Chef serves gourmet risotto from small Taichung market stall
Chef serves gourmet risotto from small Taichung market stall
2026-09-23
There’s a stall in Taichung’s Xiangshang Market that specializes in seafood risotto, which is packed with jumbo shrimp and nutritious seasonal vegetables in a bed of broth-infused rice. Its vibrant colors are sure to get your mouth watering at first sight. The owner also has a unique look, and is often mistaken as a Westerner. But how did he end up at the market after having owned a restaurant before? Let’s find out.
Customers crowd around this food stall waiting for their number to be called, even before the food has finished cooking.
A creamy broth turns a subtle shade of pink from the jumbo shrimp, instantly teasing the appetite. The American long-grain rice must fully absorb the broth before tossing in clams and a colorful array of seasonable vegetables.
Chang Yu-tao
Chef
Customers kept giving us feedback, asking if we could make it lighter, so we don’t use a lot of flavoring now. We focus on using whole foods. We barely use any processed ingredients.
Chang Yu-tao used to be a well-known chef in a Western restaurant, who counted several politicians among his customers. But after the restaurant closed, he became a market vendor in Taichung with his wife. They first made a name for themselves at Hanxi Night Market before relocating to Xiangshang Market.
Chang Yu-tao
Chef
The market manager told me we get foot traffic of about 10,000 people here. If you can’t win over 100 of them, it means you should phase out your products.
Chang’s customers get to benefit from his culinary travels around the world.
Customer
Likes the creamy seafood
I like the creamy seafood since the cream sauce is very flavorful.
Customer
Likes the freshness
You can really taste the freshness of the seafood. All his seafood is very fresh.
With a strict commitment to fresh ingredients and generous portions served at night market prices, customers say it’s great value.
Customer
Likes the value
These days, any random lunchbox costs more than NT$100. So it’s reasonable to get something like this.
Customer
Likes the new taste
Most of the options around here are traditional, so this is refreshingly different.
Having weathered life’s storms together, this husband-and-wife duo are working hard to keep earning their way with this colorful night market risotto.
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"型男大廚"隱身台中向上市場 繽紛海鮮燉飯品嚐夜市人生
2026-09-23
在台中的向上市場，有一攤海鮮燉飯，吸飽湯汁的大鍋飯，有大蝦等新鮮食材，還有營養價值高的時蔬，色彩相當鮮豔繽紛，光看就讓人垂涎三尺。老闆外表相當有型，常常被客人以為是外國人的他，還開過餐廳，如何走入夜市人生呢？帶您來看。
叫到號的，迫不及待提著走，這邊的都還沒起鍋呢，一位一位又一位，已經在等。
奶油湯汁，加了大蝦，淡淡粉紅色，瞬間勾引食慾。要把生米煮成熟飯，得等美國長米吸飽了湯汁，倒進蛤蜊，還有各色食蔬，鋪滿滿。
[[燉飯主廚 張育滔]]
“客人一直修正嘛，他說是不是要清淡一點，所以我們的口味不會很重，現在就是講求要原來的食物，我們幾乎是沒有再精製的東西”
張育滔曾是知名的西餐大廚，政壇有多位他的座上賓，不過，餐廳收起來之後，他轉換成台中的夜市主廚，與太太做生意，先在旱溪夜市，打響名號又遷到向上市場。
[[燉飯主廚 張育滔]]
“場主跟我講，我們這邊大概有一萬人的人流啦，如果你連一百個人都抓不出來的話，那表示你的產品就可以淘汰了”
顧客品嘗到的，是張育滔遊歷各國的美食體驗，混搭為海鮮燉飯!
[[顧客]]
“(我喜歡)奶油海鮮的部分，因為他奶油蠻香的”
[[顧客]]
“他可以吃到海鮮的鮮味，他的海鮮都蠻新鮮的”
食材講究新鮮，料給得大方，卻是夜市價，顧客稱讚，CP值相當高!
[[顧客]]
“現在隨便一個便當都100多，所以他這樣買起來，還可以接受”
[[顧客]]
“在附近的話比較多是傳統的，這邊的比較新穎一點”
經過大風大浪的夫妻，用色彩繽紛的燉飯，在五光十色的夜市，努力開創人生的下半場。
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