Taiwan's Produce and Food Essay 100 Words

Food is a culture, and Taiwan is no exception. It is not too much to say that Taiwan is a "gourmet island" or "food in Taiwan". Taiwan is rich in material resources, with plenty of food, an abundance of vegetables and fruits, a large number of poultry and livestock, and a large number of fishery products. As a result, Taiwanese people are particularly concerned about their diet. The whole island *** has about 100,000 restaurants, food stalls 250,000, walking in the streets and alleys of Taiwan's large and small cities, restaurants, eateries one by one. An overview of Taiwan into the daily meals, banquets and snacks, roughly the same as Fujian Lai, Guangdong Lai, but also has the following characteristics:

First, Taiwan's dietary traditions originated in Fujian and Guangdong, but there are changes in the local flavor of Taiwan itself. For example, the famous snack "midge frying" in southern Fujian is made of groundnut flour mixed with midge and shredded garlic leaves. It is dipped in spicy sauce or ginger vinegar before eating, and is usually available in winter when midges are in abundance. On the other hand, Taiwan's "midge fry" is available all year round. It is made of groundnut flour and midge as the main ingredients, with leeks, green onions or other leafy vegetables in addition to shredded garlic leaves as the toppings. It is served with hot sauce, ginger and vinegar, satay, curry and peanut sauce. Another example is the Cantonese people have snake-eaters, Min people have rat-eaters, and Taiwan folk eat both rats and snakes, and create a unique rat and snake Laikan, better than Fujian and Guangdong.

Second, Taiwan's flavorful snacks are especially many. Mainland provinces have, Taiwan does not have, and there are many unique Taiwanese local characteristics of snack foods; such as beverages, papaya milk, love jade ice, bubble water, taro ice, etc.; cakes and cakes of gold snail, silver barley, big red "rice cake", etc.; pasta class of the degree of the small moon noodle, eel noodle, etc.; meat category of the tribute to the meatballs, the meat of the mountain river, "Coffin Rice", etc.; seafood fried raw snails, fried nine holes, Xishi tongue, lobster hot pot, as well as Changhua meatballs, Keelung Sweet and Spicy, Hsinchu Gongwan; Tainan Dingbian Chao; nourishing category of the four God soup, Angelica duck, etc., all have their unique flavor and local flavor.

It is worth mentioning that all over Taiwan, including various towns, there are famous snacks, which Taiwanese people enjoy. For example, Taoyuan Daxi has dried beans, Taipei Tamsui has fishballs, granny's iron eggs and Ah Give, Taipei County Yonghe City has authentic Yonghe soy milk, Hsinchu County and City has gongwan and rice noodles, Chiayi has chicken rice, Nantou has rice cakes made of Shaoxing wine, Taichung has sun cakes and Ah Shui lion's pig's feet ...... really has it all. As for oyster noodle threads, fried flower sticks, egg with preserved vegetables, fish soup, and danzai noodles, just about every small store in Taiwan has them. But the reason your Taiwanese friends will tell you which one is the most authentic is because it's been open for decades, or this one was the founder in the first place.

For example, Danzai noodles, the authentic century-old store is located in Tainan City, and the name of the shop is "Du Xiaoyue Danzai Noodles", which no one in Taiwan knows about, and it is the only one, with no other branches. The store's furnishings have been kept in a traditional style, with no high tables or big chairs, but small tables and short stools, so guests walk into the store, sit around the stove, watch the guys make the food on the spot, and gossip about the history of "Duo Xiaoyue". 90 years ago, there was a man named Hong Taro Tou in Tainan, who made his living by fishing. But between May and August every year, when typhoons are rampant, there was no way to go out to sea. So he had to find another way to make a living, picking up a stretcher with a pot and stove on one end and rice flour and noodles on the other, and selling meat noodles from his hometown in Fujian. Because this time of year is called "Duxiaoyue" by the fishermen, Hong Taro's noodles are also called "Duxiaoyue Danzai Noodles" and have been passed down to this day.

Speaking of Tainan, another famous snack comes to mind, which has the appalling name of "coffin board". It's made this way: thick slices of toasted bread are crisped and hollowed out, filled with milk batter, chicken, potatoes and green peas, and then covered with the crust. The owner named it after the "coffin plate," a play on words from diners.

Thirdly, Taiwan's food is mostly made of rice products and is characterized by sweetness.

Taiwan is China's famous "rice warehouse", a variety of rice products in particular, such as 馃馃, cakes, mochi, dumplings, rice, pills, rolls, etc.; its name is not less than a hundred kinds. Taiwan's cake and 馃 stores are also many, each store has its own ancestral secret method, refined all kinds of "signature cake and 馃" to attract customers. Since Taiwan produces a lot of sugar, Taiwanese food is characterized by "sweetness". Banquet delicacies and delicacies with sugar, such as "fried chicken rolls" on the table, the plate on the heart of the withdrawal of a small amount of sugar, vegetables, shredded meat and egg soup must also add sugar. As for the small store food, is more desserts, candied fruit, even if the soup is also.

Fourth, snacks are concentrated in the night market.

These famous Taiwanese snacks, I have eaten, but left a deep impression on me, and to this day, the teeth of the fragrance of the freshwater fish balls, Keelung Miaokou crab soup and Kaohsiung Qijin tomato cut plate. In Danshui, Taipei, fishball makers and sellers abound. First, the finest shark meat is battered, then a little gravy powder and water are added, and after mixing well, the balls are wrapped in dried meat and made into balls. The freshwater fish balls are very bite-sized, and you have to be careful when eating them. First, you have to take a small bite out of the fish ball to suck the meat and soup inside, and then you can chew on it. The snack stalls in Keelung Miaokou have been around since the Tongzhi era of the Qing Dynasty, and there are now two to three hundred stalls. The snack crab soup there is made of six ingredients, including shredded fresh bamboo shoots, shredded fresh shiitake mushrooms, hairy vegetables, and crab leg meat, and is full of color and flavor. Sitting by the stove with a bowl of crab soup, one feels that there is nothing more delicious in the world. The tomato cutlet of Kaohsiung Kijin is made by cutting green tomatoes into cubes, placing them on a plate, dipping them in soy sauce and umeboshi powder and then bringing them to your mouth, and the flavor is indescribable.

Of course, the greatest concentration of snacks is in the night markets. Taipei thus formed ten night market, such as Shilin, Gongguan, Huaxi Street, Shida, Raohe Street, Liaoning Street, Ningxia Road, etc., Taipei County, Danshui night market in Danshui Old Street, Keelung's night market in Miaokou, Hsinchu night market is in the Chenghuangmiao ...... these night markets Taiwanese are familiar with, foreign tourists also tend to be in the local rendering of encouragement The night market is a great place to have a good meal. As the saying goes, you can't miss it! In addition to snacks, there are actually some things that are more special in Taiwan, such as mountain vegetables such as shanshu, over the cat, betel flowers, sugar cane shoots (in fact, small sugar cane seedlings), "Presidential Fish" in Sun Moon Lake (originally known as the curved waist fish, because Chiang Kai-shek very much like it, so the name was changed), and seafood, such as the three treasures of the East Harbor, such as cherry blossom shrimp and bluefin tuna. The sashimi of black tuna melts in your mouth, and after eating it, you will feel that the other fish are really average.

The food is indistinguishable from the food, and Taiwan's beverages are special, with a variety of flavors available everywhere you go, such as pearl milk tea in Taipei, Luo Shen Hua tea in Taitung, and shaved ice made with condensed milk and a variety of fruits. Especially worth mentioning is the ice cream made from the juice of cactus fruits invented by the people of Penghu, which has a sweet and sour flavor and makes you want to eat it again.