Taiwanese Breakfast 早餐店 Miko

Taiwanese Breakfast 早餐店 Miko

Location: Traditional breakfast store is all over Taiwan. This one is near Daan Road, Taipei.

Instead of coffee and donuts in the US, in Taiwan, the Breakfast stores are pretty simple and delicious. The traditional Taiwanese breakfast stores usually provide freshly made breakfast sandwiches, Taiwanese egg pancake (蛋餅)(sorry, not the best translation), burger (it’s actually like sandwich but in the burger buns), and beverages.

My favorite sandwich is the egg sandwich with pork sōng (肉鬆). It is so simple but really delicious. It is mostly because of the freshly cooked pan fried egg. There are two layers, one with egg and pork sōng in between and another with cucumber. The egg is perfect with crispy egg white and slightly raw egg yoke taste great with the warm toast. The usually boring cucumber actually gives the sandwich crunchiness and taste of freshness. Although the sandwich looks small, it’s actually pretty filling.

The egg pancake (蛋餅) is actually egg wrap in the flour pancake(the kind of pancake you get from Chinese restaurant). What they do is basically pour the egg on top of the thin pancake. After the egg is cooked, they wrap it up with the fillings you picked. You can wrap cheese, bacon, corn, and anything you can think of in the egg pancake. The one I have here is the original one which have no filling. The scallion in the egg gives it some Taiwanese taste. I like the combination of the softness from the egg, the chewy pancake, and the crispy edges.

What attracts people to stop by here every morning before heading to school or work is not the fancy caramel macchiato but the fresh sandwich and a warm welcome from the breakfast store owner.