Yang's Chicken Rolls Introduction
Jingtong Railway Station is one of the four well-preserved wooden train stations in Taiwan. During the height of the mining industry, as many as 12 station staff worked 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 across from the station for three generations. The Yang family has been running a noodle shop here since the peak of the coal mining era, with the best business operating 24 hours a day. However, as the mining industry declined, so did their business, forcing them to transition around 1968 into a grocery store while also selling chicken rolls. Unexpectedly, with the rise of tourism, Yang's Chicken Rolls became famous. Interestingly, the chicken rolls do not actually contain chicken. There is a humorous wooden sign in the shop that clearly informs visitors: "No meat in the meat roll, chicken rolls do not contain chicken!" Instead, the so-called chicken rolls are filled with a mixture of ingredients, including carrots, taro, onions, and minced meat wrapped in tofu skin, cut into pieces, and deep-fried, giving them a crispy texture and a delightful aroma of taro.
