Yeh features the natural flavors as it composes masterpiece delicacies.   When local people taste what they grew up eating, their childhood memories spring to life.  
 
The company founder invited two specialists to bring authenticity: the dessert specialist Master Guan Mao Yin and Bei Tou restaurant Master Chef Chen Wei Nan.  For the restaurants, they developed numerous Taiwan style delicacies, now universally praised. In addition to small, cold side-dishes,  specialty rice porridges and many home-style flavors from the street transformed into restaurant dishes, there are now Shin Yeh signature must-taste dishes such as Fried Pork Liver, Traditional Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs, Braised River Eel, and after-dinner Almond Tofu, Almond Tea, Glutinous Rice and other classic Taiwanese dishes.
 
Using traditional authentic taste as its foundation, Shin Yeh continues to innovate, keeping in step with the times.  Over the past 40 years Shin Yeh has grown alongside the people of Taiwan and relentlessly exerted itself in Taiwanese cuisine.  It has become not only what overseas Chinese miss deeply, but also the preferred restaurant for our foreign friends visiting Taiwan."
《MICHELIN Guide Taipei 2024,2023,2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 Selected Restaurant
Website:
https://www.shinyeh.com.tw/content/en/brand/About.aspx?BrandId=1

Price:
About 100 - 1000 NT per dish. 

You can book meal vouchers for a discount on KKday here. The meal voucher saves you about 20% off and you do not have to pay an extra service fee!

Hours:
11:30 AM to 9:30 PM


Taipei Food Related Tours:
You can eat your way through Taipei through such tours and activities as Taiwanese Breakfast Cooking Class in Taipei, Taiwanese Gourmet Cooking Class in Taipei​, or Xiao Long Bao, Chicken vermicelli with mushroom and sesame oil, Tofu strips salad, Bubble milk tea. Taiwan Traditional Delicacies Cooking Class and more on TripAdvisor here. 

Activities in Taipei:
You can also look for more activities in Taipei such as Rock Climbing, Surfing, Speedboat Surfing, Diving, Snorkeling, Cooking Class, Glamping, Motorcycling, and more on Klook here or KKday here. 

Where to stay:
You can book a room at the Taipei Sheraton Grand Hotel on Agoda here or Booking.com here. 
Looking for a hotel? We recommend booking through Agoda here , which provides the best quality selection of accommodation in Taiwan.
Find out where to stay in our Taiwan hotels guide or search for the best hotel deals in Taiwan here.

How to get there:
By car/scooter: The restaurant is right on Zhongxiao Road in front of the Shandao Temple station. There is paid parking at the hotel or nearby. Looking for scooter rental in Taipei? You can search on Klook here or KKday here to search for options. You can also check out our scooter rental guide here. 
If you are looking for car rentals, you can also search Klook here or  KKday here. You can also check out our car rental guide here.  
By MRT: The restaurant is within five minute walking distance of Shandao Temple MRT station. You can purchase a discount easy card to use on the MRT from Klook here or KKday here. ​You can also book an MRT travel pass on Klook here. 
By Bicycle: Cycling is the best way to enjoy Taiwan's landscapes if you have the time and energy. Looking for bicycle rentals in Taiwan? You can use Taiwan's many Youbike sharing stations, or search for rentals on KKday here, and search for tours on Klook here. You can also check out our Taiwan cycling guide here. You can also book a Sunset Riverside Bike Ride and Historical Tour, 4 Hour Cycling in Taipei, Ultimate 8-Hour Cycling City Tour, or Taipei City Bike Tour with Night Market Experience on TripAdvisor here. 
For more information, check out our Taiwan transportation guide here. ​

Map:
Please see below:

Our Journey:

I have been to Shin Yeh only once, but I have long been a fan of authentic Taiwanese cuisine. Shin Yeh offers probably one of the best atmospheres and best quality to enjoy Taiwanese food. It's a much better eating experience than a crowded, loud, and hot night market.
I booked a meal voucher for a discount via KKday here and I recommend you do the same. The meal voucher saves you about 20% off and you do not have to pay an extra service fee!​

View of the entrance to Shin Ye from the street level. 

Shuangcheng Street Night Market 雙城街夜市

Right near the restaraunt is Shuangcheng Street Night Market, which is a large eating and shopping area near Zhongshan Elementary School MRT Station in Zhongshan District in Taipei. The night market includes an open “food court” stall area and a closed market area that sells clothes and other items. Even though it is a relatively small night market, it is one of the oldest and most well-established in Taipei. 
Check out our full guide to Shuangcheng Street Night Market here.

They have lots of employees here waiting to take you upstairs. It is best to book this restaurant in advance. 

I handed the lady my meal voucher from KKday and we went up stairs. 

Another view of the stairway. 

Front entrance to the restaurant. 

A pot of tea with a warming candle is set on the table. 

Our first dish was sliced mullet roe (烏魚子), in other words the egg sack of the mullet fish. This appetizer may be an acquired taste for some Westerners. To me it is like eating really salty butter. But the spring onion and white gourd make it go down smooth. 

We were also served some very savory and flavorful prawns, cooked with a strong aroma of black pepper. Prawn are a very popular Taiwanese dish. 

Next we were served perhaps the most traditional Taiwanese dish of all time: braised pork (滷肉). The pork was soft, flavorful, and delicious. It is like the equivalent of Taiwanese bacon. 

Next we had fried rice which was flavorful and delicious. 

Closer view of our fried rice. 

Next we had fried spinach which was also delectable. 

Also we had claim soup with spring onion and ginger, which was also delectable. 

For dessert they also gave us seasonal fruit and mochi balls. 

View of the mochi balls with peanut powder. 

View of us finishing off our table. 

Another view of dessert. 

Another view of the restaurant. 

I booked a meal voucher for a discount via KKday here and I recommend you do the same. The meal voucher saves you about 20% off and you do not have to pay an extra service fee!

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