Beitou Tavern Banquet Culture Illustration
2022 Beitou, The Plum Garden
To commemorate a period of unique and prosperous history in Beitou where many tavern-restaurants create a special banquet culture to serve the Japanese merchants living in or traveling to Taipei in 1950s. Elaborate food culture, Nakashi live music, hot spring and escort girls.
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- Braised Black Ginseng with Tiger Palm
- Buddha jumps over the wall
- Seven Fairies Turntable
- Squid snail meat garlic sprout soup
- Butterfly Lobster Roe Platter
- Crown prince money turkey
- Restaurant Chicken Pork Belly and Turtle
Japanese were fasciated with the hot spring in Beitou. In order to entertain the Japanese merchants, all the tavern restaurant present their most precious ingredients and complex cooking techniques. However the cooks been laboring on the dishes, the spotlight of the dinner will inevitably fall on the escort girls. This is where the Taiwanese term "tavern girl" comes from. This piece of history in Beitou gradually ended in the 1980s due to the abolishment of prostitution.
北投酒家菜
2022 北投 梅庭
紀念酒家菜文化、那卡西、日本商人招待所、北投的一段繁盛歷史。
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- 虎掌燴烏參
- 佛跳牆
- 七仙女轉盤
- 魷魚螺肉蒜苗湯
- 彩蝶龍蝦魚子拼盤
- 皇太子金錢火雞
- 酒家雞仔豬肚鱉
家館子為了招待日本客人，用上了所有珍貴食材和華麗的烹飪手藝。事實上，廚子忙了一整天，晚宴最終的重點還是陪商人喝酒聊天的妹子們，這也是酒家女一詞的來由。這段特殊的飲食與八大娛樂文化，隨著1979年北投廢娼後逐漸消散。
