Originally Posted by bocastephen

From the MRT station walk past the Mister Donut to the street anchored by the excellent Taiwanese fried chicken shop, and keep working your way up that street making sure you stop for fried squid along the way as well as fried chicken, fresh squeezed sugarcane juice and sliced guava (yes you can eat cut fruit sold from a stand here and it's perfectly safe) - along the street is a german-themed dessert cake shop with some nice treats, and a famous dumpling soup shop across from it.

At the top of the street, you can hop a bus to the marina/bridge area to walk around, then take a boat back to the Danshui dock which is the backside of that narrow street - there are many more food stands here including delicious roasted squid (watch out for the ink that can squirt) and a famous local Turkish ice cream shop whose owner loves to have fun teasing customers. You'll see lots of people walking around with super tall soft ice cream cones from various shops, which is a local specialty.

Before getting on the MRT back, stop at Mister Donut - everything they sell blows away Dunkin, Krispy Kreme and even Tim Horton - they're an old US brand that went out of business, but was bought by Japanese investors who reinvented the brand in Asia.