Street food & snacks 街头小吃

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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
Taiwan

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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Taiwan

Dashu Pineapple Cake 大树凤梨酥

Dashu Pineapple Cake (大树凤梨酥) is the pineapple pastry of Dashu District (大树区) in Kaohsiung (高雄), Taiwan, a fruit-growing district on the Pingtung County border.

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Square Flaky Biscuits 方块酥

Square Flaky Biscuits (方块酥) are layered biscuits associated with Chiayi City (嘉義市). Flour, butter or lard, sesame and sugar form the local snack, which originated on Min Guo Road (民國路), near a military dependants' village.

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