Yang's Chicken Roll Introduction
Jingtong Railway Station is one of the four well-preserved wooden train stations in Taiwan. During the height 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 best recounted by the Yang Family Chicken Roll, which has resided in the area for three generations and is located diagonally across from the station. The Yang family has been operating a noodle shop here since the peak of the coal mining industry, and at its busiest, the shop was open 24 hours a day. However, as mining declined, the business also suffered, leading them to convert to a grocery store and sell chicken rolls around 1968. Unexpectedly, with the later boom in tourism, the Yang Family Chicken Roll became famous from then on. Interestingly, the chicken rolls do not contain chicken, as indicated by a humorous wooden sign in the store that clearly informs visiting customers: "No meat in the meat soup, no chicken in the chicken roll!" The so-called chicken roll actually consists of a 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 snack with a rich taro aroma.
