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Tainan’s Five-Dollar Boat Board


Tanshui sunset — photo by Holly Cheng, accompanying poem "Tainan's Five-Dollar Boat Board"
Photo: Holly Cheng · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Across from Eternal Golden Fortress,
A quaint and rare sight,
The interior is cozy,
Three branches in the south.

Two hundred eighty per person,
A ten-person set meal is great,
If the group size differs too much,
Then I'd not recommend.

Fried shrimp, pig trotters, jellyfish skin,
Bamboo shoots, cuttlefish, duck rolls,
Siu mai, greens, lamb hotpot,
Sweet and sour chicken, beef brisket.

After the meal, drinks and dessert,
Dishes scattered, bellies round,
Content and not bad,
But it cost a pretty penny.

Full, head to Anping for preserved fruit,
It's on the way, not far,
For the whole evening, I'd give a score:
Eighty-three from me.