烤山猪肉 (NT$100)!
Friday Taiwan — grilled mountain pig NT$100. Taiwan aboriginal wild boar specialty.
Taiwan night market eats: 烤山猪肉 (grilled mountain pig) at NT$100 (~SGD$4.50). 😋
A paper bowl piled with grilled sliced pork belly (山猪肉), charred at the edges and tossed with raw onion slices, spring onion, red and yellow capsicum, a heavy crack of black pepper and a lime wedge on the side.
山猪肉 (shan zhu rou, “mountain pig”) is the Taiwanese term for wild boar, a staple of indigenous Taiwanese cooking. Here it’s done as a quick night-market grill: thick slices of fatty pork belly seared hot until the fat renders and the edges crisp and caramelise, then mixed with sharp raw onion and scallion to cut the richness. The black pepper gives it a savoury, peppery punch.
The lime is the key, a good squeeze over the top brightens the whole bowl and balances the fattiness of the pork. It’s smoky, juicy and a little crisp at the edges, exactly the kind of hot-off-the-grill street food you want to eat standing up at a night market. Great value too at around SGD$4.50 for a generous portion.
Overall: 4.7 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Smoky, fatty grilled pork belly with a bright squeeze of lime. A night market winner.
