Irrawaddy Myanmar Restaurant

Hualien


Popular for years, this comfortable family restaurant is run by a jovial Burmese gentleman, but cuisine covers wider Southeast Asian bases with good Thai tom yam (spicy shrimp soup), lemon fish and coconut chicken.

The restaurant is just west of the city centre, across the bridge on Rte 193 and forking left where the road splits 250m later. Look for the red lanterns in small fronting trees.


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