Bistros, trattorias, taverns and neighbourhood rooms: the mid-tier places where Taipei actually eats.

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Lao Shan Dong Homemade Noodles

Order Hand-pulled ribbon noodles with beef in the slow cooked broth of beef bones and 10 Chinese herbs.

Lao Shan Dong Homemade Noodles is a beef noodle restaurant at B1, Wan Nian Building, No. 70 Xining South Road, a loyal following since 1949 in Wanhua.

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Kao Chi

Order Shanghai style fried pork buns and a crispy spring onion pastry.

Kao-Chi is one of the first and oldest Shanghai dim sum restaurants in Taipei, serving Shanghai-style pan-fried buns, a signature dish known and loved by all.

Hangzhou Xiao Long Tang Bao

Order Xiao long bao, plus the spicy stinky tofu in a ground pork sauce.

Hangzhou Xiao Long Tang Bao sells no-frills soupy dumplings filled with only fresh pork hind leg meat, with a wafer-thin skin, on Hangzhou South Road.

Ming Fu

Ming Fu is a Taiwanese restaurant at No. 18-1, Lane 137, Section 2, Zhongshan North Road in Zhongshan District, Taipei, phone +886 2 2562 9287.

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Qing Tian 76

Order Seasonal limited dishes, with fresh vegetables, fruits and fish.

Qing Tian 76 opened in the summer solstice of 2011 in an old wooden Japanese house on Qingtian Street, with creative cuisine and afternoon tea desserts.

Smoothie House

Smoothie House calls itself the original Yongkang Street mango snow ice shop; its main store is at No. 15, Yongkang Street, open 11:00 to 21:00.

Spice Shop Indian Cuisine

  • ★ 4.6

Order Tandoori specialties and freshly baked naan, named on the restaurant's own menu pages.

Spice Shop Indian Cuisine, one of Tianmu's first Indian restaurants, has served North Indian chaat, curries, tandoori dishes and fresh naan since 2002.

Madras Magic Indian Cuisine

  • ★ 4.6

Order Crispy Blaze Bites Chicken, a South Indian masala chicken at NT$ 265.

Madras Magic Indian Cuisine serves South Indian dishes in Taipei, from crispy fried masala chicken to paneer in spinach puree and shrimp in coconut milk.

106HARBOR

  • ★ 4.3

Order The SUPER106 land-and-sea platter, listed as the most popular dish.

106HARBOR serves American-style seafood eaten by hand in Da'an, and its Boston lobster and tomahawk steak set is made for groups of four to six people.