Note: These entries aren’t ranked instead, they’re listed in rough geographical order from north to south. For newcomers to the cuisine, it also serves as an excellent introduction. ![]() Eating your way through the list will help cure any expat’s culinary homesickness. Here, then, are 26 of the Bay Area’s most delicious Taiwanese dining destinations, from the UC Berkeley campus down to the strip malls of Cupertino. They also probably haven’t paid attention to the new wave of pop-ups that are bringing Taiwanese food into the mainstream in Oakland and San Francisco. But it's also true that anyone who knocks the Bay Area's Taiwanese food community probably hasn’t spent a lot of time in suburban enclaves like Fremont and Cupertino, where there’s big enough of a Taiwanese market that even niche restaurants-specializing in sweet potato congee or Taiwanese breakfast sandwiches-can survive and thrive. ![]() And it’s true: This isn’t exactly the San Gabriel Valley. If you ask a Taiwanese American about the Bay Area’s Taiwanese food scene, chances are they’ll complain about how hard it is to find stinky tofu or savory soy milk or a decent bowl of beef noodle soup. KQED's Eating Taiwanese in the Bay is a series of stories exploring Taiwanese food culture in all of its glorious, delicious complexity. (Illustration by Felicia Liang design by Rebecca Kao)
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