April 05, 2008
冠宸食館
Wife's family prefers this one out of the many eateries on Yangmingshan serving down-home food featuring locally-grown vegetables. The restaurant courtyard is dressed up with a pond and some farm fowl to entertain the kids, but the makeshift tables and stools hark back to more humble origins.
A couple of plates of stir-fried vegetables like cabbage and kong-xin-cai are crispy and sweet thanks to the mountain-grown environment and fast, hot stir-fry of the restaurant woks. Shiitake mushrooms are lightly floured and fried along with basil leaves. A free-range chicken boiled then cleaved into chunks for dipping in the chili soy sauce.
The entire mountain was packed for the calla-lily season, and flower fields neighbor the restaurant. Behind us were a tableful of cyclists, quite admirable if they pedaled all the way, more for dodging the traffic than for the climb itself.
冠宸食館
台北市北投區竹子湖67號
02-28626408