Various Soup Options
Crispy Spare Rib Soup
Across from the free range chicken rice stand is the food stand that sells crispy spare rib soup. If you are having the crispy spare rib soup, you should try it with the canned rice cake with chili sauce. They are a perfect match with each other.
The preparation for making crispy spare rib soup not only takes a long time, but it also requires a lot of hard work and experience. The chef mixes the spare ribs gently with shallots, mashed garlic, ground pepper, potato starch and condensed soy sauce. Then, he stores the spare ribs in the fridge for more than 24 hours, so the marinated spare ribs have strong flavor and become tender. The next day, the chef fries those spare ribs and stews them with white gourd soup. It is the effort and persistence of the chef that make the crispy spare rib soup popular.
canned rice cake with chili sauce
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Rice Noodle Soup
Different from the taste of noodles made from wheat, rice noodles are healthier and taste springy. The chef stews the broth with rice noodles and adds a lot of fried shrimps to the broth before delivering it to our table. Therefore, the rice noodles taste savoury.
The food stand of the rice noodle soup in Nanjichang has a special name, Heibai Qie, which means to randomly add the side dish you want in Taiwanese. This is a typical food stand people go to when they do not have any particular food they want to eat in mind. There are sliced pork jowls, pork sides, and various braised dishes. Do not forget to add the chili sauce from the stand to your dish. With that sauce, it will taste even better.