Chicken Village

Fascinated by the Beggar's Chicken in the menu book, we decided to have  our dinner here. Beggar's chicken is absolutely a time consuming dish. Thus when this dish is sold out, the customers would have to wait for a long time to have this dish on their plate. So, we somehow arrived at the right time, and this chicken came only a few minutes after we ordered. 

Beggar's Chicken

I was quite amazed that the outer layer of clay to cover the chicken is beautifully carved even though it's going to be smashed into pieces. That's right. After this dish arrived at our table, the servant brought a hammer along, breaking the outer clay layer, revealing a fragrant chicken meat which had been cooked thoroughly-- probably overnight. The taste of the chicken meat is just amazing, It was so soft that I can just swallow it without biting. The flavor was really nice too.

Fried bean sprouts

Hot and sour soup

Taiwan Dian Xin

Taiwan Dian Xin is a small cafe-like restaurant in Pluit Village. It offers Taiwan night street snacks, such as crispy chicken, popcorn chicken, crispy corn, fried sweet potato, fried mushrooms, bubble tea and others.. 

 Fried Sweet Potato Rp 16.000/ US$ 1.8

What makes Taiwan Dian Xin different from any other is that its flour is imported from Taiwan, and it has a really nice smell. It feels like it's made from natural herbs. The best dish I tried here is Popcorn Chicken, but I didn't take a picture last time. It's really nice-- so flavourful and the chicken inside is like so juicy..

The sweet potato is another striking dish. I had ever tried this in another place, but it doesn't taste as good as this. The sweet potato here is really really sweet, and they use plum powder which just combines nicely with the crispy sweet potato.

Crispy Chicken is one of the most famous snack in Taiwan itself. The one here is crispy, but because it has too much flour, not all of it fried to perfection. But I would say it really taste delicious, the chicken is quite thick.

I did not order any drinks though, but they gave free sample drink, and when I taste it it was really good, refreshing, and it just smells good. It was some sort of flavoured tea the drink that I tasted last time.