This worthy modern restaurant is a popular venue for weddings. It's a good place to try more elaborate restaurant-type dishes such as the delectable steamed sticky rice with mud crab (紅蟳米糕, hóngxún mǐgāo; NT$1300), which you can't find in small restaurants.
A Xia Restaurant
Tainan
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