Tiny n Tall

So we flew over to Shanghai for our month long stint in China. We craved some healthy fare and shamefully went right to the korean BBQ down the road from our hotel.

On our last night we thought an ode to Taiwan’s culinary amazingness was appropriate. We armed ourselves with Coco’s pearl teas and made the hike across town to another night food market. 

Once again it was packed with local food devotees and their proteges (us) and hundreds of stalls. 

We passed on Taiwanese fave stinky tofu which literally smells like vomit, old socks and bread, and said a swift yes to 10 different dumplings. There was pork, prawn, fish, vegetable, pork and prawn, prawn and pork (you get the drift) and it was all delish. 

Next we stood in a huge queue to sample this particular market’s crowning glory - deep fried tofu cakes. You can have them with or without egg yolk in the middle, but we voted with and that meant the dense and savory cake was kissed by yolky goodness as they melt in your mouth. mmm…

The last pic shows Moachi balls - glutinous rice balls rolled in a heady mix of cinnamon, peanut and sesame. And while the pic only shows two Moachi, it fails to show our repeat visit because these little delights were addictive.

We made the trip out to some hill in the middle of nowhere and jumped on a moto with a random guy to get up to the top (note this is me, natalie and a small cambodian guy on a 50cc moto). Up the top of the hill the view was amazing, south/SW Cambodia is quite flat so you could see forever and we slowly watched the monsoon clouds make their way towards us.

We also watched 2 billion bats (apparently) make their way out of this hill from a cave and travel halfway across Cambodia to eat insects. All of this happened while we ate 20cent noodles a lady prepared from her wheelbarrow.

Food! Our fab tuk-tuk driver Heng bought us this little treat while we were temple hopping. 

It’s small, sweet banana wrapped in sticky rice and roasted over coals. He then took us to buy freshly made palm sugar which can be use for cooking - or just eating if you ask us. 

We then picked up some freshly squeezed sugar cane juice swimming in ice to ward off the heat