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I should try making some of these stuff sometimes hahaha.

Taiwan: 桃園街老王牛肉麵 [Wang‘s Beef Noodle]

桃園街老王牛肉麵 is absolutely my favorite place to get beef noodle soup in Taiwan. It's started off as a modest little stand but now it has expanded to a 2-story tall restaurant haha. It's amazing how it has evolved. It only has 6, 7 items on their menu but they are making bank on them.

泡菜 kimchi. It's better than a lot of places. Always get it to sort of get the appetite going.

粉蒸排骨 steamed sticky rice porkchop. This is a famous dish and many places that serves beef noodle soup will somewhat of a variation to it. Essentially, they take sticky rice, mash it up, then mix it with either porkchops, pork intestine and any cuts of meat to be steamed.

Their 酸菜, which is my favorite out of everywhere. I think they add garlic to it.

The beautiful noodle soup!

And of course you gotta add the 酸菜 to complete it :D

By the way, I finished it in like... 10 minutes haha.

Taiwan: Here and There

Here are some of the random food/snacks/drinks I had around Taipei. There's something good everywhere haha. The best is just walking around Taipei and eating whatever you see :]

Popcorn chicken from 遼寧街夜市, just around the corner from my aunt's place!

So... apparently this place got first place in the annual contest for 魯肉飯. I gotta admit, it's pretty damn good. You can tell they used a lot of the 油蔥 (fried onion).

Goose meat from 鵝肉城. Looks plain but it's actually flavored. Amazing.

Oolong Milktea from 清心褔. Oolong milktea is similar to Jasmin milktea except it has a more robust flavor. It's now my favorite place to get milkteas and boba drinks. I hope they didn't use the poisonous milk from China cause I pretty much had one every day hahaha.

雞蛋糕 is pretty much pancake batter poured into a mold the shape of eggs. Plain and simple but I used to eat this as a kid all the time.

潮州胡椒餅 Chaozhou Peppered pork buns. The outside is flaky and crunchy but I still like the ones near 永康街 better.

Main ingredients: pork, green onions, salt, and a lot of pepper.

Tea eggs. Enough said :]

Beautiful!

Stinky tofu from the street vendor right around the corner from my grandma's place. This old lady there has been selling stinky tofu there since... as long as I can remember. She makes the best Chinese kimchi too. They way she mixes all the seasonings and the sauces together with the kimchi is just amazing haha.

Oolong milktea from 五十嵐, my 2nd favorite milktea spot.

蛋餅包油條 egg pancake wrapped chinese donut. Yea, not exactly the healthiest thing to eat for breakfast... but meeeeh. It's good, yay for traditional Chinese breakfast hahah :D

黑松沙士 and Assam Black Tea. Two of my favorite kids when I was a kid. 黑松沙士 is a sarsaparilla drink, kinda tastes like Dr. Pepper and root beer.

黑糖竽圓刨冰 Brown sugar taro balls shaved ice from 鮮竽仙. All 鮮竽仙 sells is traditional Taiwanese dessert items, like shaved ice, and grass jelly drinks etc.

Coffee bread from Baker's Boy. I saw people waiting in line for it so I had to do it too haha. It's only good when it's right out of the oven (which is always since they sell out so fast) and the smell is just amazing when it does. Not bad but too expensive for bread in Taiwan (30NT).

I miss Taiwan :[

Taiwan: 泰荷 [Patio Thai Cuisine]

So in Taiwan at most of the Thai restaurants, you order dishes and share it among people, a la family-style of Chinese food. The dishes are slightly different from their US counterparts. I love Thai food in Taiwan, cause it focuses really heavily on the sour aspect of Thai food. Awesome :D

Went to Patio Thai on top of SOGO Department Store with my mom and sister.

Started off with an appetizer, fried fishcake. They provide a sweet&sour dipping sauce for it.

蝦醬炒空心菜 sauteed on-choy. This is a dish that's actually invented by the Thai restaurants in Taiwan. At first Thailand didn't have this dish but then it got so popular they started making it this way too. Pretty much, they sautee on-choy with shrimp paste, and that's about it! Love it haha.

辣子雞 spicy fried chicken. This is the first time I had this dish like this since usually the chicken are in smaller pieces, but still very good.

Some sort of coconut-based soup. I can't remember the name of it since it but it has seafood in this sour broth and they add coconut milk to balance it out.

The main star, 檸檬魚 lemon fish. It's fish steamed with garlic, green onions, cabbage, and lemon slices. The lemon gives it a really refreshing flavor. My favorite dish in Thai cuisine :]

Taiwan: MOS Burger

MOS Burger!! A staple in the fast food for Taiwanese people. MOS actually means Mountain, Ocean, Sun haha. Oh those Japanese people and their English. I used to only get to eat at MOS Burger when I do well on my test in school as a reward :P

And of course, this is what they are known for, the 燒肉珍珠堡, which is bbq pork with lettuce between two rice patty buns! I think I ate 4 that day haha.

Then I saw someone next to us having a hotdog, then I realized I haven't had a hotdog in a long time. Where the hell am I gonna get a decent hotdog in China right? So I got a MOS hotdog to satisfy my craving haha. Pretty much a hotdog with a tomato meat sauce (almost like a marinara) with jalapenos. Gotta admit, I was pretty impressed haha.

Yay for MOS Burger!

Taiwan: 鼎泰豐 [Din Tai Fung]

Of course, you can't complete a trip to Taiwan without going to the original 鼎泰豐 Din Tai Fung!

Vinegar + ginger = must have for all the buns they have.

Din Tai Fung's 泡菜 kimchi... not as good as I thought haha. But I think it's the only thing that's so-so here :P

The first item, 翡翠餃 vegetable dumpling! I loved the outside of the dumpling. It's thicker and much more "Q" than other places.

And of course you dip it into the vinegar.

The star of Din Tai Fung, 小龍包 xiao long bao!! Still the best ever.

Close up of the beauty :]

If you didn't know, Din Tai Fung is also known for the 酸辣湯 hot & sour soup.

炒空心菜 Stir-fry on-choy. Just on-choy, or water spinach as some people call it, with garlic.

They are also known for their 炸排骨 fried porkchop. It's seasoned fried porkchop and you add some vinegar to it. It's actually a very Shanghai way of eating porkchops.

Ok, fine they are known for a lot of things, like this 蝦仁炒飯 shrimp fried rice. I can eat 4 plates of these... EASILY. I love fried rice hahaha. Japanese people always order this.

A special item at Din Tai Fung, 蟹黃小龍包 crab roe xiao long bao. It's twice as much as normal xiao long bao but the flavor is totally worth it.

炸醬麵 zha jiang mian. It's interesting cause they add edamame and little pieces of tomato to make it sweeter and balance it with the saltiness. Very good. My mom is starting to make it this way now too haha.

發糕, which is a Cantonese-style dessert. It's essentially mashed sticky rice with sugar then steamed.

豆沙包 red bean bun. My favorite dessert here!

Close up of the delicious beauty. Notice how thin the outside layer is. Din Tai Fung's known for that.

I just love Din Tai Fung, and it's even better when my aunt's treating hahaha.