BEST Taiwan STREET FOOD & NIGHT MARKET in Kaohsiung!

This is my first time in Kaohsiung. I have no idea what to eat I have no idea where to go But I know I wanted to try some good street food and when I asked my local friends on where I should go This is the place they pointed me to. The name of the shop means duck meat So of course that's what they serve here every part of the duck This shop's been around for over 65 years and I didn't know this but there are a lot of shops around Taiwan All they serve is duck meat and here they're one of the best. I mean just look at it I came here at 730 this place closes at 8 and it's still packed and what's really popular here is the duck over rice and just Looking at it. I see a lot of duck meats. I see fatty pork It kind of looks like the braised pork over rice except for it has duck in here Also, I got a plate which is just a cut up plate of duck meat I got a soup with a bunch of random innards in there. I'm telling you guys I am so excited because I love duck and just take a look at this little pieces of melty pork belly Slices of pretty lean duck meats and the fats and grease from the duck and the bacon is already sticking to the rice Look at look at the bottom of this rice. That's all flavor right there. Let me just take a spoonful I'm not even bothering with my chopsticks some pork rice duck meat Welcome to Kaohsiung to me if you don't like melty fat if you don't like a lot of flavor You're not gonna like this and we can really never be friends the rice. Look at this. It's just Soaked in this fat and this is a combo fat right here pork fat and duck fat The meat is lean is nice and sure. I feel like that's why they add the bacon in here The bacon is lending the duck some fat. It's keeping it warm. This is so fatty I need to add a little bit of spice onto this to kind of balance it out This rice is ridiculous. It does taste like the braised pork over rice But that just tastes a lot heavier It tastes a lot fattier because all it is is just bacon and melty pork fat here got the melty pork fat You get that duck fat to give it a little more flavor You got the nice chew of the meat itself and I see that they don't really put any fatty meat in here It's all pretty lean duck. That's really just a plate companion to the bacon. I'm trying to piece on this plate This plate I feel like it's really just about the natural flavor of the duck because even though this is not seasoned as you chew It the fat releases into your mouth. Look at all that nice duck fat just stored inside Every morsel of this meat, but they do give you a dipping sauce and give you a little ginger So let's take the ginger take some meat take it for a little swim in the dipping sauce That's all about the duck the sauce is nice a little sweet little fermented the ginger gets rid of any of the gameyness of the Duck. I need another bite here This place the duck is the star this might be the most simple stretch down unadulterated most Natural plate of duck I've ever eaten. I feel like that's what this place does. It just highlights the duck Oh, actually, yeah, sorry. My soup is getting cold. This is duck innards soup. I think there's liver and intestine gizzards. Oh I Think I'm sure on some of the stomach lining not unpleasant That's the reason they have all the ginger in here. The ginger really takes away the gaminess of the duck Well, that's nice. I love goodness again. The soup is not overly salty It's not seasoned much at all but oh my goodness is this nice you like your duck roasted with tons of seasoning on the skin where you like Peking duck or If you like your duck sitting in a bed of sauce, this is definitely not the place for you But if you just want some good quality meats made into dishes that doesn't cover up at all It's natural delicious fatty flavor. This is where you need to be. I'm gonna go back to my rice a little bit I mean, this is so good. I don't think I can ever look at Dono or Daffy the same way again Sorry, I'm gonna take a spoonful of duck pork a little chili I'm just gonna add some innards on to that liver little stomach. Oh That liver is nice, this is definitely my favorite I mean anything with bacon just gets highlighted right? This is so good I'm getting a second bowl of this. Although the night is still young. This is only my first stop So I'm gonna knock this down now. I'm gonna knock down another one I'm gonna finish my big bowl of duck innards soup and we're gonna go get more food Supposed to be where the locals go Saturday night and this night market is packed. There are a ton of food stalls here, and I'm still starving So whatever looks good. I'm just gonna start eating First food item of the night I was walking by I thought this was a corndog But it's just a massive chicken wing and I'm thinking did this chickens work out or something? How come his biceps is so huge But actually the chicken wasn't working out it just has a lot of rice stuffed in here Look at this. It looks like a corndog or chicken on steroids or something And I don't even know how to even begin eating this I Guess I'm gonna just take a bite. This is this is a cumin flavor massive chicken bicep a Lot of rice inside the chicken meat itself is not that much actually I don't really think there's any chicken meat in here. I think it's mainly just chicken skin the rest of it It's just rice not just rice. It's coconut rice really interesting flavor. Very coconutty very cumin-y Surprisingly not very chickeny, I mean there's chicken in here, but it's really about the rice. There's some red stuff inside the rice I think it's sausages If you manage to eat one of these you can you can go home because you're gonna be stuffed You're gonna be as stuffed as this chicken wing not my favorite thing of the night the chicken and the rice is really dry I do like the spices on the outside very cumin-y spicy Wow that chicken I Really need some moisture after eating that this is a really popular Taiwanese night market drink is called frogs laying eggs Yep, some frogs eggs in here frog eggs Might really taste like tapioca balls But and the difference between these pearls and the ones you'll find in bubble milk tea is that these pearls are made with brown sugar And sweet potato starch. It's not made with tapioca and that gives it a In general I feel like it is a little softer a little more mushy definitely refreshing. Just like you know regular frog eggs Don't ask me how I know that This look interesting pepper snails Do I love snails not really, but I don't know sometimes you see something covered in pepper He's got to eat it and just oh my goodness. Oh there. It is there it goes that is steaming hot look at this Wow smells really peppery That's not bad, I don't really taste the pepper though, and it's kind of fishy This really caught my eye. It looked like really colorful marbles But this is actually it's like a fruit jello ball, and there's different types of fruit inside see some watermelon pineapple Dragon fruit this is beautiful right yeah, the world definitely looks prettier through one of these hope they taste as good as they look That's pretty good. That's watermelon. I'm gonna be less of a barbarian use my little plastic fork It's really interesting the jello is not too starchy. It's actually pretty watery, and it's kind of refreshing It breaks apart in your mouth. It's got a nice consistency to it. Not chewy once you chew It just kind of scatters, but really juicy and nice You guys see this yes, did you guys see how this was done? She basically transformed shrimp a little octopus and like and like some crab into a fossil This is now an edible like seafood fossil. It's the craziest thing you can still see the the octopus You can see the shrimp. You can see the little crab I don't know how this will taste but at least it's interesting as heck It tastes like a cracker like a seafood cracker, and I want to get a piece of the octopus, so I'm just gonna like Break that off a little bit. All right. We're making our way in It's like a work of art. I'm kind of destroying it. I feel a little bad so the octopus Breaks apart. Just like just like the rest of this cracker. I Taste like seafood flavor. I don't necessarily taste the octopus anymore at the very least the texture is totally gone. It's all crispy So here's a piece of the octopus head This tastes like a really nice seafood cracker, and I want to get a piece of the crab right here The crab and the octopus they kind of taste similar It just tastes a little seafoody like a really fresh seafood cracker, which basically that's what this is But what I really like about this is you get the sheet right you see all the seafood imprints I just think this is really interesting actually you know what I might do I'm gonna get another one of these and hang it on my wall and the next time somebody comes over and ask me what it Is I'll tell them it's a prehistoric fossil which this kind of looks like that and then I'm just gonna break off a piece and eat it Honey I Like takoyaki, I've never seen a takoyaki the size of a snowball before and it's got some crazy stuff in there shrimp You got some squid mushrooms tomatoes I think a piece of squash also a piece of broccoli somehow made its way in there And I'm not really into broccoli, but I really want to have a softball sized takoyaki That's steaming. Oh, there's also a corn in here That's pretty good takoyaki. It's a bit crunchy on the outside, but it's got really good flavor. Oh, it's hard shrimp Only thing I'm not big into is this broccoli. I'm gonna put aside. Also what I like doing is just pretend I'm eating a big squid tasting softball Roasted pig knuckles never seen this at a night market before It's good meaty gelatinous, I just wish the skin was a little more crispy It's good though. I don't know what sauce they put on this in the beginning. It's a little sweet They serve it to you with some raw onions You 100% need the onions the onion helps cut down on that fat because this is all fat I don't even know if I can eat a small box of knuckles. It just might be a little too much fat for me I had duck today. I had a lot of meat today. This is so hard to get down that pig knuckle was so fatty I needed to grab a drink. This is a really popular Taiwanese night market drink. This is papaya milk I need something. I feel like my whole head is turning into just like a big round gelatinous ball. Oh That's really helpful I kind of wish I got a drink that's a little more refreshing because this does have milk in there But at this point I just needed something And this is delicious This is really interesting it's a it's a Peking duck wrap. So you got the white bun on the outside This is like the Chinese white bun You got a little fried dough crisp some vegetables onions cucumbers Shredded duck and what I'm thinking is sweet flour sauce on the inside. I Can't taste the duck Where is the duck? Yeah, the duck is missing. Yeah I'm gonna look for the duck. I'll be right back That wasn't a duck. I Can taste the fried dough and taste the cucumbers. I'm not tasting the duck. I swear I saw her put duck in here This is really weird This should call this a Chinese veggie bun wrap with a with a crispy dough inside and a little bit of duck Instead of you know a duck wrap This guy's making mochi That's really good. Like a couple spoons. You made a mochi. I Couldn't do this with like a mold or It's pretty it's all jiggly and good at dancing and stuff looking to move. I don't know about you That's hot that looks hot to me it's wow it is gentle It's like the blob except for it's a matcha blob. It's really no good way to do this. Sorry Nice shuttle matcha flavor little gooey a little sticky It's not as chewy as I thought it would be but it's not bad for 30 cents. Alright guys, I think that's it I'm gonna call mercy for tonight. Oh, thank you. Thank you This was there's a lot of fun I think that my favorite things to eat tonight was the duck obviously and surprisingly I really loved that giant sized takoyaki The fossil record was good and definitely every single drink I've had which has been a lot And I definitely see the differences between night markets here in southern Taiwan and the ones in Taipei So really glad I came here fantastic food day now I gotta go back to the hotel and rest up because tomorrow tomorrow is really exciting I don't want to give it away too much, but there's some food involved as always All the places I went to is listed in my description box below I don't think I have the individual stall numbers where I got all the food But guys just do what I did show up at the night market and eat whatever looks good. Alright, I gotta go Thank you so much for watching until we eat again. I'll see you later