CYNTHIA LIN

A piece of remarkably thick toast that holds a seafood chowder pool. It resembles a coffin, hence the name.

pork buns steamed in bamboo steamers.

A tetrahedral-shaped pocket of sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaf.

The bulk of it is sweet potato starch, oysters, egg, and lettuce.

A Taiwanese noodle soup made of stewed or red braised beef, beef broth, vegetables and Chinese noodles.

A traditional bento holds rice, fish or meat, with pickled or cooked vegetables, usually in a box-shaped container.

A kind of noodle soup. Its main ingredients are oysters and Taiwanese vermicelli.

Disk-shaped translucent dough filled with a savory stuffing and served with a sweet and savory sauce.

a Chinese "bouncy" meatball made from finely minced pork and starch, often eaten in soup or with rice vermicelli.

Made with pork blood, sticky rice and soy broth. It is steamed and coated in peanut flour and coriander.

A soup contains day lily buds, tree fungus, bamboo shoots, tofu, and pork blood. It is made spicy by red or white pepper, and sour by vinegar.

Consists of small pieces of dough, either cooked alone or wrapped around a filling.

There is a story in China that pizza is an evolution of the scallion pancake, brought back to Italy by Marco Polo.

It is a form of fermented tofu that has a strong odour.

Finely shaven ice with a variety of toppings (peanuts, fruit, azuki beans, sweetened corn, and so on).

Red candy coated bite-sized fruit served on a stick. Sometimes the fruit is stuffed with preserved plums,

Made with very soft tofu, served with sweet toppings and flavored syrup. It is also referred to as tofu pudding.

A festive food eaten during the Cold Food Day and the Tomb Sweeping Day in spring to remember and pay respect to ancestors.

Popcorn chicken made from spiced, deep-fried chicken topped with salt and pepper and seasoned with fragrantly cooked basil.

made from glutinous rice flour, served in sweetened water. It can be either small or large, and filled or unfilled.

Pancake batter is poured into hot-metallic molds and gets quickly cooked into small cakes of various shapes.

Fatty pork sausages with a mild sweet taste. Kaoliang(wine) is sometimes used in the sausage recipe.

Made of shredded Chinese radish and plain rice flour. It is cut into square-shaped slices and pan-fried before serving.

Braised for hours and served over rice with a sprinkle of cilantro.

Small cake is fresh baked in street, the small booth can be seen pretty common in Taiwan. It comes in many different shapes.

A segment of Taiwanese pork sausage is wrapped in a sticky rice sausage, served chargrilled. It may be compared to a hot dog.

It is a jelly made from the gel from the seeds of a variety of fig (Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang) found in Taiwan.

Known colloquially as "Tiger bites pig" due to the mouth-like form of the bun with filling of stewed porkbelly.

Deep fried tofu that have been stuffed with crystal noodles and sealed with fish paste and drizzled with spicy sauce.

Mixed pork and prawn paste (sometimes fish), and deep-fried.

Grilled squid on a stick, often marinated and basted while grilled.

Eggs stewed in soy sauce, usually with their shells still on but cracked throughout, until they are flavourful and chewy in texture.

Made with a dough from glutinous rice flour and combine with a ground cooked paste of Gnaphalium affine or Mugwort to give it a unique flavor and green color. The dough is commonly filled with ground meat or sweet bean pastes.

Sticky rice and Chinese mushrooms are fried with seasoning and stuffed into a bamboo tube together with pork and egg.

Noted for its variety of braised dishes, which includes geese, duck, pork, beancurd, vegetables, and offal.

A pre-boiled egg is cracked and then boiled again in tea, also known as marble egg because cracks in the egg shell create marble-like patterns.

While the hot pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked at the table.

Bowls of rice with shredded turkey layered on top, often accompanied by pickled daikon radish.

Grass jelly, or leaf jelly, is commonly used in various desserts and drinks. A traditional Taiwanese hot drink is made with heated and melted jelly.

Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea or boba milk tea, is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Taichung in the 1980s.