Dishes

garlic rice

蒜頭飯

Also called: 蒜酥飯

The breakfast side at Tainan milkfish shops: rice dressed with garlic fried in lard.

Photo: Elmer B. Domingo, CC BY-SA 3.0

What it is

Plain rice flavoured with minced garlic fried in lard, so the garlic aroma clings to the grains.

Minced garlic is fried in lard until fragrant, then spooned over or mixed into the rice.

Order a bowl in the morning with milkfish soup or milkfish belly.

At A Xing Shi Mu Yu, a Tainan milkfish shop, Michelin calls the garlic rice a favourite morning order.

Breakfast at this milkfish specialist means fish-head soup, pan-fried milkfish belly and lard-and-garlic rice.

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