YUENJI 協和里

Awards

MICHELIN Guide

One star restaurant, 2026

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OAD

Asian Restaurants 2026, 120

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Chef

Lee Yen-Chi

Cuisine

Taiwanese

• 2026

Dinner at 元紀．台灣菜

on 05 Feb 2026

by Melissa F

What is Taiwanese cuisine? I was pondering about that when I dined at 1* @_yuenji_ which serves refined Taiwanese cuisine in Taichung. Heavily influenced by its history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese cuisine is ultimately a mosaic of flavors from its indigenous people, Minnan, Hakka, and other areas of China. Yuenji strives to present the hometown flavors of the island in a contemporary and elevated way. While you can choose a set menu, we opted for the tasting menu where we... More

What is Taiwanese cuisine? I was pondering about that when I dined at 1* @_yuenji_ which serves refined Taiwanese cuisine in Taichung. Heavily influenced by its history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese cuisine is ultimately a mosaic of flavors from its indigenous people, Minnan, Hakka, and other areas of China. Yuenji strives to present the hometown flavors of the island in a contemporary and elevated way. While you can choose a set menu, we opted for the tasting menu where we can choose from 6 categories of dishes - appetizer, soup, signature, hometown specialties, rice & noodles, and dessert. Many of the dishes were done well - the flavors were familiar but at the same time different from what I am used to. What blew me away were the soups - specifically the stewed beef soup with chenpi. The complex flavors were impressive. The tofu dessert was also a nice surprise as it was designed to look like a savory dish but everything was actually sweet - right down to the “green onion” matcha.

Our menu:

糖蒜海蜇頭
Marinated jellyfish, pickled garlic

紅糟黑羽雞
Boiled black feather chicken, red vinasse sauce

紅燒牛肉凍
Braised wagyu terrine, soy sauce

豌豆百合鴨賞
Smoked duck, lily bulb, pea pods

元紀皮蛋豆腐
YUENJI deep-fried tofu, preserved egg, peeled chili pepper

西瓜綿虱目魚湯
Boiled milkfish soup, pickled watermelon

陳皮牛肉盅
Stewed beef soup

金棗煙燻鱸下巴
Smoked sea bass, kumquat, garlic powder

鳯翼乾坤蝦
Stuffed chicken wing, shrimp and squid paste, spicy Sichuan pepper oil

桂花蛋香明蝦
Stir-fried prawn, duck egg, bamboo shoots

梅香燒嫩雞
Stir-fried chicken plum sauce

香酥嫩腩排
Deep-fried pork belly garlic, pepper

金湯蒲瓜鑲肉
Bottle gourd, minced pork and belly, shrimp, water chestnut shredded scallop

蔥油餅
Pan-fried scallion pancake

陳皮紅豆沙
Simmered red bean soup, dried tangerine peel

蜜糖松花豆腐
Chilled soy milk tofu, brown sugar, black sesame
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1*, YUENJI 元紀 • 台灣菜
Taichung, Taiwan
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