Yong Kang Street in Daan District (
Every weekend, long queues form outside the restaurant but few customers seem to mind. The fare is popular with Japanese visitors.
The restaurant's secret, according to owner Lu Wen-yung(
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Lu has been in the restaurant business for over 20 years. Every morning at 6am, he shops at a local market for the day's supplies. He likes to stock ingredients in his kitchen that are fresh and seasonal, which is why no menu is on offer, as the dishes often change. Moreover, Lu never uses imported vegetables or meat from China, so as to minimize the risk of using poor ingredients.
The restaurant, decorated with a Japanese colonial flavor, counts many big-name stars, singers, TV talk-show hosts, writers and politicians as its regular customers. Former premier Yu Shyi-kun has asked Lu to cater at the premier's nearby residence quite a few times.
A typical Taiwanese dish, steamed spare-ribs with taro(
Lu prefers his restaurant to stay quieter than other Taiwanese restaurants. So he rejects the idea of selling alcoholic beverages, except beer. Even so, he asks beer drinkers not to be too noisy. At a time when the streets of Taipei are flooded with Hong Kong-style dim-sum delicacies and Italian pasta restaurants, Lu feels very lucky that his restaurant can stand out among others and claim "a place in the sun" for Taiwanese cuisine.
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