Yang's Chicken Roll Introduction
Jingtong Railway Station is one of the four well-preserved wooden train stations in Taiwan. During the peak of the mining industry, there were as many as 12 station staff working here, but now there is only one person managing the entire station. The rise and fall of Jingtong Station is closely related to the Yang Family's chicken roll shop, located diagonally across the station, which has been run by three generations of the family. The Yang family has been operating a noodle shop here since the heyday of coal mining, and at its peak, the shop was open 24 hours a day. However, with the decline of the mining industry, business also dwindled, leading them to change the shop into a grocery store and sell chicken rolls around 1968. Unexpectedly, with the subsequent rise of tourism, Yang's chicken rolls became famous. Interestingly, the chicken roll does not actually contain chicken meat; a humorous wooden sign in the shop clearly informs visitors—"No meat in the meat roll, chicken roll contains no chicken!" The so-called chicken roll is actually made of tofu skin wrapped around fillings such as carrots, taro, onions, and minced meat, which are then cut into pieces and deep-fried, resulting in a crispy and delicious dish with a fragrant taro aroma.