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what's up and welcome guys my name is
Luke Martin with chopstick travicom and
today we are in Taipei City so we are
going to be making another food tour for
you in this beautiful city but today's
episode is going to be a little bit
different actually Sabrina and I as
promised will be answering some of the
questions that you guys have for us so I
know there's a lot of things you've been
wondering so we're gonna be doing a lot
of eating and definitely answering all
those questions you have so make sure
you stay tuned because it's gonna be a
good episode so let's go okay guys we
are here at our breakfast spot today and
we have come to one of our favorite
spots deep breakfast and all of Taipei
this is a little food street in da Tong
district one of the older areas of
Taipei and we have ordered up some
really good-looking food so we're gonna
sample it before we answer some of your
questions
the first dish we have ordered today for
breakfast is a congee so you can see
this is full of this interesting looking
rice and then there's some big pieces of
pork in there some scallions some little
baby dried shrimp and it's a pork bone
broth and then over here we have a red
yeast deep fried pork served with some
of the red yeast sauce and then some
sliced radish and that looks awesome
super crispy looking
knocking uh
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okay let's start with this rice porridge
and I'm just gonna try some of the rice
with the broth and this is a very
popular breakfast food here in Taiwan
hmm oh yeah it's very light and you can
definitely taste those dried shrimp in
there you have a nice seafood eat flavor
it's a little bit salty too let's try to
get a piece of the pork actually that's
really kind of soothing not too
overpowering for breakfast let's try
that
hmm okay that pork is nice and tender
and I'd have to say the dominant flavor
is definitely those dried shrimp giving
it a nice little seafood flavor so let's
try some of this deep-fried pork necks
so this is deep-fried in a batter of red
yeast and you can see it's got this nice
red color on the exterior and it's sort
of layered meat and then fat and meat so
let's dip it in some of the the yeast
sauce oh man it's gonna be good oh yeah
that's awesome that's extremely crispy
on the outside you can definitely taste
the layers of fat in there but it is
extremely tender too it's not true you
whatsoever that's really nice a little
bit greasy for breakfast but it goes
well with the congee
so we're just sitting here enjoying our
breakfast in this nice little courtyard
in front of this temple and its food is
really delicious and it's beautiful here
but we have your questions and we are
going to be answering them so the first
question comes from Sharon chin and she
asks hey Luke
are there any food that you are afraid
of eating because of how exotic or
unusual it is if there aren't any what
are the most unusual food you've tried
so we've eaten some interesting things
before there are some foods that I do
not want to try one of which was in
Korea actually so in Korea they like to
eat a silkworm pupa so these kind of
little baby worms I guess it's not that
I don't want to try them because the way
that they look but it's the way that
they smell they smell absolutely
terrible and pretty much anywhere in
Korea you can be walking down the street
and you'll just smell this from a ways
away and it just I can't get over it so
I haven't been able to try that I think
one of the foods that I it's not so
exotic but I really stay away from is
frog I don't know what it is about it it
also has kind of a strange smell and I
can't stand to even try it so the next
question comes from Kate and she asks
what have you found most difficult about
constantly traveling traveling is very
logistically difficult you always need
to be planning two steps ahead so that's
something we've had to learn to deal
with but other than that traveling is
difficult because you have to live out
of a bank so we live in a vapor bag in a
suitcase we have all of our camera gear
and it's just hard to kind of dig out
your clothes all the time especially if
you're used to having a dresser or a
place where all your things are kept in
one specific spot so we're kind of
always changing always moving and things
are getting packed differently next
question is from Anna Carolina what made
you decide to do food videos and why
base it in Taiwan we have always been
food lovers and that's really why we
connected in the first place and we
found that traveling for food is
it gives meaning it gives purpose to
traveling sure we love to go see all the
tourist spots and the beautiful sights
eating things but really to feel like
you're part of the local culture it
really helps to try to immerse yourself
in the food and obviously Street food is
one of the best ways of doing that and
why base it in Taiwan so that's also a
very good question
Taiwan I have found is just a food
paradise it's really the culture around
food here is one of a kind so just to
see thousands of people going to night
markets every single night packing the
places out only to eat food it just
shows that this is a culture a country
that loves to eat food so obviously -
there's a ton of diversity of food here
especially street food it makes it very
good for filming here so we just love it
the weather is amazing here we just
absolutely love our time here in Taiwan
people are super friendly and another
thing is when we were coming here the
first time we noticed that there wasn't
a whole lot of research on a lot of
foods here so we thought maybe we could
fill that void and and that's that's
been our goal and we've been really
trying to do that next question comes
from nav US X and they asked what is
Luke's number one Street food he has
eaten to date and what Sabrina's worse
food she had tried so okay one recently
that we tried that just blew my mind was
this duck galbi paddy that we had this
pork patty in Korea in condom and it was
just absolutely incredible they mix the
meat with apple and it just gave it this
incredible dimension of flavors fruity
and savory so that was definitely up
there with one of my favorites for
another I'd have to say in Malaysia we
ate a dish called nasi kerabu and it is
this blue rice and then mixed with all
kinds of amazing Malaysian ingredients
lots of coconut and then we eat it with
this amazing barbecued chicken
so that dish is certainly one to
remember and I'd say probably one of the
worst foods and I
to date we weren't filming or anything
like that but we had boiled pigs vagina
and it is exactly what it sounds like it
was tasteless it had a really strange
texture overall just not a very good
meal that was probably my least favorite
one all right that was a really awesome
breakfast and this is a super cool spot
here in Taipei in Hong District a really
local spot if you guys want to check it
out we'll leave the directions to come
here in the description box we're gonna
keep going and get some more food and
answer some more your questions so let's
go
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all right so we have our next snack
today and this is potentially one of the
most famous things in all Taiwan and
that is the ever so famous Taiwanese
bubble milk tea so this is popular
pretty much everywhere in the world but
this is a Taiwanese invention and let me
just kind of explain to you what we have
here so it is a black tea that has been
mixed with milk and then on the bottom
here the bubbles they are made out of
tapioca so it gives it this really
interesting texture as the Taiwanese
call it QQ which basically just means
chewy and it is just extremely popular
here and one of my favorite drinks and
we have gotten it from one of my
favorite spots to get bubble milk tea
here in Taiwan Moo salon or we just call
it 50 and that is a really popular tea
shop there's all kinds of tea shops here
in Taiwan but this one's my favorite for
bubble milk tea all right let's try this
out and this is a cold drink there's ice
in here and only a little bit of sugar
you can tell them how much you want I
say in sugar let's try
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oh that's always so good so we have kind
of taken shelter underneath this canopy
because it started raining pretty bad
here in Taipei and we were just enjoying
our bubble milk tea is this one of
Sabrina's favorite drinks and all of
that one
okay so time for some more questions and
the first one comes from West Davies and
he asked what did you both study in
university is that where you met and
what made you want to go to Taiwan
initially so we both did meet in
university and we both studied the same
thing in university and that was marine
biology so we both went to university in
Canada in our home province which is New
Brunswick it's very small province on
the east coast of Canada and there's a
lot of marine ecology there so that's
why I decided to do marine biology so
thank us for those questions and thanks
for always being an awesome subscriber
commenting on all of our videos so the
next question is from row row yunda and
they asked hi Luke when will you come to
Indonesia so that is a question we get
asked all the time and that actually can
lead us into the next thing we wanted to
talk about so we will be coming to
Indonesia very soon in 2018 we're not
exactly sure when but first up our next
travel plan is to go to China so we will
be going to mainland China here in about
a month in March and we will spending
about a month and a half going all
around the country so there's a few
spots we want to go for sure and that is
Shanghai and
shion guangzhou and maybe a couple other
places but if you guys have any
suggestions for any of those spots I
just mentioned make sure to let us know
down below also for Indonesia please
give us any recommendations you have
we're in the works right now planning
our trip to Indonesia it'll be a few
more months before we make it there but
we are super excited and the food there
just looks incredible so make sure you
let us know where we have to go and what
dishes we have to try ok so our next
question comes from admid trot and I
hope I'm saying that correct and they
say will you guys do more European
Street food food programs in the future
going to Europe the last time we wanted
to film a lot of street food videos the
street food culture is a little
different there it's it's a little
harder to film it's a little harder to
see how the food is made so we do hope
to go back in the future we are planning
to
more of the Eastern European countries
this time around so high on our list of
cup European countries is definitely
Turkey so we're hoping to get to
Istanbul or maybe some other places in
Turkey very soon and making some awesome
quality content for you guys there okay
so the rain has stopped and that was a
really awesome cup of bubble milk tea
and we're gonna keep heading on today we
have a couple more questions we want to
answer for you guys and we're going to
go to our next spot for a little snack
so let's go
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okay so our last snack today is another
very popular dessert here in Taiwan and
this is mango shaved ice and just check
out the size of this bowl it is
absolutely huge so we have the shaved
ice underneath here and then big chunks
of fresh mango on top and then on top
here it looks like a scoop of actual ice
cream maybe it's mango flavored ice
cream we'll find it and then
everything's just been smothered in
condensed milk
alright let's get a big chunk of mango
some condensed milk and then a ton of
that shaved ice I tried it that's gonna
be cold bite
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it's surprisingly creamy even though
it's not ice cream
it's just shaved ice but because of that
condensed milk it makes it extremely
creamy and that mango is really really
soft it's also quite sweet it's really
it's light it's a lot lighter than ice
cream and it's a healthier option
certainly than ice cream and still very
delicious especially on a summer's day
but pretty much any time this is
enjoyable
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so the first question comes from Carolyn
Coe its key and they asked why did you
have to leave India and do you ever get
food poisoning so that's a question that
we have been asked a lot so as some of
you may know we were in India we made
only one video while we were there and I
decided to answer this question because
they go very well together the two parts
of the question because I did in fact
get extremely sick from food poisoning
so I was pretty much bedridden for three
days could really drink water and it was
extremely hot while we were in India -
in Kolkata so we do hope that we can
return someday but at that point I was
just so sick that we needed to leave and
you know it was unfortunate we did enjoy
the food especially in India but our
time and yeah but we had to leave this
time so we're hoping that we're going to
be able to come back again in the future
so I'm actually going to upload a video
to my second channel further explaining
this and actually show you the food that
I believe was the food that I ate that
maybe that's sick so you'll see that on
our second channel Luke Martin raw make
sure to go to into the description box
and you can see the link so subscribe
while you're over there because we're
gonna be putting out a lot of good
content so our next question comes from
Laura McNeill and she asks what are your
next five countries on your bucket list
so that's a really good question we have
so many on our list but I think our next
top five are China Indonesia
Philippines Vietnam and Mongolia so we
do hope that we can travel to these
ferries doing hopefully within 2018 but
it's not 2019 and hopefully sooner than
that so those are our next five
countries but of course we have so many
more so that is it for today's video I
hope you guys enjoyed this kind of
casual Q&A with some really delicious
Taiwanese food and just to let you know
we are going to be making a ton more
videos from regular style for the next
month or so here in Taiwan we can't wait
and we have a lot to come in 2018 so I
hope we answered most of your questions
if you have any more questions leave
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