August 3, 2026
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Table Notes rounds up the week's Taiwan food and travel news from Chinese- and English-language sources. Dates, prices, and promotions change quickly; check the linked source before planning around one.
The 2026 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition closed August 3 with 122,900 admissions across four days—hotel vouchers sold at half price, Bib Gourmand jade sheng jian bao sold out by 3pm on day one, and visitors learned which stalls are worth seeking at their permanent addresses. Creative Expo Taiwan opened the same week with a month-long free show in a newly restored heritage building.
This week in brief
- Sweet Honey, the Netflix chef's Cantonese dim sum restaurant, opens in Zhongshan this month
- Taiwan logged 4.29 million visitors Jan–June, up 2.3%; growth came from Southeast Asia and India
- Taiwan Culinary Exhibition closes after four-day run, drawing around 123,000 people
News & Openings
Netflix chef Jung Ji-sun brings Sweet Honey to Taipei this month 甜蜜蜜
August 2026 (exact date not yet announced)
Chef Jung Ji-sun, the "queen of Cantonese dim sum" from Netflix's *Culinary Class Wars*, is opening Sweet Honey's first overseas location in Zhongshan District this month, joint Taiwan–Korea operation, month-long training program completed in July. The menu carries over signature dishes from the brand's two Seoul branches: mala butter shrimp, crispy rice-crust soup, seafood dumplings, basil siumai and cheung fun. Taipei is increasingly the first overseas stop for Seoul's queue restaurants.
Taiwan logged 4.29 million visitors first half of 2026, up 2.3% 上半年來台旅客429萬人次
January–June 2026
The Tourism Administration reported 4,294,589 international arrivals January–June 2026, up 2.3% year-on-year. Japan was the largest source market, followed by Hong Kong and South Korea. Arrivals grew more than 9% from the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, the United States and India; arrivals declined from Hong Kong and Macau, Malaysia, the UK, Japan and China. The Southeast Asian and Indian growth versus the Japanese and Hong Kong softness is a real shift, and it has practical implications for what languages and cuisines Taiwan's tourist-facing businesses are catering to.
Deals & Promos
Milksha extends Vanilla Cloud season with NT$20 tea add-on 迷客夏香草雲朵季
August 5–11 · NT$20 per tea add-on
Buy any Vanilla Cloud series drink at a regular Milksha store between August 5 and 11 and you can add a cup from the pure-tea series for NT$20. The offer stacks, so multiple add-ons are allowed on one order. In-store purchase only; the Lukang Zhongshan branch is excluded.
August hand-shaken tea deal cluster across four chains 8月手搖飲優惠
Various, August 3–31 · KEBUKE: free topping; COZY TEA: BOGO pure tea Aug 8–9; WooTea: 35% off via foodpanda; Kung Fu Tea: NT$119 pair Aug 10–15
Four chains are running August promotions alongside the already-logged CoCo foodpanda BOGO. KEBUKE: free plum jelly topping with any drink through August 12. COZY TEA: buy-one-get-one on pure teas when you buy from the cloud-milk-cap or smashed-lemon-tea series, August 8–9 only. WooTea: 35% off hand-shaken drinks every day via foodpanda through August 31. Kung Fu Tea: watermelon oolong plus oolong latte pair for NT$119, August 10–15, in-store and own-delivery only.
Convenience-store coffee price war rolls into August 超商咖啡優惠
Late July through August 7 and beyond · Late July through August 7 and beyond · Many Buy-One-Get-One offers and discounts
All three major convenience-store chains are discounting coffee simultaneously. 7-ELEVEN: CITY series e-vouchers buy-one-get-one via LINE Gift, weekday evening "Happy Hours" BOGO through August 7. FamilyMart: single-origin coffee and oat-milk latte buy-one-get-one via app, lattes as low as NT$25. Hi-Life: extra-large americano and latte buy-one-get-one in store, app "coffee bank" buy-30-get-30.
McDonald's Taiwan: nine app coupons, Mini Mac blind box from Aug 12 麥當勞
Coupons August 3–9; Korean burgers to August 5; blind box from August 12 · Korean burger combo NT$245; blind-box meal NT$99 (app/delivery only); 2026 Sweetheart Card NT$39 (valid to March 31, 2027)
Nine coupons run August 3–9 on the McDonald's Taiwan app: free medium fries on orders over NT$150, four free Chicken McNuggets with any Extra Value Meal, free hash brown with any à-la-carte breakfast item, NT$38 cold-drink buy-one-get-one. Korean-import garlic burgers continue through August 5, combo with Chocolate Crunch McFlurry NT$245. From August 12, a NT$99 Mini Mac blind-box meal (main, fries, drink, random figure from an eight-design series) is available via app mobile-order or McDelivery 2.0 only.
Festivals & Events
Taiwan Culinary Exhibition closes after four-day run 2026台灣美食展
July 31–August 3
The 2026 Taiwan Culinary Exhibition drew roughly 122,900 admissions over four days at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, up about 18% year-on-year. Fourteen MICHELIN Bib Gourmand restaurants ran stalls—滬舍餘味 made 5,000+ pork sheng jian bao and 700 jade sheng jian bao, the jade version selling out before 3pm on opening day—and hotel dining vouchers sold at steep discounts: Grand Hotel's golden-dragon room voucher at 47% of list, Chateau de Chine glamping package at 24%. The Bib stalls and their permanent addresses are the real takeaway for visitors who missed the show.