and bus station Xinyi Yongkang Intersection 信義永康街口。It branches off Xinyi Rd. 信義路。
Around MRT Dongmen Station Yongkang Street Exit lies YouBike stations.
This street has many eateries that are worth taking a look at. Nearby is the original Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐, one of the New York Times top ten restaurants of the world! Din Tai Fung specializes in xiaolongbao 小籠包, or tiny, bite-sized steamed buns.
**Today Din Tai Fung has spread internationally, to Australia, Asia, and America. It all started in this one store near Yongkang Street.**
A renowned Taiwanese beef noodles 牛肉麵 restaurant is located on the closeby Jinshan S. Road 金山南路. It goes by Yongkang Beef Noodles 永康牛肉麵. Yongkang Beef Noodles has been open for over forty years, believe it or not.
**Beef noodles is a traditional Taiwanese dish.**
Then on a hot day, people can eat snowflake ice at Smoothie 思慕惜, on Yongkang Street itself. Especially during summer, the waiting lines can really lengthen out, but the store's mango snowflake ice tastes extremely well and is definitely worth the wait.
If you are a bold and daring eater, you can also eat rice cake 米血糕, which is pig blood (that cleans your lungs) deliciously mixed with rice. I personally love it with peanut powder and sweet sauce. A store selling rice cake is located on Yongkang Street, too, but it is kind of hidden from the main stores on the street. Another traditional Taiwanese dish is braised pork rice, or 魯肉飯 (loh bah bng). Faintly, I remember a store selling this was located near Yongkang Street.Yongkang Street doesn't only have Asian food, but it has other styles of food, like European cuisine. Some people enjoy the numerous European style food cafés nearby.
Now many more cafés near and on Yongkang Street exist, of course. But these few stick out in my head.
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-Din Tai Fung 鼎泰豐
No. 194, Section 2, Xinyi Road, Da-an District, Taipei City 台北市大安區信義路二段194號
-Yongkang Beef Noodles 永康牛肉麵
No. 17, Lane 31, Section 2, Jinshan Road, Da-an District, Taipei City 台北市大安區金山路二段31巷17號
-Smoothie 思慕惜
No. 15, Yongkang St., Da-an District, Taipei City 台北市大安區永康街15號
