[Taipei] Braised pork rice at Tian Tian Li Restaurant (天天利美食坊) in Ximending

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2023.11.24 2018.09.01

I had breakfast at Tian Tian Li Mei Shi Fang (天天利美食坊) next morning that I stayed in Ximending. I think this is the best spot for breakfast during staying in Ximending area. There’s open-air kitchen, so its appearance is like Taiwanese market, but there’s many tables inside the house. It is packed with counter seats, tables and people in the shop. Of course, you can buy foods to go. They don’t have alcoholic drinks and don’t allow us to bring alcoholic drink.

There’re order sheets at the entrance, so I took one and take seat. They have English (and Japanese) menu, too. After I filled out the order sheet, handed it to staff. And I paid.

There’s a menu above the shop that can be seen outside. They have various Taiwanese foods, especially suitable for breakfast.

Mostly they serve quickly.

This is braised pork rice. Normal braised pork rice (Lu Rou Fan / 滷肉飯) is 25 TWD.
But I ordered braised pork rice with fried egg. I heard adding half-cooked fried egg on it is best choice at this shop, so I ordered it without hesitation. I love half-cooked fried egg. I love melting yolk ! Many Taiwanese restaurant serve cooked egg, and half-cooked egg is rare.

Braised pork rice with fried egg (加煎蛋滷肉飯) 35 TWD

It don’t have much flavor of star anise and another Chinese spice. It’s easy to eat who don’t like Taiwanese spice. Much meat is hidden between fried egg and rice. Also I think their rice is better than another shop. It’s familiar with Japanese tastes.

There’s chili oil on each table. I love spicy foods, so I put some onto my braised pork rice after a while. It’s delicious. Don’t worry. This chili oil isn’t as spicy as its looking 🙂

Also I ordered soup. Fish balls soup. Two soft fish balls in it. Rather big. Its outside was so soft like marshmallow. Green things are celery. It had refreshing taste and was good.