Desserts & ice · Lingya
Cheng Pai Sugar Rice Cake
正牌白糖粿
Photo: Sean Chiu, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo of the area around this shop.
Two brothers keep their mother's recipe going, frying sticks of glutinous rice dough to order and coating them in sugar as an afternoon snack.
What to order
白糖粿
Fried sugar rice cake
Glutinous rice dough shaped and fried by hand under the arcade, crisp outside and soft inside, then rolled in sugar with sesame or peanut.
About this dish →番薯椪
Sweet potato puff
A large fried ball, crisp and chewy outside, with a very hot, grainy sweet potato filling.
About this dish →Sights nearby
Nearby places to eat
菜粽李Caizong Li
This shop opens early and makes bamboo-leaf peanut rice dumplings fresh each day. Eat one plain first, then with sauce and peanut powder, and have miso soup alongside.
泰元Thai Yuan
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南豐魯肉飯Nan Feng Braised Pork Rice
Open from morning to near midnight, this 60-plus-year-old rice shop sits by the Ziqiang night market area. Order the braised pork rice with a lion's-head meatball and braised cabbage.