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Have you been to the night markets in Taiwan? For anyone have heard of Taiwan's night market but have never been to!

We local people do have some bizarre foods, which most forigners are not dare to take a try. For instance our STINKY TOFU! I have to admit, the name of it is not attracting already. However, it does the food we locals enjoy!

Today, I'd like to share yoy guys some wide-acceptable dishes, which cuisines can been seen in the homecooking regulary:

1) tomato and egg stir-fry

I know many countries mix simlier ingredients as a dish, but, ours are differnt! In some families, we add sugar in, make it between savory and sweet! It's the dish I had on weekly basis in my childhood!

2) fried egg rice

Agian, this could be seen in various cultures! However, with different cooking skill, the taste is extremly distinct! I'm not sure it's also a thinh in another contries, but we, Taiwanese belive the best rice for make this dish is the leftover rice which is put in the fridge for a night! Beilve it or not, I personaly taste the difference!

My father is used to frying it with the wok, I can still remember the sound of the spectula striking on the wok's surface.

If youd lije to know how do we call the dishes in Mandarin, don't be hestated, contact me! And you may share me your hometown dishes as exchage!

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Have you been to the night markets in Taiwan?

For anyone who has heard of Taiwan's night markets but have never been to one!

We local people do have some bizarre foods, which most foreigners do not dare to take a try. For instance our STINKY TOFU! I have to admit, the name of it is not attractive. However, it is a food we locals enjoy!

Today, I'd like to share with you guys some widely-accepted (maybe "widely available?") dishes which cuisines can been seen regularly in Taiwanese homecooking regulary:

1) Tomato and egg stir-fry

I know many countries mix similar ingredients as a dish, but ours are different! In some families, we add sugar in to make it between savory and sweet! It's a dish I had on weekly basis in my childhood!

2) Fried egg rice

Again, this could be seen in various cultures. However, with a different cooking style, the taste is extremely distinct. I'm not sure if it's also a thing in another countries, but we, Taiwanese believe the best rice for make this dish is the leftover rice which has been put in the fridge for a night! Believe it or not, I personally can taste the difference!

My father is used to frying it with the wok, I can still remember the sound of the spatula striking on the wok's surface.

If you'd like to know what we call the dishes in Mandarin, don't hesitate, contact me! And you may share with me your hometown's dishes as exchage!


Hi! I live in Kaohsiung. I have eaten stinky tofu and fried tomato with scrambled egg. Taiwanese people are very creative with food! In Australia everybody loves to eat salad with BBQ meat. We have so many types of salad - green lettuce salad, potato salad, pasta salad, eggplant salad. I actually miss salad a lot because it's a really refreshing food to eat in summer. :-)

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Great notebook entry, thanks for sharing. My wife and I visited Taiwan few a years ago on holiday. We've been to the night markets both in Shilin and Kaohsiung, we love the night markets. My favourite is the oyster omelette. I have to say I was not game enough (ready) to try the stinky tofu although my wife did. I guess this is an acquired taste. We had a wonderful time :)

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