A Rou Ting(鵝肉亭) in Minhsiung

In my family, it is a hard task to invite my grandparents to have a meal in a restaurant, since they always think eating in a restaurant costs too much and eating the food prepared by ourselves is healthier and more delicious. However there is a restaurant which locates in Minhsiung can attract my grandparents for more than ten years. This restaurant is A Rou Ting (鵝肉亭) , which means “a stand selling goose ” in Chinese.

A Rou Ting

The fresh goose in A Rou Ting

In A Rou Ting, the most popular ingredient is definitely goose meat. They use mature goose to cook their dishes. The meat of mature goose are juicier and has good texture. In addition, the way they cook their gooses is also the key factor of why the goose in A Rou Ting is much more delicious than other restaurants in Minhsiung. The way A Rou Ting cook the gooses is putting the whole goose in the boiling water for couple minutes. Maybe some people will think this way seems to be too simple and become curious about what the magic power in this cooking way?

Goose with gingers 

 This simple way can easily maintain the water of the goose so that the goose meat will taste tender and juicy. Once, when my family and I visited another restaurant which also provides goose, we thought the goose meat in that restaurant is so dry and bland. Hence, we decided to ask the cook their cooking way, and we got the answer that they steamed the goose. Due to the long process of steam the goose, the water inside the goose will keep losing. At the end, the goose will become so hard and tasteless. As a result, choosing the right way to cook the gooses is a quite important issue for the cooks.

Tender goose slice and special sauce

Besides the goose meat, in A Rou Ting, they also have many special sides. For example, the goose gizzards, goose livers, goose intestines and goose blood cake. The ingredients of those sides are all washed carefully, so they are not scary at all. Some people may think these sides will taste gamey. In my personal opinion, I think they are not. Furthermore, A Rou Ting also provides a special sauce, which taste a little bit spicy and sweet to let customers eat with the sides and goose. In addition to the special sauce, they use bean sprouts and gingers to reduce the gamey smells of the dishes.

Goose gizzards

Goose blood rice cake

Vegetable sides 

Last but not least, the prices in A Rou Ting are very fair! The whole goose in A Rou Ting only costs 900 NT dollars, but the whole goose in Taipei costs more than 1500 NT dollars. Thus, every time when my family visit A Rou Ting, we can get very satisfied and only spend less than two thousand dollars. No wonder, every time when my mom invites my grandparents to have a meal with us, my grandfather is always willing to spend one and half hours driving to Minhsiung to taste the fresh goose!

There are always many people in A Rou Ting