RARE Taiwanese cooking technique in TAINAN | Taiwan STREET FOOD tour in TAINAN | FAMOUS Tainan food

TAINAN is widely regarded as TAIWAN’s culinary capital. Known as the “City of Snacks”, there is a tonne of STREET FOOD to be found here! We take you on a MASSIVE Taiwanese street food tour in Tainan to show you the BEST food Tainan has to offer!

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Taiwan Series Part 1: Kaohsiung: https://youtu.be/Ew37VQjj7Hs

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We start the day with an oyster omelette, one of the most popular street foods in Taiwan. Briny oysters, an egg, beansprouts, lettuce, minced pork and potato starch are cooked on a hotplate in front of us before being served up with a couple of sweet sauces. The resulting plate of food is fresh and moreish.

We then eat a bowl of milkfish congee- a really popular breakfast in Tainan. The congee is of the Teochew style where the broth and the rice grains are separate. The butterflied milkfish is mild but has a beautiful fatty belly and it complements the broth of the congee. Simple but filling!

Our next stop is pretty memorable. A fourth generation biscuit/cookie maker who uses a really unique rotating iron pan oven to make miso biscuits shaped like a folded up tape measure. They also make a basic egg flavoured biscuit. We buy a couple of packets and find them to be sweet, a little savoury, crisp and tasty.

Next up we stop for a bowl of grass jelly and aiyu jelly (fig seed) topped with shaved ice and sugar syrup. It’s very refreshing, a little bit bitter and sweet. Perfect for beating the heat!

Onwards to our final stop a savoury rice pudding called wa gui. A ceramic bowl is filled with pork, salted egg yolk and mushroom before being topped with a ground rice batter. It’s then steamed and then once cooked is topped with a gluggy, sweet sauce. We add raw garlic and it makes for a delicious snack. A must eat when in Tainan.

Where and what we ate:

Oyster omelette at No. 182, Section 3, Guohua St, West Central District, Tainan City, 700. Open 7:00am to 7:00pm.

Milkfish congee at 阿星鹹粥, No. 289, Section 3, Minzu Road, West Central District, Tainan City, 700. Open 5:00am to 1:00pm. Closed Monday.

Biscuits at Long Tih Tong, No. 54, Chongan Street, North District, Tainan City, 704. Open Monday to Friday 8:00am to 8:00pm, Saturday to Sunday 8:00am to 6:00pm.

Shaved ice and jelly at 22.997316,120.201112 (Google co-ordinates).

Wa gui at No. 140, Section 2, Fuqian Road, West Central District, Tainan City, 700. Open 9:30am to 4:00pm. Closed Wednesday.

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