Yang's Chicken Roll Introduction
Jingtong Railway Station is one of the four well-preserved wooden train stations remaining in Taiwan. During the peak of the mining industry, there were as many as 12 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, who have lived diagonally across from the station for three generations. The Yang family has been operating a noodle shop here since the peak of the coal mining era, and at its best, the business was open 24 hours a day. However, as the mining industry declined, so did their business, forcing them around 1968 to transform it into a grocery store and sell chicken rolls. Unexpectedly, with the rise of the tourism industry, Yang’s Chicken Rolls became renowned. Interestingly, there’s a sign inside the chicken roll shop that clearly informs visiting customers: "No meat in the minced pork, and the chicken roll contains no chicken!" In fact, the so-called chicken roll contains no chicken at all, but rather tofu skin wrapped around filling made of carrots, taro, onions, and minced meat. After being cut into pieces, they are deep-fried, resulting in a crispy and refreshing taste, rich in the aroma of taro.
