Good evening everyone.
As announced yesterday on our Instagram, we will be selling our new "Taiwan" series from the 11th.
I hope you enjoy this new series, which has more varieties than when it was sold a few years ago.
Now, in my blog, I would like to write about my memories of Taiwan in order to enhance the Taiwanese mood.
This time, I will write about the food part 2.
For Part 1, please click here.
The most famous rice dish in Taiwan is lu lo han.
The slightly aromatic spices and tender braised meat are a perfect match.
The yellow color was pickles, which are also familiar in Japan.
It was an unexpected discovery that pickles are also eaten in Taiwan.
Next up is Zi Lo Han.
Although it is a little less well-known than lu lo han, it is also an excellent dish.
It is a dish of steamed chicken with a sauce that makes the rice go down a treat.
If you don't like spices such as octagonal horns, we recommend ji lo han.
Since I tend to lack vegetables on my travels, I also ordered stir-fried green vegetables.
These noodles are topped with boiled daikon radish, which is not often seen in Japan.
It looks strange, like oden, but strangely enough, it goes well with it.
Taiwanese food has a gentler taste than Japanese food, and I think the noodles are softer.
It was a relaxing taste in a foreign country.
And this is salt bean soup (鹹豆漿).
This is a staple of Taiwanese breakfast.
When I visited Taiwan before, I was so surprised at how delicious it was that I sometimes make this dish in Japan as well.
My friend who came with me said, "It changed my perception of tofu".
It is made by adding vinegar to soy milk and eating it like oboro-dofu (soft tofu).
You can make something similar, so please look up the recipe.
I once had the opportunity to speak with a Taiwanese person and asked,
"What do you recommend for food?"
He said, "It's expensive, but the crab rice is delicious”.
I have always been curious about it.
The appearance of the rice is impressive.
I could enjoy the sticky rice and the crab flavor.
Even overseas, people become mute when faced with crab.
And next, we had xiaolongbao, steamed dumplings, and hot and sour soup.
We ate at a food stall, where steam was blowing out from the stall, and a seiro was placed there to steam the dumplings.
It was delicious with plenty of ginger and spicy flavor.
The hot and sour sauce was mildly sour compared to the Japanese version.
The ingredients included something that looked like liver, which was unfamiliar to me.
It seems that if you leave pig's blood to harden naturally, Taiwanese people cut it up and put it in.
It had no smell at all and was delicious with a strange texture, somewhere between konnyaku and tofu.
This was one of the dishes that ended our trip to Taiwan.
After my massage, I had a little time left and decided to have some shaved ice.
After some research, we found a place that looked quite nice nearby, and my friend and I walked for a few minutes.
We arrived at a small, tucked away store.
When we peeked inside, we saw that half of the shop was a stationery store and half was a shaved ice shop, a strange space.
From the look of the store and its uncle, it seemed as if only locals would come to the store.
I bravely decided to enter.
After all, I could only communicate in Chinese, so I used a translation app to place my order.
After the order was placed, the man was very excited, perhaps with a sense of accomplishment.
The brown sugar syrup and glutinous dumplings were very tasty.
While we were eating, the man put something on our plate.
He showed me his cell phone and I read the translated text.
It said, "Here is some extra tofu for you".
The uncle showed me his cell phone.
He was serving us a Taiwanese sweet called " Douhua".
I was glad that my last meal was at this restaurant!
And apps are awesome!
I hope you all try different foods when you go to Taiwan.