Streets of Danshui

There were many stalls along the street. Trying out some deep fried octopus tentacles cut into smaller cubes on a skewer. Deep fried squid balls and not to be miss out, the delicious fried button mushroom and enoki mushroom. Next stall we have the grilled Taiwan sausage in a stick comes in 3 flavours. 

After having such dry and heaty food, it is time for some refreshing juice. Freshly squeeze fruit juice. Pick your choice of regular size for NTD40 or big size for NTD50. Check out the huge melon 2 for NTD50. Types of fruit juice; grapes, papaya, watermelon, mango, apple lemon, banana or can add milk to them if you wish.

Not enough, for NTD30 you could get 1 cup of Hung Ma sour plum drink/ Assam Boi drink(preserved plum, they bury it with salt and sugar) to wash down all the oily food. While having your drink, just pop in next door to look for some souvenir, Doraemon anyone?

Moving on, Ah Kee Original Restaurant, the menu from left to right. Ah Kee, Dried tofu skin wrapped with fish paste and glass noodle, fish ball, fry noodles, fry vermicelli, meat ball. My order as you can see.

Dongmen Night Market- Taiwan

There are numerous night market in Taiwan, but the one here now is Dongmen Night Market. What is in this night market, well they have clothes, slippers, yummy snacks on sticks such as corn, sausages, chicken wings and many others. 

Not just on sticks, but stew eggs, chicken legs or Chinese call it phoenix claw, goose webs, pig liver and blood, goose wings, chicken heart, neck, intestine and tofu. 

Moving on, tiny sea snails or we call it “bali tong” fried with chili. I really don’t know what this is call in English. 

There was a stall with some hello kitty picture. What do you think? Selling cat meat? Nop, they are selling pressed fried bun, looks like prata.

Tea house. After along day of the busy buzzling city, let us go up to top of a mountain for some calm and soothing tea for a peace of mind. Ain’t this house beautiful. Look at the lovely bears carrying fruits. Look at the beautiful calm scenery, it is so peaceful. 

It is so perfect to view this while having a cup of tea. Look at the cup, having tea or having fish? 

On the way, you would be able to see one more special plant, a bird plant. A plant which looks like a bird. 

Food Yilan Taiwan

Need to get some souvenirs? How about some biscuits? Well, let us go to the biscuit shop, so it is flooded with all types of biscuit. They do have some offers running to get you to buy more, example buy one packed of biscuit at NTD40, buy 3 packets at NTD 100, that would make each packet cost NTD33.33, cheaper by NTD6.66. I bought a couple of packets. One of it was written, thinnest cookie. Yes it is thin enough for me.

    

After getting some yummy biscuits, the sun has retreated itself, so it is dinner time. This restaurant claimed they use the traditional cooking method. So check out one of their kitchen, look at those huge grey stove which reminds me of the tandoori clay oven but the problem is the color makes it does not look like it is made of clay. The one I saw usually was orange in color, but this was grey. Wonder what this stove is made of.

Just before entering the restaurant, they displayed some of their vegetables. Can’t name you everything there because I have no idea what are them myself. But I could name you some, let us start from bottom left, there are two types of green chilies or peppers. Then followed by enoki mushroom (some call it gold needle mushroom) because its bright white and thin, next to it looks like some seaweed. Right on top, the brown cone shape are bamboo shoots. Then next on the white tofu are the tiny red dots, we call it goji berry, same with the ones on the green spade leaves. Right on top of the tofu, that bunch of green look alike artichokes, right next to it are my favourite asparagus! Far right at the bottom would be, vegetables ladies finger aka okr, fresh lily bulb, tiny bitter gourd. The rest in the metal container? I have no clue.

  

Dinner is served, roast chicken, leeks with dried black mushroom and dried prawns and a plate of fresh mushroom with some paste. Let’s dig in!

 Feeling some mouth itch? We can chew on some marinated goose feet or they call it goose web. Chicken feet, chicken wings or just choose anything from the counter.