Taiwan Food Hunt: Taipei Street Food Scene

We still have five hours before our flight back to Manila and instead of packing our stuff we headed to the nearest night market and indulged on Taipei's great street food for one last time (‘coz packing can wait). There are so many yummy treats that squeezing in a food trip on our regular walking tour is mandatory. On an average, I spent US$2 per meal and you couldn’t have three meals a day when you’re in Taiwan, around five or six will do.

When your tummy is happy and everything seems blurry

Night market scene

When I mentioned Taipei to be my next destination, my friends drool over their favorite Taiwanese dish that remembering its names was difficult for them (check here for discounted tours, transportation and activities in Taipei). They would just mention, Oh, this beef noodles in this place, or, That fried thingy on the night market. And that started my craving for these foreign foodstuff that I never had, quite weird right?

Steamed something

Looks like a happy chicken

So as we navigated the traditional villages and mad night markets, we specifically squeezed in some food trippin’ on the side and I must say that we really had a great time exploring the food core of Taiwan and went into a foodcoma every time.

Local breakfast scene at the old district of Datong

Ximending Shopping area

We didn't try this though

We didn't know what's this but we ordered one and surprisingly, it's yummy!

Chong Zhua Bing or Chinese egg pancake (NT$35 | US$1) is so delish! As expected, Taipei food scene is really great. Powered by @flytpack #FlytpackTravels #FlytpackHelps #FlytpackPH

A photo posted by blissfulguro (@blissfulguro) on Nov 29, 2016 at 9:17pm PST

Shilin Night Market

So-so dinner at Shilin Night Market - NT90 (US$2.82)

The unique sauce makes the difference
Quail eggs takoyaki - NT20 (US$0.63)

Raohe Night Market

The superstar of Raohe Night Market
Deep fried breaded large chicken chop - NT65 (US$2.04)

Braised pork rice with egg and bamboo shoots - NT45 (US$1.41)

Shida Night Market

We were like, Let's try this!

Reminiscent of our cua pao
Steamed flat soft bread filled with red-cooked pork belly, pickled mustard greens (suan cai),
fresh cilantro plus ground peanuts

Gua pao pork belly bun - NT50 (US$1.57)

Jiufen

Steamed Xiao Long Bao - NT160 (US$5.02)

Stir-fried shredded pork, dried squid and fried tofu - NT220 (US$6.90)

Yehliu Geopark

Legit squid balls - NT35 (US$1.10)

Refreshing seaweed drink - NT35 (US$1.10)

Beef Noodles

Soup noodles with pork rib - NT110 (US$3.45)

Super tender beef noodles - NT80 (US$2.51)

Beer nights

Taiwan Beer 600ml. - NT70 (US$2.20)

We haven’t tried anything fancy, just those readily available on the streets and on night markets. We haven’t even tried to queue on those stalls with a dozen or so patrons to see what the buzz was all about. But guess what? Almost everything we ate was good and totally reasonable for its price. It would be a dishonor to the great Taiwanese yummy food if you spend three days to sample it. Me planning to spend another week in Taipei just to scour around town for great food finds. Tara? :)


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