It is a luxurious wish to fetch a nice traditional Taiwanese breakfast in Taipei downtown. The all-over-street Yonghe Soy Milk (永和豆漿) are normally disappointing. Due to heavy effort required for preparation and surging rental cost, old-way breakfast is replaced by Western breakfast and brunch. Nevertheless, if you ask natives for recommendation of traditional breakfast shops, you will manage to find some hidden deep in alley. Like this one, Huahua Soy Milk which is in residential area behind Dazhi Station, is an example that nearby residents would queue for delicious breakfast here.
The usual menu such as soy milk, radish cake, youtiao (油條, Chinese cruller) and baozi (包子, steamed and filled bun) are all available, and we suggest you must order their danbing (蛋餅, a Taiwanese omelet) and shaobing (燒餅, baked flatbread). Different from most breakfast shops, they rolls and prepares the skin of danbing themselves. At the door you will see the owner and his son alternatively beating eggs and frying the skin in an efficient manner. You should add a bit of spicy sauce on the just dished-up danbing before having a bite, and then you will know that finally there is a place in Taipei can rival the breakfast shops in middle and southern Taiwan. Usually shaobing and youtiao are inseparable with each other. The problem is that youtiao will start to soften since the first minute it finish frying, so it is fine to orderonly shaobing instead of both. Because the shaobing Huahua Soy Milk serving is greatly crispy, it tastes really well with conghuadan (蔥花蛋, fried egg with green onion).
