Dishes
Pan-fried rice cake
米粿
Also called: 煎粿 · 煎米粿
Slices of steamed rice cake fried golden and served with pork sauce, a runny egg and chilli sauce.
What it is
A savoury cake of rice milk and sweet potato starch, steamed, sliced and pan-fried until golden. It comes with bamboo-shoot pork sauce and often an over-easy egg.
How it is made
At A Wen in Tainan, a batter of rice milk and three kinds of sweet potato starch is steamed into a cake, then sliced and fried.
How to eat it
Snack food. Get the house version with bamboo-shoot pork sauce and a fried egg, and try the house-made chilli sauce.
In Tainan
A Wen opened in 2016 on a street of century-old shops and quickly built a following for its scratch-made cake.
Where to eat it in Tainan
阿文米粿A Wen Rice Cake
Pan-fried slices of house-made steamed rice cake. Have it with a runny fried egg and the shop's chilli sauce.
大廟口阿秀煎粿仔A-Hsiu Pan-fried Rice Cake (Guanmiao)
A morning stall by Guanmiao's Shanxi Temple that pan-fries savoury rice cakes until crisp outside and soft inside. It is often gone well before noon.
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