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Series Serialized Living in Taiwan Province (Table of Contents)

The staple food of Cantonese people is rice, so I like eating, and I don't like noodles very much, especially noodle soup. As for other pasta, dumplings, pot stickers and onion cakes are ok. In the first two years of living in Taiwan Province, at that time, I didn't have the money to go to a seafood shop to eat seafood, let alone Japanese food and western food. I usually went out to eat and went to the same noodle shop.

noodle shops in Taiwan Province, like tea restaurants in Hongkong, are everywhere. Fortunately, in addition to pasta, noodle shops usually have braised pork rice, a bowl of braised pork rice with a bowl of meatball soup, plus a dish of hot vegetables, which is the standard equipment for me to go to the noodle shop for dinner. For a long time, I doubted whether I was married to the north.

Taiwan Province is an island. What about good seafood? Guangdong people know how to drink and eat. They eat from the bottom of the sea to the sky. Anything that tastes delicious can be eaten in their stomachs. But I'm not. Besides normal meat, I only like seafood, thinking that when I come to Baodao, I will have seafood. It turns out that I think too much, and the people of Taiwan Province, who are diligent and simple, usually eat the most pork and pig offal, as well as varied pasta.

I think I am a foodie who can accept international cuisines. During my ten years and eight years in Hong Kong, I have been successfully trained as a Hong Kong native who is compatible with Chinese and Western cuisines. Since you are a foreigner from a minority group, you can use these pasta to change the eating habits of Taiwan Province people. There must be something extraordinary about it. How can you stay out of it?

Twenty years later, I still like rice best, but if you ask me, why do people in Taiwan Province like pasta so much? I will tell you that the pasta made by Taiwan Province people is really delicious, with many kinds of choices, delicious nutrition, convenience and quickness, and I like it very much. Don't you believe it? Then look for yourself.

How famous are beef noodles in Taiwan Province? Just look at the fact that there is a beef noodle festival in Taipei. It is not only famous at home, but also enjoyed by foreigners. There are two kinds of beef noodles in Taiwan Province: braised beef noodles and stewed beef noodles. However, braised beef noodles are the main beef noodles in the market, or tomato beef noodles, spicy beef noodles and Sichuan beef noodles derived from braised beef noodles, and stewed beef noodles are relatively rare.

The most common story about the origin of braised beef noodles is that Sichuan veterans from Okayama Air Force Family Village, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province, improved it with Chengdu dish "Small Bowl of Beef in Red Soup". It has a strong taste. The soup head is based on bean paste and soy sauce, and is made by adding tendon parts such as short ribs, calves and oxtail and beef bones. The seasoning will be rice wine and rock sugar, as well as spices such as cinnamon, star anise and ginger.

In Taiwan Province, the braised beef noodles are usually beef tenderloin or beef ribs. The beef tenderloin is refreshing, and the beef ribs are soft and thick, each with its own merits. A beef noodle shop that pays attention to it will also provide beef tendon and beef belly. Generally speaking, braised beef noodles are not bad in noodle shops on the market, but if you are picky about your mouth, you should look for local famous shops. There are several famous beef noodle shops in every county and city.

It's hard to find delicious food, but it's stewed beef noodles, which is the kind of halal taste. It's really rare in Taiwan Province. If your taste is very light and you want to eat delicious beef noodles, you might as well try Tainan's broth beef noodles, which are made of beef bones, carrots and corn. Before serving, spread tender beef slices and shredded ginger on the noodles, then pour in the broth and cook it. It tastes sweet and the beef melts in the mouth. Because there is a slaughterhouse in Tainan, warm cattle are slaughtered in the morning, and beef broth is a must-eat food for many gourmets when they go to Tainan.

I heard that there is no onion cake in Tianjin. It seems to be improved from Tianjin onion cake. The story is just like the beef noodles above. I have to admire the innovative spirit of Taiwan Province people, who can always turn foreign food into food with Taiwan Province characteristics, and then promote it in the name of Taiwan Province.

In Tianjin, onion cakes are hand-made cakes with onions. In Taiwan Province, hand-made cakes have many flavors, including pumpkin, purple potato and sesame, and even curry. Snack cake with onion is one of the popular snacks. Small stalls selling snack cake with onion can be seen everywhere in the streets and lanes. The equipment is simple, and you only need a stainless steel pancake ladle and two stainless steel shovels to sell it.

onion cakes can be eaten alone, just like I like this simple way of eating with onion and flour fragrance, but more people like the rich taste with fillings and sauces. For example, onion and vegetable cakes are a popular way of eating, and my children like it very much. They can change to bacon, ham or tuna without vegetables.

how to make onion and vegetable cakes at home? Buy back frozen onion cakes, fry them in a flat-bottomed non-stick pan until both sides are golden without thawing, loosen them with a spatula and chopsticks from the outside to the inside, take them out and brush them with a thin layer of soy sauce paste (oyster sauce is also acceptable). At this time, fry eggs and stir-fry vegetables, cover the side with the sauce when cooked, turn the whole side over and fold it in half, and a nutritious onion and vegetable cake is finished.

Steamed buns can be said to be a well-known Taiwan Province pasta food except beef noodles. The most well-known famous shops have branches in Hongkong and Shanghai. Strictly speaking, this kind of dumpling is made by strictly observing the "18% discount on gold" and the standard of 5 grams of dough and 16 grams of stuffing, which is called steamed soup packets.

In Taiwan Province, there are two kinds of dumplings in the market, the dough and the stuffing are different, and each has its own guests. For example, I prefer dumplings, and I like the dough and the fresh meat stuffing with just the right amount. Xiao Long Tang Bao, like a miniature version of Hong Kong-style tea, is characterized by thin skin and delicious soup. Before eating, you should bite a small mouth to let the soup flow out, drink it first, and then eat steamed buns.

For breakfast and tea time, mobile dining cars converted from trucks often appear in busy business districts. Some of them may sell scallion cakes and steamed dumplings at the same time, with a cage of eight NT$ 51, which is much cheaper than the products produced by famous shops, and the taste is generally not bad, but it is definitely not so particular about "18% discount on gold".

steamed buns often appear at breakfast time, which may be related to the fact that this form of steamed buns feels full, and it is suitable for breakfast but not for snacks. The meat stuffing of steamed buns will be mixed with chopped green onion and Jiang Mo, and it tastes fresh and fragrant. When you bite it, the flavor of flour and meat overflows the whole mouth, which is completely different from the taste of steamed soup buns.

speaking of steamed buns, many Shandong steamed buns shops in Taiwan Province sell good meat buns and vegetable buns, and the fried buns sold in breakfast shops are also delicious. There are so many choices of steamed buns, so it is not difficult to imagine the rich variety of pasta in Taiwan Province. If you add dumplings, pot stickers and all kinds of noodles, ten fingers can't count the delicious pasta dishes.

The popularity of pasta in Taiwan Province is not only related to the participation of mainlanders, but also related to the timely and vigorous promotion of the government. In 1953, Yin Zhongrong, then the vice chairman of Taiwan Province Production Management Committee, publicly publicized the idea of "eating less white rice and eating more flour". His abacus was that eating less white rice would help the country's foreign exchange income.

In 1954, the United States passed the Agricultural Products Trade Development and Assistance Act, commonly known as Public Law 481, and launched a series of operations. As far as Taiwan Province is concerned, this kind of operation includes the promotion of pasta, the education and training of pasta making, the construction of nutrition knowledge, etc., so that people in Taiwan Province can get used to pasta.

Modern nutrition also advocates that pasta is more nutritious than white rice. If you happen to like pasta again, you might as well use pasta instead of white rice as the staple food. In terms of convenience, pasta foods are mostly semi-finished products, which are more convenient and faster to cook than rice, and the time-saving and labor-saving way meets the needs of modern people.