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厚得福湯包麵食專賣店 (Hou De Fu) is on Chenggong onest Road in Kaohsiung’s Lingya District, within walking distance of the light rail Glory Pier stop. The menu covers soup dumplings, steamed dumplings, wontons and griddle cakes. For a meal that moves through savory, spicy and sweet, start with hot-and-sour soup, share Chili-Oil Wontons, then finish with Sweet Griddle Cake and Chocolate Flying Pancake. Black tea and soy milk are self-serve, and you can adjust the mixing ratio to your taste.
● Hot-and-Sour Soup
The hot-and-sour soup has a thick body with egg ribbons, finely shredded ingredients and scallions. One source specifically compares the spice, noting that it is not driven by a large amount of pepper but leans more toward ordinary chili heat, so it does not keep irritating the throat. Stir first to distribute the ingredients, then taste it plain to notice the balance of sourness, heat and thickening. If sweet cakes are coming later, the hot soup also resets the palate toward savory flavors.
● Chili-Oil Wontons
The original source uses the name “炒手,” so that wording is retained in Chinese identity. Each piece is plump, with folded wrappers around a substantial meat filling and clearly spicy red oil at the bottom of the plate. The reviewer found them filling and notably hot. Take little sauce with the first piece to test your tolerance, then gradually mix in more red oil. Greens and scallions bring freshness, while soy milk or soy-black tea can soften the effect of repeated spicy bites.
● Sweet Griddle Cake
Sweet Griddle Cake puts a sugar-cake-like sweetness into layered pastry. The exterior is pan-crisped while the inside stays soft and slightly stretchy. The reviewer was impressed on the first try and also notes that sharing among three people is about right, because too much may become a little rich. Tearing it open reveals thin layers and pockets of air; eaten hot, the contrast between crisp outside and soft inside is clearest. After hot-and-sour soup and Chili-Oil Wontons, the sweetness works as a distinct transition.
● Chocolate Flying Pancake
Chocolate Flying Pancake looks simple from the outside, but cutting it open reveals dark chocolate sauce between thin layers. The surface has golden-brown spots, the edges are crisp and the center remains slightly chewy. Chocolate sweetness spreads with the pastry, making it best shared slowly in small pieces. Although both this and the Sweet Griddle Cake are sweet endings, their textures differ: the flying pancake is thinner and crisper with concentrated filling, while the griddle cake is softer and more layered, so ordering both makes comparison easy.
For two to four people, start with Hot-and-Sour Soup and Chili-Oil Wontons as savory dishes, add one steamed item or wrap as a staple, then share Sweet Griddle Cake and Chocolate Flying Pancake. Both sweet cakes are best hot; if appetite is limited, try the softer Sweet Griddle Cake before the thin, crisp Chocolate Flying Pancake. Taste the self-serve drinks separately first, then mix them to find a comfortable ratio.
- Location:高雄市苓雅區成功一路214號, near the light rail Glory Pier stop.
- Type:Soup dumplings, steamed dumplings, wontons, wraps and freshly cooked griddle cakes.
- Recommended:Hot-and-Sour Soup, Chili-Oil Wontons, Sweet Griddle Cake, Chocolate Flying Pancake.
- Highlights:A broad selection of northern-style wheat dishes, with self-serve black tea, soy milk and condiments.
- Best for:Groups of two to four sharing dishes, and anyone who likes crisp pastries and filled wheat-based foods.
📌 Editor’s Summary
Hou De Fu’s strength is not a single signature item but the way soup, filled wheat dishes and freshly cooked cakes share one menu. Hot-and-Sour Soup opens with heat that does not aggressively catch the throat, Chili-Oil Wontons add substantial meat filling and red-oil spice, Sweet Griddle Cake is crisp outside and soft inside, and Chocolate Flying Pancake finishes with a thin crisp shell around chocolate sweetness. For a layered meal, control the sharing portions and eat the cakes as soon as they come off the griddle. After walking from Glory Pier, check the crowd first, then build a small shared table with one soup, one filled wheat dish and the two sweet cakes to cover the most memorable flavors without stacking too many similar starches.
