Yuan Fang Guabao (源芳刈包) operates from stall 161 inside Huaxi Street Night Market in Taipei’s Wanhua District. Taiwanese food writer Maomi reports that the shop opened in 1955 and that owner Wu Huang-yi works alongside second- and third-generation family members. The stall also shares an indoor seating area with the neighboring storefront.
Gua bao is a folded steamed bun filled like a sandwich. In Taiwan, it is also traditionally eaten at year-end banquets and around Tomb Sweeping Day as a food associated with good fortune. Yuan Fang fills its buns with braised pork belly, house-made preserved mustard greens, sweetened ground peanuts, and cilantro. Customers can request fattier or leaner pork.
Both source articles present a bun and soup as the natural order. Girls_foodie chose four herbs soup (四神湯), with pork intestine and Job’s tears in a mild broth carrying ginger and rice wine flavors. Maomi recommends the mixed soup, which adds several cuts of pork offal to a similarly light, rice wine-scented broth.
The MICHELIN Guide’s current 2026 listing gives Yuan Fang Guabao a Bib Gourmand. It lists the stall as open from 11:30 AM to 8 PM Tuesday through Sunday, with Monday as its regular closing day.