Coffee & tea · Yancheng
Hsiao Ti Coffee
小堤咖啡
Photo: MarkSweep, Public domainRepresentative photo of Coffee, not taken at this shop.
A 40-plus-year-old alley café often called Yancheng's oldest. Order a fresh-brewed black coffee and the toast topped with a soft egg and a dash of soy sauce.
What to order
Photo: bryan... from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0黑咖啡
Fresh-brewed black coffee
The owner grinds and brews each cup and asks whether you want it sour or not sour. Milk tea is the other choice.
About this dish →
Photo: Apeach316, CC BY-SA 2.0烤吐司、荷包蛋
Toast with fried egg
Well-toasted bread with a fried egg, runny or scrambled, and a dash of soy sauce. Some mornings ham comes too. In the morning it arrives with your drink.
About this dish →On the itinerary: Old Takao: the Consulate, Hamasen and the Cathedral
Sights nearby
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.
愛河Love River
The river through central Kaohsiung, with riverside parks, boat rides and the cathedral near its banks.
駁二藝術特區Pier-2 Art Center
Harbour warehouses on the Yancheng waterfront turned into galleries, shops and event spaces.
Nearby places to eat
阿婆彈珠汽水綜合茶Grandma's Marble Soda Mixed Tea
This 50-plus-year-old drinks stand near Pier-2 sells one thing: mixed tea of winter melon tea, kumquat-plum tea and fizzy marble soda. Just order a cup.
鄭家切仔麵Cheng's Noodles
An old Yancheng noodle shop, now run by the third generation, serving noodles or rice noodles in a rich pork-and-chicken broth with plates of sliced pork offal on the side.
阿綿麻糬A-Mian Mochi
Soft mochi, shaped by hand to order at a small Dagouding stand. Pick a fruit filling such as strawberry or mango, or stick with peanut.