Very Hungry People: Yummy food from Taiwan

Yummy food from Taiwan - Part 3 , featuring the food we ate in Hualian!

Our guide for the day, (big) Liu Jie, help us get this delicious pack of takeaway.. it comes in a wooden box and this set has pork, egg, vegetables, "cai por", ginger, beancurd and sausage (i think). I like the rice.. it's abit like japanese rice - a little sticky. And this takeaway still taste nice even when it's not piping hot, and by that i mean the side dishes and the rice would not turn soggy after some time..

Chi Shang Bian Dang (Chi Shang Takeaway)

Our Landlady, (small) Liu Jie, organized a BBQ for those staying at her "home hostel" and we joined in. Their BBQ is full of Meat.. It's really "Kao Rou Hui". We all enjoyed the food at the BBQ:

This one is super-duper nice!! It's abit like soft-shell crab.. Very crunchy and tasty. They call this little crab "Lang Hua Xie". These are caught by Liu Jie's husband at the beach. The deep-fried vegetable is called " Jiu Chen Ta". It's not bad becuase it has this special aroma that I like.

Bacon and Chicken Wing:
The wing is super-duper good too!! I love it~

A Skewer of Pork:
did i mention they eat alot of Pork ( and beef too actually) in Taiwan? it's meat overdose!

Pork Chop:
]They usually eat pork chop with bread at their bbq.

Maize:
okie.. this maize is a little burnt.. but it's delicious! somehow their maize is tastier than our local ones.. and it's easier to bite the kernels off the core.

Taiwan Sausage!

Octopus' Mouth (to be honest i forgot it's Squid or Octopus) Well, let's call it Sotong la.. more familiar with it, haha. =X :
I didn't know what was it when i ate it.. our of our of my group, only i ate this.. It's pretty alright.. except that i got tired chewing the last part and spat it out.. = S
And can you spot the flat fishcake alike food behind?
It's called "Tian Bu La".

Inside this wooden container is Drunken Prawns!! they just leave it above the BBQ stove and heat it until it's ready for eating. not too bad. This could be brought from the supermarket if im not wrong..

I don't know the name of this food.. But it's abit like one of our Yong Tau Foo Fishcake.

And now, I shall introduce what we eat for breakfast at the stall behind our "home-hostel":

"Zu Pa Jian Bing":
Their "Jian Bing" is a little like crepe, though not exactly the same. you can order it with different fillings.. this one comes with Pork Chop.

" Jiu Chen Ta Jian Bing"

Triple Deck Sandwich:
Pork Chop ( different style from the one in Jian Bing), Egg, Ham and Cucumber.
This one is one of my friend's favourite, and i think it's yummy too!

Carrot Cake

And our takeaway lunch to the Ocean Park:

Jiao Zi:
The four of us shared 20 of it.
It's delicious! So much so that we bought it again (for supper) on our last night in Hualian.

Xiao Long Bao:
The four of us shared 10.

For our dinner, we were craving for steamboat because the weather had been very cold since we've reached Hualian. We went to a steamboat restaurant- Ah Guan Hou Guo - recommended by (big) Liu Jie. The food there is nice and filling and guess how much it cost? It cost us like slightly less than SGD 10 person (when converted)!! Too bad i dont have alot of pictures of the steamboat dinner because we werent allowed to take pictures.. and we secretly took a few only:

This is the basic set of ingredients when you order their steamboat. You get to choose the soup base (and the cost varies according to the different soup base) and you can add on some other dishes ( of 'cos at additional cost too). We ordered extra "Dong Fen", Straw Mushroom, Chicken, Crabstick and Frozen Beancurd. The Chicken was very fresh and very very tender! We were told that people in Hualian don't eat frozen meat. Whatever they eat is fresh.

The soup base that my friend and i shared comes with this pot of tea. When the soup boils, we pour the tea into the steamboat.
My two other friends ordered Kim Chi soup base.. it's very very NICE!! so much so that my friend and I keep stealing their soup! hahha..

And the next day morning we were back to our breakfast stall: