Lee Hu pastry, since 1882Photo: Sky_xe / CC BY-SA 4.0
Checked against official sources · updated · Takumi Yamada
Keelung’s own century-old bakery — pineapple cakes and curry pastries the locals queue for instead of the Taipei brands. Boxes are light, flat and cabin-proof. 90 Ren 3rd Road; hours are not published, phone 02-2422-3007.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr door to door, so even a tender day works.
- Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
Why Lee Hu pastry, since 1882 is famous
Lee Hu has sold pastries in Keelung since 1882, through the Qing, the Japanese colonial period and everything after. Its mung bean and meat-floss cakes are the town's standard gift, and the queue outside the original shop is a fixture rather than an event.
Three places, three different answers
The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Selling in Keelung since 1882, through the Qing, the Japanese period and everything after. Mung bean and meat floss are the two to carry.
Open in Google MapsClosest to the berthLianzhen Bakery連珍糕餅店A short walk away, and the one Keelung buys when Lee Hu has a queue round the corner.
Open in Google MapsWhere the 1 hr goes
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway, about 30 minutes after the ship arrives. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
about 10 minutes each way is the measured figure for walk about 5–15 min, on the miaokou block, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 40 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Each one is a finished day timed from the official timetables, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
2 hr 30 min for bothMiaokou Night Market crawl
Taiwan’s street-food canon ten minutes from the gangway — crab thick soup, one-bite sausages, the "nutritious sandwich" fried to order.
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2 hr 30 min for bothZhongzheng Park & the Guanyin
The white goddess of mercy has watched Keelung’s harbor since 1969 — climb through the temple terraces for the full panorama of your ship below..
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