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Welcome back to our Taiwanese Street Food tour series. This is episode 3. In today’s video, we are focusing on delicious MOUNTAIN cuisine in Maokong, just outside of Taipei City.
We start our day at Bitan Scenic area (Xindian Station) to eat a traditional Taiwanese meal for breakfast. We ordered rice noodle soup 米粉湯, braised tofu 滷豆腐, crispy ribs 脆骨 (which were not crispy at all), and boiled radish 蘿蔔. The food was simple and fresh, and very affordable at 140 NTD (USD $4.66).
It was then time to hike one of our favorite trails in Taipei known as Yinhe Trail. Our taxi from Xindian Station to the trailhead was 175 NTD (USD $5.83). There is a cave/temple/waterfall you can visit and continue along the trail to reach Maokong, which used to grow the most tea for Taipei. There are still lots of tea farms dotted along the mountains. In Maokong, there are many tea houses and restaurants serving food and snacks infused with tea. We ordered a set meal that included tea fried rice, tea smoked chicken, mountain style shrimp, egg tofu with tea leaves and a chicken and mushroom soup. The entire set came to 1000 NTD (USD $33.29). For dessert, we had an oolong tea popsicle.
From Maokong, we made our way back to Taipei via Maokong Gondola using the Crystal Cabin. The Crystal Cabin has a glass floor to allow 360° views of the tea fields, rolling mountains and Taipei 101 in the distance. The gondola is easy to use using EasyCard costing 100 NTD (USD $3.33).
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1 – Bitan (near Xindian Station)
2 – Breakfast at 勇伯米粉湯
No. 57, Guangming Street, Xindian District, New Taipei City
3 – Hiking Yinhe Trail 銀河洞越嶺步道
No. 68號, Yinhe Road, Xindian District, New Taipei City
4 – Mountain lunch at Big Tea Pot 阿義師的大茶壺茶餐廳
37之1號1樓 Lane 38, Section 3, Zhinan Road, Wenshan District, New Taipei City
5 – Maokong Gondola 貓空纜車站
Lane 38, Section 3, Zhinan Road, Wenshan District, New Taipei City
We hope you enjoyed our mountain adventure and meal! Make sure to SUBSCRIBE and turn on “all notifications” so that you don’t miss the rest of our Taiwan series! Next up is a traditional street food tour through Taipei’s ancient district – Datong District (near Dihua St.), where we will show you some of Taipei’s OLDEST and BEST street food!!!
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We’re Luke Martin and Sabrina Davidson, food lovers and world travellers! We make videos about local, authentic and unique foods from across the globe. We particularly like to sample street food across Asia. We are based in Taiwan where we frequent the best Taiwanese street food stops and create travel content to make finding food in Taiwan easier for YOU! Although we are based in Taiwan we travel the majority of the year around the world in search of the best food. We’ve filmed in Japan, The Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Greece, Sri Lanka, Canada and the list is still growing! Our mission is to create content that is entertaining, informative, honest and fun! We love what we do and we are always grateful for your support! Thank you and see you on the next episode!
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