Taiwan Food Map

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Taiwan Food Map
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Local Delicaciesin Taiwan??????
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Tamsui Iron Eggs ????

• Iron eggs accidentally came into being when the
  creator Yang A-po forgot to turn off the stove.
  The chicken eggs shrank to almost half the size
  and felt hard. However, it would be a waste of
  money to throw them away, so she still sold them
  to the customers. Surprisingly, many customers
  enjoyed the taste and asked for more. The iron
  eggs have thus become famous.

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Tamsui Iron Eggs ????

• Iron eggs are not made of iron. The name of
  iron egg comes from its texture. Today, they
  are actually quail or chicken eggs that are
  braised with spices for a long time and then air
  dried. They look dark brown, but taste chewy and
  yummy.

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Hsinchu Rice Noodle ????

• Many Hakka immigrants from Fujian Province of
  China settled down in Hsinchu and brought along
  their methods of making rice noodles. Located
  next to a river and open to the northeast
  monsoon, Hsinchu is called the Wind City. It
  is, however, this windy weather that makes it the
  best environment for drying rice noodles.

During the autumn and winter, the best rice
noodles are made because there is 30 sunshine
and 70 dry wind.
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Taichung Suncake ?????

• It is hard to trace the origin of this popular
  dessert now. There are three popular legends
  about it, though. One has it that suncakes were
  served as an offering for a monster dog(??),
  which was believed to devour the sun, so that it
  would be too full to eat the sun. In another, an
  apprentice of a famous baker made a pastry, using
  malt sugar as the filling, to woo his masters
  daughter and won her heart at the end. In the
  other legend, since a suncake was round in shape
  with a red store signet on it, it was thus named
  suncake.

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Taichung Suncake ?????

• The ingredients of a suncake, including flour,
  sugar, malt sugar, salt, and shortening, are easy
  to prepare. Yet what makes it delicious is in
  the way of how a skilled baker makes the
  multi-layer pastry, which could be of 100 layers!
  
• Suncakes can be eaten alone
• or enjoyed after being dipped in milk,
• soybean milk, or even coffee. There
• is no accounting for taste!

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Changhua Rou-yuan ????

• Rou-yuan are round or triangular meatballs made
  by using pork, bamboo shoots, and Chinese
  mushrooms as stuffing inside a dough, which is
  generally made by sweet potato starch. They are
  served either fried or steamed.
• It is said that a scholar in Beitou Town,
  Changhua County, cooked the dried, ground sweet
  potatoes to feed the victims of a severe flood.
  Later, people filled chopped pork, bamboo shoots
  and other ingredients into the dough, making it
  the Rou-yuan were familiar with today.

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Chiayi Chicken Rice ?????

• Although most people call it chicken rice, in
  fact, it is often made of turkey meat. 50 years
  ago, when most people were poor and chicken was
  considered a luxury, it suddenly occurred to the
  creator, who sold baised pork rice for a living,
  that it could be a hit if he replaced pork with
  turkey, which tasted like chicken but was a lot
  cheaper. Since then, the chicken rice has
  become a hit all over Taiwan.

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Tainan Coffin Bread ?????

• Decades ago, Coffin Bread was created
  accidentally by Mr. Hsu Liu-i (???)when he
  stuffed chicken liver and other ingredients into
  a thick crunchy golden piece of fried toast. The
  hollowed toast looked just like a coffin, which
  was how Coffin Bread got its name.
• Nowadays, we can enjoy many kinds of stuffing,
  from sweet to spicy, in coffin bread.

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I-lan Ox Tongue-Shaped Cookie?????

• In the old days, when a baby was four months
  old, the parents would follow ancient ritual,
  having cookies punched, and hanging them on
  his/her neck. The coming guests would be given
  those cookies to wish good health and wisdom for
  the baby.

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I-lan Ox Tongue-Shaped Cookie?????

• The crispy cookie got its name because it
  resembles the shape of an oxs tongue. Today, ox
  tongue-shaped cookies have become a local snack,
  especially in I-lan County. Thin, narrow, flat,
  almost see-through, they come in different
  flavors, including brown sugar, taro, yam, honey,
  peanut, and even black pepper.

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Hualian Sticky Rice Cakes/Mochi????

• The chewy sticky rice cakes, or Dulun(??) in
  Amis, used to be a precious snack made by Amis
  wives, and only served to their hard-working
  husbands in celebrations of festivals. Now, they
  are enjoyed everywhere. The cakes are made of
  millets, which are best grown in Hualian County,
  where the soil is unpolluted, water clean, and
  rainfall rich.

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• ????!
• Yummy!
• Delicious!
• Tasty!
• Scrumptious!
• Savory!
• Palatable!

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References

• http//foreigner.hccg.gov.tw
• http//www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/
  food/