Hello everyone! Today is my last day in Taipei and I'm so incredibly sad but I
figured why not film a challenge video while I'm here so you guys know that I
love to make videos about Taipei it is one of my favourite cities in the whole
world and so today I thought it might be fun to test my knowledge of all the
amazing food in Taipei and take you guys to the best places to get one dollar
fruits I also like to do cheap eats videos on my channel so this one is the
ultimate cheap eats only one dollar I mean the only thing less than that is
free and I think that's a little hard so we're doing $1 foods all day and for
breakfast I have a spot in mind that is really really cheap but it serves up
classic Taiwanese breakfast so let's see what we can get there for $1
okay so I just stopped by and got my breakfast which was only 30 NT, so
right at that one dollar mark. And so what I have here is a very very classic
iconic Taiwanese breakfast dish and it's called shao bing youtiao and basically what
it is is it's a shao bing which is kind of like a flaky flatbread and it's
topped with sesame seeds and then it's stuffed with yo tail which is also known
as the Chinese doughnut so this is very iconic and usually you pair it with soy
milk and you dip it in there but since I only had a dollar to spend I just went
with this so this thing is basically carbs on carbs like if you love carbs
how can you go wrong with this
it is extremely crunchy extremely flaky the inside donut is fried to perfection
you can really see that crunch on the Chinese donut now all I need is some soy
milk because this thing is pretty dry when you're just eating it by itself so
really wishing for that soy milk right about now okay so that breakfast really
left my throat a little bit dry so I'm gonna look for some boba and I know that
nearby here there actually is a boba place that I really like it is a chain
but in my opinion it's one of the best boba chains in Taipei so let's go get
some boba give a shout do
oh goodness - between my top ok committee yeah a loot at shall beta
cookie shopping songs right here we have our quite sad drink I thought maybe I
could get a milk tea like with no boba for a dollar but all of those were
40 instead of 30 so for 30 all I could get was a small boba with a green tea
so this is our drink of the day oh I wish it was big boba but if you're not
doing the dollar challenge and you go to whoosh your land which is what this
place is called I really like the green milk tea with normal boba.
Okay so I just got to our third place and this place sells pineapple cakes and
they're really really famous and once you walk in they ask if you want to take
a seat and they basically just place a plate in front of you that has a
pineapple cake and some tea and it's free 99 so just learn we're not even
spending a dollar or 30 NT it's literally 0 NT and it's really
awesome that at this place they just let you kind of sample their pineapple cake
before you decide if you want to buy it and if you don't want to buy it then
there's no obligation to so I knew I had to come here during this one dollar
challenge oh and I'm really really thirsty because it was a long walk to
get here hmm oh it's like kind of like a roasted almost like a roasted race and
if that's completely wrong then that just shows how much I know about tea
which is very little I guess so here's a pineapple cake and theirs is a rectangle
shape usually see pineapple cake in a square shape so that's how you always
know that it's any Hills when it's in that rectangular shape the outside is
nice and buttery and I really love how the crust is always so like crumbly -
it's literally kind of like a shortbread cookie on the outside but more crumbly
and then on the inside you get the sweet pineapple filling especially since it's
free tastes a lot better - these are actually the perfect pair the pineapple
cake with the tea goes so well together okay so we just finished having our free
pineapple cake at Sunny Hills with tea and it was actually really good and it
felt almost like Costco samples except where your fancier so yeah I have more
in store there's a little mochi stand that has the most amazing mochi for
superteam so I'm gonna take you guys there right now
you got
No oh my god I got my mochi I'm hella happy
I'm super excited okay where should I eat it over here okay so I got one taro
one red bean and one peanut if I said everything correctly that's what I
should have gotten okay I'm just gonna try one I think this one is a red bean
oh my god it's huge
mmm look at all that delicious red bean filling and each of these is only ten so
I was allowed to get three we're just so cheap so chewy and then the outside is
coated in that peanut powder thing you guys ought to try this mochi place one
of the cheapest best things you can find in Taipei for sure okay so this and next
stop I actually found out about it from the BuzzFeed worth it dumplings episode
they said that they have 50 cent pan-fried dumplings so I'm gonna check
this place out and take you guys with me and we can see together if it's as good
as the work that people make it out to be
okay so here we have it the pan fried dumpling and since this is only 50 cents
I was actually able to get a soy milk as well so the bun is 15 NT and the soy
milk is 10 NT so actually was 25 NT for these both we are under budget so I
really want to try the soy milk because they tried it in the video and they made
it seem so good and I haven't had like life-changing soy milk before so I want
to see if it's as good as they say so let's start with this pan fried bun I'm
scared that's gonna get cold so I want to eat it first when it's fresh oh my
gosh look at how beautifully crisp and brown the bottom is oh that's one of my
favorite parts of pan fried buns the crispy bottom it just makes about so
much better and I got the pork bun they have a cabbage one and a chives one I
believe but I always gotta get that meat you guys know me so it looks pretty
standard it does look crispier than other pan fried buns I've seen and then
of course they have the sesame he sprinkled on top and apparently what
makes this really good is the dough I remember watching that worth it video
and I remember them saying that the dough is so QQ which means chewy so
let's go ahead and see if this lives up to the hype mmm the dough actually does
make this bun very special it is definitely more chewy than other pan
fried buns that I've had and the pork is very flavorful very meaty it's nothing
like super super special but yeah the button is what really shines at this
place mmm oh my girl I'm so shocked cuz I've eaten a lot of pan fried buns in my
life I thought you know what can be so special about this one but it's actually
very very good oh my goodness oh wow amazing alright I got to make sure I
show you guys the soy milk as Jojo I'm actually skeptical about
this because I've never had like life-changing soy milk I think it's good
like for breakfast as a Taiwanese breakfast thing but it's not like my
favorite thing in the world or anything okay let's see
and actually is very good soymilk well I like how they keep it nice and cold it's
super refreshing right now definitely one of the best dojo I've had because it
has that very nutty flavor and it has sweetness as well but it's not overly
sweet it tastes very like naturally sweet I'm impressed
you guys have to try it that's all I have to say okay so you know what I
realized just now is that we're in the gold one area and there is this Michelin
Guide scallion pancake I tried to come to like last week but it was a Wednesday
and apparently it's closed on Wednesdays it's open today so I was like oh why
don't I stop by and try this scallion pancake cuz you guys know I have my own
favorite scallion pancake place that I've put in like five videos at this
point so I really wanted to try this one on the Michelin Guide to see if it
compared so I guess let's just go see if this one is uh good or better that other
one is hard to beat so let's go find out
okay so we just got our scallion pancake this place it was 34 there original
flavor so I really didn't have room to like add any toppings in terms of price
but what's cool is that they do actually give you basil for free and then they
add they're kind of like sweet and savory soy sauce and then they also ask
if you want spicy and I said medium spicy and she warned me that their spicy
is pretty spicy and I told her I love so did I overestimate myself or did she
underestimate me and then they also asked if I wanted this yellow looking
sauce it almost looks like mustard it looks pretty promising it looks pretty
flaky and the first thing I noticed that's different from my favorite place
is that this guy is like very gently fluffing up the pancake
whereas at my favorite place there like aggressively going at it like
so we'll see if the soft and gentle technique is better than the aggressive
technique let's just go ahead and try it
hmm oh wow it was like a mustard when she said it was spicy yeah I'm
definitely tasting it it's kind of like that Thai chilli spice which I actually
love it's very very spicy though like a little bit can go a long way Wow the
addition of mustard is actually very interesting I didn't think that it
sounded good but it's actually really good in this like whoever decided to put
mustard on this green onion pancake like you're onto something this is really
really good wow I am impressed this with the toppings even though this is just
original it has so much flavor I would definitely come here again I do think
the other place wins in terms of the pancake itself like if this had no
toppings and the other one had no toppings and I ate both and I was side
by side I'm 90% sure that I would pick the other one but since this one has all
those toppings for free as well it adds so much flavor the texture of that
scallion pancake is super chewy then you got those crispy flakes on the outside
I'm thoroughly impressed
okay so now we are at this restaurant at the very end of the orange line right
outside the Nansha Jiao station so I actually found out about this place
through my friend Sam and once here at their kosher bakery so shout out to you
guys thanks for introducing me to this place so this is a more recent discovery
but don't underestimate this dish so here we have a small duck rice and it's
kind of like braised pork Rice's poultry cousin that's kind of how I like to
think of it this is kind of a lighter version it's not as fatty and greasy so
they have some rice then they top it with some peanuts as well as a pickled
radish and then they also pile on that duck they also scoop some kind of sauce
or gravy on it I'm not really sure exactly what it is but it makes the rice
super super flavorful if you get they're small it's 30 empty perfect for our
budget so let's go ahead and dig in okay so we got to make sure we get some
duck and some rice for the perfect bite oh my goodness that duck is so nicely
savory and flavorful it's about as tender as duck can get it
looks so simple like this little Bowl looks so humble so you would have no
idea that it packs so much flavor in there mmm wow wow wow wow
and that rice really soaks up all those juices and that's why I love rice
because it's basically like a flavor sponge
Wow this is really good so overall I think
today we found some really nice gems for a dollar or less in Taipei these are
really really tasty meals that you can get at such an affordable price so I
highly recommend you check them out and I would love to hear in the comments
below what is the best thing you've ever eaten for one dollar or less so yeah if
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