LOCAL FOOD GUIDE

Xingang Duck Thick Soup 新港鸭肉羹

Xingang Yarou Geng

Xingang Duck Thick Soup is featured among the local specialties of Taiwan.

AI illustration: A ceramic bowl of light savory soup with small pale cooked morsels.
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Xingang Duck Thick Soup (新港鸭肉羹) is a local food of Xingang (新港) in Chiayi County (嘉義縣). A government outdoor-education guide describes a simple bowl of sliced duck and shredded bamboo shoots, without noodles or rice vermicelli.

Ingredients

The guide distinguishes Xingang's preparation from meat thick soups containing mushrooms, pork and vegetables. For the Xingang example it names only duck slices and bamboo-shoot shreds as the principal ingredients. The soup has a slightly sweet flavour and is served as the thick soup itself, rather than over a noodle base.

Where it comes from

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (經濟部)'s street-culture account places duck thick soup among the foods around Fengtian Temple (奉天宮). It calls the local preparation shengchao yarougeng (生炒鴨肉羹), a stir-fried duck thick soup, and describes a lightly sweet broth with a toasted aroma.

AI illustration: Chopped duck pieces in a lightly thickened savory broth.
AI illustration · AI 示意图（菜式参考，非实拍） · 新港鸭肉羹 — A general serving example; recipes and presentation vary.

China Revealed · Editorially updated 2026-09-30

Sources & reading

Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-30. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.