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so we're out here in rural Taiwan going
to try some local hole in the wall
restaurants get some street food I'm
hungry let's get
going check out all this rice that's so
much what's up and welcome guys my name
is Luke Mar with Chopstick travel.com
and what you are about to watch is a
very old video unfortunately most of the
footage was actually nonusable because
of some equipment malfunctions but since
then we have upgraded and the most
recent videos you have seen are filmed
on our newest camera but this is still
pretty interesting we got to make some
dumplings and try a lot of cool Street
Foods in a really rural part of Taiwan
so I suggest you stick around watch the
video you will enjoy it but now that I
have your attention I do want to give
you an update so right now I am in
gawang southern Taiwan and I filming a
ton of videos I'm working on a big
project right now a couple projects and
I think you're going to like them but
other than that we have a massive Around
the World trip planned and that will
will be starting this September so of
course we will start in Taiwan and then
we will be going to lots of places and I
want your suggestions for foods and
restaurants and places to eat in all of
these different spots we're stopping at
some of which include Tokyo Soul
Bangkok all over India Paris uh
Amsterdam back to Canada New York City
and then we'll be back in Taiwan but
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we're out here in a rural part of Taiwan
this is called Thai ba in ji County and
we just found a Hole in the Wall
restaurant and we're going to pop in for
some wag okay we're sitting down now for
our walkway and we also order up a
fishball soup so there's some pizza tofu
in here and also some fishballs and this
uh walkway is basically just a rice
flour they mix with a lot of water and
also some sesame oil so let's try it in
okay let's grab a
bite and there's quite a bit of sauce
I'm not sure it's probably going to be a
sweet sauce oh
yeah okay let's try this
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in the sauce is like really nutty from
that sesame oil and the texture you can
just see this is like really gelatinous
but it's actually not made with uh
sticky rice it's made made with rice
flour so it's really smooth and good I'm
going to grab another bite of that it's
a nice uh breakfast
dish that's good I also think there
might be some pork in
there let's try this fishball soup out
here I'm going to grab one of the
fishballs actually first I'll try the
broth by
itself oh oh that's really salty
actually but pretty good I'm going to
try one of these fish balls yeah that
looks like a nice
fishball it has like a really nice like
spongy texture and it's not too salty
the the broth is quite salty and it
doesn't really have a fishy taste it's
almost actually I wonder if it's
actually like a pork or a meatball but
let's try one of these pieces of tofu
next
m
m oh yeah check that out that's like a
nice like spongy really juicy tofu that
soaks up all that
broth all right that was a good start to
the day the Street's just packed with
tons of street foods and lots of little
hole in the walls so let's go see what
else we can
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find oh yeah check this place out
this is serving uh roen and this looks
like such a cool restaurant it's old
brick building nice Hole in the Wall
Restaurant
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okay sitting down in this restaurant now
to have ran and this is such a cool
place like it's completely brick walled
and the owner is really nice and he told
us that this restaurant is 50 years old
and the original price for one of these
B Yen was 2 Taiwan dollars which in
Canadian Canadian is about 8 cents or
about 5 cents American so that is
ridiculously cheap now they're $30
Taiwan doar which is still pretty cheap
so royen is actually just Taiwan
meatball is what R Yen means and I'm
going to try this out it's really kind
of like gooey okay grab a piece here oh
yeah that looks really
good
M that is really nice like really hot
and gooey and the meat has a nice flavor
in there there's also some bamboo shoots
which gives us a little bit of a crunchy
like vegetable flavor yeah let's try
this soup out
it smells like a fish like almost like a
Bonito
soup yeah a little salty a little bit
fishy and I think there I think there
might be seaweed in the bottom there
yeah that's really nice okay this is a
really good Taiwanese beatball the sauce
is actually like so nice and sweet and
yeah there's nice big pieces of pork in
there as well and also I think I saw a
mushroom in there yeah this is a good
spot 50 years old it's
crazy the owner of the shop is so nice
they're so friendly here and they just
gave us a free uh B Bing which is shaved
ice and this is like my favorite dessert
here in Taiwan and they gave it to us
with passion fruit so it's almost like a
passion fruit syrup try that out oh it
smells so good
oh yeah oh yeah the passion fruit is
nice and sour it has like a really like
tropical fruit flavor and yeah that ice
is nice and refreshing super hot today
yeah let's try that
again oh and they said they've been
serving this for 20 years it's
incredible oh yeah okay that last r was
really good and now we've come down the
street to a dumpling shop
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okay we're in The Dumpling spot now and
she's making the dumplings right here
behind me and yeah she's really good at
it and apparently I'm going to be able
to try it myself and I don't think I'm
going to do very much don't know really
what I'm doing but I'm going to
learn so this is the in it looks like
green onions and
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pork yeah this is going to be a good
one so take the fork a little bit at a
time it down little
bit little
bit water
water The Filling keeps wanting to like
shoot out of the
ends she's she's making about three for
every one that I'm able to make and hers
are perfect and mine are terrible so she
just finished her box of 10 and now I've
got I've got four made
okay think I'm getting the hang of it
just kind of getting the hang of this I
realize that you got to put a little bit
at a time so you can kind of pat down
the filling and then water finger I
guess that's so it sticks close I'm
assuming and then fold and pull up pull
up like
this and I always have filling that
comes at the end I don't know if I'm
putting too much in the middle but
okay let's finish this off I've got six
I need to make four
more 1 2
3 okay just finished making my basket 10
dumplings I think it went okay you can
definitely see the progression from the
first one I made until the last one I
made so we're going to steam these up
and try them out and they look delicious
already
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okay our dumplings have arrived these
are not the dumplings that I made so
we're going to try the Masters first and
I'm assuming they're going to be better
a little bit of chili on there oh yeah
this going to be a good one I don't
think I should one bite this cuz I'm
scared I'm going to burn
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myself oh yeah so juicy there's like a
soup inside you can see it has a really
nice green onion taste and that pork is
really good I think that maybe they cool
the pork so that the fat sort of uh
solidifies and then when they steam it
it sort of just turns into a juice oh oh
it smells so good
too that is a good dumpling we're going
to have to see how mine compare all
right our dumpling has arrived or my
dumplings and um yeah these definitely
don't look as good as the Master's
dumplings but I'm going to do a little
taste test and tell you if I tell the
difference it's going to be
hot it's still really good but you can
see the wrapper is already falling apart
unlike the the other ones and I didn't
put I don't think I put enough meat
inside this one but yeah that's still
really good these dumplings are just
awesome The Filling is so juicy and
awful good
come on byebye oh yeah that was so good
those dumplings were so juicy and
awesome we're going to go see what else
we can find I'm getting pretty full
though so not too much
more oh yeah this is a cool
spot this guy's serving DOA which is
like a tofu pudding right over the back
of his truck here so we're going to
order some up he's got peanuts so that's
probably what I'm going to go
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for
fore fore
fore hold on
okay just ordered up our DOA this looks
really good and it is super hot out so
it's time for some dessert let's try
this out this is a peanut
kind oh yeah that's nice and
nice peanut flavor and that tofu like
it's really smooth he also um broke up
some ice some shaved ice and put that in
there so it's nice and cold yeah this is
nice little soupy
dessert that was really good nice and
refreshing let's keep moving I think
we're going to get one more snack I'm
just about filled to the brim see
and bye
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okay sitting down for our last snack of
the day this is Shen Bing which is just
a fried dumpling it's kind of like a
Bowa it's a big dumpling and shallow
fried on both sides and he is just
working away over there making uh all
the different flower DS for these and
yeah this looks good and nice and plump
oh you can look at the side here you
just see juice coming right out look at
that oh yeah okay bet this is going to
be hot dip it in a little bit of
sauce try that
in
oh that is so juicy did you see that
look at how good that is that is so
juicy it's just dripping again it has
like a nice green onion taste that is
like one of the best parts about it
eating all these snacks in Taiwan they
just load the green onions they really
don't go easy on
it that sauce is a little spicy not
really and mostly just sweet and nice
meaty filling there try another buite
that M oh yeah look at all the juice on
my plate here
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I'm sad that that fell out this is
really good I'm going to finish this off
but I am
full
byebye okay that was awesome last treat
for the day big juicy dumpling and
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