Taiwan, a romantic island, is home to the world's most flourishing night market culture. Every night, countless people travel through the night markets in search of reminiscent snacks. Among the more than 300 night markets in Taiwan, the Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks in Taipei stands out for its all-encompassing categories and unparalleled innovation. If you want to eat all the classic Taiwanese snacks in the United States at once and relive your homesickness for the taste of Taiwan, Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks is the right place you look for in the Bay Area. Authentic flavors, conventional techniques and fresh ingredients are prepared in accordance with high standards of Mr. Jason, the owner, to perfectly restore the smoky flavor from tens of thousands of miles away, making local diners fall in love with this unique, spontaneous, and causal Taiwanese street food from the bottom of their hearts.

Signature Dishes 

With a history of 24 years, the franchise Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks now has 240 outlets worldwide, with the one in the Bay Area being the first in the U.S. Every bite of its signature dishes like XXL Chicken Thigh, Oyster Mee Sua, Lemon Aiyu Jelly and Treasure Rice Box makes you feel a tribute to tradition. 

The restaurant maintains rigorous and careful procedures in every aspect from ingredient selection to preparation. Over the years, it has insisted on the use of freshest ingredients while refusing to use the leftover oil and MSG. By following the ancient cooking methods, every dish is freshly prepared on spot. In particular, each preparation procedure is strictly controlled accurately, especially in terms of the weight, temperature and time. All these efforts are made to ensure every dish served to diners are in their best temperature and quality. 

XXL Chicken Thigh are the most popular offering in the restaurant. On a daily basis, the freshest and finest chicken thighs are selected and then marinated in an ancient secret recipe, followed by deep frying at just the right temperature. The attractive golden color of the outer skin makes every bite crunches, and the tender and juicy meat inside is an absolute temptation to your taste buds. 

It's not an easy thing to find authentic old-fashioned Mee Sua in the Bay Area or even in the United States. But at Shihlin, it's not a problem. The handmade Mee Sua are prepared in accordance with old-time techniques, through a number of complex and time-consuming processes. The result is Mee Sua as thin as hair, but without losing their chewy and dry texture. Then the noodles are simmered over low heat until thick, and then finally added with oysters, special condiments, and fresh cilantro before being served. The hot handmade Mee Sua with oyster are not only full of fresh flavor, but also rich and unique in taste, offering a great sense of satisfaction.

Management Concept 

Jason, the owner, is a native Taiwanese. As an entrepreneur who has crossed over from the QC background to the catering industry, he changed his career not only a result of his love for food, especially snacks from his hometown, but also his adherence to quality and tradition. Jason is well aware of the fact that in the catering industry, quality is the foundation of his business. Using his years of experience in quality control, he has set extremely high standards for the selection of ingredients, the monitoring of the production process, and the inspection of the finished dishes, striving to bring the original flavors of Taiwan's famous night market snacks to the Bay Area and even the entire United States.

Standardized processes are fundamental to Jason's operation of the restaurant. He incorporates systematic S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedures) into the production of each type of snack and regulates the operating standards of each staff member with a rigorous training system to maximize the stability of the output and improve the efficiency of the staff.

Whether it is hot summer or cold winter, we hope to promote our hometown's special night market snack culture to every corner of the world, so that more people will fall in love with this snack feast for ordinary people, and participate in this year-round food carnival, which is the most simple and true wish of every Shihlin member like Jason!