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Shiitake and Pork Thick Soup 香菇肉羹
Shiitake and Pork Thick Soup (香菇肉羹) is a Taiwanese thick soup of pork-paste pieces cooked in a starch-thickened broth with shredded shiitake.
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Four Herbs Soup with Pork 四神汤
Four Herbs Soup with Pork (四神汤) is served in Taipei (台北) with pork intestines and Job’s tears.
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Thick Alkaline Noodle Soup 大面羹
Thick Alkaline Noodle Soup (大面羹) is a noodle dish that Chinese Wikipedia describes as found only in Taichung (台中), Taiwan.
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Jute Leaf Soup 麻薏汤
Jute Leaf Soup (麻薏汤) is a thick green soup made from the young leaves and shoots of the jute plant, a summer dish of Taichung (台中).
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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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Red Yeast Eel Thick Soup 红烧鳗羹
Red Yeast Eel Thick Soup (红烧鳗羹) is a bowl of fried, red-yeast-marinated sea eel in soup, listed by Chinese Wikipedia among the foods of Keelung Miaokou (基隆庙口), the food market around Dianji Temple (奠济宫) in Keelung (基隆), Taiwan.
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Crab Thick Soup 螃蟹羹
Crab Thick Soup (螃蟹羹) is listed among the local specialties of Keelung City, Taiwan. The name includes 蟹 (crab). The term 羹 points to thick soup or soft bowl.
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Seafood Thick Soup 海鲜羹
Seafood Thick Soup (海鲜羹) is listed among the local specialties of Keelung City, Taiwan. The name includes 海鲜 (seafood). The term 羹 points to thick soup or soft bowl.
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Pork Ball Soup 贡丸汤
Pork Ball Soup (贡丸汤) is a soup of gongwan (贡丸), the pounded pork balls for which Hsinchu (新竹) is the best-known producer in Taiwan.
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Flat Rice Noodle Soup 粿仔汤
Flat Rice Noodle Soup (粿仔汤) is listed among the local specialties of Chiayi City, Taiwan. The term 汤 points to soup.
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Xinpu Dried Persimmon Chicken Soup 新埔柿饼鸡汤
Xinpu Dried Persimmon Chicken Soup (新埔柿饼鸡汤) is listed among the local specialties of Hsinchu County, Taiwan. The name includes 鸡 (chicken). The term 饼 points to cakes or flatbreads.
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Xingang Duck Thick Soup 新港鸭肉羹
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.
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