{"id":1317,"date":"2010-10-10T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2010-10-10T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T11:33:56","slug":"shilin_shida_night_markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Shilin & Shida Night Markets \u58eb\u6797\u591c\u5e02 & \u5e2b\u5927\u591c\u5e02"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piggy from Piggy’s Cooking Journal<\/a> met up with me and she was my dining companion for the night I went to Shilin and Shida night market. It was the first time we met, but we bonded easily over food and spent the night eating and talking about our blogs and lives.
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\nWe started the night at Shilin and I was blown away by the sheer number of stalls there. There was a constantly long queue at \u8c6a\u5927\u5927\u96de\u6392, quite literally meaning gigantic chicken chop.
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\nOK, it IS huge. One piece costs NT50 and as it was my first time in Taiwan, I had to do all the typical tourist things like queue up and buy this chicken chop to see what the fuss was about. My conclusion is that it’s a delicious snack for those who love deep-fried food, but as I’m not a fan, I could do without eating this the next time I’m in Taiwan.
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\nOne of many stalls selling oyster pancakes.
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\nRidiculously long sausages that are almost one feet long.
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\nThe next snack I tried was this \u5b98\u8ca1\u677f. You can choose from different fillings like chicken, black pepper beef, mutton, pork or even have it sweet by ordering the pineapple filling. The savoury ones had a filling that was like a salty gooey paste filled with mince meat. Maybe it was just that the one made by this particular stall wasn’t good, but I didn’t think very much of \u5b98\u8ca1\u677f.
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\nWhat I loved in Taiwan was how fresh and big all the fruits were. All the fruits looked so succulent and the colours were so eye-catching that all I wanted to do was stuff my face with them – especially the mangoes!!!
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\nAt Shida, we came across people fishing for prawns.
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\nT-shirts with cheeky messages like \u5973\u4eba\u662f\u5c0d\u7684 (Women are always right), \u55ae\u4eba (I’m single), \u4f60\u4e0d\u662f\u6211\u7684\u83dc (literally translated it means ‘You’re not my dish’, but the Taiwanese use it to mean you’re not the kind of guy\/girl I’m interested in).
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\nBlack pepper meat buns \u80e1\u6912\u9905
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\nI love eating fresh spring rolls, so I had to have this Taiwanese version called \u6f64\u9905 that’s filled with shredded pork, pork floss, crushed peanuts, spring onions and bean sprouts. It reminded me of Singapore’s popiah (a favourite of mine).
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\nScores of people were lining up to pick these bits of food to go with their bowl of noodles. By the time we got to this stall we were pretty full already, so we didn’t have any more room to wolf down a bowl of noodles.
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\nI couldn’t resist having this big cup of crushed ice and fresh mango juice topped with mango cubes to cool off in the summer heat. The drink was so cold that I had brain freeze at my first sip.
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\nTo further quench our thirst, Piggy and I sat down to another bowl of dessert. This time, sweet beancurd topped with shaved ice, green beans and grass jelly. And that was the sweet ending to the night tour of Taiwan’s famous night markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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