Name: Hot Tainan EP1.Visit Northern District
Uploaded: 2018-06-08T05:49:52.000Z
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Today I am in the Northern District of Tainan.

This area was one of the earliest districts to develop.

Many of the streets, architectures, and buildings here

are still left the way they were during Japanese colonization.

Tainan train station is also in this district just right behind me.

Also, another thing you can't miss about this district is the temples.

The temples are where you can truly feel and sense

the spirit and importance of religion to the local people.

and show you the Northern District of Tainan.

And you can experience what life is like in old Tainan City.

Yamuliao traditional market has opened since Japanese colonization.

People come here to buy fruit, vegetables, and other fresh produce.

But what's special is that a lot of Taiwanese traditional snacks

Now we are heading to a traditional Taiwanese snack shop!

This shop has existed for more than 60 years.

And the most famous product is the fried food.

Especially their fried squid and fried vegetables,

Some people even have it with soup or noodles.

the most popular order or the most special dish?

Fried shrimp, because the whole shrimp is inside.

This is fried carrots, and these are meatballs but fried.

but it's still a Taiwanese traditional snack.

I just ordered one of each of these food.

I came on an empty stomach so I'm ready to eat.

As the boss just told me, the whole shrimp is fried inside here.

Very crispy. And you feel full of the shrimp.

This soup I ordered is shrimp and fish meatball soup.

It's actually fish or shrimp and they mix it with starch.

Now I'm going to try their shrimp meatball

since they're most famous for their shrimp.

The special thing is they also added some celery inside.

You'll feel the crunchiness from the celery

as well as the softness of the shrimp and the meatball.

He just told me that this was made by his grandpa,

so his grandpa owns the recipe from over 60 years ago.

Let's see if it's different from the fried carrot today.

It's really interesting because you can still feel the carrots.

Inside there are salty vegetables but outside it's really soft.

As the day gets later, there are more and more people swarming by

what I really like to eat for lunch and dinner.

and they're made by special juice steamed with pork.

They're making moon shaped pork buns for winter solstice.

There's a belief that if you eat these moon shaped steam buns,

you're gaining a year old and about to begin a new year.

This temple right behind me is the Guan Yin Shinji Temple.

What's so special about this temple is that

it actually consists of two different religions.

On my right hand side, this is the Buddhist part of the temple

which worships the Goddess of Mercy, or Guanyin.

On my left hand side, this is the Daoism part and

they worship Baoshen Emperor, who is the protector of life.

It's a pity that it's under renovation right now.

These two religions, they blend in so perfectly in this one temple.

you won't even notice that they're two different religions.

Like I mentioned earlier, Baoshen Emperor is the god

This temple still keeps this traditional praying method.

Where you can tell the god what your sickness or illness

and in return he is going to give you prescription

that tells you how to eat and how to heal.

Today I invited my friend Jacqueline here

In the past, because of the scarcity of medicine,

a lot of people when they don't feel well,

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