Rice Noodle

 

Speaking about Yuanlin delicious food, the food people are delight in talking about is Rice Noodle. Yuanlin Township Office released the Delicious Food Festival of Rice Noodle, which vigorously promoted the Rice Noodle in Yuanlin.

 

Rice Noodle is made by grinding rice into pulp, dry the water and then make processes. Rice Noodle is a famous food snack in Yuanlin, and there are lots of stores selling Rice Noodle, most of which are on Bo-ai Rd. We can not only eat Rice Noodle but also have fresh and various kinds of pulling noodles and dishes in Bo-ai Rd. Therefore, you must not miss the delicious food there.

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Meatball

 

There are meatballs in Taiwan from south to north, such as Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chingshui, Beitou, Caotun, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Pingtung, which are of their own characteristics. We can infer the founding date from the size of meatballs and the fillings, and then we get the inference that the Small Triangle Series of Yuanlin Meatbal and Beitou Meatball are the first one to come, and the Big and Round Meatball Series in all metropolitan cities appear when people get rich, and the Changhua large meatballs with many fillings, such as Yuanlin Meatball and Baodou Meatball, focus on the sweet and crisp of the surface and it will be very tasty with bamboo shoots, which have the features of removing fat.

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Chicken Feet Galantine

 

The most famous snack that goes with the wine in Yuanlin is Chicken Feet Galantine, which is made by picking the chicken bones first, and then burning them, and boiling by special marinade. It is icy, and tastes like QQ jelly, being very delicious.

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Shaved Ice

 

People enjoying eating ice must not miss Babao Shaved Ice in Yuanlin, in which there are eight ingredients: red beans, green beans, pinto beans, pineapples, rice dumplings, sweet potatoes, peanuts and taro balls. It is not very expensive and the sweet is just appropriate, and it will melt in one’s mouth if he has a taste of it. It also has some chewed trash ice, and we can enjoy the sweet of beans, the good flavor of taro balls and rice dumplings, as well as the soul-sweet smell of pineapples.

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Four Herbal Soup

 

Four Herbal Soup is Taiwan’s traditional herbal cuisine, dated back from twentieth century, and is called Four minister Soup, making up with Chinese yam, Gorden Euryale seed, lotus seed and poria cocos. With the reason that “chen” in Minnan Language pronounces the same with “shen”, the name has been Four Herbal Soup after a long period of time.

 

Yuanlin is Taiwan’s important collecting and distributing center of Chinese medicine, and it is delicious, healthy and worth of tasting if the Four Herbal Soup, deriving from Chinese medicines, boils together with pig stomach.

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Rice Cake

 

People who have a taste of the delicious Rice Cake of Yuanlin will probably cherish the memory. Changhua County, with fertile land and developed water irrigation, has been famous for producing rice since the old times. Yuanlin people not only sell rice to other places but also make rice the most specific snack in Yuanlin. People managing Rice Noodle and Yuanlin Rice Cake have managed for more than two generations, with traditional and specific taste. According to Mr. Hsieh, Yuanlin Rice Cake adopts Jhuoshuei long glutinous rice as the main ingredient, among which the most excellent rice is made in Tianchung Township with the reason that the Rice Cake steamed by Jhuoshuei long glutinous rice produced in Tianchung Township has a very good taste. The upper layer of Yuanlin Rice Cake, filtering special bittern soup sauce, together with refreshing small cucumber, simple and convenient dishes, such as pork soup, roasted meat, and sausage and so on, draws customers’ attraction very much. 

 



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Red Onion Rice Cake

 

With rice pulps of nine layers and red onions of eight layers, and then layers overlap with each other, Nine Layer Red Onion Rice Cake is finally completed by nine procedures. As its special method of preparation and the usage of red onions, Nine Layer Red Onion Rice Cake tastes sweet and delicious.

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Peanut Brittle

 

As long as a friend who loves to eat sweets comes to Yuanlin, he must go to Ju Kuang Shiang. The handmade Ju Kuang Shiang Peanut Brittle founded in 1945 dispersed the brittle to the common people because the early Xihu Brittle Factory is bombed by the American Army. The Peanut Brittle is made of first-class peanuts, sesame and malt produced in north harbor of the first generation of Mr. Lai-wang Chen as well as antique wooden sticks. As it is located in Guangming Street in Zhuguangshi, and the sweet smell always flying over the market every time when producing Peanut Brittle, so it is called Ju Kuang Shiang Peanut Brittle. The special smell of red oniont even leaves in a person’s mouth and teeth after eating the hand-made Ju Kuang Shiang Peanut Brittle, which has become one of the famous snacks in Yuanlin Township after accompanying Yuanlin people for sixty years, even lots of visitors from other places have a special rip to purchase it.

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