Milkfish & congee · Yancheng
Dagouding Milkfish Rice Noodle Soup
大溝頂虱目魚米粉湯
Photo: bryan... from Taipei, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0Representative photo of Milkfish rice-noodle soup, not taken at this shop.
Inside the Dagouding covered market, this roughly 60-year-old stall opens early in the morning. The order is milkfish belly-paste soup with thick rice noodles.
What to order
Photo: 迷惘的人生, CC BY-SA 2.0虱目魚肚漿米粉湯
Milkfish and fish-paste rice-noodle soup
Thick strips of milkfish with a light coating of paste in a clear, sweet broth, with chewy coarse rice noodles. You can have it with rice instead of noodles.
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Photo: Ralff Nestor Nacor, CC BY-SA 4.0炸牛蒡
Fried burdock fish cake
Fish paste mixed with burdock and deep-fried. Springy, with the burdock flavour coming through as you chew.
About this dish →On the itinerary: Yancheng Old Town
Sights nearby
高雄市立歷史博物館Kaohsiung Museum of History
The 1939 city hall by the Love River, now the city's history museum.
駁二藝術特區Pier-2 Art Center
Harbour warehouses on the Yancheng waterfront turned into galleries, shops and event spaces.
愛河Love River
The river through central Kaohsiung, with riverside parks, boat rides and the cathedral near its banks.
Nearby places to eat
阿綿麻糬A-Mian Mochi
Soft mochi, shaped by hand to order at a small Dagouding stand. Pick a fruit filling such as strawberry or mango, or stick with peanut.
鄭家切仔麵Cheng's Noodles
An old Yancheng noodle shop, now run by the third generation, serving noodles or rice noodles in a rich pork-and-chicken broth with plates of sliced pork offal on the side.
阿婆彈珠汽水綜合茶Grandma's Marble Soda Mixed Tea
This 50-plus-year-old drinks stand near Pier-2 sells one thing: mixed tea of winter melon tea, kumquat-plum tea and fizzy marble soda. Just order a cup.