Curator
Mei Chao
Covers Da’an · Dadaocheng · Zhongshan
Tea buyer turned curator, vouched for by Inês. I grew up between Dadaocheng's dried-goods lanes and Da'an's back-alley cafés. I look for the rooms that make you lower your voice, and the pots worth waiting for.
On their list
Qingtian Tea House
A wood-and-rain tea room down a Da’an lane, where a single pot can hold an entire afternoon.
Fujin Roast
Serious filter coffee on Taipei's most walkable tree-lined street.
Marginal
A standing-room wine bar pouring Taiwanese and low-intervention bottles you will not find twice.
Dihua Rooms
Five rooms above a restored merchant house in the old herb-trading quarter.