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The Shenkeng Old Street () is an old street in
Shenkeng District Shenkeng District () is a rural district in central New Taipei City in northern Taiwan. Formerly an agricultural and mining town, it is now famous for its numerous tofu restaurants and vendors. History The area is first recorded as the pre ...
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New Taipei New Taipei City is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality located in northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 3,974,683 as of 2022, making it the most populous city of Taiwan, and also the second largest s ...
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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
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History

In the 1980s, local residents campaigned against the demolition of the buildings along the street as part of the proposed road widening and redevelopment project. In 2010, a large-scale restoration project began. The management committee of the old street was established in 2014. In 2013, a regulation regulating the management of the old streets in New Taipei was enacted, enabling the committee to collect funds to preserve the heritage buildings of the old street.


Features

The street is famous for its
tofu Tofu (), also known as bean curd in English, is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into solid white blocks of varying softness; it can be ''silken'', ''soft'', ''firm'', ''extra firm'' or ''super f ...
-related food, such as tofu gourmet, tofu snacks and tofu popsicle from various types of tofu.


Transportation

The street is accessible by taxi from Muzha Station of
Taipei Metro Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), branded as Metro Taipei, is a rapid transit system serving the areas of Taipei and New Taipei in Taiwan, operated by the government-owned Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, which also operates the Maokong Gondo ...
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See also

*
List of roads in Taiwan This is a list of roads in Taiwan. Taipei City * Civic Boulevard * Dihua Street * Dunhua Road * Fuxing Road (Taipei), Fuxing Road * Guangfu Road * Heping Road * Jianguo Road (Taipei), Jianguo Road * Keelung Road * Ketagalan Boulevard * Mins ...
* List of tourist attractions in Taiwan


References

Streets in Taiwan Transportation in New Taipei {{taiwan-road-stub