Hey all you FBB members!
As the title suggests, all FBBs MUST visit Taiwan at least ONCE in their lifetime! :) After I came back from Taipei, I missed the food over the the most.
So let me do an introduction to some of the food they have in Taipei, and where u can go look for it, should you visit Taiwan soon.
They have:
1) AUTHENTIC giant chicken chop (chao da ji pai)
This chicken chop is not the ordinarily sized ones we buy from the shilin stall here in sg. It's TWICE as big and a hundred times juicier and yummier. The stall is so popular that every night without fail, there will always be a queue for the chao da ji pai.
For the best and most authentic, visit the stall at shilin night market. Once you get out of their mrt station, you will see it. It's the stall with the longest queue every night!
2) Oyster mee sua
This super yummy oyster mee sua is like WOW! It's warm, silky, peppery, just like drinking thick hot soup. It slides down ur throat so smoothly and the oyster is woohoooo.
For the most famous oyster mee sua, you should visit Ah Zong Mee Sua at ximending! It's their flagship store, and you can see crowds of people queueing and standing around their stall holding green bowls, slurping on the mee sua. They also have other outlets in other parts of Taipei city. Do grab a namecard there for other outlets.
3) Lu3 Wei4 (or known to us as lor bah *simmered pork/chicken/duck in soy sauce)
The lu3 wei4 is extremely delicious and they are famous for their lu3 ji1 chi4 pang3 (chicken wing), lu3 ya1 (duck). If you are a fan of innards and all, you can find all sorts of lu3 wei4, from duck feet to chicken feet, to liver, heart, neck, wings, intestines and tongue etc. I personally tried the duck wing, chicken wing, liver, heart, chicken feet and duck tongue. And I must say, they are quite the yumms! My only regret was that I was too chicken to try the duck feet (coz they looked so webbed and eewww).
This lu3 wei4 stall can be found also in ximending. Just look for a long queue. Alternatively, just follow your nose towards the fragrance of the lu3 wei4!
4) Fruit juices
As FBBs, no matter how much we eat, we should also have some intake of fruits and vegetables. So for those who don't like the taste of it, you can choose to blend it into juices. Juices in Singapore costs a bomb, and they are often diluted and full of ice. If we go to the hawker center and ask for a watermelon juice without ice, I'm sure it'll cost at least $2.00 above. Else, we end up drinking more ice water than the watermelon juice itself.
In Taiwan, juices are pure and thick and only cost sgd$2!! My first encounter was when I decided to drink guava juice. To my surprise, the juice was really sweet and thick and I could still feel the guava pulp and seeds as I drank it! It actually tasted more like guava smoothie. There was no sugar added, no water added, and only a small bit of ice to make it cold. (I stood beside the aunty to see how she did it) Then on another occasion, I ordered watermelon juice. It was pure watermelon, no water and ice added! She took the slices out from the fridge and into the juicer. It was especially good on a hot summer day.
Fruit juice stalls can be found almost anywhere in Taipei. Do try it out, especially on a hot summer afternoon.
Okie, now I'm feeling hungry. Stay tuned for more food from Taipei soon!
~daph
