I had what I thought was some mediocre food the last time I visited Raohe with some out of town friends, so it's been a few years since I've had the urge to revisit. Thanks to some new friends from Singapore who chose it as our meeting spot, I fell in love with the popular flaky pepper buns, the grilled oyster mushrooms, mango shaved ice and found a vendor serving one of my favorite night market snacks, the ice cream "burrito" with peanut candy shavings and cilantro.
The pepper buns at the entrance of the Raohe night market and can be spotted by a winding queue of people waiting and a team of quick fingered people wrapping minced pork and green onions in doughy balls to be cooked in tandoor like ovens. The result is a pepper bun that is too hot to hold, a crunchy crust on the bottom and peppery and sweet meatball inside the bun. It's worth coming to Raohe just for this.
3 comments:
There's an ai yu bing vendor there who has been there for years that I love to frequent whenever I make it back to Taipei. Thanks for these suggestions! We're going in October and eager to try out some new places.
OMG! Did they add anything else into the watermelon smoothie/juice? That looked SO GOOD!!!
-Z
wendy: have a great trip in October! I'll be sure to look for the ai yu bing next time!
z: i don't think so!! watermelons in taipei are so sweet!
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