After rolling into a small city in Central Taiwan after visiting the Taiwanese mountains where the food was decent, but not memorable, my expectations were low for our lunch in this little, apparently undistinguished city. But was I wrong, as our visit to this vegetarian restaurant was the highlight of the culinary attractions put together by Supera/Signet Tours (www.superatours.com). Every dish was a big winner, something I would not have expected from a vegetarian restaurant. Lunch began with a vegetarian lettuce wrap.
I've had "vegetarian duck" or "vegetarian goose" at many Shanghai style restaurants, but nothing was like this vegetarian Peking duck complete with wrapper.
I passed on the mushroom soup since I dislike mushrooms, but the mushroom lovers were pleased.
Not just fried sticky rice, but truffle fried sticky rice. Yum!
Who would even think about fried water bamboo? Certainly different and fantastic.
Chive and tofu dumplings.
Hunan style tofu with pine nuts.
The absolute star of the show (and a main course, not an appetizer), chilled mountain yam with passionfruit sauce.
And the real dessert, sugar cane jelly osmanthus.
Despite the consistently good quality of the food on the trip, there was typically some uneaten food left over. Not today.
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