Two Weeks in Taiwan: Food

The Shaner way of sightseeing is more about what is being eaten than what is being seen. We generally like to plan our meals and then fit in the sights and activities based on where the restaurant is that we are eating at or which street food is nearby. I enjoyed everything (with the exception of stinky tofu, which had an unfortunate aftertaste akin to its stench), while Luke was a bit more unpredictable. He warmed up to the tastes after a while and would eat most things as long as you called it a "chip". He also *finally* seems to like rice, something he has heretofore refused to eat as a baby (took a trip to Asia to cure him of that one). 

Some of our culinary favorites include:

Beef noodles

Chung jwa bing: fried dough topped with an omelet, basil, and some delicious sweet and spicy sauce



Night market food: including delicious fried chicken

not-so-delicious stinky tofu

 Taiwanese sausage (sweet and mild):

Soy pearls (rehydrated in drinks to form delicious little balls of squishy joy):

Steamed buns (with cheese!):

the strange but delicious:

Chicken wings! (deboned and stuffed with fried rice, then grilled and smothered in BBQ sauce):

Pork omelets! (deep fried bread and egg, fresh onion and cucumber, and crackling pork):

the strange:

Sorbet burrito (rice paper, sorbet, cilantro, and shaved peanut brittle):

So:

Did we ever get sick? 

No!

Would I repeat this culinary adventure?

Absolutely!

Would Kenny have eaten any of it?

Doubtful.