Taipei’s kings of fish pasteThirty shops offering various seafood paste products across Taiwan were honored in a national competition last monthBy Han Cheung / Staff reporterChiu Chia-hao (邱家豪) once desperately chased down a butcher truck to obtain caul fat to recreate his late grandma’s signature dragon-phoenix leg (龍鳳腿), a fish paste snack made to resemble chicken wings. Shih Mo-chou has run the Xie Cheng fish ball brand for 52 years. Photo: Han Cheung, Taipei TimesChiu’s Dragon-Phoenix Leg (邱記龍鳳腿), Cheng’s Da Fong Fish Ball (大豐魚丸) and Shih’s Xie Cheng Fish Ball (協成魚丸) were among 30 nationwide winners in the government-sponsored Fish Paste King competition (魚漿王爭霸戰), the results of which were announced late last month. Her late husband was having difficulty finding work, so a fish vendor at Taipei’s Dalong Market (大龍市場) suggested that they start a fish ball operation, which was lucrative at that time. At one point Shih had created 48 different offerings (not all of them included fish paste).

Source: Taipei Times January 06, 2021 15:56 UTC