One Day in Tainan: A Self-Guided Food Tour - Eater

"This eatery is known as Mi Gao (米糕), which isn’t so much its name as what happens to be the first of three items listed on its little hand-painted sign. Mi gao is a glutinous rice cake, and the version here is hailed by aficionados of guzao wei (“ancient flavors”), topped with tiny cubes of braised pork belly and a generous sprinkling of pork floss (pork that’s been simmered until it breaks into strands, then thoroughly dried in a wok). The di gua ye tang, or sweet potato-leaf soup, is historically a peasant dish. Today, the dark greens — similar to broccoli rabe — give a snappy bitterness to the mild pork bone broth, which has none of the garlic and shallots used so ubiquitously and aggressively in Taiwanese cooking. Open: 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., 5 to 8 p.m.; closed Sundays. Price: from $30 TWD ($1 USD) Directions: Retrace your steps to Pigs’ Trotters and Rice (No. 1), walk south to Fuqian Road, then west half a mile to stop 4." - Steven Crook