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what's up and welcome to Taipei City my
name is Luke Martin with chopstick
travel comm and today we are taking you
on a street food mission we are in an
old area of Taipei called thought Tong
and we are going to be trying lots of
unique Street foods
last time we were in Taipei we showed
you some of the more common and popular
foods but today we are going to be
trying lots of different things so I'm
hungry
let's go see what we get up
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sitting down at our first spot today and
we've ordered up two different dishes
both of which I've actually never tried
so the first one is this soup here and
it looks really interesting this is a
pork heart soup and it looks like just a
kind of a clear broth probably a little
salty and then quite a bit of ginger as
well and then over here we have
something that looks amazing this is a
red East pork super crispy on the
outside and red in color and we've got
three different cuts so we've got the
neck the belly and then the shoulder as
well so served with also some ginger and
then a sauce a kind of looks like the
ready sauce and then maybe a sweet soy
sauce in the middle so let's dig in
let's start with this pork heart soup
and it already smells really good and
there is huge chunks of heart so I'm
actually going to start with the broth
first so let's try that
okay yeah that's a little bit of a porky
flavor definitely a strong ginger flavor
but let's try one of these chunks of
Hearts I'll start with this one okay
let's try that out
Wow it doesn't actually taste much
different than regular pork meat it's
kind of really done a good job at
soaking up the flavor of that broth
because it also tastes a lot like ginger
yeah that's really good
okay let's try out this red yeast pork
now I've never tried this and it looks
and sounds really good there is like I
said three different cuts I think I'm
gonna go with this which is basically
just the regular pork meat and it looks
all short crispy on the outside
whoa
that is super tender wow I'm surprised
it has a very thin layer of crunch on
the outside and kind of a sweet flavor a
slightly salty
that's that's really good actually okay
this crispy fried red yeast pork is
awesome I'm gonna try a different cut of
meat now and this is the neck and you
can see there is like some marbleization
of that there and I'm also going to dip
this in the sauce right over here yeah
this is just the red yeast sauce oh yeah
that looks good
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it's so crispy on the outside and that
sauce is extremely sweet but that piece
of meat is a lot fattier than the last
kind we try okay the third and final cut
of meat is this this is the back or the
belly and it looks super fatty
so let's dip it in the sauce again
this sauce is really good nice and sweet
and let's try that
I can't believe how crispy it is but
still extremely tender this is a very
thin layer you have nice crunchy skin on
the outside
all right good start to the day little
heart soup and fried pork for breakfast
this is a really good spot let's keep
going and see what else we can find
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sitting down at our next restaurant to
try something very unique this is a
sugar smoked shark
so smoked shark meat in some places in
Asia people do eat shark fin
however this restaurant is not serving
shark fin in fact it's actually a good
thing because they use the rest of the
meat of the shark and they smoke it and
they sell it here so it's actually good
because a lot of places may only take
the fin of the shark and then the rest
of the meat is totally wasted so we were
sitting down at the restaurant here and
you can actually see all of the smoked
shark right in front of me we're at this
really cool stall on the side of the
street and yeah we're gonna try out this
smoked shark so there's different cuts
of the shark over here we have just the
regular shark meat it's also served with
some greens it looks like some green
onions and some chopped onions and then
over here this is tendon shark tendon
and it's also served with some wasabi
and maybe like a sweet sauce I'm not
exactly sure yet
but let's try out a piece of the shark
meat first I'm gonna go right for this
piece and dip it in a little bit of
sauce all right
let's try that out hmm
whoa
extremely soft Wow and it's served cold
it does have a smoky flavor that sauce
is a little bit spicy actually and it
kind of just tastes like a like a
whitefish is surprisingly soft like fell
apart in my mouth extremely tender next
piece of the shark we're going to try is
actually this skin it's a really thin
cut so I'm gonna try this with no sauce
mm whoa it has a really smoky flavor
actually a little bit bitter quite
bitter that's the skin so I'm just like
falls apart in your mouth
okay there's only one more piece left of
the shark and that is the tendon so I'm
going to get some onions and green
onions and put them on a piece of the
tendon it looks like this might be I'll
go for this piece oh that's actually
cilantro in there too that looks like it
might be a little chewy let's try that
out big piece
okay the cilantro tastes really good
with it
it is quite chewy cthis tendon and maybe
I should have dipped that in a little
bit of sauce but ridiculously smoky
flavor a surprisingly smoky smoky flavor
so we're taking the locals
recommendation and they recommend it we
try the shark with this interesting
drink it's like a vitamin B drink they
said so I'm gonna try a piece of the
shark here a little bit of sauce and
chase it down with this vitamin B soda
okay that's almost like a little like
lemon flavor just like a carbonated soda
yeah pretty good I'm not sure exactly
why they pair so well together but they
do sugar smoked shark so they actually
produce the smoke by burning sugar and
then smoke the shark right on top and it
just kind of smells like burnt sugar
surprisingly good in my opinion it's a
good thing what they're doing using the
whole shark because it's just like any
other fish but they are not wasting it
to only use the fin they don't use the
thin here so try it out if you're
interested it's quite an adventurous
food we're gonna keep going and see what
else we can find
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at our next spot today and so far all
the food's been really good we just
ordered up two new dishes
the first dish is this this is just a
mountain of fried rice and it is topped
with a bunch of small fish small dried
fish and then over here we actually have
some radish and then the second dish is
this this is the soup and it has a
poached egg on the inside looks like the
yolk is just ready to burst also with
some radish and some shrimp that look
like they may have been deep-fried and
breaded so I'm actually going to start
with this super sand just try the broth
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whoa that is really nice it has an
strong radish flavor and it's a little
salty wow that's really good
okay let's try a piece of the radish and
the shrimp actually let's break this egg
open first kind of break it with my
spoon here
there we go and I'll get a shrimp and
egg and it might be all I'll be able to
fit on my spoon but that's okay let's
try that
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that's a really good Wow
that shrimp is nice and meaty and that
egg is super creamy and it's all kind of
soak up the flavor of that brah that's a
nice dish it's a little salty second
dish is the fried rice let's try this
out and I'm gonna try to get quite a few
of these dried fish on top that looks
really good
she also broke up open some eggs on this
and put quite a bit of soy sauce as well
hmm hmm that's really good all the
flavor is really coming from this dried
fish it's quite salty as well and has
sort of like a burnt flavor because it
was fried on such a hot skillet and the
egg in there is really nice - that's a
good dish halfway into this meal and
everything tastes awesome I'm gonna try
another bite out but this time with some
of the radish and this soup is awesome
that radish is amazing it soaks up the
flavor that broth phenomenally and she's
that with some fried rice
this is good and this location is
awesome we're dining kind of alfresco
outside right underneath is huge tree
yeah good spot
so that spot was really good that fried
rice and the soup we're both awesome and
this location is also really cool we are
right outside of a temple this is called
Shen Gong solution temple and tons of
restaurants the whole street is lined
with them
lots of people eating outdoors and
really cool spot
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just finishing up with our day of eating
today and this is exactly how I like to
end a full day of eating and that is
with something cold because it is ultra
hot here in Taiwan so we have ordered a
couple different dishes the first one is
a almond jelly so you can see the jelly
underneath there and she's topped it
with kind of like a sweet syrup and some
ice so I can't wait I'm just gonna try a
piece of this oh yeah it's a big piece
yuria
it has a really nice like nutty almost
like mint flavor and then it's sweet
from the syrups you put on top
nice and cold that is a really strong
almond flavor number two is the same
thing but this time it's just with a
green beans kind of like mash on top and
then we've got some jelly underneath and
the ice on top same as last so let's
break off some ice and some jelly oh
yeah that's gonna be a good bite and
that looks really good
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I think I prefer other almond that has a
nice strong green bean flavor definitely
and those are really soft beans kind of
fall apart in your mouth but this one is
less sweet and less flavorful than the
almond almond really perfect end to the
day today some refreshing almond jelly
and shaved ice everything we ate today
was awesome and I hope you guys enjoyed
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