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FYI SOUTH Magazine, March 2003. VOL.3 ISSUE 3

Meinung Hakka Foods 61, ChengShiue Rd., Tainan City (06) 336-3636 Hours: 11am-2pm; 5pm-9pm (open all year round)

        This is a good place to try Hakka cuisine, which is famous for its sour, greasy, and salty flavors. With its brick stove, antique furniture, and painted umbrellas, the restaurant presents more than 60 authentic Hakka dishes. Among them, the peanut tofu (NT$80) is handmade from fresh peanut juice, potato powder, sugar candy, and salt. After being decocted, the peanut tofu tastes somewhat like Taiwanese ¡§mua chi.¡¨ The osmanthus plum soup (NT$60) contains dried plums, osmanthus, preserved prunes, hawthorn, and licorice, and is stewed for two hours. It not only quenches your thirst, but also makes other dishes seem less greasy. -- By Ariel Li