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- What's up, cuteas?

We're currently at the second most popular

night market here in Taipei, Taiwan.

Today, we have one goal and one goal only

and that is to eat as much seafood-street food as we can

and judging by the looks of this market,

I guess you can say we do "sea food".

(laughs)

Get it?

"Sea Food"?

(laughs)

Oh my "cod" that was so lame.

(laughs)

Too much fish puns? Let me just scale it back!

(laughs)

(coughs)

No?

Okay. Well just start the video, then.

Just cut, just cut.

Oh...

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Our first stop here is the grilled squid,

and you're gonna see this in a lot of night markets

all around Taiwan.

What they do is get these giant bodies of squid

and then they start grilling it with barbeque sauce.

Just look at the glisten.

The one portion of this, the small one, is 200NT

and the bigger one is 250NT.

Our first seafood dish right here is the grilled squid.

Squid for me, like calamari,

it tastes pretty much the same all across

it's like rubbery, it's chewy.

However, I'm gonna see if the sauce that they put on here

with the little pepper flakes is good.

Here we go!

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Calamari or grilled squid all tastes the same to me

in terms like it takes a long time to chew,

it's rubbery, it's pretty thick,

however, you guys, this is really good

because of the sweet sauce that they put on top of it

and, let's see, this was 200NT.

I don't know. $6.00 for this?

Do you think it's worth it?

Kev, what do you think?

- [Kev] I think for what you get in Taiwan,

it's a little bit steep.

- It's true. We will keep looking. Let's go.

So many people, so scary here.

Everyone's so tall.

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When they're like, "Oh, do you want it spicy?"

they usually just put some red pepper on top of it.

Personally, I don't find it as spicy,

but you should definitely just taste it

and see how you feel first.

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I got a bucket full of crispy, fried, seafood.

It does not get any better than this!

This right here, for a bucket of a mix

of crispy crab, shrimp and squid,

it's total 200NT or around $6.

It is a really popular tourist spot.

For first-time travelers, you guys will probably come here,

so it's good that you know what to expect

in terms of price and what you get.

I'm gonna try the shrimp first. Hello!

Oh, it looks so good! Okay, ready?

For this, you can just put it all in your mouth.

You don't have to peel it.

Mmm...okay. (laughs) Oh, this is good.

Oh crap, it's kind of spicy!

The seasoning they put on top of the seafood

is savory, it gives you a little kick when you eat it.

The shrimp is just crispy enough,

where you can just chew into it and swallow.

We're gonna try the crab.

I'm really excited to try the crab.

Here, I want to get you a good one. Right here.

With the legs as well.

Mmm...

Mmm...!

Okay, forget the shrimp, probably forget the squid, too

and just go for the crab.

The crab is delicious!

When you bite into the crab,

the meat inside is still soft,

so it's got a crunchy outside and a soft inside.

It's a perfect texture combination.

Let's try the squid.

Although, like I said, squid texture

it tastes pretty similar.

This one is fried, though. We'll see.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God!

Take me to heaven! It's so good!

Sorry, squid of the world, for saying what I said.

This actually tastes delicious.

Maybe its the fact that it's fried,

but the texture inside is not as rubbery,

which I love, and this outside is so crispy and nice.

Mm-hmm, the squid and the crab,

those are what you need to go for.

Let's go to our next stall.

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As you can see, I have this paper bowl of delicious clams.

So, what the chef did was he put these raw clams into a bowl

after boiling it, he added some rice wine, some garlics.

That's gonna have a nice, garlicy-infused flavor.

I can't wait!

Ahh!

So, for one of this bowl, right here, it's 100NT

that's around $3. See if it's worth it.

(laughs) It's alright.

Had to move because this was just okay, unfortunately.

The flavor was not really there.

It's just kind of bland, it's almost just

basically boiled clams.

(chews)

Honestly, I can barely taste the garlic,

which is what I was really excited to taste.

Just in case, I'm gonna have Kevin try it.

Our handy cameraman and see if he likes it.

- [TJ] What do you think?

- Nothing special.

I can taste a little rice wine, but...

- Yeah.

- It's not something I would come back for...eat again.

- Yeah, honestly, it's pretty bland, I have to say.

What are we gonna do with this bowl of clams?

Anybody want clams? (chuckles)

I tripped! (laughs)

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We're currently trying one of

the most popular seafood dish in Taiwan.

It's an oyster omelette.

Legend and it's extremely popular.

My mom loves this stuff.

I honestly think if you're a first-time traveler,

if you eat this, it might be kind of foreign to you,

but it would be good to give a try,

just to see what is an authentic, traditional dish here.

Okay, I'm gonna go 'head and open this up.

Do you see? Oh, my goodness, do you see that oyster?

Now, when you look inside this,

you're gonna see some veggies,

you're gonna see some onions,

and you're gonna see this kind of white, gooey mess

and what that is is tapioca starch.

That's what gives this omelette

this almost nice, chewy kind of texture.

It's not just an omelette, it's got like...

Do you see that? It's kind of bouncy.

Oh, yes! The last time I tried this,

I thought it was okay,

but it was at a different night market,

so we're gonna try it again.

It's been about two years

since I had my last oyster omelette.

Let's go, let's dig in.

We got some omelette, we got some oyster.

Ready?

Okay...

Okay...

I actually enjoyed this, I can barely taste the oyster.

It's almost like it's just melting in my mouth.

I think it's because it's coated

in this nice, chewy potato starch

along with this sweet sauce on top, right here.

(squeals) This is good. You guys, this is good.

I love the crisp, these veggies right here

along with the mushiness of the potato starch,

and the nice fried taste from the egg

and the sauce, it's sweet, but very light.

It's delicious.

Oh, and the best thing?

This the cheapest we got so far.

This is only 65NT.

(snaps fingers) Eh?

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So excited to try this.

This looks amazing

and so you're supposed to eat this with a spoon

because it's way too hot.

Let's do this!

Oh...

Oh, my gosh!

Like mashed potato texture.

Seafood-boss man over here told me

that this is made entirely of seafood.

Just different kind's of seafood all mixed in together

in this beautiful shell.

Mmm...

Mmm...!

This is pretty yummy!

Even though it's made of seafood,

it's got this steamed-egg texture.

Inside there's little pieces of scallops and clams.

I can really taste the layer of fried cheese on top.

Mmm...

Oh, there's even a big piece of squid here, I love it!

Apparently, you can only find this in Taiwan.

Is it true? Let me know where you guys are from.

Do you have something similar?

I'm gonna take one more bite.

Mmm...Just one more, it's pretty good!

This is just 40NT, so it's about a $1.50 for one,

which is comparably cheaper than

the other stuff that we've eaten.

So, if you guys are here, you should get one of these!

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We have looped around the whole night market.

This is literally almost at the front

and we found our last item for the day,

a seafood thick soup.

That's literally what is says on the sign,

"Seafood thick soup".

I need some of the soup to heal me,

because my voice is almost gone.

Looks like, from inside, we got a mixture

of seafood everything you can want, actually.

We got some squid, oysters, we got some shrimp.

We're gonna see if this one is good.

Here we go.,,

(sighs)

Oh, that feels so good for my throat right now.

The soup's almost got this peppery taste to it.

You can barely taste the seafood.

I think I've tried soup like this before

and other places I've tried are actually thicker,

so this one is a little bit more liquidy,

but just a tad bit you can see

where the thickness, or what the soup is called, comes from.

This is a nice, hearty bowl of soup to end today's video.

You can add some noodles in there if you want,

get your carbs on.

Let's just take one more sip.

(exhales) Mmm... Nice and cozy.

Oh, alright everyone!

Well, that was the seafood tour.

That was just a sample of the different type

of street-market seafood that you can get.

Of course, you can actually go

into little restaurants on the side

to order more seafood dishes.

We just wanted to show you what was available in the stalls.

The total that we spent today, was around 600NT

which is around $22 to $23 USD for all of that seafood.

If you want to see the real seafood magic

here in Taiwan, you've got to go to the port cities

and if you want to see that seafood magic,