海友十全排骨 - Shilin District

Simple tasty local food for winter night. Very economical for Michelin star rated food!

I should've given a one star, but the flavor does remind me what we used to have just not as strong. Got attracted by those big pots out there and the fragrance. It was a long line when we started but they have quite a system to move along all the customers. One line is for takeout, the other is for sit in. Taking less than 15mins for us to get in. Due to limited seating,they will combine different group of customer together, then guide you to the seat. Less than a dozen items on the menu, most rely on the same soup base. Seating area has wrapped bamboo chopsticks, plastic spoon, napkins. I did wipe the table a bit by myself. They gave advice to get the rib one which is NT$10 more before you order like if you don't know how to get meat off the bone. Sounds logical,and care. Anyway,don't rely on Chinese translate and assume what are you getting on their famous ten spices medicine stock. Such as 排骨 at NT$90 is actually made from neck bone. 肋排 @NT$100 is ribs. Both barely has any meat left on the bones. On top of that , taste like made out of frozen neck bone. Soup is lightly sweet, quite favorable but bone was hard to deal with,no meat,chewy stuff , sharp tiny bones. And ribs was a joke. This is a stock not "rib soup" . You might get more meat on drum stick. But rib was their house brand. A total shame. I had doubt when I saw fresh pot of pork bone took out from the back in pale color,but I got direct to seating area and didnot see if they added into the soup. Now makes me wonder if they cook it seperately and mix together. There are also 雞腿(drumstick) soup @nt$100 ,羊肉(lamb)noodle soup at NT$150. Overall, this is enough for me ,consider a nice touch for a cold rainy day, if you never had it before. And price? I'll suggest to sell it as cup of tea instead. It is misleading .

You can smell the Chinese medicine before you see this restaurant which specialises in pork chop soup with Chinese medicine. It is supposed to heat up your body and keep you warm in winter - but with such tasty food who cares sweating a bit more in the summer?

▶ Recommend order 「十全藥燉肋排」for foreigner first time here. The rest on the menu are all tasted the same only with many bones. The 十全藥燉肋排 is some kind of Chinese herbal soup with ribs. This is probably the only time you will see ribs in Chinese/Taiwanese food. Because we don't have western "meat food culture". You can put the bones in the yellow plastic basket on the table.

Michelin recommendation and mine also . Good pork bones , I mean if I can say that bones are good haha ... meat was very delicious, soft and soup was with perfect taste not too salty not too sweet not too sour . Just perfect ?. I will go back to try sth else . They also have pork rice , I heard it’s very good and worth to try , you can do it . I don’t eat rice ? so I couldn’t . Price : 90 ntd

This is the best pork bone soup we had so far. We went to the other ones (even the one that got Bib Gourmand) and they were not as good as this soup! The broth had the right balance between the herbal fragrance and the delicate taste. The service was great. Both shop owner and staffs were really nice. Highly recommended! Location: Walk towards the inside of the night market on the main road. The store is on the left.

Good Chinese herbal soup. The meat is so tender and it's great to have it during winter time ! You can smells the soup just few miles away from the shop ! Usually very crowded at night time especially during winter. Recommend the mutton ribs soup, taste so great.

Tasty and delicious soup, however I suspect it’s quite loaded with MSG as I was left incredibly thirsty after drinking the soup. Not much meat from the spare ribs. Service was quite and fuss free. Do give it a try if you come to Shilin night market. One of the TOP rated stores. Affordable and not too expensive for this standard.