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Taipei, Taiwan
6 dishes to eat in Taipei, what is in them, and where they belong.
Braised shank in a soy and spice broth — the dish the city holds an annual competition for.
Soup dumplings, refined here to a standard that now travels back the other way.
Braised pork belly, pickled mustard, peanut powder and coriander in a steamed bun.
Fermented and deep-fried, served with pickled cabbage. The smell is the point.
Invented in Taiwan in the 1980s; the tapioca here is a different product from the exported version.
The standard gift box, and the better bakeries use whole winter melon-free filling.