Taiwanese gourmet delights

The food in Taiwan is fabulous. We have eaten so many great meals. The restaurants are excellent and really kid-friendly. The street food is so tasty with some of the highest standards of cleanliness and even greater standards of tastiness. The produce markets are packed with delicious fruits and vegetables- many we have never seen before, but are delighted to try. Many of the markets will give you samples of the fruits as you shop to entice you to buy! Yum- I love shopping here!

Here is a sample of some of our favorites. The fruit we collected at the green grocer.


Check out the size of that water droplet in the middle of this...green vegetable.


Our favorite local dumpling house. They have the best crab dumplings and Amelia likes the hot and sour noodle soup. Amelia's biggest problem here is that she is so excited to eat everything that she can hardly wait for the food to cool down.




There is a night market that is walking distance from our house. Amelia has tried just about everything we offer her. It has been amazing to see her culinary tastes blossom. Before we left home, she seemed like she was getting set in her ways (not terribly- but a little). We weren't sure how she would take to travelling. She has been incredibly adventurous. She even likes "stinky tofu" that we bought at the market- grilled over smoky wooden coals, coated with a spicy sauce (only a little) and served on a stick. Yum! The stinky part comes from the extra fermentation process that leads to a distinctive odor.


And our latest food adventure- squid on a stick. She liked the tentacles the best.


And just for Luc- a picture of his snack foods. Beef fillet chips, seaweed chips and the gold-medal Taiwan Beer. Yum! The Taiwanese equivalent of pickle chips and ketchup chips.
There are so many wonderful culinary options here. I am sure that we will have more to say on this subject!