Last time you saw us we were in South Korea but we took a short flight a few days ago to get to Taiwan.

We're at the Raohe street food market and we're going to get stuck into some street food because apparently this is what Taiwan does best.

All right let's go!

So we joined our first queue literally within a minute of being in the market.

The first thing we're going to try is a pork pepper.

Smells and feels so good.

They basically put it in like a round circle oven and they stick it to the side, leave it there for a few minutes and then the guy will like scrape them off.

They're literally getting these things out by the dozen.

There's so many of them.

It does smell really peppery to be fair.

So it's got that nice doughy crust and you can see inside it's stuffed with meat actually.

But it's so hot I can't even like get to the meat.

Okay let's try and get a bit of this meat.

That meat is really tender but it's not overly peppery.

I'm pleasantly surprised.

Sometimes when you queue up and you wait for a long time, although that was a really quick moving queue, you're a little bit disappointed at the end.

But I'm very happy with this first stop.

Next up we've got this pineapple bread.

It has nothing to do with pineapples besides it looks like it.

Watching them make it or just making me salivate.

They have this delicious dough.

They brush it with butter, chuck it in the oven till it's golden brown, pull it back out again, let it rest and I think they heat it back up again before they give it to you.

We ordered butter.

You could have it with ice cream or cheese or other things.

We just thought butter was enough and they just put literally a big slice of butter in the middle.

So good.

Pretty like crisp on the outside, really doughy bread.

Butter's like melted a bit so warm.

Nothing like crazy or out there or just a really nice bread.

Delicious melted butter.

I said to Matt, is it too early for dessert?

He said no.

So we're having dessert already.

So next up is this amazing roll.

It looks so good and it's stuffed with ice cream.

We've got three different flavours.

We've got sour plum, pineapple and taro.

I'm not quite sure what taro is.

I've just tried to google it but I can't get a signal so I'm a bit of a mystery.

It's then wrapped in like this really thin sort of like a crepe and it also looks a bit like the popiah that we had in Malaysia.

It's then got peanut on top so it's like a peanut brittle that she sort of sands down, puts the peanut on and then cilantro as well.

It looks so good.

That pineapple ice cream is so good.

It's like really bursting with flavour and you've got like the crispy bits of the peanut and also like the casing is really nice as well.

It's like really thin and light.

I've never had ice cream in a roll but it's so good.

So we've got these little sweet potato balls now.

You've got 16 for $50 which is pretty good.

They're scalding hot so you have to wait a minute for them to cool down and we got original flavour.

Oh wow, they're so good.

They're quite plain in terms of taste but we did get original but they're so doughy like little doughy balls of goodness.

I could easily do 16 of those myself if we weren't doing a food tour and trying loads of different other foods.

I was going to do a little side note so when I mentioned to Matt about having the sweet potato balls he literally said to me is it just a sweet potato.

He wasn't really that keen on the idea.

He was like I'll try it but a sweet potato is like my perfect veg and now look at him.

Yeah I don't get how that comes from a sweet potato.

Obviously you can taste a little bit of sweet potato but like the texture is heaven.

It's one of my new favourite things he says.

Everything so far on this street food market has been amazing.

I think it's one of the best in terms of choice and quality street food markets we've ever been to.

Taiwan is delivering on street food as per reputation.

So next up we got the Taiwanese style hamburger.

We've got the bao, lean pork, cilantro, some crushed peanut and the tiniest bit of spicy sauce because we can't handle spice.

There's a lot of stuff going on there but really good.

The peanuts are quite strong, only slightly spicy, nothing crazy.

Pork is a little bit chewy but nice.

I like it.

You can't put anything inside a bao and I love it.

It's really good.

I feel like this one's a little bit of a different stuff.

We're basically queuing for mushrooms.

They're king oyster mushrooms I think.

This guy grills them and seasons them so there's a massive queue for every single mushroom store as well so I've got high hopes.

Wow what a queue.

Everyone getting past us seems to be taking photos so I don't know if this guy is pretty well known but he knows how to cook a mushroom.

These look so good.

So we got three huge mushrooms and then you can pick from a variety of flavours.

So we've gone for rose salt which I don't think I've ever tried.

It's like pink Himalayan salt.

They look really juicy.

Give it a try.

They're quite hard to bite.

The flavour is really good but the texture is a little bit unusual in that you try and chew it or bite it and it doesn't bite quite tough.

I suppose that's why it's a good meat substitute but I'm not sure about the texture if I'm honest.

The flavour though really good.

It's not short to me.

So this is something that we don't want to try but feel like we had to try because we're here.

Stinky tofu.

This is fried which I don't think is as bad because it doesn't smell as bad I don't think.

It does.

It does smell bad.

I think it smells pretty bad.

I mean I don't like tofu at the best of times.

I'm not sure how we're gonna go.

I thought you're gonna put that all in there.

I'm just gonna go for it.

Yeah it's really nice.

Oh gosh.

I'm a bit nervous.

Would you like to try it dear?

I will try some yeah but your face is putting me off.

It's um it's unique.

It's like one big bite.

Quite juicy and I don't think I like the stinky juicy stuff.

I'm gonna try a little bit more to see.

No I'm okay.

To be honest it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be and actually the texture itself like the crispiness is okay but the smell.

At least we can say we tried it.

Yeah.

Can I have one juice please?

We're washing the taste of stinky tofu out of our mouths with some drinks.

I've gone for a watermelon juice.

I've gone for a papaya milk which I've seen everywhere and it says I need to drink it within 15 minutes.

I'm not sure why but yeah if anyone local knows why you've got to drink papaya milkshake within 15 minutes please let us know.

I did tell Laurie to wait 20 minutes and see what happens but she won't do it but this is so good.

I've had like half of it already as we were walking to this spot to sit down and it's so refreshing.

I'm just having my first taste.

Let's try it.

There's not much flavour to it and it's quite thick and creamy but it doesn't really taste of much.

Yeah there's not much taste to it but I do sort of like the taste.

It's like quite grows on you.

It feels quite refreshing and it feels quite like natural and fresh and it is like super fresh.

They were cutting it and blending it right in front of us from like these big boxes of papaya.

How are we doing for stomach space?

We've had quite a lot today and I don't feel overly full but I don't want to overdo it.

The problem is this is like such a good market.

I know we said that before but there is literally so much and it goes on and on and on.

I don't think you realise how far you're walking but there's still so much if you haven't tried.

I think I'm probably coming to the end of my stomach space.

To be fair as well we've done pretty well for budget here.

I feel like it's been really reasonably priced actually and I feel like the quality has been really good of the food.

We've had loads and loads of tasty stuff.

Yeah that's true.

Yeah it's not like super cheap but it is very reasonably priced.

Everything's sort of between 50 to 100 dollars which is like one to two dollars USD, one to two pounds British so it's all pretty good.

I think because it's so busy and so popular all the food is super fresh.

Yeah.

Whereas like some markets you go to some stalls are busy some aren't but this is definitely one of the best markets we've ever been to. you