A Trip down Tunhua Road
--Taipei's avenue of food, fashion and culture

Whether you're in Taiwan for business or pleasure, even if just making a brief stopover, you're more than likely to visit Tunhua Road--Taipei's most diverse, fashionable and international boulevard.

Green and lovely, Tunhua Road is one of Taipei's most diverse, fashionable and cosmopolitan locations--a place where nature and modernity fuse.

Tunhua runs due south from Sungshan Domestic Airport, linking up at its southern end with the Second Northern Freeway which connects Taipei to Hsinchu. Multinational corporations and financial companies fill the office blocks that line Tunhua, alongside upscale department stores and hotels. Everywhere you look there is evidence of Taiwan's vitality: of her people's purchasing power, economic clout and all-round prosperity. 

From North to South, Tunhua bisects the major East-West arteries of Taipei: Minchuan East Road, Minsheng East Road, Nanking East Road, Pateh Road, Civic Boulevard, Chunghsiao East Road, Jen-ai Road, Hsinyi Road, and Hoping East Road. These roads in turn provide direct access to everywhere else in the city. Take your bearings from Tunhua Road, and you need never get lost in Taipei. 

As well as being a key transportation axis and playing an important role in the city's financial, commercial and international life, Tunhua Road--and the side streets that open on to it--is home to numerous first class restaurants offering traditional fare from every region of China, alongside the delicacies of Taiwanese cooking: a fusion of tradition and modernity that captures the tastes of the New Taiwanese. Chinese people care a lot about food, and this is one respect in which Taiwan is uniquely blessed, possessing a culinary culture that draws on traditions from all over China. If you want to know what kind of culture is taking shape in 21st-century Taiwan, and don't have too much time to spare, you couldn't do much better than check out the eats along Tunhua Road.

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