臺灣美食英文介紹
臺灣十大美食小吃是成千上萬種臺灣傳統小吃中最能體現臺灣飲食特點的十種小吃。包括大腸包小腸、鼎邊銼、蚵仔煎、阿宗面線、甜不辣、棺材板、彰化肉、薑母鴨、忠孝東路黃牛肉麪館、生炒花枝。
Mochi
麻糬
Average price: 20 yuan
均價：20元
Places: All over Taiwan
美食地：全臺灣
A fascinating sunset on the docks and tasty mochi — the memory is still fresh for Che Yujia, 23, a human resources management major at Renmin University of China. In 2012, she went to Taiwan to attend a summer school. One day, on the way back to her hotel after watching the sunset in New Taipei City with her friends, Che tried the snack for the first time. “We ordered two kinds of mochi. One was cold and without any soup. It was a soft mochi wrapped in peanut powder and had a refreshing taste,” Che says. “The other was a hot mochi drenched in a lightly sweetened red bean soup. It was a very satisfying meal.”
今年23歲的陳玉佳(音譯)是中國人民大學人力資源管理專業的一名學生，她曾在2012年去臺灣參加暑期學校，而她至今還清晰地記得碼頭上醉人的落日以及美味的麻糬。當時，她和朋友一起去新臺北市看落日，在返回酒店的路上她第一次吃到麻糬。她回憶道，“我們要了兩種麻糬。一種是涼的，而且沒有湯。軟軟的麻糬包裹在花生粉裏十分爽口。而另一種則是浸在紅豆湯中的熱麻糬，紅豆湯微甜，吃下去讓人很滿足。”
Taiwanese meatballs
肉圓
Average price: 6 yuan
均價：6元
Places: Central Taiwan
美食地：臺灣中部
When it comes to Taiwanese meatballs, Tsai Zhang-yu (蔡宗餘)can’t hide his pride and excitement, because it’s what the 19-year-old’s hometown, Changhua, is best known for. The dish is a fried ball of minced pork wrapped inside a translucent, glutinous shell made of rice and sweet potato flour. Inside the meatball is a mixture of bamboo shoots and mushrooms, and the whole snack is served with a sweet chili sauce. “When it’s cut into pieces, the meat juices flow out and mix with the sweet chili sauce. It tastes great,” Tsai says.
說起肉圓，蔡宗餘難掩自豪與激動之情，這位19歲男孩的家鄉——彰化正是因爲這種美食而著名。肉圓是由糯米、甘薯粉製成半透明的黏糯外皮，將豬肉餡包裹成球后煎炸而成。肉餡中還會放入筍尖與蘑菇，並在外面淋上甜辣醬。蔡宗餘說，“切開肉圓時，裏面的湯汁就會流出來，和外面的甜辣醬混在一起。實在是太好吃了。”
Sausage wrapped in glutinous rice
大腸包小腸
Average price: 10 yuan
均價：10元
Places: Taipei and Taichung
美食地：臺北和臺中
When Zhao Yanjun, 22, a chemistry major at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, looks back to her exchange days at Tunghai University in Taiwan, the first thing she remembers is sausage wrapped in glutinous rice. Just as the name suggests, it’s a carb-loaded rice mixture wrapped around a baked sausage. “The baked sausage looks oily, but doesn’t taste greasy, and the rice is soft with a crispy skin,” Zhao says. Among the different flavors, which include spicy, black pepper and wasabi, Zhao recommends the wasabi flavor. “It’s a little strange at first, but it’s very refreshing.”
北京科技大學化學專業22歲的趙豔君(音譯)每每想起她在臺灣東海大學交換的日子，首先在腦海中浮現出的都是大腸包小腸。正如其名，大腸包小腸是由混着蟹肉的米腸將烤好的臺灣香腸包裹而成。趙豔君說，“裏面的烤腸看似油光閃閃但絲毫不膩，而外面的米腸則內軟外脆。”大腸包小腸有香辣、黑胡椒、芥末等各種口味，而趙豔君則特別推薦芥末味，她說“雖然入口有點怪異，但是十分爽口。”
Coffin burger
棺材板
Average price: 13 yuan
均價：13元
Places: Tainan city
美食地：臺南市
The coffin burger is Chang Tien-chien’s (張天見) favorite snack. The 19-year-old boy grew up in Kaohsiung and is a chemical engineering major at Tsinghua University now. Just like its unusual name, it is an innovative and unique dish. A loaf of thick, deep-fried bread is cut open at the top like a box. Then it is filled with a stew of pork, shrimp and intestines. The toppings include chopped potatoes, carrots and corn. “The meat is quite greasy, but in combination with the fried, dry bread it makes for a refreshing meal,” Chang says.
棺材板是在高雄長大的張天見最喜歡的小吃。這個19歲的男生現在就讀於清華大學化學工程專業。棺材板，食如其名，是一道充滿奇思、與衆不同的美食。厚麪包塊煎炸後，將頂上切開，形成盒狀。然後，填以燉豬肉，蝦肉和香腸，上層蓋以炸薯條，胡蘿蔔丁與玉米。張天見說：“雖然其中填充的肉很膩，但是和炸過的乾麪包搭配在一起吃，頓時令你舌尖一亮。”
