Fuduxin’s supper comes with an honest premise: after midnight there is no “kitchen” here, only convenience stores. So this piece runs by the clock — 10 pm, 11:30 pm, 1 am — what you can eat in each window and where to head.
Touqianzhuang station is on the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line, exit at No. 18 Siyuan Rd. The Fuduxin redevelopment zone is to the north; old Xinzhuang’s blocks are to the south. Nearly every supper answer is south.
22:00 The mall empties, the bistros stay open
Honghui Plaza’s restaurant floors close around ten, and the cinema crowd drifts toward Xinbei Blvd. For hot food in this window, Siyuan Rd is the main line.
Village Bistro 村餐酒館 at No. 311 Siyuan Rd, 1F, 4.8 stars, 140-plus reviews, for people who left the cinema without a proper dinner; Unicorn Cafe & Bar 餐酒館 at No. 482, 170-plus reviews, 4.7 stars, coffee and drinks on one menu. 左轉靠右咖啡酒吧 at No. 6-1 Fuhui Rd beside Touqianzhuang station, close to 500 reviews, 4.5 stars, two minutes from the exit — the drink nearest the MRT at this stop.
IFNIGHT BISTRO INFINITE 餐酒館 at No. 11 Toucheng St, 170-plus reviews, 4.7 stars, the name is the opening hours; JOINN Cafe & Bar at No. 160 Zhongping Rd, 1F, 200-plus reviews, 4.4 stars, a lower rating for the area, the upside being plenty of seats and no wait.
Prices: bistros NT$400-600 a head, NT$300 or so a glass. No booking needed in this window; on weekdays you walk in.
23:30 Izakaya last orders, braised snacks and stir-fry take over
Half past eleven is the dividing line.
成 日式居酒屋 at No. 14 Xingfu Rd, 400-plus reviews, 4.7 stars — Japanese options around Touqianzhuang are few and this is one of them; last orders are whatever the door says, so be in by 11. Cow杯居酒屋 at No. 570 Zhonggang Rd, 1,300-plus reviews, 4.8 stars, at the Siyuan Rd end of Zhonggang Rd, same rule: before 11.
After last orders, the stalls take over. The stir-fry around the junction of Xingfu Rd Sec. 1 and Zhongyuan Rd runs into the small hours; braised snacks and fried chicken on the station side of Siyuan Rd are standard station fare; congee with side dishes on the old-street side is how old Xinzhuang finishes a night. None of these stalls are in the registry, so only the category, no names; to pick one, look at the queue — the one with a line at 11:30 on a Friday or Saturday is usually right.
The position for this window: do not go looking for food on the redevelopment side of Fuduxin, Xinbei Blvd and Zhongyang Rd. After 11:30 the streets are dark apart from convenience stores.
01:00 Two options left
Fuduxin at 1 am: bistros closed, half the stalls packed up. Two roads remain.
First, massage. 重按族spa活絡館-新莊按摩 at No. 67 Zhongyuan Rd, 4.8 stars, 970-plus reviews, five minutes on foot from Touqianzhuang station; 優慢解壓所 新莊 at No. 143 Zhongyuan E. Rd, a full five stars, 2,000-plus reviews, the most-reviewed massage on the Fuduxin side; 逗Doll Spa新莊幸福一店 at No. 349 Siyuan Rd, 600-plus reviews, 4.9 stars, mostly by appointment. Whether a late slot exists is a phone call, not a walk to a closed shutter.
Second, old Xinzhuang. Touqianzhuang to Xinzhuang station is one stop, but the last train has gone: a cab is five minutes and NT$100-odd. The izakaya strip on Xinzhuang Rd and Zhongzheng Rd was covered in the Fuduxin piece, the temple-street stalls in the Temple Street piece; not repeating either. Xinzhuang versus Sanchong for supper is in the New Taipei supper battle.
Transport and one warning
Zhonghe-Xinlu Line last train around midnight, Touqianzhuang to Taipei Main Station fifteen minutes. Fuduxin parks easier than old Xinzhuang, with garages around Honghui, but after drinks you do not go back for the car; designated driver or cab, around NT$300 back to Taipei.
One warning: a special trip from Taipei to Fuduxin for supper does not pay. Supper density is in old Xinzhuang; Fuduxin’s strengths are dinner, a film and a massage — finish before midnight, go home.
Lists on Xinzhuang bars and bistros and Xinzhuang massage and spa; district map on the Xinzhuang guide.