Milkfish & congee · Anping
Wang Shih Fish Skin Dishes
王氏魚皮
MICHELIN Guide Taiwan · Bib Gourmand 2022–2023
Selected as a Bib Gourmand in 2022–2023; not in the 2026 selection.
Photo: bryan... from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0Representative photo of Milkfish skin soup, not taken at this shop.
An early-opening Anping shop run by a former milkfish farmer. It is best known for milkfish skin with a thin layer of flesh, served in soup or over braised pork rice.
What to order
Photo: 迷惘的人生, CC BY-SA 2.0魚皮湯
Milkfish skin soup
Milkfish skin cut with a thin layer of flesh still attached, blanched in a stock of onion, fish, chicken and pork bones. The owner is a former milkfish farmer and the fish comes from Qigu each morning.
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Photo: Blowing Puffer Fish, CC BY 2.0
Photo: Sin-siōng, CC BY-SA 4.0鹹粥
Tainan savoury congee
Milkfish congee with a sweet broth and rice grains that keep their bite.
About this dish →On the itinerary: Dutch Formosa: Anping to Chihkan
Sights nearby
安平開臺天后宮Anping Kaitai Tianhou Temple
A Mazu temple right by Anping Old Fort, rebuilt in the 1960s to bring back statues that had spent decades in other Anping temples.
安平古堡(熱蘭遮城)Anping Old Fort (Fort Zeelandia)
The site of Fort Zeelandia, the Dutch East India Company's headquarters on Taiwan. Come for the 17th-century brick wall wrapped in banyan roots and the small museum on the colony.
原英商德記洋行Former Tait & Co. Merchant House
A 19th-century trading house from Anping's treaty-port years, now a small museum. The Anping Tree House is directly behind it.
Nearby places to eat
文章牛肉湯Wen Zhang Beef Soup
Popular late-night beef soup house using fresh local beef, also known for stir-fried beef tongue.
周氏蝦捲台南總店Chou's Shrimp Roll (Main Store)
Anping's best-known shrimp roll shop, wrapping the filling in caul fat before frying.
謝掌櫃Xie Shopkeeper
Anping seafood spot best known for a loaded milkfish-and-seafood congee and salt-steamed fish.