Thursday, February 13, 2020

What We Ate In Taiwan, Part 4 - Hualien

It's one thing to find excellent and interesting Chinese restaurants in a large city like Taipei with over 2.5 million people, but in a city like Hualien with perhaps 150,000 people, one would not have high expectations.  Consequently it was a credit to the Supera/Signet tour operators (www.superatours.com)  to find a food highlight in this town.

The meal started out with the most interesting seafood salad--mostly seafood and very little salad!



Some crispy dumplings, a bit slurry style like what we had a Din Tai Fung in Taipei.


Here is a most interesting gua bao, or rather I should say interesting gua bao bun.


With the pork belly itself.





The real highlight was the mola mola fish, a.k.a. ocean sunfish, a giant fish weighing up to a ton.  The fish came two ways–the skin was battered and fried in a tasty dish.


The second course was the rubbery meat cooked in soup, which was not tasty.  But what an interesting combination.


And for dessert, a toasted, sesame seed topped bun, and a giant sesame seed topped onion type pancake filled with red bean.  A great end to a most interesting meal.


In an unexpected postscript to this meal, I had posted a couple of pictures from the restaurant on Instagram.  Two weeks later, after I had returned home, the restaurant posted a reply, thanking me for visiting their restaurant.  But the real thanks go to Supera/Signet Tours for uncovering this gem.


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