Not exactly a food, but something you chew to pass the time while in Taiwan. About the size and colour of an acorn, split like a hotdog bun with some kind of rusty red paste smeared inside and half of something that looks a bit like a mini lotus head for the hotdog. Chewing them is strangely addictive and somehow hedonistically pleasurable in the same way that smoking a cigarette can be - you know it's gotta be bad for you but you do it anyway. Until you quit because you have bad breath and stained teeth and you are standing outside in the cold spitting with a bunch of people you don't really know.
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