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幸發亭蜜豆冰

If Taichung's dessert-shop culture back to the Japanese colonial period is part of this city's case, 幸發亭 is the primary source-backed example: a named founder, a specific 1938 date, and an invented dish (蜜豆冰) that Mirror Media credits as a Taichung-wide identity marker.

What to order
蜜豆冰 (honey bean shaved ice) -- named as the signature dish throughout the Mirror Media piece

What we know

Founded 1938 (as 辛發亭) by 陳溪, who adapted a Japanese-style 'four-fruit ice' into 蜜豆冰 (honey bean ice) with 10+ toppings, sold from a pushcart outside Taichung Station, per Mirror Media's opened 2018 feature
By 1943 had a permanent stall in Taichung's First Market (第一市場), reportedly serving close to 10,000 customers in a single day at its peak, per the same Mirror Media piece
First to add sliced apple -- then a luxury fruit -- to a shaved-ice dessert in Taiwan, per Mirror Media
Three generations of the same family have run branches of the shop, per Mirror Media's 2018 interviews with the second- and third-generation operators

Status

open

Address

臺中市北區健行路542號 (健行店)

Also at

臺中市北區北平路2段98-2號 (北平店)

Maker

陳溪, founder (1938); by 2018 run by second-generation 蔡豐筠 and third-generation 陳薇竹, per Mirror Media

Opened

1938

Last checked

2026-06-17

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