Guomao Lai Lai Breakfast

Review

Guomao Lai Lai Breakfast stands on Guofeng Street in Zuoying's Guomao community and, alongside Kuan Lai Shun, is one of the busiest military-village breakfast spots around the Guomao roundabout. Supertaste's Guomao food round-up includes it, describing long morning lines and regulars buying five or ten flatbreads at a time; a local blogger's 2026 post also calls it a traditional breakfast shop with excellent value.

Flatbread is the star, in three styles: long, sweet and savoury. Many online reviewers recommend the flatbread stuffed with a cruller and scallion egg, which is startlingly large. The pan-fried buns use old dough, and there are also steamed buns, crullers, egg crepes, scallion pancakes, millet porridge with brown sugar, black tea and soy milk. The egg crepe has a chewy skin with well-cooked egg, the millet porridge is praised as generous for the price, and the juicy pork buns are popular too.

Praise centres on low prices, big portions, a wide choice and a lively neighbourhood feel, and some even prefer it to the other famous shops nearby. Critics say the egg crepe with cruller is oily and the cruller not crisp enough, the pan-fried buns hold only cabbage and taste plain, and the drinks are average, with bitter black tea and thin soy milk. Popular buns disappear once sold out.

Sources differ on hours: Supertaste says 5 a.m. to 11 a.m., until noon at weekends; the blogger says until 1 p.m.; map listings show 04:45 to 11:30 with Tuesdays closed, so check before you go. The blogger recorded the egg crepe with cruller at NT$34; other items have no exact prices but are all inexpensive. Even on weekdays there may be a queue around 10 a.m., longer at weekends, so come early for the buns.

Good for anyone wanting a hearty, cheap military-village breakfast or a stroll and photos around Guomao. First-timers can order the flatbread with cruller and scallion egg or an egg crepe, plus a bowl of brown-sugar millet porridge; to take away, copy the regulars and buy a few extra flatbreads. If you dislike oily food, skip the egg crepe with cruller and choose a scallion pancake or a bun.