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Taiwan · 68 shops in the atlas.

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• Kuo Yuan Ye Taipei / Taiwan
  Kuo Yuan Ye's history begins with the Kuo family's 1708 migration from Fujian to Taipei, but the bakery itself dates to 1867, when Kuo Liang-chen built a small mudbrick shop in Shilin and named it after his ancestral hall back in Fujian. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lam Sam Yick (林三益) Datong
  A heritage calligraphy-brush maker that also applies its handcraft expertise to cosmetic brushes. Founded in Fuzhou in 1917, the family enterprise moved to Taiwan in 1946 and is now led by the fourth generation. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Mei-Dong Soy Sauce Taichung / Taiwan
  Mei-Dong has been brewing soy sauce by hand in Taichung's Dongshi township since 1928, rebuilding its wood-fired twin hearths after the 1999 earthquake destroyed the original vats. The family-run workshop, now in its third generation, still sources black soybeans from contracted Taiwanese farmers and welcomes visitors at its Dongqi Road address six days a week. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shi Jin Yu Muxiang Zhai Lukang / Taiwan
  Shi Jin Yu Muxiang Zhai, formerly known as Shi Jin Yu Sanfang, has made incense beside Lukang's Mazu (Tianhou) temple since 1756, during the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wang De Chuan Taipei / Taiwan
  Wang De Chuan traces to 1862, when Wang An Shang crossed from Jinjiang in Fujian and founded the first tea house in Tainan, then the capital of Taiwan. The Taipei flagship moved to Zhongshan North Road at the end of 2012. Oolongs from Lishan, Nantou and Mu Zha sit beside raw and ripe puer from Yunnan. Teaware and gift sets are sold alongside the leaf. store page → · open in the atlas →
• WangTea Shop (有記名茶) Dadaocheng / Datong
  A fifth-generation Dadaocheng tea factory and shop known for charcoal roasting and Taiwanese tea education. The family business was founded in 1890 and remains in Dadaocheng. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Chia Te Bakery Zhongshan
  Chen Tang-peng opened Chia Te in Taipei's Songshan district in 1975 after four years' training in Changhua. Its original and cranberry pineapple cakes won first prize at the Taipei Pineapple Cake Festival in 2006 and 2007 respectively. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sanmin Books Taipei / Online
  Sanmin has anchored Taiwanese bookselling and publishing since 1953 — floors of Chinese-language scholarship, literature and its own imprints. The serious reader's Taipei. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Simple Kaffa Taipei / Taiwan
  Berg Wu started selling coffee from a tricycle in 2009, two years before he opened Simple Kaffa in Taipei in 2011. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Wu Pao Chun Bakery Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (flagship)
  Wu Pao-chun opened his flagship bakery in Kaohsiung in November 2010, months after his rose-lychee-and-millet-wine loaf won the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, bread's world championship. The bakery still bakes and ships that signature loaf alongside a rotating range of European-style breads and pineapple cakes from its Kaohsiung base. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Gao Jian Bucket Shop (高建桶店) Dihua Street / Datong, Taipei
  Gao Jian Bucket Shop on Taipei's Dihua Street sells woven baskets and practical household goods. Its selection includes bags and bamboo food covers, alongside utensils for everyday use. Some items come from elsewhere in Southeast Asia, so shoppers seeking a Taiwanese-made piece should check the origin of the individual product. store page → · open in the atlas →
• HGT華剛茶業 (Hwa Gung Tea Company) Huagang, Lishan, Taichung, Taiwan
  HGT Hwa Gung Tea traces its roots to 1918 and is now run by a fifth generation, processing its own oolong at the Huagang factory, 2,500 meters up in the Lishan high-mountain region. It is the Michelin Guide's first global high-mountain tea partner. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tae Yeon Don Sun Cake Old Shop Taichung / Taiwan
  Tae Yeon Don has baked its malt-syrup-filled sun cakes on Ziyou Road in Taichung since 1989, when founder Lin Yi-feng opened it as the street's second sun cake shop, 40 years after the original 1949 location. It's now the oldest continuously operating shop among the many that later adopted the "Sun Cake Old Shop" name. store page → · open in the atlas →

• Amis Mochi (阿美麻糬) Hualien City
  Amis Mochi takes its name from the Amis indigenous community centered on Hualien and packages its chewy rice cakes as a souvenir line sold through its own shopfront and website. The catalog sticks to the peanut, sesame, and red bean fillings that define Hualien-style mochi rather than novelty variations. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Bomb Metal & Fry Jewelry Datong, Taipei
  A contemporary jewelry gallery and metalsmithing studio founded by Peggy Hung and Ting-Ting Tsao. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chenjingkai Office Da’an
  A small Taipei atelier for made-to-order brogues, loafers, derbies and minimalist leather shoes. Customers select soles, leather and laces before fitting; the shoes are made by hand in the adjoining atelier. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Chun Shui Tang Taichung / Taiwan
  Chun Shui Tang opened on Taichung's Siwei Street on May 20, 1983, under the name Yangxian Tea Shop, founded by Liu Han-Chieh. store page → · open in the atlas →
• CREALIVE DEPT. Taichung / Taiwan
  The Crealive shop in Taichung carries its own Filter017 label beside emerging design brands. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Dachun Soap (大春煉皂) Dadaocheng / Datong
  A heritage Taiwanese soap maker whose Dihua Street flagship sells plant- and herb-based soaps. The brand’s smiling-moon soap is part of Taiwanese collective memory; its flagship is at 190 Dihua Street in Taipei. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Dahuahang / Grandma’s Kitchen (大華行 竹木造咖) No. 161, Sec. 1, Dihua St., Datong Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  150+ years on site); 2016 Taipei shop-renewal turned the old grain/steamer wholesaler into a working bamboo-wood retail door (PeoPo 2026-06-30; VERSE). store page → · open in the atlas →
• Eslite Spectrum Songyan Xinyi
  Four-story culture-retail store in Taipei's Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, part of the Eslite chain — books, design goods, a glass-blowing studio and a basement cinema, 24-hour since 2023. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fembooks (女書店) 2F, No. 7, Ln. 56, Sec. 3, Xinsheng S. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  Opened 17 April 1994 as the first feminist bookstore in the Chinese-speaking world; designated a Taiwan Landmark of Women’s Culture in 2007 (Wikipedia; official about). store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fika Fika Cafe Taipei / Taiwan
  James Chen opened Fika Fika Cafe in Taipei in 2013, the same year he won both the espresso category and the overall title at the Nordic Roasting Championship — the first winner from outside the Nordic countries. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Fujin Tree 355 Songshan / Minsheng Community
  The original Fujin Tree select shop, curating fashion, accessories and lifestyle design in a leafy residential neighborhood. The official group page identifies this as Fujin Tree’s first store and lists the current Fujin Street address. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Full Mountain (富自山中) Datong
  Full Mountain (富自山中), registered as Cheng Jun Co. Ltd, sells dried fruit, nuts, grains, tea and baking supplies from 337 Huanhe North Road in Taipei's Datong District, alongside its own Vilson cereal and snack line. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Funfuntown Songshan / Minsheng Community
  A local select shop mixing vintage furniture, home goods, playful accessories and Taiwanese design. Its current official shop lists the Fujin Street address and limited weekly opening days. Established 2005. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Heichiao / Black Bridge Foods (黑橋牌食品) Tainan / Taiwan
  Taiwanese-style sweet-cured pork sausage (xiangchang) from the family maker that modernized the tradition since 1957. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ho Hsing 1947 (合興壹玖肆柒) No. 223, Sec. 1, Dihua St., Datong Dist., Taipei City 103, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  ShoppingDesign (18 May 2021): 1947 合興糕糰店 line; 2016 Dihua takeaway door by third generation Zheng Kuangyou and Ren Jialun. HouseTube (id SHOW, page dated 2026-08-25): Ren Renchang founded the Nanmen stall in 1947; first Dihua shop 2016; prints 迪化街一段223號. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Houshan Metalwork Studio (後山金工房) Hualien City
  Houshan Metalwork Studio runs hands-on silver jewelry-making sessions in Hualien, letting visitors hammer and shape their own ring, pendant, or earrings in a single sitting. Hualien County's cultural affairs bureau has featured the studio's work for connecting the region's Taiwan-jade craft tradition to contemporary jewelry design. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Hualien Zeng Shui-gang Handmade Mochi (花蓮曾水港手工麻糬) Hualien City
  Named for founder Zeng Shui-gang, this Hualien mochi maker traces its hand-pounded recipe to 1948 and belongs to the city’s long Zeng-family mochi tradition. It specializes in freshly made Taiwanese mochi and related sweets, and should remain distinguished from several similarly named Zeng-family shops in Hualien rather than being collapsed into them. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Huang Chi Stone (煌奇石業) Hualien City
  Huang Chi Stone runs a marble slab-cutting operation supplying raw stone and large slabs sourced from Hualien County's quarries. Its renovated factory showroom, covered by Taiwanese design press for a reception wall built from raw green jade-stone rock, opens the cutting plant to visitors rather than keeping it purely industrial. store page → · open in the atlas →
• inBlooom / 印花作夥 (印花樂) No. 248, Sec. 1, Dihua St., Datong Dist., Taipei City 103, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  Founded 2008 in Dadaocheng as a Taiwan-original print-fabric house; Dihua 248 is the brand’s only official flagship (inblooom.com; Dear b&b). store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jhen Tsang Stone (珍藏家石坊) Hualien City
  Jhen Tsang combines a jade and gemstone workshop with a retail shop, cutting and setting Hualien's local nephrite and marble into jewelry and carved pieces on site. It represents the small stone-craft shops clustered around Hualien's marble and jade trade rather than a large export operation. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jinpin Sauce Garden (金品醬園) Fenglin Township, Hualien County
  Jinpin Sauce Garden, based in Hualien's Fenglin township, is credited by a regional heritage-brand archive as the originator of the peeled pickled chili (剝皮辣椒) that became one of Hualien's signature preserved foods, a recipe traced to founder Chen Cheng-shih. The shop still bottles the chili as a packaged condiment sold as a county souvenir. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Jiulaifa Bakery Tainan / Taiwan
  Jiulaifa has hand-made traditional Tainan pastries like peng bing and sesame nougat from its shop on Ziqiang Street, across from the historic Kaiji Mazu Temple, since 1875. The bakery refuses wholesale distribution, selling only what it bakes itself, in person, by phone or through LINE Pay. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kamaro’an House Da’an
  Founded in 2013, Kamaro’an is a Taiwanese design house working with Indigenous Pangcah craft traditions in woven rattan, leather and natural materials. Its Da’an house brings those techniques into contemporary bags, objects and accessories, with pieces handwoven by Pangcah craftspeople and the brand’s own fieldwork rooted in eastern Taiwan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Kuo’s Astral Bookshop (郭怡美書店) Dadaocheng / Datong
  A family-run independent bookstore in a restored Japanese-era shophouse on Dihua Street. The family enterprise began here as Kuo Yi-mei general store in 1922 and was later converted into a bookstore by the founder’s grandson. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Li Ting Xiang (李亭香) Dadaocheng / Datong
  A heritage Taiwanese pastry shop selling traditional cakes, tea and gift boxes from its Dihua Street location. The Taipei city profile dates the shop to 1895 and lists current hours and address. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lin Hua Tai Tea Co. (林華泰茶行) Datong
  Lin Hua Tai is a tea merchant on Chongqing North Road in Taipei's Datong district that serves both retail and wholesale customers. The business dates to 1883, giving it a long commercial history within the city's tea trade. Its retail service allows individual shoppers to buy tea without treating the premises as solely a wholesale supplier. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Lin Mao Sen Tea Co. (林茂森茶行) No. 195-3, Sec. 2, Chongqing N. Rd., Datong Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  Fifth-generation Dadaocheng tea house from tea-farmer Lin Wanxing; current door is a registered tea factory/shop at Chongqing N. Sec. 2 No. 195-3 (official about; food-operator register). store page → · open in the atlas →
• Master Zeng Handmade Mochi (曾師傅手工麻糬) Hualien City, near Hualien Railway Station
  Founders Zeng Tai-chang and his wife left the motorcycle-repair trade to open this mochi shop near Hualien's train station, building it into a distinct local brand known for bamboo-tube-steamed "御竹糕" alongside standard peanut and sesame mochi. Pieces are sold at a flat per-item price rather than only in bundled gift boxes, a point local food blogs highlight as unusual for the souvenir strip. store page → · open in the atlas →
• MBMore Datong
  A printmaking shop and workshop offering letterpress, woodcut and silk-screen work, printed paper goods and classes. The current official site advertises 2026 workshops and lists the Nanjing West Road studio. store page → · open in the atlas →
• MOGU / Booday (蘑菇) Datong / Zhongshan Station
  A Taipei lifestyle label and shop for naturally dyed clothing, paper goods, accessories and everyday design. MOGU has operated since 2003 and currently lists its Nanjing West Road base in Datong. store page → · open in the atlas →
• moom bookshop Da’an
  An independent Taipei art and photography bookstore opened in 2016, specializing in photobooks and magazines from international independent publishers. The Da’an shop also hosts exhibitions and talks focused on photobooks. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Nantian / SMC Bookstore (南天書局) 1F, No. 14, Aly. 14, Ln. 283, Sec. 3, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 106019, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  Openbook: founded 1976 by Wei Dewen as Southern Material Center; Taiwan / Hakka / Indigenous / historical-map research. CTS News (26 Apr 2018): 40 years of Taiwan-history academic publishing and a Gongguan-alley walk-in scholars visit. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Onefifteen (初衣食午) Da’an
  A locally founded fashion and lifestyle concept store combining designer clothing, accessories, home fragrance, art and dining. The flagship opened in a 1950s house in Da’an in 2013 and remains the brand’s original Taipei location. store page → · open in the atlas →
• ORINGO Taichung / Taiwan
  ORINGO's Taichung Greenway store pairs a first-floor "Shoe Research Room," stocked with the brand's handmade leather men's and women's shoes, with a second-floor reading lounge of design and menswear books. Walk-in customers can browse and try on shoes at the Xiangshang Road location, which keeps posted hours and a phone line for fitting appointments. store page → · open in the atlas →
• P.Seven Yongkang Concept Store Da’an / Yongkang Street
  P.Seven develops perfumes around Taiwanese tea, forests and place-specific scent memories. The Yongkang concept store lets visitors smell the compositions directly and compare concentrations before committing to a bottle. store page → · open in the atlas →
• PAPERWORK (紙本作業) Taipei / Taiwan
  PAPERWORK (紙本作業) is a PAPERWORK describes itself in its own words as "a letterpress studio, based in Taipei, Taiwan. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Plain Stationery & Homeware (直物生活文具) Zhongzheng / Zhongxiao Xinsheng
  An independently owned stationery and homeware shop with an online store and a café-style Taipei location. Founded in 2013; its official social profile lists the current Zhongxiao Xinsheng address. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Pon Ding (朋丁) Zhongshan
  Pon Ding combines an art bookshop with coffee and exhibition space in a former three-storey apartment building in Taipei's Zhongshan district, opened in 2016 by Chen Yichiu and Kenyon Yeh. Its books cover art and photography alongside design and culture, complemented by a range of magazines and zines. Its catalogue also lists print and poster artworks alongside objects, and the shop issues publications under its own name. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Ri Xing Type Foundry (日星鑄字行) Datong
  A surviving traditional Chinese movable-type foundry with vast racks of lead characters and matrices. Established in 1969; the Ministry of Culture lists the Taipei address, hours and official site. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Shi Mei Yu Yuanlin / Taiwan
  Shi Mei Yu traces its founding to 1774, when Shih Chih-ting opened the original shop in Quanzhou, Fujian; a second generation later brought the business across the strait to Lukang, and it moved to its current home in Yuanlin, Changhua County, in 1971. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Since1938 Ruan-Q Mochi (軟Q麻糬) Hualien City
  Since1938 sells its "Ruan-Q" (soft and pleasantly chewy) mochi as Hualien gift sets, with the shop's own name marking the year it dates its recipe to. The line keeps to classic peanut and sesame fillings packaged for the gift-box trade centered on the city's train station. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Sorher Kaohsiung / Taiwan
  Sorher in Kaohsiung stocks European decorative objects from clocks and paintings to furniture and textiles. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Taiping Blue Taiping, Taichung / Taiwan
  Taiping Blue is an indigo-dyeing workshop and craft brand in the Toubiankeng Hakka community of Taichung's Taiping District, run by the Watersource Cultural and Educational Foundation. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tangshan Bookstore (唐山書店) B1, No. 9, Ln. 333, Sec. 3, Roosevelt Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  Official about (visited 2026): publisher 1982, walk-in 1984; Chen Longhao; 2026 is year 44. Veins of Taipei (8 Dec 2025): Gongguan basement humanities/social-science independent; same alley address. Liberty Times (18 Jan 2026): 43-year independent; 羅斯福路三段333巷9號B1. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TenRen Tea Taipei / Taiwan
  TenRen Tea traces to 1953, when Ming-Fong Tea Co. opened in Kangshan, Taiwan, before reorganizing under its current name in 1975. Now run by the founding family's third generation, it has grown into one of Taiwan's largest tea manufacturers. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tom Tailor (湯姆西服) Zhongzheng
  Tom's Tailor (湯姆西服) traces its origin to Shanghai in 1916, when city gentlemen were trading long gowns for Western suits, and moved to Taipei's Bo'ai district in 1945. The house follows the Shanghai tailoring school's sixteen-character rules through more than a hundred hand steps, cutting cloth from Scabal, Holland & Sherry, Dormeuil and Loro Piana. It describes itself as tailor to successive presidents and public figures. The shop is at 90 Bo'ai Road, Zhongzheng, Taipei. store page → · open in the atlas →
• TOOLS to LIVEBY Da’an
  A Taipei stationery boutique founded by graphic designer Karen Yang in 2013, mixing its own brass-and-steel tools with carefully selected global stationery classics. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Tzen Chi Mochi (曾記麻糬) Hualien City
  Taiwan's National Cultural Memory Bank archives the original storefront of this shop under the record "曾記麻糬創始店" (Tzen Chi Mochi founding store), tying it to the origin of Hualien's mochi trade rather than a later imitator. The shop still sells the traditional peanut, black sesame, and red bean lines that built its name, alongside newer flavors packaged for travelers passing through the city. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Waiting Room Zhongshan
  Waiting Room is an independent Taipei record and culture shop carrying local music, apparel, art books and band merchandise. It is a useful stop for Taiwan’s contemporary music and small-publisher scene as much as for records. store page → · open in the atlas →
• White Wabbit Records (小白兔唱片) Da’an
  An independent record shop and label focused on Taiwanese and international indie and alternative music. The official shop is active with 2026 releases and lists daily hours; the independent profile traces the store’s earlier roots to 1997. Established 2002. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yao De Herb (姚德和青草號) No. 55, Minle St., Datong Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan / Taipei / Taiwan
  Opened 1946 by Yao Dehe as a Yongle Market herb stall; still a working Minle St herb shop selling dried herbs plus bottled qingcao tea (PeoPo; Crossing). store page → · open in the atlas →
• Yong Xing Agricultural Implement Factory (永興農具工廠) Dadaocheng / Datong
  A century-scale farming-tool business that evolved into a durable kitchenware and household-goods shop. Many products are still made in the small workspace behind the Dihua Street shop. store page → · open in the atlas →
• Zaomu Ceramics Central District, Taichung
  A ceramics studio established in 2020, teaching hand-pinching, wheel-throwing, slab-building, surface decoration and glazing in single workshops and ongoing courses, alongside independent studio practice. store page → · open in the atlas →

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