Taitung Restaurants

This is a very taiwanese style kind of food. In the winter its hot pot. In the summer its barbeque. But this is not like the american style bbq. This is Taiwan, buddy.

The atmosphere is pure tin shack on concrete slab, like your weird uncles garage with a big fridge at the back. Many tables with large funny wire boxes in the center and cheap folding chairs await you.

The deal is you cook it over a grill placed over red hot burning coals of wood. Its different because its a buffet style, and the grill is set in the center of the table you eat at, so you eat, then cook, then eat, then cook. or you can vote one or two people to do all the flipping required. If your fire has issues contact the service guys and point or say 'Hwo si-diao-le." (fire is dead).

The fat elephant is an all you can eat BBQ restaurant on green island we ate at. Its 250 NT$ per person. Beer is extra money. A taiwan beer (green bottle - the good stuff) rang in at 70NT.

You can choose from:

tofu. its ok. its tofu.
weiners. not recommended by me.
chicken wings. YUM.
pork. YUM
squid balls. YUM.
tempura (fried flour cake) YUM.
onion, and bacon on a stick. I personally took them off so the bacon would be faster and better cooked (safer) very good.
green pepper and bacon on a stick. As the onion and bacon above take it apart it is safer and faster. YUM.
chicken strips. YUM.
sh*take mushrooms. yum yum.

and other foods often available at other all you can eat BBQ restaurants: (but i didnt see at this one the day we went. :(
Beef strips of varying quality. Usually very Yummy.
goat meat may be available.
Sika meat may be available but even though they say it is farmed from 'Sika farms' in Taidong its better safe than sorry, I don't suggest eating an endangered species flesh!

Favorite Dish: You cook it all yourself. You pick what you want from a buffet fridge where its laid out for you. If you get food poisoning, guess what- its YOUR fault. If you burn it- its YOUR fault. Dont say i didnt warn you. If you are scared of cooking dont do this or get someone who likes to cook to come with you. This is why many chinese people make good cooks. They all learn how from a very early age how to do it all themselves.

to get there, go along the road past the airport, keep an eye out on your right hand side before you get to the green island prison for the sign with a fat elephant on it. I don't think they have an english name.