Wu Pao Chun Bakery Breads
"Bread? In Taiwan? Seriously?" We know what you're thinking -- but this isn't ju…
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Giant pork balls soup
The best pork balls are made from fresh meat that's been hand ground and pounded with a mallet …
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Chicken wing rice roll
The chicken wing rice roll makes the impossible possible -- eating chicken fried rice in a night ma…
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Spicy hotpot
Taiwanese are mad for spicy hot pot. The bubbling pots of broth are filled with all sorts of Chines…
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Steamed spring rolls
Every Taiwanese household has its own recipe for run bing. To describe it as the non-deep-fried ver…
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Pidan tofu
Black, white and seemingly bland pidan tofu isn't a likely candidate for "love at first bi…
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Aiyu jelly
Wobbly and fairly tasteless, aiyu jelly takes on the flavor of whatever it's eaten with. You ca…
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Horng Ryen Jen Sandwich
You may wonder -- why on earth would someone travel to Taiwan for a ham and cheese sandwich? (The b…
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Ban tiao noodles
Ban tiao (flat rice noodles) has such a rabid following that many Taiwanese will drive hours in sea…
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Three-cup chicken
Three-cup chicken is cooked in a cup of rice wine, a cup of oil and a cup of soy sauce. Fresh basil…
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Pig's blood rice pudding
This mix of pig's blood and sticky rice is stuck on the end of a stick like a lollipop. For the…
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Taiwanese breakfast
The three best dishes to kick off your day with in Taiwan? Sesame flatbread, deep-fried Chinese don…
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Tube rice pudding
Sticky rice and Chinese mushrooms are fried with seasoning and stuffed into a bamboo tube together …
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Anything braised with Lantern soy sauce
No matter what you choose from the Lantern Lu Wei food stall, it'll take on the taste of the si…
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Ding bian cuo
Ding bian cuo is a bowl of slippery rice-flour pasta. To make it, rice-flour batter is poured along…
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Ribs stewed in medicinal herbs
This is the Taiwanese version of bak kut the, the Chinese meat soup that's also popular in Sing…
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Fish ball soup
What's better than fresh seafood? Balls of fresh seafood, of course. Handmade fish balls in Ta…
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