Wind-dried rice noodles and a bowl of meatball soup by the City God Temple
Known forHsinchu rice noodles (mǐfěn) · Pork meatball soup (gòngwán) · Hsinchu ba-wan
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North
A rainy harbor town whose temple-front lanes run from tempura to bubble ice
Known forNutritious sandwich (yíngyǎng sānmíngzhì) · Dingbian suo (dǐngbiān suō) · Miaokou tempura (tiānfùluó)
Hill-and-harbor snacks that ring Taipei, from Jiufen taro balls to Shenkeng tofu
Known forJiufen taro balls (yùyuán) · Tamsui A-gei (āgěi) · Shenkeng tofu and stinky tofu
A capital that eats from the first soy milk at dawn to the last night-market bite
Known forBeef noodle soup · Soup dumplings (xiaolongbao) · Savory soy milk, shaobing and youtiao
Black dried tofu, Hakka cooking and the Yunnan rice noodles of a former army village
Known forDaxi dried tofu (Dàxī dòugān) · Zhongli beef noodle soup · Yunnan rice noodles and Burmese-Thai snacks in Longgang
Central
Where the ba-wan is said to have been born, with Lukang's old lanes and bowls of Changhua-style braised pork rice
Known forBa-wan (ròuyuán) · Changhua braised pork rice (khòng-bah-pn̄g) · Cat-rat noodles (māoshǔ miàn)
Sun cakes, the bubble tea debate, and ice cream in a former credit cooperative
Known forBubble tea · Sun cake (tàiyáng bǐng) · Pineapple cake
South
Home of turkey rice, from the tea country of Alishan to the oyster flats of Dongshi
Known forChiayi turkey rice (huǒjī ròu fàn) · Oyster omelet · Soy-milk douhua
A harbor city whose table is set by the port, the navy villages and the farm country
Known forBraised pork rice (ròuzào fàn) · Cijin seafood · Gangshan goat (羊肉)
Donggang's bluefin tuna and sakura shrimp, Wanluan's pork knuckle, and orchard after orchard of wax apples
Known forDonggang bluefin tuna (hēiwěiyú) · Sakura shrimp (yīnghuā xiā) · Wanluan pork knuckle (zhūjiǎo)
Taiwan's old capital and one of its great food cities
Known forBeef soup · Danzai noodles · Milkfish
East
Between the Central Range and the Pacific, a table shared by many peoples
Known forHualien wonton (biǎnshí) · Mochi (máshǔ) · Egg scallion pancake
Rice paddies, sugar apples and Indigenous flavors, eaten slowly between the mountains and the sea
Known forChishang rice box (fànbāo) · Sugar apple (shìjiā) · Amis wild-vegetable cooking (yěcài)
Scallions, smoked duck and a bowl of mutton soup on the Lanyang Plain
Known forSanxing scallions and scallion pancakes (sānxīng cōng) · Smoked duck (yāshǎng) · Cow-tongue biscuit (niúshé bǐng)
Islands
Sea wind, island seafood and a cup of red cactus ice
Known forCactus ice (xiānrénzhǎng bīng) · Black sugar cake (hēitáng gāo) · Small squid (xiǎoguǎn)
