Food in Taiwan

And now, a photoblog about various foods I've encountered over the last 7 months.

This is a kind of Taiwanese shaved ice dessert. It has red beans, kidney beans, taro, and sticky rice balls. Its actually pretty good. Lots of interesting textures.

This is some fried fish, aboriginal style at Sun Moon Lake. I'm not a fan of gnawing on bones, and I couldn't find much meat on these.

These are some river shrimp...or lake shrimp. I'm not sure. I just know they are from some body of fresh water, and you eat the whole thing...head, legs, shell.

This is a "bien dang", a typical Taiwanese lunchbox. Its usually a bed of rice, with your choice of meat, and a few sides of the vendors choosing. It generally has some boiled cabbage, some sort of pickled vegetable, and something unidentifiable, usually a sort of tofu or occasionally some kid of pigs blood concoction. I enjoy eating lunchboxes, just for the unexpected nature of it. I usually have them 2 or 3 times a week at work.

Red bean soup. Its surprisingly sweet, and just contains red beans, and sometimes rice. It can be eaten hot, or with shaved ice. I also enjoy this.

Grilled squid on a stick is staple night market fare. I still haven't eaten one, but plan to next time I visit a night market.

Vendor selling various fried shellfish.

Sarah enjoying her bian dang.

Lee enjoying her bian dang.

And me, enjoying my bian dang.