The day in Jiufen was spent in a fruitful manner, with us stuffing ourselves silly. This is my taro ball soup (芋圓), which is Jiufen's specialty.
There are a mixture of taro balls, sweet potato balls, and other stuff like red bean and mung beans cooked together to form a rich dessert. The balls are all gooey and sticky, or as the Taiwanese call it, very 'Q'.
Apparently, the lady owner of this stall is pretty famous, although i don't see her around. She had gazillions photos of herself pasted on the walls of her shop. One thing though, the people of Taiwan provide really good service, they always greet you with a smile and chat with you and are ready to help. This lady at the stall helped me chose five of her best-selling types of fishball to make me a bowl of her famous 5-flavoured fish ball soup (五味綜合魚丸湯).
Here's the picture of the soup, one more fish ball is actually well-hidden underneath. The fishballs are all huge, one ball probably takes about 5-6 bites to finish. Their fishballs are very full of flavour and is made up of mostly fish.... those mass produced fishballs i normally have at home, i suspect, may not contain fish in them anymore =(
This is some sort of snails i saw slowly roasting on the grill.... it looked so good i had to try a little....
Here it is, the lady pulls the meat out of the shell and cuts it up into bite sizes before adding a spicy sauce.... so yummy!
Ahh, and this is beef noodles... another of Taiwan's most famous food...
The day in Jiufen was spent in a fruitful manner, with us stuffing ourselves silly. This is my taro ball soup (芋圓), which is Jiufen's specialty.
There are a mixture of taro balls, sweet potato balls, and other stuff like red bean and mung beans cooked together to form a rich dessert. The balls are all gooey and sticky, or as the Taiwanese call it, very 'Q'.
Apparently, the lady owner of this stall is pretty famous, although i don't see her around. She had gazillions photos of herself pasted on the walls of her shop. One thing though, the people of Taiwan provide really good service, they always greet you with a smile and chat with you and are ready to help. This lady at the stall helped me chose five of her best-selling types of fishball to make me a bowl of her famous 5-flavoured fish ball soup (五味綜合魚丸湯).
Here's the picture of the soup, one more fish ball is actually well-hidden underneath. The fishballs are all huge, one ball probably takes about 5-6 bites to finish. Their fishballs are very full of flavour and is made up of mostly fish.... those mass produced fishballs i normally have at home, i suspect, may not contain fish in them anymore =(
This is some sort of snails i saw slowly roasting on the grill.... it looked so good i had to try a little....
Here it is, the lady pulls the meat out of the shell and cuts it up into bite sizes before adding a spicy sauce.... so yummy!
Ahh, and this is beef noodles... another of Taiwan's most famous food...
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