Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Eat All You Can!

'What kind of food have you had at Taiwan?' A friend asked.
'Hmm...'
Yeah, I was silent for quite a while trying hard to recall each meal I have had in the restaurant. But...haa...to my surprise, I don't know what was the name of those dishes they served.
Thanks to my assistant for doing the hard work (who? the camera ofcourse!) :p

This was the first thing I looked for at the Fong Jia & Shihlin Night market! Taiwanese called it [ô-á mī-sòa - 蚵仔麵線, kézǎi miànxiàn], or oyster vermicelli, a thickened soup containing small oysters and Chinese vermicelli.
Coffin Bread [棺材板 guān cái bǎn] is similar to the western French Toast, but filled with savory fillings, such as black pepper beef, chicken or pork & small portion of porridge. The thick cut bread is dipped in egg, deep fried & cut along three sides to opened and filled.
Scallion pancakes [蔥油餅], flour pancake with many thin layers, made with scallions.
It was so hot & spicy cuz of the pepper in it...whoah!
Fried snack which you could easily find at night market, ie:
The Crispy Chicken Cutlet, famous for its jumbo size - using boneless chicken breast & deep fried. And, sprinkled with pepper salt & chilli powder on top... (my bad, i just realized that i do not have any photo of it...)
Below photos are: Fried squid, fish balls...
Small sausage in Large sausage - 大腸包小腸 (usually grilled). It is actually using the Taiwanese pork sausage placed inside a larger sticky rice (glutinous rice) sausage which has been slit down the middle. The taste? Hmm....try it yourself and you will know! ;)
During the summer, this is one of the favorite dessert! The Shaved Ice!!!!!! A popular dessert consisting of shaved ice and a variety of toppings to choose from. Ie: Grass jelly (Mesona procumbens / 仙草 / 涼粉草), glutinous rice balls, green beans...etc.
ps: pardon me, didn't take any pics of the dessert as all of us too busy eating...haaa...(^o^) some local herbal tea offered to us after a morning walk... (^o^) peanut roll wz double scoop ice cream... (i think it goes better with the ice cream itself)

Arr, I couldn't recall the name of this soup but it was good^.^

My favorite dish - 'The 3cups chickens' [三杯雞,sān bēi jī] - It is called 3cups as the sauce is made of a cup of rice wine, a cup of sesame oil, and a cup of soy sauce. Alternately, the sauce can also be made of a cup each of rice wine, sugar, and soy sauce.
ps: that was 3cups squid ^p ... (forgot to take pics of the 3cups chicken!! )

A cool restaurant which you could pay a visit:
http://www.five-dime.com.tw/

1 comment:

  1. wow wow wow....
    what a lovely gourmet tour to taiwan!!
    was explore variety hawker food with my sis several years ago...
    but seems never see those Small grabe in Big sausage!! looks yummy anyway!!!
    wakakakaak....

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