Checked against official sources · updated · Takumi Yamada
Pleat your own soup dumplings, then eat the evidence with pork thick soup and boba — the tastiest classroom in Taiwan, worth the train ride in.
- If you would rather be guided, the operator here holds 5.0★ across 25 reviews.
- This needs 7 hr, so it only fits a 9-hour call or longer. On a shorter one it will cost you the ship, not the view.
- Book it before you sail. There is no tour desk at the pier and walk-up places are not a thing here.
Why Xiao long bao class in Taipei is famous
Xiao long bao are soup dumplings: the broth is set into jelly, folded into the filling, and melts as it steams. The pleating is counted, and eighteen folds is the standard a good shop holds to. Making them badly is easy, which is what makes the class worth doing.
Where the 7 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.
75 minutes each way is the measured figure for ~75 min door to door by train and mrt, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 4 hr 30 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Book it with a guide
Booked before you sail — there is no tour desk at the pier. Booking through this link supports the site.
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.
See · ~5h round tripJiufen lantern town
Gold-rush lanes stacked on a sea cliff, red lanterns lighting the teahouses at dusk — the town that launched a thousand postcards.
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Eat · ~1.5h, walkableMiaokou 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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See · ~5hYehliu Geopark
The Queen’s Head and a shoreline of mushroom rocks carved by wind and sea — geology doing sculpture.
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