刁民-酸菜魚 信義松仁店

📍 Xinyi District, Taipei City (near the MRT Xiangshan Station)
Recently popular restaurant | Modestly adjusted sour fish to fit Taiwanese tastes 🐟

Diao Min has two locations in Xinyi District, with the later opening Xinyi Songren store being relatively hidden, located on B1 of ATT Valley.

On weekdays, there is usually no need to queue; you can go directly to the counter to get a menu, and after ordering, you can enter the restaurant directly.

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Order items:
🍲 Secret Pot Sour Fish (NT$ 898) Large size
Add wide vermicelli, deep-fried dough sticks, and pork belly (NT$ 49 each):

Before the pandemic, when sour fish wasn't popular in Taiwan, I had eaten it at a chain restaurant in Shanghai. The oiliness, spiciness, and sourness there were at a level that I felt was hard for an average Taiwanese person to accept.

When I first tried Diao Min, I was worried, but luckily, I found it to be very mild sour fish 🤣 Although it was still quite oily, the sourness and spiciness were reduced significantly, similar to the sourness found in sour cabbage with pork dishes.

The soup was barely drinkable, but you could add pork bone white soup to mellow out the spiciness, and the texture of the fish was also quite good. It's a taste that I would miss after not having it for a while 🫶🏻

🪆 Muthang Cabbage (NT$ 90):
Vegetable dish cooked in broth, this time I felt the vegetable stems were still quite hard and not cooked until soft, so I wouldn't recommend it!