Jiufen The Food Pardise

Apparently re-visited the little village on a mountain, the place that everyone visits in Jiufen is the old  street where all the shops, restaurant and pedestrian food snack is located.

We we're here just to spend our lunch and re visited one of the best chinese restaurant of Jiufen called  戲夢人生.

Jiufen it’s a narrow street with endless choices and lots of peoples from locals Taiwanese peoples to Japanese and lots of tourist.

The reason why we are here is the steamed chicken flavor with none liquor. Seriously though, it was cold but I got used to it after eating this dish for many times and it's good and heavenly delicious.

This is the steamed goose soaked in wine and pineapple. it's alright, but I preferred the steamed chicken. I never did care much for pink coloured of goose or duck, I always go for the steamed chicken  ones.

Steamed shrimps with wine and ginger

The eggs were mild salty, though the radish added a nice crunch to the dish. And if you got here you should try this dish and steamed chicken.

As far as the soupy noodle, another signature dish of Taiwanese is the classic niu rou mian, or beef noodle. There's no chinese influence on this dish is very Taiwanese, the beef is tender and the soup is well-performed. The noodle also absorb the essence of soup flavor.

Chinese fried rice I was totally surprised by its tasted delicious.

 Mixed of mushrooms soup

We walked till the end of the street for the hilltop view before slowly exploring the dozens of tiny shops. As usual the shop that got our attention just before the elementary school is the most famous and where the glutinous yam balls in Taiwan was born.

One of the most famous dessert is the yam balls. They actually have yam balls of different flavors like taro, sweet potato, green tea and so on but I liked the sweet potato balls ones best for me.

I refused my husband not to buy a 4 bowls of this yam balls since i'm not a big fan of yam balls. But after we try and eat this tiny little ones. We attempt for second batch and it's too late for us so many people waiting outside the counter. And you should have to go back on line again and there's a couple of Japanese customers, and this yam store and factory is famous also in Japan. Yam it can be serve in cold or hot and different type of flavor it can be mixed with sweetened beans and condensed milk.

Jiufen 九份 台灣

Jiufen near Taipei, a village located on the northeast coast of Taiwan. Jioufen is a mountain town, the roads that lead there are mostly steep, curving, narrow lane.  It was a gold mining town that reached its peak under the time of Japanese rule in Taiwan during Japanese colonization. We are planning to re- visit Jiufen by next week, if the weather is good. Jiufen is a quaint town with lots of specialty foods set in a beautiful mountain overlooking the ocean.

Also Jiufen is side-by-side shops, snacks, souvenirs, tea shops, restaurants and is a food paradise. Then we found this Chinese restaurant (Ximung Ren Shen 戲夢人生)  its easy to see when you just enter from the narrow crowded street. And we take a break and wander around to look the old paintings "City of Sadness."or you can sit on the back terace over looking mountains & ocean scenery.  With just a couple of snacks & drinks on your table. But they offer only a full chinese meal. No cakes, cookies or sandwich to enjoy the tea time. It is strange for us to order a fried egg with radish omelette and steamed chicken with beverage. Since we want to eat the steamed chicken we don't care at all if its fit for afternoon tea.

*Foods*

Steamed chicken

Fried egg omellete with dried chinese radish

Cranberry juice

Guatemala coffee

Japanese Restaurant in Jiufen

It was sunday before mid-day, while we are  looking for parking space we spotted this little Japanese Restaurant near the parking lot. This restaurant is own and run by Japanese and his Taiwanese wife. We realized  before we will start to hiked to Jiufen old street we have to eat our lunch. When we open the door there is 4 tiny tables occupied by 2 couple of customer. The Japanese great us "Welcome" in Japanese. The space of the restaurant is too small and narrow but the foods it was great. We order Takoyaki 100NT$, katsudon, katsucurry, sakuyaki, grilled fish. were not disappointed. I will recommend this restaurant if you are looking for Japanese resto in Jiufen. The flavored of their foods it was nice. If I will compare in other Japanese restaurants has to offered as the same menu.

Takoyaki

Katsudon

Sakuyaki

Katsucurry

Grilled fish