Located near Nantou County Yuchi Township Sun Moon Lake Toushe Huopen Basin, Mushan Water Garden is a small restaurant combining light meals, individual set meals, handmade desserts and coffee drinks.
The restaurant's biggest feature is its extensive use of fresh ingredients grown on-site and from local small farms. From vegetables and fruits to some cooking ingredients, you can taste the purest natural flavors, paired with the surrounding mountain scenery, allowing you to enjoy a leisurely meal while experiencing the charm of slow living in Nantou countryside.
Mushan Water Garden is located beside Provincial Highway 21A Sun Moon Lake Ring Lake Road, adjacent to the famous Sun Moon Lake attraction Toushe Huopen Basin. When visiting Sun Moon Lake, it is very suitable to stop by for lunch or afternoon tea.
Parking space is available in front of the restaurant, making it quite convenient to drive there.
Mushan Water Restaurant is a single-story building with no luxurious decor but an added rustic and relaxed atmosphere.
The dining environment at Mushan Water Garden features natural lighting and high ceilings, with an overall modern industrial style combined with light retro design. With minimal decoration, it gives a comfortable and relaxed living feel.
Wooden furniture, gray cement elements, and large window views complement each other, with greenery outside filling the restaurant with a healing atmosphere.
The main seating area uses wooden retro dining chairs paired with porcelain tile tabletops featuring floral patterns, simple yet full of texture.
In addition to table seating, the restaurant also features a Japanese-style low sofa lounge area.
The low sofa paired with wooden pallet coffee tables and warm-toned rugs creates a living-room-like relaxed atmosphere, perfect for gatherings with friends or quietly enjoying the afternoon.
The display shelves feature the shop's own brewed products and some small decorations full of life, adding warmth to the space and showcasing the owner's attention to living aesthetics.
This time we ordered the Green Onion Mushan Fragrant Chicken Leg Steak Set Meal
Side dishes are adjusted daily based on available ingredients, so every visit brings different surprises.
One of the side dishes is Cold Mixed Overcat. The overcat is blanched and chilled, retaining its crisp and tender texture, then drizzled with mayonnaise and topped with crushed cola nuts for added aroma and crunch, resulting in rich layers of flavor.
The other two side dishes are stir-fried tofu skin and loofah. The Toushe Huopen Basin area around Sun Moon Lake is known for loofah, so the shop uses local fresh ingredients. The loofah tasted that day was very fresh, sweet, juicy, and tender, allowing one to savor the natural deliciousness of local vegetables.
The main dish, Green Onion Mushan Fragrant Chicken Leg Steak, has a flavor somewhat similar to scallion oil chicken. The chicken leg meat is tender and delicate, topped with the shop's special green onion sauce. The scallion aroma is natural without being overpowering, offering a refreshing and easy-to-eat seasoning that highlights the chicken's own freshness and sweetness.
The drink included with the set meal is Sun Moon Lake Black Tea. The tea has a warm, smooth aroma with a subtle aftertaste of sweetness, perfect to pair with the set meal and bringing the entire meal to a perfect close.
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