: online celebrity cuisine
1. Bomb onion cake
Put an egg in the middle of the scallion cake and fry it in the oil pan, which is named after the homonym of "frying eggs". There are two genuine online celebrity cuisines in Hualien, which are neither pirated nor pirated, and the tastes are basically the same. After high-temperature frying, the cake smells like onions. When you bite it down, the yolk slowly flows into your mouth, which has a unique taste.
Reference price: NT$ 30 yuan/unit (about RMB 6 yuan)
Store location: Fuxing Street, Hualien City, with two stores: Time-honored Store and 102.
Business hours: Generally, sales will start around 1 p.m. until they are sold out.
2. Just steamed buns
Taiwan Province is famous for its delicious taste. Many stars are its iron powder (it is said that Jam Hsiao will eat it every time he goes back to Hualien), and it mainly focuses on steamed buns, which are small and exquisite. Different from other steamed buns, it pays attention to stuffing. What is more distinctive is that its skin is not only sour after fermentation, but also slightly sweet.
Reference price: steamed buns, NT$ 5 yuan/piece (about RMB 1 yuan).
Store location: Zhongshan Road and Gongping Road, Hualien City
Business hours: 24 hours.
3. Teacher Goose
A starting point for Hualien cuisine is of course goose. The meat is tender, and many people line up, but the boss is a bit headstrong. In order to let more customers taste delicious food, guests with limited tables can only order one goose. The fish and egg salad, rice and blood cake and braised pork noodles in this shop are also very distinctive.
Reference price: goose, NT$ 480 yuan/kg.
Store location: old shop (No.259 Zhongshan Road, Hualien City); Branch (No.224 Linsen Road, the environment is better than the old shop)
Business hours: 1 1:00- 00:30 the next day.
4, liquid sweet flat food
Hualien flat food, a kind of wonton, was first introduced from Fuzhou by a boss named Dai Ahuo. 1976, Mr Jiang Jingguo visited Hualien and tasted flat food with liquid flavor, so it became famous. Teacher Ma Ying Jiu went to Hualien and tasted the same family.
Reference price: NTD 65 yuan/bowl.
Store location: No.42 Xinyi Street, Hualien City
Business hours: 09:00-2 1:00.
5. Zeng Ji Ma's book
The coat made of glutinous rice is wrapped with fillings of different flavors, which tastes sweet but not greasy and has strong teeth. Originally delicious food cooked by aborigines at festivals, it has been improved into a popular local specialty snack in Hualien.
Reference price: NT$ 25-60 yuan/piece.
Store location: Head Office (No.4 Hehe Road, Hualien City), Zhongshan Road, Zhongzheng Road, Zhonghua Road, Guolian Road, Hualien Railway Station, etc. They all have semicolons.
Business hours: 09:00-2 1:00.
6. Dongdaemun Sightseeing Night Market
This is the integrated planning of several night markets and pedestrian streets, including Fuding Night Market and Qiangzi Night Market, as well as an aboriginal street and a street in a mainland province. It is the largest night market in Taiwan Province Province at present, and its food and drink are similar to those of other cities in Taiwan Province Province. The "Aboriginal Street" inside is worth visiting. Roasted bacon is an authentic food unique to Hualien.
Reference price: The prices of all kinds of snacks are better than those of big cities such as Taipei and Kaohsiung, with high cost performance.
Location: Chungking Road Block, Zhongshan Road, Hualien City, with multiple entrances.
Business hours: 18:00- 0 1:00 the next day.
: local cuisine in Hualien
1.9453 salt roasted snapper
Taiwan Province snapper is famous for its freshness and beauty. In recent years, the salt-baked snapper in Hualien has become an online celebrity of Bao Dao cuisine. The 9453 beer bar in Hualien Railway Station Square is very popular with local people. The salt-wrapped snapper is light and transparent to the skin, with moderate salt and tender meat. It not only attracts Hualien locals, but also attracts many diners from Taipei and Kaohsiung.
Reference price: NT$ 699/piece (fish is enough for 4 people)
Store location: No.56, Fu 'an Road, Hualien City (Hualien Railway Station Back Square)
Business hours: 17:00-23:00 (closed on Tuesdays)
Restaurant 953 focuses on salted turtles, with Taiwanese beer or soft drinks, authentic Hualien flavor. Spicy soft-shelled turtle and spicy hot pot that are eaten while cooking are also the must-have food in this restaurant. There are also packages sold by this store on the hornet's nest. In addition to being more affordable than going to the store, you can also make an appointment to the store in advance and ask the grilled fish chef to bake it in advance (grilled fish takes about 40 minutes). When you arrive, you can enjoy delicious food immediately without waiting.
2. Sweet and sour lemon juice under Taroko
Although Jia Bingguo Store is located in the countryside of Hualien New Town, it attracts many diners from Hualien City to drive there. The main lemon juice is sweet and sour, and it is the most popular. After visiting Taroko, the carpool tour group will pass this store (which is known to local drivers). If time and parking conditions permit, you can ask the driver to wait for a few minutes and take it out to taste.
Reference price: Main lemon juice, NT$ 35 yuan/cup.
Store location: No.22, Aibo Road, Xincheng Township, Hualien County
Business hours: 10:00- 18:00.
3. Eight-flavored ginger duck
Small restaurants with good business, especially in autumn and winter, Hualien locals especially like to eat ginger duck hot pot. The bottom of the pot is ginger duck, which has a large portion and a small portion. You can order all kinds of dishes (duck sausage, duck meatballs, tofu, bean skin, all kinds of vegetables, etc. ) and put them in it for washing. Small ingredients are generally sufu sauce, which makes you feel warm and a happy taste.
Reference price: about NT$ 300 yuan per person.
Store location: No.69, Zhi Ming Street, Hualien City (in front of Hualien Railway Station)
Business hours:11:00-21:00.
4. Breakfast in Qian Ji
If you are a big eater, don't miss breakfast with money in mind. You can have Chili noodles, poached eggs and oil noodles with sauce, which is simply synonymous with perfection. In addition, pot stickers and pig blood soup are also essential foods in Qian Ji. Qian Ji is a local breakfast canteen, so get ready to queue up.
Reference price: about NT$ 150 yuan/person per person.
Store location: No.213, De 'an 1st Street, Hualien City
Business hours: 05:30- 12:00 (closed on Saturdays and Sundays in the first and third weeks of each month).
5. Laicheng sparerib noodles
Laicheng pork ribs noodle is an ancient local pasta that Hualien people like very much. A little Japanese. The ribs are fried, especially crisp, crispy outside and tender inside, and the noodles are very strong. Noodles are chewy, with cold dishes such as golden eggs, kelp, pig scalp and vegetables. Those who like pasta can try it.
Reference price: small bowl of sparerib noodles is about NT$ 60 yuan/bowl.
Store location: No.544 Zhongzheng Road, Hualien
Business hours: 10:00-2 1:00
6. Seafood market behind the pier.
In Hualien Pacific Ocean, the Kuroshio brings abundant fishery resources. There are several seafood stalls and restaurants in the seafood market outside the whale watching pier, which is the favorite place for Hualien locals to enjoy delicious seafood. There are few tourists at present. The seafood here is not only fresh, but also reasonable in price, which is worth recommending.
Reference price: The price of seafood often fluctuates due to different seasons, but it is very cost-effective.
Shop location: at the entrance of whale watching wharf in Fengbin Township, Hualien County.
Business hours: 1 1:00-20:00
Special diet around Hualien
1. Dairy products of Mizuho Ranch
Taste fresh milk products, such as cheesecake, hot and cold milk, fresh cheese, ice cream, etc. In the beautiful natural environment of the pasture. They are full of milk, fresh and delicious. Nougat, especially cranberry flavor, is also recommended and can be bought as a gift.
Photo: Fresh and delicious dairy products from Mizuho Ranch. Author: Liu Yangyang
Reference price: main package, NT 135 yuan.
Store location: Mizuho Ranch, Wuhe Village, Mizuho Township, Hualien County.
Business hours: 09:00- 18:00.
2. Desserts from Guangfu Sugar Factory
Sugar factories had a glorious past, but now they no longer make sugar. However, its specialty ice products are hygienic and delicious, and are very popular, such as durian ice cream, mango sponge ice, red bean milk ice, ginger tea, moonlight ice and papaya ice cream. Especially red bean milk ice cream.
Reference price: Main two-ball ice cream, NTD 50 yuan.
Store location: Guangfu Sugar Factory, Dajin Village, Guangfu Township, Hualien County
Business hours: 10:00- 18:00.
3. Man Mei pig's feet beside Wanrong Liming skydiving base.
The first generation boss was a mother-in-law named Man Mei, who started selling Yangchun noodles and then gradually resold Hakka-style braised pork feet. It inherits the characteristics of Hakka cuisine, which is salty, fragrant and oily, and is very authentic in Taiwan Province, with a bowl of delicious pig's trotters and a bowl of delicious braised pork rice. It is full of happiness. This is a star shop, and the wall of the shop is full of photos of various stars and bosses.
Reference price: a small portion of trotters (enough for 3-4 people), 450 yuan.
Store location: No.22-1,Wansen Road, Linfeng Village, Wanrong Township, Hualien County (next to Liming Skydiving Club)
Business hours: 10:00- 18:00.
4. The lunch by the pool has history and feelings.
This is a brand story with a history of more than 70 years, and it is a portrayal of the people's hard struggle spirit in Taiwan Province Province. The early Huadong Railway took about 8 hours from Hualien to Taitung. When it arrived at the station on the pond, all the passengers were hungry. At that time, the ancestors in the pool sold sweet potato cakes in front of the station to serve the passengers. Later, in order to understand the hardships of outsiders, I began to make rice bags and sell them on the platform. Now it has become the first brand of railway bento in Taiwan Province Province.
Reference price: NT$ 80-250 yuan
Store location: Chishang Railway Station, Chishang Township, Taitung County
Business hours: 10:00-20:00
Tourists on the valley line between Hualien and Kenting arrive at the swimming pool just at lunch time. Generally, carpooling products often need to queue for more than ten or twenty minutes (even more than an hour on holidays) to buy a carpooling lunch. It is a good choice to choose a product that includes a pool lunch (this line mode is also better than ordinary carpooling, and the ride experience is better).
5. A bowl of beef noodles with stories
The Royal Shandong Beef Noodle Restaurant, located in Chenggong Town, is small in scale but famous. Behind it lies the love story of two generations on both sides of the strait. For decades, this shop insisted on cutting beef by hand. The original fermented soybean powder is served with beef bones and brisket, and the soup is carefully cooked. In addition, the formula that has been circulated for many years presents bowls of smooth Q-bomb beef noodles with clear soup color and rich aroma.
Reference price: NT 100-300 yuan
Store location: No.43 Datong Road, Chenggong Town, Taitung County
Business hours: 07:00-2 1:00.
In addition to the main beef noodles, there are also side dishes such as swordfish sashimi, preserved egg tofu, fish egg cucumber, as well as handmade jiaozi and various set meals, with diverse choices and affordable prices. Chenggong Town lies between Hualien and Kenting. A one-day carpool trip from Hualien to the south of Kenting or from Kenting to Hualien to the north of Hualien will arrive at Chenggong Town at noon. Don't miss this bowl of beef noodles with stories.