Terence's @rchive

Arrived in Taipei late in the evening 2 days ago. Before heading to the hotel, I led my group of customers to Shilin Night Market (士林夜市) to have dinner.

Introduced them some local delicacies like the famous Hot Star Large Fried Chicken (豪大大鸡排), fried oysters (蚵仔煎) and fried oyster bihun (vermicelli) – 蚵仔面线.

Long queue to buy the large chicken chop

Hotstar Large Fried Chicken 豪大大鸡排

Per piece is NTD50. I queued up to buy a few to treat my customers. After I bought, the guide came and tell me that he can cut queue, no need to line up….. dammit wasted my time.

Chicken chop production line

Their business is really good, non stop frying of chicken chops. It does taste really good. Crispy on outside and juicy inside. I gave away all the chickens I bought because I tried it a few times already. I want to try other foods.

Beef Steak

Cream of corn soup and garlic bread

I end up having my favorite food, beef steak at this big beef streak specialist shop. The name of the shop is 大统一牛排专卖店 Big Consolidation Beef Steak specialist shop (direct translation).

As I walked into the stall/stop, the waiter ushered me into an available seat, it was packed with people. I ordered streak medium well. Shortly the waiter came back with a bowl of cream of corn soup, garlic bread and utensils packed inside a paper bag. 5 minutes later, the steak is served. This is the 1st time I had my steak served up to me in such a short time.

The steak came with a sunny side up egg beside it on a hot plate. The whole set meal of steak with egg, soup, garlic bread and a cup of tea cost only NTD150. Quite value for money and the steak tasted quite all right. Soup very watery and plain. Bun okok only.

Shop that sells Pig Kidney Soup

Then I came across this shop that sells mainly pig internals. I’m don’t eat animal’s internal organ except pig’s kidney. The pig kidney soup signboard caught my attention, I sat down and ordered Pig Kidney Vermicelli (猪腰子面线) to try out the taste.

Full of pig kidneys

The vermicelli

The pig kidney tasted how it should taste. As for the soup, too much of sesame oil in it but the vermicelli taste quite good. Was too full to finish eating all the vermicelli, I just finished all the kidneys. This bowl cost NTD100.

Walkway

Walkway between the shops in Shilin Night Market. The traders will try to persuade you to eat in their shop its very competitive there.

Shop selling friend oysters

I’m not recommending this shop, its just a one of the shop that sells fried oysters. I think Malaysia fried oysters still taste way better, but whoever that never try it before should try it out.

Fruit juice stall

There are also many juice stalls that sells big varieties of juices and bubble teas.

This is just the food area of Shilin Night Market, we only had 1 hour so no time to venture to the actual night market which sells other things.

I have to dig out those old photos that I took from previous trip to show the night market but its quite late already and I need to wake up at 6AM tomorrow to go Kaoshiong, so I will stop here. I might post more stuffs of this Taiwan trip tomorrow if I have time and Internet access.

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