Fayan Amis Delicious Food

「Home-made dishes made by an Amis family with warm hospitality」

Fayan, an aboriginal woman from the Amis Tribe, is the owner of the dining place. Her family has called Chishang their home for many years and she is the sixth generation of her family living here since the migration of the Amis tribe from Hengchun to Chishang in Taitung. After she left a city to return to her homeland, she started to learn about vegetables used in Amis food culture and the techniques of making brewer's yeast and fermented rice from her mother. According to Amis tradition, Amis people have to serve glutinous rice and grilled food to their guests during their visit. The menuless restaurant embraces this tradition and always serves grilled salted fish in Amis style as the main course. The signature dishes include tender, juicy fish meat which is served after removing the fish skin covered with salt, and traditional clear vegetable soup prepared with several seasonal plants, including morelle and nodding burnweed and characterized by the unique combination of slight bitter taste and sweet aftertaste. Fayan also uses traditional fermented rice and different sliced fruits to make an after-meal dessert creatively. You can order a glass of “grandma’s scream,” a kind of sweet glutinous rice wine, which will be a perfect ending of your visit to this restaurant.