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Hakka Savory Rice Ball Soup 客家咸汤圆

Hakka Savory Rice Ball Soup (客家咸汤圆) is small glutinous rice balls served in a savoury broth of pork, dried shiitake, dried shrimp and garland chrysanthemum greens, a Hakka dish that the Taoyuan (桃園) City Government features on its Meet Hakka (尋客) food site.

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Daxi Moonlight Cake 大溪月光饼

Daxi Moonlight Cake (大溪月光饼) is a round sweet-potato-filled cake from Daxi (大溪), Taoyuan (桃園). Its name refers to its resemblance to the full moon, and its filling makes use of the area's sweet potatoes.

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AI illustration: An oval plate with one cooked whole freshwater fish in light brown sauce.
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Shimen Live Fish Banquet 石门活鱼

Shimen Live Fish Banquet (石门活鱼) is the freshwater fish cooking of the restaurants around Shiyifen (十一分) in Longtan District (龙潭区), Taoyuan (桃园市), which built their name on fish taken from Shimen Reservoir (石门水库).

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Sun Cake 太阳饼

Sun Cake (太阳饼) is a thin, roughly round pastry with a sweet filling that comes from Taichung (台中市) in central Taiwan. Its crust is flaky and breaks easily, and the filling is usually maltose.

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Dajia Taro Pastry 大甲芋头酥

Dajia Taro Pastry (大甲芋头酥) is a round, flaky pastry with a sweet taro filling, tied to Dajia District (大甲区) in the northwest corner of Taichung (台中), Taiwan.

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Beef Soup 牛肉汤

Beef Soup (牛肉汤) in Tainan (台南) is a bowl of thinly sliced fresh beef cooked by pouring a clear beef-bone broth over it. The meat is 'warm-body' beef (溫體牛肉): local Taiwanese beef slaughtered early the same morning and never frozen.

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Fried Shrimp Rolls 虾卷

Fried Shrimp Rolls (虾卷) are a Tainan (台南) snack of shrimp bound with fish paste and minced pork, wrapped in pig caul fat and deep-fried until golden, then cut into bite-sized pieces.

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AI illustration: A wooden tray of pale steamed glutinous rice cakes cut into tidy soft blocks.
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Sticky Rice with Braised Pork Sauce 米糕

Sticky Rice with Braised Pork Sauce (米糕) is a small bowl of cooked glutinous rice spooned with minced braised pork and its sauce and topped with fish floss, one of the rice snacks of Tainan (台南).

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碗粿 · Bowl-Steamed Rice Cake
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Bowl-Steamed Rice Cake 碗粿

Bowl-Steamed Rice Cake (碗粿) is a steamed rice cake found in Tainan (台南). At Xiaoxijiao (小西脚), the documented version uses local rice and a filling of family-recipe braised minced pork, fresh shrimp, mushrooms and egg yolk.

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