"There’s been a French-pastry boom in Taipei in the last decade, in part because many local pastry chefs who trained in Paris returned home to open their own space. Yu’s chocolates are no doubt the best in the city and the space is arranged like a jewelry shop, washed in an elegant turquoise blue. Keep an eye out for cake made out of a passionfruit milk-chocolate mousse and fruit gelee draped over a delicate hazelnut-praline crunch. [$$]" - Clarissa Wei