Although grilled sausages and squid, with their smoke and flame, are the most visible street food, a Taipei night market will also have stands selling fried rice, congee, grilled beef, oyster omelettes, wheat gluten, onion pancake, barbecued pork, roast chestnuts, fresh juice, and dumplings.
Of the openers, the only one I would order again is the southern Asian fusion: spring rolls stuffed with barbecued chicken, roasted corn and watercress, with a cilantro cream for dipping.
What it goes with: Charcuterie, duck, barbecued meats, roasted root vegetables.
38th Street Restaurant And Bakery 273 West 38th Street, Manhattan; (212) 575-6978 BEST DISHES: Barbecued pork, barbecued duck, barbecued chicken, pork and tofu, scrambled eggs with shrimp, sautéed greens, bok choy, green beans, roast pork buns.
In a room adjacent to the bar, a round table was filled with foods that were exotic to some people, but not to others: platters of roasted elk and antelope legs, barbecued beaver and roasted muskrat.
In a salmonellosis outbreak in southwestern England in 2011, illness was linked to the consumption of pork meat served at a hog roast (barbecued pig) in a small town.
The ranch's four-course candlelight dinners feature everything from shrimp quesadillas with papaya salsa, ahi tuna carpaccio, barbecued swordfish and roasted venison to lemon souffles.
As the name suggests, it specializes in roast and barbecued meats, roast duck in particular, displayed in the window of the adjacent take-out section.
