Fengjia Night Market

Guan Zhilin is a stall at Fengjia with a regular queue, selling sausage in rice sausage: a grilled pork sausage tucked into a split glutinous-rice sausage, then topped with things like peanut powder, preserved-radish omelet, pickled greens and cucumber. Flavors include original, spicy, garlic, wasabi and black pepper, and TVBS reports that the black-pepper version is limited to 100 portions a day. TVBS calls the Fengjia shop the original home of the snack and says it has traded for more than 15 years, but another food blog, Foodieteller, describes Guan Zhilin as the left-hand stall of a pair and says the neighboring one on the right is the original. These are the shops' own accounts and cannot be checked against any record, so enjoy them as a good story.

Known for · Taiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)

How to find it: On Fengjia Road, usually marked by a queue; the stall next door also calls itself the original.

Ming Lun makes old-style egg crepes from batter made to order, with a thicker, springier and slightly sweeter skin than most breakfast shops. You choose from a sweet-and-spicy sauce, soy, pepper or chili powder. You take a number and wait, and at busy times the wait can be long; there are two outlets in the market, and an English menu board. TVBS reports that the business began beside Mingluen Junior High School in Changhua before moving to Fengjia, so it is not a Fengjia native but a snack that traveled up from Changhua.

Known for · Egg Crepe (Danbing)

How to find it: On Fuxing Road, where you take a number; there is a second outlet on Wenhua Road.

Yixin is one of the few stalls at Fengjia that is entirely vegetarian, with a short menu of fried stinky tofu with pickles, plus mee sua. The travel writer Nick Kembel points out that much stinky tofu in Taiwan uses small amounts of meat or animal fat to start the fermentation, so vegetarians need to be careful, and he calls this a guaranteed vegetarian version. Guides mostly say just 'vegetarian' and do not say whether it is fully vegan, so strict eaters should still ask when ordering.

Known for · Stinky Tofu

How to find it: At the mouth of Lane 461 off Fuxing Road, next to the taro dessert shop Dajia Taro City (大甲芋頭城).

Jinpai sells stinky tofu fried to a crisp, around NT$90 a portion. Two Fengjia food guides both place it at 53 Wenhua Road, open until about 1:00; one adds that it can be ordered with or without meat and that it can also be found at Yizhong Street. The market is long, and if you want fried stinky tofu, this is one option right on Wenhua Road.

Known for · Stinky Tofu

How to find it: On Wenhua Road.

Jiguang sells bite-size fried chicken dusted with seasoning, plus fried squid, oyster mushrooms, cuttlefish tempura and sweet potato fries, all easy to eat while walking. Bobby Travel says the brand began in Taichung; Nick Kembel notes that the Fengjia branch has a large fried-chicken statue on its outer wall, across from the takoyaki stall at the Fuxing-Wenhua intersection, and says the stall dates back to 1973 (a single source). It is a chain with more than one outlet at Fengjia. The one at 10-10 Wenhua Road can be matched in both Bobby Travel and OpenStreetMap; the statue branch Kembel describes may stand at a slightly different spot, so look for the statue.

Known for · Taiwanese Fried Chicken

How to find it: Near the Fuxing–Wenhua intersection, marked by a large fried-chicken statue on the wall (per Nick Kembel).

• Taichung
• Daily 12:00–22:00

Known for · Stinky Tofu · Taiwanese Fried Chicken · Mango Shaved Ice