Taoyuan Tourism

Duck and Goose

Gourmet meat lovers

What to order in a Hakka restaurant? How about a plate of duck and goose? Its sweet and juicy texture without much sauce makes every bite surprising! The authentic Hakka cuisines including Pickled Cabbage Duck, Braised duck slices with wine sauce, White Cut Goose, Goose intestines with leek soup…all the dishes go very well with white rice!

• Map of duck restaurants
• Map of goose restaurants

Hakka Flavor

Healthy and traditional yet innovative

If you don’t have big enough stomach, don’t challenge! Hakka fried shredded pork with cuttlefish, Stir-fried Pork Intestine with Shredded Ginger, Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables, and salted pork…that combine sour and salty Hakka flavors, stimulate your taste buds so much that you can’t stop eating! Followed healthy food trend, less salt and less oil is used in Hakka cuisines but instead Chinese medicine and vegetables are applied, which allows you to eat healthy and tasty!

• Map of Hakka restaurants

(Source:Department of Hakka Affairs)

Hakka Vegetable Bun

Fillings of traditional goodies

Hakka vegetable bun is made of sticky rice and steamed on pomelo leaves. As soon as you take a bite, you can tell the chewy texture and fresh smell from regular pork buns. The fillings are shredded radish, stir-fried pork with garlic stems, mushrooms and dried sea shrimps, which mix the fresh sweetness and the tasty saltiness. It is the must-have Hakka dish for all the festivals.

• Map of Hakka Vegetable Bun

Rice noodles and vermicelli

Handmade from pure rice

The chewy slippery texture represents the handmade rice delicacy! The soup is braised with porkchop. Half-cooked eggs, sliced pork, and pork livers go very well with the soup. Vermicelli salad is the first choice of summer appetizer. Shredded carrots, bean sprouts, corianders and its sour, spicy, salty and sweet layers of sauces, makes you an unforgettable meal!

• Map of Rice noodles
• Map of vermicelli

Pea Flour

Delicious both as a cold dish and deep-fried

It is not flour but jelly! The green peasemeal has special texture and when it’s topped with sesame, peanut, shredded carrot and cucumber, plus the homemade sauce, the mild spice and refreshing taste makes you hungrier! You can also have–deep-fried peasemeal that makes you chew the crispy and soft double textures non-stopping!

• Map of Pea Flour

Fresh from the ocean

Reward yourself with the quality ingredients

Being in Yongan Fish Harbor or Zhuwei Fish Harbor, you need not worry about spending money on bad stuff. Fish, shrimp, crabs or shellfish are fresh in the season! Steaming, baking, stir-frying, or grilling is as good as what you get from the fancy restaurants. Don’t forget to bring some home. All the seafood is so fresh here that you can cook like a chef easily.

• Map of seafood restaurants

Shihmen Fish

Various ways to eat one fish

Visiting Shihmen Dam without trying the fish cuisines would be a shame! Grass carps, bighead carps, black carps are deep-sea fish, which are fat without many bones or fishy taste. The local restaurants have created 3 ways of cooking to hundreds, including sweet and sour, deep-fried, chilly bean sauced, fish soup, and braised! Go to the Fish Street, and you will come back with a big satisfying belly.

• Map of Shihmen Fish

(Source: Department of Hakka Affairs)

Peach and Persimmons

High altitude seasonal fruit

Big juicy peaches and crunchy sweet persimmons are the fruit that you must have when visiting Fuxing. Eating the fruit itself is good enough but you can also cook with them. Fruit smoothies, cakes, cocktails, tea…are amazing too. If you miss any of them, please come back next year.

• Map of Peach Shops

Wood mushrooms and Green bamboo shoots

Aromatic, fresh and original

Scarce wood mushrooms are grown in the middle to high altitude mountains. The thick juicy mushrooms are national-level cuisine ingredients. Simple stir-frying or cooking in the soup is the trick. The green bamboo shoots have fine fiber. They are crunchy and sweet so Hakka Style Braised Bamboo Shoots, Green Bamboo Shoot Chicken Soup, and Bamboo Shoot Steamed Pork Chops will need them!