Why am I talking about Italian food and there is "sweet rice ball shop" in the title?
BTW, that is not the translation of the shop's name.
Anyways, I've been eating Italian food almost every day in Taipei from people wanting to go out with us or just roaming around.
Things I've learned:
1. Their cream sauce is weird. (probably due to lack of dairy in Taiwan)
2. Get their tomato sauce based pasta.
3. They put seafood in EVERYTHING!
4. I really should start talking about sweet rice balls.
雙連圓仔湯 (Sweet rice ball shop) , not the literal translation [English Friendly]
Open since 1951.
www.sweeetriceball.tw
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Once again, I decided to take a different back alley home and I saw some man making deep fried rice balls. My god I've been eating Italian food! I should have some Taiwanese dessert!
Dude making the rice balls.
For 100 NT, you can get super delicious, not too sweet rice balls and some form of soup (I'll explain later).
What are rice balls?
Here is one:
They are these chewy dough-like ball made out of rice flour. What you see on top is peanut powder with sugar and sesame seeds. Somehow I can not describe how good this Taiwanese dessert is. I can definitely not find anything like it in America.
How do you eat it?
You take your chopstick and cut it into tiny bite size pieces and then rub the peanuts all over the pieces.
Throw it in your mouth and you'll see how good it is.
Now onto the soup.
Typically a when someone thinks of soup, they think of french onion soup, clam chowder, vegetable soup etc.
Here's a Taiwanese soup:
WTF is that? Peanuts in the soup, beans, more rice balls?
In Taiwan, you also have sweet dessert soups like red bean soup, green bean soup, peanut soup. Beans may sound nasty, but in Asia, they know how to make beans right. These soups extract the sweetness from these beans and is probably one of the best desserts in the world. You can have it hot or cold.
They also sell noodles and other stuff, but I would recommend getting rice balls.
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