Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne

Fujin Tree offers high quality Taiwanese dishes with a modern twist, optionally paired with champagne. We went to the original Songshan location. Apparently a month after our visit, they opened a new location inside Taipei 101!

Fujin hold one Michelin star, one of thirty restaurants in Taipei to have such honor. The founder of the Fujin Tree Group, Jay Wu had spent time in the U.S., Canada, and Japan before coming back to Taiwan. He wanted to “advertise Taiwanese food and drink, businesses, and culture to the world and to bring foreign vitality and inspiration back to Taiwan.”

For food, this meant showing the public that Taiwanese food was not just about “fast” and “casual” street food, but could also be elegant, slow, and enjoyed with champagne.

Our meal here with food writer Nina Simonds (plus our photo above) was even featured in a Boston Globe article titled 50 Years Later I’m Still Falling for Taipei!

The ambiance inside is warm, casual, and comfortable.

We began with this colorful dish of pickled red guava and pickled plum (ume), a bright and refreshing way to start the meal.

Wax (or rose) apple stir fried with seasonal greens was a surprisingly combination, but tasty, light and refreshing! 季節野菜炒蓮霧

This was one of my favorite dishes: fresh oysters stir fried with garlic and fried cruller (油條蒜蓉鮮蛤). It reminded me of an oyster omelet, but with a different texture.

Taiwan has such abundant vegetables that you don’t find anywhere else. This aquatic plant, called shui lian 水璉 (known as crested floating-heart in English, or “Nymphoides hydrophylla”), is another favorite. Here, it is stir fried with pork and the salted seed from the Cordia tree. 樹子炒水蓮

Another fantastic dish was their pickled turnip egg omelet. It was super fluffy, tender, and delicate.

Dongpo pork with candied dates was beautifully executed, with melt in your mouth blocks of pork belly.

Finally, Mullet Roe Fried Rice 烏魚子炒飯. Mullet roe is another very local speciality of Taiwan.

Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne – Thoughts

All in all, we really enjoyed our meal here. My favorite dishes were probably the stir fried oysters + cruller and the pickled turnip egg omelet. The food is simple and “homestyle” on the one hand, yet is also elegant and refined. Champagne is indeed the perfect complement!

I would definitely come back!

Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne
17, Lane 199, Dunhua North Road,
Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan

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Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne

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