10 Best Restaurants in Nantou

Crimson is located on the 2nd floor of the Fleur de Chine Hotel at Sun Moon Lake. The entire dining space is suffused with a lakeside ambience, and is elegantly decorated using steel and stone. The light refracted through the glass makes you feel like a subject in a three-dimensional impressionist painting. The restaurant is renowned for its spacious and comfortable dining room, wide selection of fresh, seasonal ingredients and seafood, and extensive salad bar. Whether you love vegetables, meat or seafood, you'll find plenty to choose from here. The restaurant also boasts top-class service and fast replenishment of the buffet dishes. Enjoy a delicious meal while gazing at the magnificent views of the lake and mountains outside the window.

Located on the 7th floor of Lalu Hotel, Oriental Restaurant is the best place to enjoy the splendid views of Sun Moon Lake. The restaurant offers both indoor and outdoor dining, and features an artistic Zen-style interior decor. If you choose to dine indoors, you can enjoy a delicious meal while admiring the beautiful landscape of Sun Moon Lake. The restaurant's cooking style combines European and Asian flavours. All dishes are prepared using local Sun Moon Lake produce. The fresh ingredients and superb flavours are sure to satisfy even the most discerning taste buds. The buffet offers a variety of delicious, attractively presented dishes, including hot and cold dishes and desserts inspired by Chinese, Japanese and Hong Kong cuisine. If you're looking for an authentic Sun Moon Lake restaurant experience, you should certainly consider paying a visit here. The most popular seats in the restaurant are by the window, where you can enjoy the wonderful views of Sun Moon Lake. Oriental Restaurant is a great place to spend an afternoon eating delicious food and admiring the beautiful scenery.

Inako Scenic View Cafe is located on the road to Qingjing, where you can enjoy delicious food and the best views of Qingjing. The restaurant offers local specialities and game caught by indigenous people, including wild boar, trout, urn-roasted chicken, cabbage, bamboo shoot, vegetable ferns and wild ginger flower. Feel the stresses of everyday life float away in the fresh forest air and let the delicious food give you a renewed appreciation for the earth, just like the indigenous people. With affordable prices and breathtaking natural scenery, this restaurant is well worth a visit if you're looking for an authentic mountain dining experience.

Ya-Zhuo Hakka Restaurant is a restaurant serving Hakka cuisine in Puli Township, Nantou County. Its interior decor has a rustic and retro feel with wooden tables, chairs and vintage-style furnishings, reflecting the Hakka culture. The restaurant’s most famous signature dish is shredded ginger intestines. The soft and chewy intestines are served with just the right amount of sour soup. Other dishes include simple, yet refreshing Hakka fried shredded pork with squid, golden dried eggs, salted pork and fragrant Hakka steamed rice noodles. Each dish is made using traditional Hakka cooking methods, so you can enjoy the authentic Hakka flavours. If you travel to Puli by car, the restaurant offers ample parking.

Lizige Pork Belly Rice Restaurant serves classic Taiwanese snacks. The restaurant only opens for breakfast and lunch. Pork belly and pork ribs are cooked with local sugar cane and sold at affordable prices, a reminder to people of what "traditional" Taiwan is like. The best way to eat pork belly and rib rice, which has been a bestseller for 40 years, is with cabbage and pickled dried radish produced by local farmers. The combination of refreshing vegetables and rich steamed pork makes this dish a must-try. If you prefer a less meat-heavy dish, the restaurant also offers a variety of other options, including meat soup, rib soup and side dishes. The restaurant has separate areas for dine-in and takeaway, both of which are always crowded with people.

Qingjing, Nantou has many restaurants serving Yunnan Baiyi cuisine. One of the most famous of these is Qingjing Lumama Yunnan Restaurant, one of the longest established Baiyi restaurants around. The owner learned the cooking techniques of his parents, who hail from Yunnan, China, and northern Thailand, respectively. The restaurant offers dishes full of local Yunnan flavours for a wonderfully memorable dining experience. The restaurant's signature dish is pepper chicken, which is a delicious combination of crispy skin and tender chicken. "Duosheng" (a special dish from Southwest China made by chopping together minced pork and spices) tastes wonderful when wrapped in cabbage. Another must-try Yunnan dish is "Babasi", which are wide flat noodles made of rice, topped with chopped spring onion and minced meat. It smells incredible and tastes amazing when served with tomato, meatballs and pork bone soup. The restaurant is usually packed during holiday times, so booking ahead is advised.

Located near Ita Thao Wharf at Sun Moon Lake, Sun Moon Lake Fuyuan Restaurant is a two-storey restaurant surrounded by large landscape glass windows. Outside the restaurant is the beautiful scenery of Sun Moon Lake and the green mountains, so you can enjoy the delicious food while taking in the superb views. The restaurant pays particular attention to the quality of its dishes and uses fresh local ingredients. It offers widely praised local dishes at affordable prices, including deliciously tender spring onion chicken, deep-fried mushrooms listed as the "Three Treasures of Yuchi", soft and chewy fried wild boar, steamed fish, salted crispy shrimp and Puli's local speciality, sugar cane shoots. It is an ideal place for tourists to dine in Sun Moon Lake. After you've eaten your fill, you can take a stroll along the wharf.

Haojipo Chicken Restaurant is a Yunnan Baiyi restaurant with its own unique style in Qingjing, Nantou. The restaurant has individual cabins, all of which offer wonderful views of the mountains in Qingjing. The most famous dish served here is roast chicken with herbs, which must be pre-ordered. The freshly roasted chicken smells amazing and its crispy skin and tender meat are lip-smackingly good. Other dishes worth trying are noodles with chicken oil, cabbage and sugar cane shoots (which grow in the mountains), soft and tender eggs sprinkled with spring onions, and Thai-style satay pork skewers. The distinctive cabins attract many visitors, who come here with their friends or families to enjoy a unique dining experience.