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Do you able to grab
cheap flight ticket on this Monday? Air Asia was giving us a great opportunity
to travel by launching the promotion with super low fare ticket. Everyone was
discussing this great deal in town. For sure, I am also planning on this
matter. Taiwan is my preference country. Thus, my friend and I hurry catch up
our step to go checking the ticket. The fare of the flight ticket is within our
budget. However, I could not make purchase yet because I have to discuss with
my colleague for the leave matter. The fare ticket was increase shapely on the
next day. This news was ruining my day. Therefore, my plan to Taiwan was force
to cancel.
Although I did not manage to grab the chance to fly to Taiwan, I still fall to Taiwan with tasty food. Please lend me a minute to watch a video and do hold your saliva because it's look delicious.
Now, I would like to
propose my planning on what to eat in Taiwan from morning to night.
Normally my breakfast
will eat noodles. Noodles are a common breakfast in Malaysia. As in Taiwan, I
would like to try some traditional Taiwan breakfast like fried dough with a
bowl of soy milk and Sao Bing You Tiao (thin flatbread with Chinese doughnut
and egg) in a well-known restaurant called Fu Hang Dou Jiang. You might think
that it is just a light meal, will easy get hungry after a few hours later. It is
because we can spare some space in stomach for hunting other dishes.
After breakfast, we
can start our journey to go around in Taiwan. We can take the chance to look
for souvenirs. I did receive some food as souvenir from friends so I think that
Taiwan food is a great gift for friends and family. Before doing purchase of
those souvenirs, you also can have a try on the taste. There are many types of
souvenir such as pineapple cake, Taiwan nougat, Sun Cake available in Taiwan.
Pineapple cake
Pineapple cake in the shape of bricks and filled with butter, flour, egg, sugar and pineapple jam. It has a lot of flavors for you to choose such as salted egg yolk, green tea, cheese and others. SunnyHills win a lot of good recommend and feedback as it uses local pineapples so it has a darker filing, rougher texture and sourer taste.
If you are interest on the cake,
Kuo Yuan Ye Meseum of Cake and Pastry is a must to visit. Kuo
Yuan Ye Meseum is not just a museum. It is because it also has cooking class provided
for all of us to learn how to make a delicious pineapple cake.
Taiwan Nougat
Taiwan Nougat is a
snack made by milk and peanuts which the texture is smooth and sticky. It has
many flavors such as cranberry, milk, black tea, green tea and many more.
Besides buying Taiwan
Nougat, don’t forget go to
Taiwan Nougat Museum which has DIY pineapple cake workshop,
nougat-making performance and exhibition. It is a great place to know more
about Taiwan Nougat.
Sun Cake
Sun Cake is a popular
Taiwan dessert that originally from Taichung. The typical filling consists of
maltose (condensed melt sugar) and sold in gift boxes as souvenirs.
When searching for more information about Sun Cake, I noticed that in Taiwan has
Sun Cake Museum which has display the
history and story of Sun Cake. If next time has chance, definitely I will go
there for a visit.
Taiwan Mochi
Mochi is a dessert which
make from glutinous rice with sweet potato, red rice and water. Its filings
include sweet peanut paste, red bean, coconut, fruits and many more. The
texture of mochi is sticky and chewy.
One of the reasons
that I like Taiwan beside food is the museum. Its museum is so attractive and
included many social media such as video. You will not get bored in Taiwan
museum. Last for Taiwan Mochi, I will introduce you to go
Taiwan Mochi Museum.
At here, you can know history of mocha, actual making of mocha and many more.
For the lunch, I would
like to try for Taiwan Railway Bento. The Railway Bento is originated from
Taiwan where the locals bring the bento on board the trains to consume during
their long train journeys. The bento has varieties choices such as vegetable,
chicken, egg and so on. It is designed for everyone with different taste.
Through the blog of
B-Kyu, I saw different design of bento such as Master Q picture bento, hexagon shape bento and many more. I think I will having dilemma in choosing which bento because every bento is very special. Haha..
Tea-time
For tea-time, I would
like to introduce these 2 cafés which are Oia Café and Aranzi Café. The reason that I choose for Oia Café is
because of Alpaca. Alpaca look cute and friendly so it able to attract me well.
In Oia Café, you can interact or hug and touch Alpaca. Alpacas are very active
because they love to walk freely in Café. With Alpacas, I don’t even feel the length
of time of my food to serve.
I also wish to go
Aranzi Café because of its interior design and cute presentation of food. When
you enter this café, you will see that it has many characters of Aranzi around
the café. Then you will been attract and started to take photos in every corner
of this café.
Besides that, it has
sell Aranzi stuff like postcard, glass, toys and so on. When the food present,
you will keep said “Kawaii” as all those food has Aranzi picture especially the
cake. What you wait for? Take the camera and shoot it.
Taiwan famous with
night market, of course it is advisable to look for dinner at there. Amazingly,
you will feel happy because there are lots of food at night market such as
stewed pork rice, scallion pancake, big bun wrapped small bun, oyster omelette
and many more. Let me share with you four types of foods that must be eat when you
are in night market which as below:-
Stinky tofu
Stinky tofu come with
bad smell, I am wonder that how bad smell of it, is it smell like rubbish?
Hehe.. Stinky tofu usually served with
deep fried with pickled cabbage, carrots and chili sauce.
Da Chang Bao Xiao
Chang (Small Sausage in Big Sausage)
In Taiwan, I would
like to try of small sausage in big sausage that has different taste than the
normal sausage that we eat. It is grilled pork sausage wrapped in a glutinous
rice sausage. It can be eaten with different of sauce.
Do you know what the story behind this snack is? According to
Taiwan Food Culture that a night vendor who
loves both sticky rice sausages and pork sausages but found it troublesome to
eat them separately so he came up idea of blending the two in order to savor
delicious, chewy sticky rice together with juicy pork sausage.
Oyster Noodle
The oyster noodle is
very popular in Taiwan which has main ingredients of oysters and misua (Taiwan
vermicelli). It usually comes with many and big size oysters that you will feel
so satisfaction after finish a bowl.
Gua Bao (Taiwanese
Burger or Pork Belly Buns)
In Malaysia, we usually eat chicken burger while in Thailand must try for pork burger then in Taiwan? The answer is
Gua Bao as it is consist of a slice of stewed meat and
other condiments sandwiched between flat steamed bread. It also called as
“Tiger bites pig” due to the mouth like form of the bun and the content of
filing.
Gua Bao are shaped
like a wallet full of money which become a custom in Taiwan to eat buns at year
end parties on the 16
th day of the 12
th lunar month as to
devour all the bad things of the past year. By eating of this bun can pray for
a lucky year so I need to eat lot of Gua Bao when in Taiwan.
Taiwan really a food heaven,
Supper has many choices such as porridge, rice, steamboat, noodle and many
more. Lastly, I think I will choose for porridge as I did not want to eat heavy
meal in the midnight.
In Tainan, has a
famous porridge named “悦津咸粥” which open 24 hours. If you see properly, you will
found out its porridge is different from Malaysia version. It porridge is some
like rice soup as you can see clearly of each rice as it did not cook the soup
with the rice together. Besides that, it has many choices of side dish for you
to eat with porridge.
After writing this
post, I have more knowledge about Taiwan than before. I found that Taiwan really
attracted me the most. Hence, I hope one day I can realize my dream which is
travel to my favorite country-Taiwan.
Time for Taiwan TTBKL
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