Hubby and I made it to Taiwan the Ilha Farmosa, translated as 'Beautiful Island', in April this year. We spent 10 days in Taipei and Hualien, to discover the bold mountain scenery, explore the serious food culture and experience the thriving local culture.
No one would resist the local delicacies at taiwan's night market. We spent 3 nights at different night market - Keelung Miaokou night market, Shida night market and Raohe street night market. Keelung was my favourite among the 3, the delicacies were more traditional and unique, variety from seafood to special Keelung snacks.
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| 海鲜烧烤 Look at the octopus legs, so big and yet not so expensive! |
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| 油饭和蟹肉羹 My favorite street food in Keelung, oily rice with crab meat soup, still drooling while looking at this picture, lol! But watch out the calorie and cholesterol, sinful food indeed. |
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| 基隆庙口夜市 Night market in front of a temple, the crowd that obsessed with the street delicacies. |
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| 葱油糕 Another favorite snacks - scallion cake, it melt in my mouth with the aroma of scallion. |
We experienced another night in night market at Hualien, the crowd was less but food was no less variety and tasty. It was a long day after a day trip along the east coast, we were more starving than usual. Thus, the local tour guide brought us to one of the night market in Hualien. And he told us that, it was pretty much easy to find good food -- just follow the crowd, and you wouldn't get mistake.
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| 烤肉串 Took away some barbecue meats as snacks for beer back in hostel. |
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| 春卷 The famous spring roll stall. It was quite similar to spring roll back home, but like most Taiwanese food, more ingredients like peanut, mustard, garlic, pork or beef were added to make the taste richer. |
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| 关东煮 Oden, a common and delicious street and night market food that you can find anywhere in Taiwan. |
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| 臭豆腐 And here came the notorious Stinky Tofu. This was my first time tasting, and guess what? I love it! Especially the texture. |
We had tried several spicy steamboat restaurant in Taipei, but we were amazed by this shaoxing rice wine chicken steamboat. The restaurant was located at Ximending. The course was extremely delicious, and hubby almost wanted to extend our holiday for it. 真是神仙都站不稳！*fainted*
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| 花雕酒鸡火锅 It was steamboat buffet , we added some mushrooms, vegetables and yuba based on our favorite. We had another round of spicy steamboat, and all it costed was only RM50.00 per person. On top of that, they even provided unlimited beers, it worth more than the price. Once a while, when we want to release stress and free of self constraint, this is the ideal place to hangout, drink and eat as much as you desire. Hell, you would not want to think of what may happen tomorrow if you come to restaurant like this! |
There were plenty more food we had and had not tried, I choose few more that I like and worth to post and record.
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| 豆浆油条 Me, enjoying hot soya bean milk with youtiao(chinese fried bread stick). Typical Taiwanese breakfast. |
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| 炒米粉与竹笋汤 Fried rice noodle and bamboo shoot soup. Taiwanese food was just so right to my taste of tongue, bamboo shoot is my all time favorite and we could find it everywhere in Taiwan! |
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| 卤肉饭与金针花排骨汤 Another mouth watering traditional food -- Minced pork rice, and orange daylily with pork rib soup. |
As the conclusion of today's journal, Taiwan is a truly food paradise. Most of the hawkers and cooks are serious, passionate and creative with their food. Believe it or not, even their train's bentos were so good! If you are a food lover, your trip to Taiwan could be really awesome and splendid!
p/s : I had gained 1kg after the 10 days trip. :P
