Very early breakfast options for late-night snacking
Print Edition
If you’re a night owl seeking Chinese breakfast comfort food, even though it’s still hours before dawn, Taoyuan Village on Taizhou Road is the place to go.
The eatery, named after the city in Taiwan, offers a breakfast menu throughout its opening hours from 7am-2am.
Goodies include soymilk, youtiao, fried bread sticks, cifantuan, stuffed glutinous rice balls and shaobing, clay oven baked flatbread.
Street vendors normally sell these snack-like foods in the morning as quick on-the-go breakfast. Taoyuan Village, on the other hand, is a place where one can sit and enjoy a bit of breakfast in a brightly lit, nicely decorated surrounding.
The ambience is definitely a plus. Soymilk and fried bread sticks are typically sold at greasy food stands that make you wonder about hygiene. But here, the open kitchen is well organized and clean, and the service is professional. Soymilk, for example, comes in paper cups instead of plastic packages. You pay for this advantage. The prices are double or sometimes triple what you would pay on the street.
The soymilk comes in both sweet and savory versions. The salty soymilk at 12 yuan (US$1.9) is topped with nori and fried bread stick pieces. The sweet soymilk (8 yuan) can be ordered cold or hot. A special item on the menu is black tea soymilk (10 yuan). It’s light, mildly sweet, and a good alternative to coffee or milk tea.
The shaobing has a few choices of fillings. A typical one with a fried bread stick and egg is 22 yuan. The flatbread, covered with white sesame seeds, is flaky and crunchy, and complements the fried bread stick and omelet. But the overall texture is quite dry and better enjoyed with a bowl of soymilk.
There are also other combinations like pork chop and egg, green salad or cheese and egg. The flatbread can also be ordered separately for 10 yuan.
The sweet doufuhua, or beancurd jelly (10 yuan) is a dessert topped with mildly sweet syrup and peanuts.
The minced pork cifantuan (16 yuan) has a filling that includes dried radish, fried bread stick pieces, marinated egg and meat.
Rice milk (10 yuan) is a Taiwan specialty with peanuts and sesame added to brew with rice for more flavors. The brown drink is creamier than soymilk and quite sweet.
Taoyuan Village
Tel: 6277-7917
Address: 405 Taizhou Rd
Average per person: 30 yuan per person
Opening hours: 7am-2am
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
