Formosa restaurant is at the basement of the Howard Plaza Hotel near Ren-Ai Road. I think it's a popular place for people to take their relatives since there are large banquet style tables and they serve a lot of authentic and solid Taiwanese food.
It's like eating night market food in a clean, banquet style atmosphere and paying a premium for that privilege.
My entire family (myself included!) thought that the food was really good. Here's some pictures of the dishes we had:
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Stewed Pork belly. This is quintessential Taiwanese, and they made it well here. Yum.
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I'd never had these local greens before, but they were good. They curled at the ends, not unlike fiddleheads.
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Three-cup chicken. Another Taiwanese classic. This is a super fragrant dish where bone-in chicken pieces are stewed with soy sauce, sugar, wine, and basil.
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I had never had this before - some sort of flavored crab rice. It was good.
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I love how all these Taiwanese restaurants give you peanut-powder covered mochi balls as a free dessert after the meal. I absolutely love these balls. I might try to make some soon. I'll definitely post my experiments in that arena if I go there. :)
Over all, this was a solid, Taiwanese restaurant that is great for large family gatherings. The service was fast, and the food was very good.
Formosa Restaurant
No. 160 Ren Ai Rd Sec 3
Taipei 106 Taiwan
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