Li Ting Xiang Bakery
×Traditional Pastries (peanut nougat, pingxi cakes)
花生軟糖・平西餅
Why you must eat itPeanut nougat (huasheng ruantang), a soft candy worked through with groundnuts, pulled from a block of malt sugar and cut to order. It's soft enough to stick to your teeth, and the toasted peanut and plain sweetness spread out. The signature pingxi bing is a traditional cake, thin skin baked around a filling. There are also sun cakes, herb-filled sweets and turtle-shaped good-luck cakes — old-style Taiwanese baked goods laid out in a row. Buy one at the front and eat it as you walk, or take a box home as a gift. The dry sweetness makes a good palate change after the salt of the swordfish soup and pork bun.
Li Ting Xiang, said to date to 1895, is an old Dadaocheng pastry shop with its flagship on Dihua Street. It has kept making Taiwan's traditional han bing — Chinese-style baked cakes — and also handles sweets used for weddings and festivals. In recent years a younger generation has taken it on, keeping the old methods while adding gift-friendly items. There are live demonstrations out front, where you may see the peanut nougat being pulled. Dihua Street gathers old shops of dried goods, tea and cakes, so eating and gift-hunting can be done together. Many keep well, so they suit gifts. Hours are a guide; confirm on the spot.
- Nearest
- Dihua St Sec 1 (near Yongle Market)
- Hours
- 09:00-20:30 頃
- Price
- NT$20–60 each