I am not a person who can convince you about good food, or rather the last person you would wished to hear from, be it from the way you see how I enjoy them un-enjoyably, or trying to come up with amazing adjectives & vocab to define every single detail bout its worthiness. Looking at the pictures is enough to get your taste buds go wild, and stop swallowing so hard so that you won't drool.
Avee's Guide: Top 15 Must-try!
1~ Original Flavored Egg Tarts from KFC 葡式蛋侤撻
Available only after breakfast hour. There are a few different flavors to choose from. We'd original & kyushu sweet potato, and concluded that original's the best. The crispy crust, soft & fine texture of the fillings, everything just melts in your mouth. Every bite sends you to heaven. & srz actually bought the original egg tart box consisting of 6 heavenly tarts home :)
2~ Fried Egg Roll 蛋餅
Resembles Egg Crepe you can get from Shilin outlets in sg, only difference is that it tastes way better. The skin of the wrap is very chewy & Q, with combination of egg, cheese, floss. The famous Yong Heng Dou Jiang (located jus opp Eat Dragon Hotel) sells these too, but a random store we went jus opp Cityhall station were as satisfying. 
3~ Pon De Ring from Mister Donut 波堤
The packaging is enough to lure you inside the shop to have a peek at the selection of donuts. All the 甜甜圈 are soft and chewy, far from donuts you find in sg which taste very dough-y. Best consumed immediately bcos the 六小富 I left overnight weren't as yummy. The have promotions after a certain timing at night to clear the stocks, and they have everything packed nicely for you.
4~ 30-cm Ice Cream from Luo Dong Night Market 巨无霸霜淇淋The legendary 30-cm tall ice cream! I figured it's more like bing-qi-ling rather den xue-gao, bcos of the icy texture. The shaving of the ice is very fine & the chocolate taste is strong which explains why we haave to had it despite the cold weather. Available quite commonly at the night markets (3rd pic from Dan shui).
5~ Green Onion Pancake from Luo Dong Night Market 葱油饼I was kind of hostile for trying intially since it's cong. It will be a major regret if I did not try it. It smells nice, surprisingly. Perhaps we added egg which covers every tinge bit of onion taste. They match it with some kind of sause, and the combination is perfect. Pardon me, i don't have a perfect shot to explain how tempting it is. The stall (3rd pic) in Shilin has an extremely long queue so we'd to give it a miss cos we were shivering in 12degc.
The 1st dish we'd when we're at Liu Ho, and I secretly wanted to try it again before we head back to our hotel. Everything about it remains deeply engraved in my mind. I thought it was really really near to perfect. Sold at TWD 4cents each, with minimum purchase of 10. If you wished to eat in, minimum of 10 per pax! I can't imagine swallowing 10 at 1 go so we ordered take away.
7~ Blended Fruit Drink from Luo Dong Night Market 水果牛奶冰8~ Tong Luo Shao from Luo Dong Night MarketWe happened to pass by the stall on our way back to hotel & thought we make it our breakfast. I didn't know that these can taste so nice bcos those I'd in sg were like dry & hard. But no! They were soft & tasty and red bean inside were huge and sweet. Even random ones I bought at 7-Eleven tasted good. Hmm, maybe you equally as ignorant as me with no childhood- I got to know that Tong Luo Shao's Doremon's fave only at Taoyuan Airport. Ha-Ha.
The best picture I could find on the internet. Mine looks way more tempting, with cute cartoon characters...
9~ Ah Zong Mee Sua from Shilin Night Market 阿宗面缐Needless to mention, this is definitely a must-try. Adding chili to the hot dish makes you sweat & near to bursting into tears. Shiok. Dine-in available with plenty of seats- seats only.
10~ Japanese Strawberry Snack from 7-ElevenRandom snack we bought from 7-11 to munch while on the train to Kaohsiung. Turned out to be surprising pleasing. It has texture of biscuit buts melts in your mouth. Eating a whole pack by yourself won't make you get sick of it, but tempts you to run to 7-11 for more! I saw similar ones at Market Place, RC only at a much higher price of cos.
One look at the small range of food displayed indeed led to some disappointment. But my view changed after dining in, because food were great, staff are nice. I kept complaining to the staff why there isn't chocolate ice cream available.. haha and in the end he dug out 2 peanut-chocolate coated ice cream for us before going to another outlet. Dipping the you-tiao into the mala soup bound to trigger your taste bud. I love the noodles and the seasame mochi as well. There's also plenty of fruits, drinks, ice cream. Worth it :)
12~ Panda Buns from Mr Baoz in Yilan 包子先生
I've no idea to say that we were in luck or out of luck. After spending time at the waterfall in Yilan, we were searching high & low for Mr Baoz. We asked for directions from various locals and after a damn long walk, we were led to some famous store selling tradtional buns. I mean famous till the extend they get pple coming just to buy the buns in bulk, and the queue is always there waiting for batches of baos hot from the steam tray. It was only when we were on our way back from Luo dong Night Market that we chance upon Mr Baoz. Damn it so you are at Luo Dong! Ok, I guess we were in luck:)
The popular panda bao was the best, comes in 3 flavors if i din rmbr wrongly. Filled with rich red beans paste. A pity we only tried it back in our hotel when it turned cold. It even taste so good, bet it's heavenly when steaming hot.
13~ Potato Chip Hotdog from Liu Ho Night Market 热狗
You can find this commonly anywhere in night market or along the streets at night but this is the only store with patterns for the coating & flavours. We'd the potato chip crust (on the extreme right), and it was so very crunchy. There's even cheese toppings. Oh, sinful.....
14~ Nai You Bing from Dan Shui 奶油饼
Smells good, taste good. I duno how to describe how wonderful it is. Other goodies in the store was as tempting.
15~ Sweet tooth from Cold Stone Creamery I think it taste even better than Ben & Jerry. The servings are filling to our tummies, the waffle crust is crispy, the texture of ice cream is smooth, the taste is authentic, the strawberry flavour I had is rich. From the first day we saw the advertisement in Xi Men Ding we wanted to give it a try, but called off the idea cos of the unhelpful weather. So when we were in Kaoh Siung, we knew we had to have it. You would want to lick the last bit off your bowl haha..
Of course, there are more delicacies worth trying that I almost wanted to list down 20 rather than 15. Like the Mochi from Yilan's famous bakery, red bean dumpling from Din Tai Fung, Modern Toilet Resturant, Mua Chee from roadside stall, all the desserts, etc...
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gosh. i really do miss Taiwan & the food so much when i passed by Pasar Malam yesterday and saw the shui jian bao, tong luo shao................
*tummy growls*
