Beef soup · West Central
A Cun Beef Soup (Baoan Road)
阿村牛肉湯（保安路）
MICHELIN Guide Taiwan · Selected restaurant 2024–2026
Photo: Sinchen.Lin, CC BY 2.0Representative photo of Tainan beef soup, not taken at this shop.
Baoan Road beef soup shop running since 1968, open mainly from before dawn to midday. Hand-sliced beef from three or four Taiwanese cuts is partly cooked by hot broth made from beef bones and vegetables.
What to order
Photo: Tianmu peter, CC BY 3.0牛肉湯
Beef soup
Several cuts of raw beef cooked by the hot broth, dipped in thick sweet soy sauce with shredded ginger.
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Photo: bryan... from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0高麗菜炒牛肉
Beef stir-fried with cabbage
The stir-fry the shop recommends, made with the same fresh beef as the soup.
About this dish →Sights nearby
藍晒圖文創園區Blueprint Culture & Creative Park
A cluster of old court and prison staff houses on Ximen Road turned into small design shops and cafés, entered past a giant blueprint mural.
臺南市美術館Tainan Art Museum
The city art museum in two buildings near the Confucius Temple: a 1930s police headquarters and a new building by Shigeru Ban.
林百貨Hayashi Department Store
A five-storey department store from 1932, Tainan's first building with a lift, topped by a rooftop shrine. It trades as a department store again, with cafés and exhibitions on local crafts.
Nearby backups
Closed, or the queue too long? These are close by and open at the same time of day.