Bangka Qingshui Temple (艋舺清水巖祖師廟)

The experience

Founded in 1787 by Anxi immigrants to house incense carried from Qingshui Rock in Fujian, finished by 1790 and rebuilt in 1817 after typhoon damage. One of Wanhua's "big three" temples alongside Longshan and Tianhou, it keeps mid-Qing carpentry the other two have lost. It sits at the end of a lane of old houses on Kangding Road, a few minutes north of Longshan Temple station, and opens daily from 6am to 9pm.

Wanhua's third great temple, with 617 reviews to Longshan's forty-eight thousand.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.