Yang's Family Chicken Roll Introduction
Jingtong Railway Station is one of the four well-preserved wooden railway stations in Taiwan. During the peak of the mining industry, there were as many as 12 station staff members working here, but now only one person manages the entire station. The rise and fall of Jingtong Station is best understood by the Yang Family Chicken Roll shop located diagonally across the station, which has been run by the same family for three generations. The Yang Family started operating a noodle shop here during the heyday of the coal mines, and at its peak, it operated 24 hours a day without closing. However, as the mining industry declined, business also dwindled, leading them to convert it into a grocery store selling chicken rolls around 1968. Unexpectedly, with the subsequent boom in tourism, Yang Family Chicken Rolls became famous. Interestingly, the chicken rolls do not contain any chicken. A humorous wooden sign in the shop clearly informs visiting customers: "No meat in the meat roll, chicken roll has no chicken!" Instead, the so-called chicken roll is actually made by wrapping tofu skin around fillings of carrots, taro, onions, and minced meat, cutting them into pieces, and then deep-frying them until crispy and delicious, with a rich aroma of taro.
