Goose Flat at the crosssection of Wuchang St. and Chunghua Rd. is a famous old shop at Hsimenting. To have a bowl of rice noodle and a dish of sliced goose is a great delight here.

The culinary method is unique and the dish is refreshing and not greasy. The soup is excellent with meat fragrance. The owner says, the unique flavor is developed by themselves and you could never taste it at other shops. Although Goose Flat is famous, the price is fair, worthy of a try.

AHsiou Traditional Boil-Dip Noodles, set up in 1948, is on the only old street since Ching Dynasty. The major item of this soup is boil-dip noodle made of good soup base with two slices of pork, bean sprouts and ancient-flavored noodles. The soup here is brewed with big bones and unique spices early in the morning. It is fresh, clean and not greasy and has been sold for more than fifty years. The various dishes here include pig livers, pig throats, pig hearts, bamboo, smoked goose, duck and wild chicken.

Center Shop deals mainly in various pickles including pickled cucumbers, bamboo shoot strips, soy bean paste, hot soy bean paste, hot pickles, assorted pickles and dried radish etc. Among these, peanuts, garlics, salted white squashs and salted pineapples are exclusively made for restaurants and are sold in great quantities. In addtion, Center Shop is consigned to sell almost one hundred kinds of preserved fruits and jams, various bamboo shoot strips, pickled leaf mustards and dried radishes, all of which taste good and are worthy of being consumed time and again.

Located on Kaifeng St. at Hsimenting, Simon Tempura is a snack shop thirty to forty years old. It has been widely reported on media and enjoys much public praise. The branch shop on Hsining South Rd. opened six or seven years ago. Tempuras are prepared with fresh fish paste and specially made sauce which is to almost everyone's taste. As soon as you finish tempuras, don't forget to add a ladle of long-stewed radish broth, which is going to leave even more sweet smell between your teeth. To meet customers' needs, Simon Tempura also offers meat zongzis and tofu puddings now and the flavor is first-class, too.

Chou's Meat Porridge Shop on Guangchou Street was set up in 1956. Every early morning it opens till 4:30 in the afternoon. Especially from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. this shop is always full. It is famous for its rice and meat porridge, coupled with its "Soy Sauce Brewed Pork".

This kind of traditional salty meat porridge shop can be found at old communities like Mengjia, Tadaucheng, Songshan only.

Long Du Ice Shop was set up more than seventy years ago. Its Eight-treasure Ice, Peanut Ice are of the best ice items. Not only the peanuts and taros selected are of fine quality and cooked well. Even sugar juice has special flavor, making customers difficult to forget.

Located at the intersection of Guangzhou St. and Wuzhou St., Memory Aiyu Ice has served its clients for more than forty years. The boss, Mr. Zhu, says, at first this shop sold pepper cakes, too, which enjoys a good reputation in Wanhua. Though they now sell ice only, they can barely raise their arms. This shop insists on using high-quality aiyu and self-prepared spiced juice base and sell aiyu ice only all year round.

Wanhua Hsiantsao Ice at No. 86-3, Shantou St. has opened for more than thirty years. It moved to No. 166, Mengjia Blvd. after the original road had been broadened.

This shop offers ice and pudding all year round and sells hot hsiantsao and original hsiantsao juice from November through April. The owner, Mr. Lin Jian-fa, says, Wanhua Ice can stand firm at Wanhua for more than thirty years because of the excellent materials used and rich-flavored sugar water in addition to the lovely noodle shape of hsiantsao. Wanhua Ice developed hsiantsao pudding in recent years, which rivals fruit pudding, tea pudding and coffee pudding.

Clear Moon Japanese Food opened at the time of the restoration of Taiwan, which the Taiwanese manager received from its Japanese owner to carry on. The shop operated on Neijiang St. till 1958, and then moved to the present Chengdu Rd. The second son and daughter-in-law of the second generation inherited the shop in 1977 and has served its customers till now. Clear Moon makes it the first priority to let customers have their fill safely. Especially dealing with sashimi, the kitchen always uses fresh fish, clean cooking and cutting to keep guests and hosts happy.