Food is always a major feature of travel, and in Chiayi, there are many types of snacks. Among the many snacks, which foods should we try? Below we will introduce you to Chiayi’s specialties.

Luoshan Rice Cake This rice cake is steamed directly with glutinous rice and lard, and then topped with a special Luo Pork Sauce. It is quite similar to Luo Pork Rice. It is a delicacy not to be missed in Chiayi City.

Stir-fried duck meat is stir-fried with onions, garlic, chili peppers, Wuyin vinegar, etc. over high heat to remove the fishy smell while still retaining the tender meat texture, and then boiled into a soup, which is full of deliciousness.

The fish head in casserole is made by boiling daylily, Chinese cabbage, etc. for 8 hours. The soup is fresh and delicious.

The rice cake of Luoshan Rice Cake is steamed directly with glutinous rice and lard, and then topped with a special Luo Pork Sauce. It is quite similar to Luo Pork Rice and is a delicacy not to be missed in Chiayi City.

Bamboo tube rice in Alishan Alishan is a mountainous area with bamboo forests. “Bamboo tube rice” is a specialty snack and is very popular among the local Tsou people.

The traditional method is to put raw glutinous rice in the bamboo tube of Osmanthus bamboo, then stuff the mouth of the bamboo tube with cabbage or mountain biscuits and then grill it over charcoal. It won’t take long for you to smell the aroma of bamboo.

After roasting, peel off the bamboo tube, and the long strips of white rice will be wrapped with a transparent bamboo film. The fragrance of Osmanthus bamboo mixed with the fragrance of rice will hit your nostrils.

If paired with the Alishan specialty wasami and soy sauce dipping sauce, it becomes a Tsou delicacy full of flavor.

Chiayi is the hometown of chicken rice, among which the "Spraying Chicken Rice" on the ring side is the most famous, and the "Liu Lichang Chicken Rice" on Gongming Road is also a very popular restaurant.

The local taste of chicken fat, special sauce, shredded chicken, scallions and white rice is unmatched anywhere else.

Chicken rice has been developed in Chiayi for more than a century. It was first made of local chicken breasts torn into strips or slices, mixed with scallions, chicken fat, and soy sauce and placed on white rice.

Due to the charming aroma created by chicken fat and shallots, it goes well with rice, and its taste is widely praised. Chicken rice has gradually become a representative delicacy in Chiayi, and has gradually spread to all parts of Taiwan.