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title: Wanghai Banai Restaurant (望海巴耐)
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# Wanghai Banai Restaurant (望海巴耐)

Places we stopped along the way　/　Hualien, Taiwan

A restaurant on a cliff at Yanliao, on Provincial Highway 11, about 20 minutes by car from central Hualien. The Pacific spreads out beyond the windows. It serves indigenous-style dishes and seafood. I ordered the recommended seafood fried noodles and a passion-fruit lemonade.

No. 22, Daqiao, Yanliao Village, Shoufeng Township, Hualien County, Taiwan

## This moment in the journey: A restaurant overlooking the sea

For lunch, a restaurant overlooking the sea of Hualien. Built on a cliff, Wanghai Banai (望海巴耐) has a dining room with its windows flung open and the ocean stretching endlessly beyond. On the glass door at the entrance, a menu listed indigenous dishes such as free-range chicken, stone-grilled meat, bamboo-tube rice and wild boar.

Since this is a restaurant by the sea, I ordered the recommended seafood fried noodles. In the kitchen, the cook was busy with a large pan. The plate arrived piled with big prawns and clams. The noodles, coated in the rich flavor of seafood stock, were truly delicious, a taste I could keep eating forever.

After the meal I went out to the terrace, leaned on the railing and gazed at the Hualien blue sea. The lemon juice so common in Taiwan came here as passion-fruit lemonade (百香檸檬), with the seeds floating in it. Soothed by Hualien blue and the refreshing lemon juice, I spent a slow, luxurious moment.

![Seafood fried noodles with prawns and clams](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/hualien/s136-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://travel.yam.com/article/129179

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