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Qingshui Glutinous Rice with Braised Pork 清水米糕
Qingshui Glutinous Rice with Braised Pork (清水米糕) is the sticky rice made in small tubes in Qingshui District (清水區) in Taichung (臺中), Taiwan, served with pork and a sweet-and-salty sauce.
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Dongshi Hakka Flat Noodles 东势客家粄条
Dongshi Hakka Flat Noodles (东势客家粄条) is listed among the local specialties of Taichung City, Taiwan. It is grouped here with street food & snacks; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.
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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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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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Sugar-Dusted Glutinous Rice Fritters 白糖粿
Sugar-Dusted Glutinous Rice Fritters (白糖粿) are strips of sweetened glutinous rice dough fried in oil and then rolled in sugar or other coatings.
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Pork Heart Glass Noodle Soup 猪心冬粉
Pork Heart Glass Noodle Soup (猪心冬粉) is listed among the local specialties of Tainan City, Taiwan. The name includes 猪 (pork).
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Puffed Brown Sugar Pastry 椪饼
Puffed Brown Sugar Pastry (椪饼) is a hollow pastry from Tainan (台南) filled with brown or white sugar.
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Meinong Hakka Flat Rice Noodles 美浓粄条
Meinong Hakka Flat Rice Noodles (美浓粄条) are rice noodles cut from steamed rice sheets, a Hakka food of Meinong (美濃) in Kaohsiung (高雄).
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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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Zhuqian Meat Pastry 竹堑饼
Zhuqian Meat Pastry (竹堑饼) is a Han-style pastry (汉饼) from Hsinchu (新竹) with a salty-sweet filling of pork, lard, fried shallots and winter melon.
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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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Cold Noodles with Mayonnaise 凉面加美乃滋
Cold Noodles with Mayonnaise (凉面加美乃滋) is the Chiayi City (嘉义市) way of serving cold noodles: wide, flat noodles dressed with sesame paste and mayonnaise, which people in Chiayi call "white vinegar" (白醋).
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