Pig's blood cake

Taiwan: Pig’s blood cake

Ti-hoeh-koe, Pig’s blood cake, is made of pork blood and sticky rice. Not only being one of common food materials in the Taiwanese hot pot, but the most popular way is - steamed for a snack.

Taking it out of wooded case, street vendors would cover Pig’s blood cake with a layer of peanut powder and spread some cilantro. The aroma of the chewy rice cake makes everyone’s mouth water. Then, customers can dip it in different chili sauce.

Although people can easily find Pig’s blood cake stalls in Taiwan, the must-go one is in the Gongguan Market, Taipei. Its name is Shao-li Pig’s blood cake. You would not miss it, because there has been a long queue of buyers waiting in front of the stall.

A regular customer, Carol Chang gives visitors a warning: “You’d better go there before six o’clock, or they would be completely sold out after then.”

Shao-li Pig’s blood cake
Address:
Near Tong nan ya cinema, Gongguan Night Market stretches around 136th Lane of Roosevelt Street Section Four, Tingzhou Road Section Three, and Gongguan Station
Price:
Big one- NT.25; Small one- NT.20