Monday, April 22, 2024

Taiwanese Snacks

My favorite local snacks include colorful sweet rice ball soup, bamboo stick rice cake, steaming mini buns, purple rice wrap, fried dumplings, and sugar cane lemonade juice.

When visiting Taiwan, besides the beautiful ocean views and elegant mountain scenery, the numerous night markets with an overwhelming number of food stalls and restaurants create and interesting scenes.

Although I am not a gourmet exper,t I did spend quite a lot of time finding the food that fit my tastes and also reflected the local snack culture

There are different types of snacks; some taste sweet; and some have spicy flavors with all sorts of shapes and sizes



Round snacks. I like to taste different sweet soups such as small or large sticky rice balls wrapped up with different beans, sesame, or taras. A bowl of colorful rice balls looks very pretty and sweet. A lot of food stalls also sell huge balls with meat inside. Some people eat them as formal meals. There are round-shaped pancakes fried with oil vegetables or eggs

“Bao” means buns.
People across the world also like steam buns” The juicy mini buns are very tasty, and they are popular in both the Eastern and Western world. People in Asia also have big buns with vegetables or meat for breakfast

Cube type of rice wrap called “fantuan”: Usually made of purple or white rice with traditional or sweet and many other flavors some ingredients inside include such as meat or fish floss pickles flour sticks you can also add frying eggs or others I like the purple one the best People had it for breakfast

Some small restaurants sell rice cooked in bamboo containers, adding mushrooms or other flavored ingredients; it tastes fine. I guess in the pre-porcelain era, our ancestors used different natural materials-made containers to cook food.

Oval or rectangle-shaped rice cake: That is just the rice mixed with fish or meat floss or sources with a few more ingredients Local people order them for meals

Cylinder-shaped “ Zong zi
”: Itls the sticky rice with all sorts of ingredients wrapped by lotus leaves Many nations have traditions to eat Zingzi for certain holidays

Arc-shaped dumplings:
People all over the world can taste dumplings in Asian communities

Toufu-made snacks: Some are sweet; some are spicy, and stinky tofu is a popular snack here.

Frying sea foods: There are bird eggs or sausages with all sorts of shapes and colors.

Fruit snacks and fresh fruit juice:
Taiwan has sub-tropical weather patterns, so it produces a few different tropical fruits other nations might not have. I tasted Bale, Lianwu, and Binglang the first time. Binglang tasted bitter, I am wondering why local people like it as lots of movies, and newspapers mention it frequently. I also tasted fresh-made sugar cane mixed lemonade juice, it was sweet and sour and tasted great.

My favorite local snacks include colorful sweet rice ball soup, bamboo stick rice cake, steaming mini buns, purple rice wrap, fried dumplings, and sugar cane lemonade juice.

People do spend lots of time tasting different snacks; a few are healthy and nutritious; but some are perhaps not; there are some local snacks and quite a few are popular in many places. How does the culture of snacks impact people’s lives and modern society?

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