Gate-side snacks at TSA Terminal 1: 7‑Eleven keeps you moving
This 7‑Eleven sits inside Terminal 1 at Taipei Songshan Airport, past security, and runs roughly 06:00 to 22:00 depending on the day. It’s the quick fix when you don’t want a sit-down meal before short hops to places like Penghu or Kinmen.
Pricing tracks local street levels: onigiri and rice balls around NT$30–40, tea eggs at roughly NT$12 each, instant noodles mostly under NT$50, and bottled drinks in the NT$25–45 range. You can throw together a filling snack-and-drink setup for under NT$100 if you’re watching costs.
Food options stay standard Taiwan 7‑Eleven: bento lunchboxes in the NT$75–95 range, microwave pasta and curries, refrigerated sandwiches, onigiri, and a small hot case with sausages and fish cakes. Coffee machines pour hot lattes and Americanos in multiple sizes, and you’ll normally find cartons of soy milk and Yakult-style drinks in the fridge next to the bottled water.
It’s not a big footprint by city standards, so stock thins out during morning bank departures around 07:00–09:00 and again in the early evening peak around 17:00–19:00. Expect a short queue of 4–10 people at the single main register in those windows, especially when several domestic flights out of Terminal 1 board within 30 minutes of each other.
On the non-food side, you get last-minute travel basics: power banks, charging cables, pens, and small toiletries typically in the NT$50–300 range. Prepaid SIM cards sometimes appear in the glass case near the counter, but don’t count on it as your only mobile plan option at TSA.
Tip: grab your bento or noodles at least 30 minutes before boarding; the microwaves can back up when two or three passengers heat full meals right before the gate calls final.