Speaking of dumplings in Taipei, Takumi Dumplings (巧之味手工水餃) is one of my favorites. Their green dumplings with scallops are amazing. It’s located between MRT Shandao Temple Station (善導寺站) and Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station (忠孝新生站).
I got off at Shandao Temple Station, which is about a 10-minute walk from Gate 5. If you exit from here, you’ll pass by some schools and fewer shops. However, if you come from Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station, you’ll walk through busier streets.
The location is a bit inconvenient, but the shop gets quite a few visitors, many of whom are ordering for ”to go”. When I enter the shop, the staff always asks, “For here?” So I always answer, “Yes, for here.” “For here” (内用, neiyon in Chinese) is the term used to specify dining in. After that, the staff gives me an order sheet, and I’m seated to write down my order, which I then hand to the staff nearby. If you prefer takeaway, you can place your order at the counter outside.
The shop has about seven tables, so it’s quite small. During busy hours, you’ll need to share tables.
Here’s the order sheet. They only offer three types of dumplings and two types of soup. The “NO” refers to the table number, and mine was 9—not 6.
They also have English and Japanese menu on each tables. They require us to order at least 5 pieces per 1 type of dumpling. “綜合各半” on the order sheet is half and half (招牌水餃 and 韭菜水餃).
They also provide English and Japanese menus at each table. You’re required to order at least five pieces of each type of dumpling. “綜合各半” on the order sheet means half and half (招牌水餃 and 韭菜水餃).
In the back of the shop, there’s a selection of small dishes available for 30 TWD each. You can help yourself to condiments and chopstick and wrappers from the shelf.
I picked one of the small dishes, pig’s ear. The staff added sweet sauce on it, which I didn’t enjoy as much, but the crunchy texture of the pig’s ear was great. I prefer it without the sauce.
These are Signature dumplings with cabbage, Chinese yellow chives, and pork. I enjoyed them with my special sauce. 🙂
The dumpling skin is springy and sticky with a thick texture. Though I’m usually not a fan of thick-skinned dumplings, I liked this one because of its chewy, springy feel.
The taste is mild but well-seasoned, so it doesn’t really need extra sauce, although I still enjoyed making my own. 🙂
These are my favorite dumplings in Taipei: Scallops dumplings. Can you imagine the taste of the green skin? The green color comes from seaweed, completely natural.
The green skin and the scallops inside give it a subtle sea-like flavor. It’s delicious, and I highly recommend it.
This is also great: Pork and garlic chives dumplings.
There are so many chives in these dumplings! Chives are the perfect ingredient for dumplings.
Next is the Hot and sour soup. It contains a lot of ingredients, like vegetables and Jew’s ear mushrooms. It wasn’t very sour, but it was full of black pepper. It also had duck blood jelly. Many solo diners ordered 5 pieces of dumplings along with this soup.
Fish ball and meatball soups is a mild soup. The fish and meatballs were very soft, and the flavor of celery was wonderful.
I noticed some people walking into the shop with this drink, so I decided to try it too. It’s a summer-limited drink: Grass jelly drink.
It’s 700 cc—quite large! But the grass jelly drink isn’t too sweet, so I could easily finish it. It tastes like hojicha tea!
There are many pieces of grass jelly at the bottom. These pieces are sweet. I also saw some people ordering just this drink, and I understand why—it’s delicious and refreshing when you’re thirsty.
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Name Takumi Dumplings (巧之味手工水餃)
Open Lunch through dinner
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