Last month, the Taiwan authorities said that mainland snail powder printed with earthy love words was a "united front tool" that was illegally flowed in, and demanded that all online and offline shelves be completely removed, which triggered a "hoarding tide" of snail powder on the island. In recent days, Taiwan media have found that many vendors in Taiwan's night markets have begun to sell snail powder, which is really delicious to eat, "the more forbidden the more you want to eat"! After this sour, spicy and smelly snack swept the north and south of the river, it really conquered the Chinese stomach across the strait!
Infographic: Mouth-watering snail powder with many ingredients.
Speaking of which, the two sides of the strait do have a lot in common in their preference for strange food.
These, the more smelly the more fragrant!
When it comes to smelly food, people on both sides of the strait have many of the same loves, in addition to snail powder, stinky tofu is the first to be promoted.
or rustic or dark fried stinky tofu, which often embarrasses foreign tourists. But Chinese sons and daughters seem to have a stronger ability to recognize this smell and can find the fragrance in the smell. On the mainland, "authentic Changsha stinky tofu" is a must-have stall in almost all food streets; In Taiwan, stinky tofu is also a popular king in night markets and on the street. A slight difference is that Taiwanese stinky tofu is often eaten with refreshing sweet and sour kimchi, which neutralizes greasy and makes people eat happily; There is also a way to eat steamed stinky tofu garnished with vegetables such as edamame and shiitake mushrooms.
Infographic: Stinky tofu coming out of the pan.
Because Taiwanese people love stinky tofu too much, Pizza Hut has also launched "golden stinky tofu pizza" according to local conditions, which is said to bake Taiwanese pickles, cheese and stinky tofu, and then add garlic soy sauce to enhance the flavor, and is also sold simultaneously with durian pizza. This collocation, Italians like or not, I don't know, anyway, mainland compatriots said that they want to order to eat in the office.
In addition, there is a "Dai Kee Du Smelly House Stinky Tofu Specialty Store" in Taipei, which is called "the smelly temple" by foreign media, and even provides stinky tofu with different odor levels!
Of course, in addition to stinky tofu, Chinese cuisine also includes Huizhou stinky mandarin fish, Wuhan stinky gluten, Ningbo stinky winter melon... We look forward to more stinky delicacies becoming popular in Taiwan!
Everyone who understands it, love the offal!
As we all know, in the diet habits of many countries, they prefer to eat whole, whole meat, do not like to gnaw bones, and rarely eat animal offal. But the Chinese nation, which is good at seasoning, has long overcome the unpleasant smell of entering the water and turned it into a fatty and tender delicacy. From north to south, a single fat sausage has fat sausage, stewed sausage, nine-turn large intestine, braised fat sausage, dry sautéed fat sausage, fat sausage pot and other methods, barbecue has a heavy taste of the premier waist, soup has mellow haggis soup pork belly chicken, hot pot has boiling duck intestine hairy belly... Such an inconspicuous miscellaneous ingredient can be played so much by Chinese food!
Infographic: Diners in the hot pot restaurant are scalding belly slices.
Across the sea, the Taiwanese people's love for internal organs is also blazing, and various patterns can be found in a single fat sausage. Beijing-style marinated fat sausages and Sichuan-style spicy fat sausages are also popular on the streets of Taiwan, and the distinctive peanut glutinous rice sausages are delicious until your mouth drops. The "black talk" Taiwanese snack "black and white cut" that makes tourists scratch their heads is randomly cut from different offal parts and meat to form a platter for diners. The word "black and white" is taken from the Hokkien word "wubai", which means "casual".
"Black and white cut" can become a classic, which shows the welcome attitude of the Taiwanese people to internal organs. Accompanied by a sesame oil waist flower and a plate of pork blood cake, such a meal will satisfy both sides of the strait visceral food lovers.
Stinky Monster Ultimate Showdown!
Perhaps, heavy food lovers will find the above dishes not exciting enough. Indeed, there are more stinky and strange killers in food circles on both sides of the strait!
Let's grandly invite out the Taiwan stinky pot!
Stinky pot is a hot pot in which stinky tofu and pork intestines are boiled into the soup base. Some people commented that the former is artificially smelly, the latter is naturally smelly, smelly and smelly, but it tastes very fragrant. The pot is usually boiled with pork slices, pork blood cake, quail eggs, enoki mushrooms, cabbage and other ingredients, the soup is rich, steaming, rich in ingredients, and it is very enjoyable to eat with a lot of sweat. But how smelly it is, ask, is really not smelly (dog head).
Mainland compatriots who can't eat the desktop stinky pot temporarily do not need to beat their chests, because recently there has been a seemingly more powerful combination on the mainland, called snail powder fat sausage stinky tofu pot.
Black gold fried stinky tofu, fatty and greasy big fat sausage, full of snail powder... Add the soup with snail powder and turn on the fire, it is really unbearable to think about! I wonder if Taiwanese compatriots who began to hoard snail powder will also like snail powder fat sausage stinky tofu pot?
Speaking of which, although the above Chinese food sounds so dark, when many foreign friends with "the courage to come", pinched their noses and braved death, they actually felt that "it tastes good". There are many videos recorded by foreign UP owners on the Internet as evidence.
This is probably the power of Chinese food!
Written by Minnie
Source: China News Service WeChat public account