Yang's Chicken Roll Introduction
Jingtong Railway Station is one of the four well-preserved wooden train stations remaining in Taiwan. During its peak in the mining industry, there were up to 12 staff members working here, but now only one person manages the station. The rise and fall of Jingtong Station is best illustrated by the Yang family's chicken roll shop located diagonally across from the station, where the family has lived for three generations. The Yang family has been operating a noodle shop here since the coal mining boom; at its busiest, the shop operated 24 hours a day without rest. As the mining industry declined, business also dropped, leading them to switch to a grocery store selling chicken rolls around 1968. However, with the later boom in tourism, the Yang's chicken rolls became famous. Interestingly, the chicken roll does not contain chicken; a sign inside the shop clearly informs visitors: "No pork in the meat soup, no chicken in the chicken roll!" In reality, the so-called chicken roll is made by wrapping ingredients like carrots, taro, onions, and minced meat in tofu skin, cutting it into pieces, and then deep-frying it, resulting in a crispy, refreshing snack with a strong aroma of taro.
