Quan Hai An Shrimp Restaurant

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Information

Address: #351, Dadun 7th St., Taichung City．Telephone: 04-23816070．Business hours: Monday-Friday, 16:30-02:00; Saturday-Sunday, 11:30-02:00．Website：link．Type of cuisine: Chinese．Traffic information: Ride on THSR and get off at Wuzi Train Station of Taichung. Then take a taxi or train to Dajing Train Station and walk to Chung Shan Medical University to ride on Bus #53 heading for Taiyuan Train Station. Get off at the intersection of Wensin Rd. and Siangsin Rd. and walk to Dadun 7th St. ．The restaurant accepts Visa, American Express, Mastercard and Discover.

Surrounding scenic spots

Wenxin Forest Park．Taichung Fulfill Outdoor Theater．National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts．Huizhong Temple．Park Lane/Eslite Bookstore


Known as “the pioneer of pepper shrimps,” Quan Hai An Shrimp Restaurant has been established by Wenxin Forest Park for more than two decades, a famous shrimp restaurant. This restaurant was initially a traditional shrimp pond, but because of exceptional cooking skills of the owner, Mr. Lai Chiou-ji, who attracted more gourmet goers with pepper shrimps, wine shrimps, and sesame oil shrimps. Later, the owner opened the restaurant.


Strip two back shells when a shrimp is alive, and then soak it in lemon juice before deep frying to provide the fresh and chewy taste.

The beautiful color under lighting explains the freshness of cabbage


Southern Taiwan is headquarters of shrimp farming, and to ensure the freshness of shrimps after catching from ponds, Mr. Lai tried his first restaurant in Kaohsiung in 1991. Later, he built his kingdom of shrimp restaurant on Poai 3rd Rd. in Kaohsiung. In lieu of improved technology, he solved shipment issue of fresh shrimps. Mr. Lai without hesitation opened more restaurants in Taichung, Taoyuan, and Kaohsiung. About 100- kilogram giant river shrimps are supplied daily from Kaohsiung and Pingtung via low temperature storage in oxygenized vehicles to shrimp tanks in restaurants around Taiwan to maintain the freshness.

Fresh shrimps with shells removed mix with pork. Fold in lard to make shrimp rolls. Deep frying gives the crisp taste.

Gourmet goers believe marble goby “tastes better than grouper and wild yellow fish,” and they are so right.


The secret of pepper shrimps is shrimp roe. Do not remove the head out but suck the roe out. It tastes like crab roe.

In Quan Hai An Shrimp Restaurant, you can taste not only female giant river shrimps but also authentic agricultural produce of Southern Taiwan.


Mr. Lai Yi-tang, the second-generation operator, said, in order to bring authentic Southern Taiwan shrimp dishes to customers in Central Taiwan, stories are created. Milkfish has been directly shipped by fish farmers; river shrimps come from branch creeks of Zenwen Reservoir caught by farmers during leisure time. Cured meat and salty pork touch heart of customers because they are the taste of granny’s cooking. The most popular baked egg dish uses eggs from countryside chicken farm run by the owner, a refresh and reliable resource with guaranteed quality. Furthermore, the restaurant also takes children into consideration and uses white shrimps to make its pizza. You can taste and see the considerate services of the restaurant.

Young second-generation owner, Mr. Lai Tang-yi, expressed his admiration and respects to his father and families.

Decoration here uses bamboo as the theme presenting the miniature of Taiwan’s architecture in early time, very attractive in indoor dim light.


【賞味老舖】 Among its many live shrimp dishes, undoubtedly the "pepper shrimp" is most representative, the origin of this tasty cooking technique dates back to the birthplace of indoor shrimp fishing, Tainan, when customers caught live shrimps but could not take them away, so the store would cook them for the customer; in order to escape the monotony of grilled shrimp, stores developed the pepper shrimp, whose popularity has made it become the norm when cooking shrimp.