Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).
Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.
Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it’s essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves
I think Taiwanese Bubble tea is probably best known.
There could be more, but that’s the only one off the top of my mind that started in Taiwan not China.
But actually eating in Taiwan. Beef noodle soup, Mapo Tofu, Lu Rou Fan, sweet potato balls, fantuan, tea eggs, so many delicious things.
How about taiwanese fried chicken? That giant piece of fried chicken is probably my favourite fried chicken.
Ah shit. This bring back memories and I love the white pepper. Zha Pai Gu is also way up there for me.
I was going for things strictly Taiwanese. That being said Korean fried chicken is also top tiered.
Idk if it’s specifically from taiwan but my favorite snack from taiwan is the fried chicken cutlet you get from the night market
When i visited i drank 2 milk teas a day LOL
It was hitting like 38C when I was there so I was dying everyday
Yes really good memories strolling through the night market and getting the fried chicken nuggets. I really miss it. Hopefully I get to go back in a year or so