I first tasted Suncake (Tai yang bing) in Howick CNY festival many years ago, in the early Noughties. it's not quite the pong pia in Msia.
Only recently in our trip, I found out Suncake is the specialty of Taichung. Jake did research and found that the best one is found on "zi you lu" in Taichung. As the name is not trademarked every shop on zi you lu is seling the suncake and everybody claims they are the best and they had been around for at least 30years etc.
We asked our friendly hotel receptionist and she told us there are kinda all the same. but she recommended us to go to 9 Suns bakery. The girl in 9 Suns were very friendly and let us taste as much as we liked. We liked the original (Maltose filling) and its shops specialty flavour the "milk custard" and these black coloured bamboo charcoal thing
Only recently in our trip, I found out Suncake is the specialty of Taichung. Jake did research and found that the best one is found on "zi you lu" in Taichung. As the name is not trademarked every shop on zi you lu is seling the suncake and everybody claims they are the best and they had been around for at least 30years etc.
We asked our friendly hotel receptionist and she told us there are kinda all the same. but she recommended us to go to 9 Suns bakery. The girl in 9 Suns were very friendly and let us taste as much as we liked. We liked the original (Maltose filling) and its shops specialty flavour the "milk custard" and these black coloured bamboo charcoal thing
Next we go to another 'old brand shop' 老字号called Wei Qing Hai. Master Wei apparently had improvised the method of the pastry making.
The various mould that Master Wei had used has been framed as valued artifacts in his shop.
They also had various flavours to taste from and we bought some of the Specialty flavours from this shop.
That wraps up our Taichung trip. Next stop, Tainan.
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