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#14 Yung Ho Tou Chiang

Posted on April 4, 2007
Filed Under Chinese, Taiwanese |

This is a midweek special. I guess I can always go over 50 meals. This was so good I had to post it. And coming up this weekend: a very special Moroccan meal.

永和 (Yonghe, Yong Hou, Yong Huh, Yong Ho) is a city in the metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan. A certain breakfast restaurant that was established there in the 1950s became famous for its soy milk (Tou Chiang) and Taiwanese breakfast. 50 years later, Yonghe Tou Chiang is synonymous with authentic Taiwanese breakfast. And here we are, at a certain Yung Ho Tou Chiang in San Gabriel.

I guess a quick intro to Taiwanese breakfast is in order.

Taiwanese breakfast usually consists of soy milk, either sweetened with sugar or flavored with salt, vinegar, with dried shrimp and fried cruller added for extra texture. Served hot or cold, soy milk it’s a great source of lean protein.



This is the salty version I have.

I gotta have rice balls when I have Taiwanese breakfast, it’s a habit I’ve gotten from 6 years of schooling in Taiwan. Sections of fried cruller, boiled egg, dried shredded pork, and Taiwanese picked cabbage are wrapped in a fragrant layer of sticky rice. You get this in a little plastic bag, hot as a tea kettle, you take a bite and squeeze the rice ball to seal it up, repeat until all gone.

Fried cruller, of course, are two adjoined strips of flour dough fried to about a foot of crunchy golden goodness. Here we have it kicked up a notch, fried cruller wrapped in an egg pancake.

Now for a a bit of a northern China flavor. This is Beef Tray cake, which is sliced braised beef wrapped in a green onion pancake with sweet and spicy sauce. This is an excellent dish that I’ve only seen here.

And of course, I gotta have the fragrant Leek pie. Chopped fresh leek stuffed in a thin flour skin with vermicelli and some eggs and deep fried to a golden crisp on the outside, hot, moist and flavorful on the inside.




Pretty Pie




I like hitting this place early on a weekend, it’s usually not too crowded before 8:30. Go with a couple friends so you can order more variety. Besides what I have up there, you can order the Turnip Cake, the green onion cake, they also have stinky tofu if you’re up for that.

Yung Ho (King) Tou Chiang
1045 East Vally Blvd
San Gabriel, CA 91776
(626) 280.9317
7 Days a week, 7am to 6pm

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