三角街人文茶館(阿爸的家)

The most frequently named dish is the sesame oil mian xian — thin, soft noodles with a direct sesame oil aroma, served with the soy sauce on the side so you can toss it yourself. The radish cake is pan-fried until the edges catch, and comes in meat and vegetarian versions; the vegetarian one tastes purely of rice. The braised beef brisket rice is simmered until tender and arrives as a set with a small dish of black dried tofu, seasonal vegetables, and fruit. Among the drinks, ma-ei tea is a Taichung-only flavor made from young jute leaves — herbal with a slight powdery body. One Google reviewer described it as tasting "a lot like matcha."

The shop occupies a converted old house on Zili Street, with high ceilings and wooden tables and chairs, open until 10pm seven days a week. A sign out front carries an acrostic couplet whose final characters spell the owner's name, and the shop describes its trade in terms of "a century" and "three generations." Service is what reviews praise most — two separate customers cutting out sugar both wrote that staff proactively explained which side dishes contained sugar, and prepared a separate portion of soy sauce with no sugar mixed in.