Rice dishes · Sanmin
Hou Chi Duck Rice
侯記鴨肉飯
MICHELIN Guide Taiwan 2026 · Bib Gourmand
Also selected in 2023–2025.
Photo: 王新漢, CC BY-SA 4.0Representative photo of Duck rice, not taken at this shop.
This popular duck shop slices its duck thick and lays it over rice with pickled radish. Pair it with the angelica herbal duck soup.
What to order
Photo: bryan... from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0鴨肉飯
Duck rice
Rice under thick-sliced duck, a duck-fat sauce and fried shallots, with pickled yellow radish.
About this dish →Photo: bryan... from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0當歸鴨麵線
Angelica duck soup with noodles
Duck in a strongly scented angelica herbal broth, the shop's best-known dish. Have it with thin wheat noodles to make a meal of it.
About this dish →Sights nearby
三鳳宮Sanfeng Temple
A large temple to the child deity Nezha, a few minutes from the Sanmin Street market stalls.
高雄市立歷史博物館Kaohsiung Museum of History
The 1939 city hall by the Love River, now the city's history museum.
美麗島站Formosa Boulevard Station
The MRT interchange under the Dome of Light, a 30-metre glass ceiling by the Italian artist Narcissus Quagliata.
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A small bowl still costs about NT$10 at this neighbourhood ice shop near Sanfeng Temple. Order the brown-sugar tapioca shaved ice and the house pudding.
永筵小館Yung Yen
A tiny old-school eatery (formerly Yun Lai Fang) that cooks Chinese home dishes to order. Get the silky scrambled egg with shrimp.
興隆居Hsing Long Ju
Queues are long at this 60-plus-year-old breakfast institution, which opens before dawn. Order the big soup dumplings, a sesame flatbread with egg, and savoury soy milk.