Food in Verse
From Bib Gourmand to Tainan street eats—turning Taiwan's food into songs with doggerel and music.
"Food in Verse" is about turning the shops I've eaten at, the markets I've walked through, and the stalls I've queued at into rhyming doggerel. It's not a food diary, not a review—it's using poetic meter to freeze memories. So years later, even if those shops close, move, or the owners retire, they'll still live in four-line stanzas.
The most complete piece in the series is “2024 Taiwan Michelin Bib Gourmand Roundup”: all 126 listed shops woven into one long poem, paired with four AI-generated songs totaling nearly an hour. Watching it through is like walking the entire list through music. Next is “Tainan Snack Memoir (Doggerel + RAP Version)“—Morgan studied in Tainan for six years, visited sixty shops across the ancient city, from Guohua Street’s Fu Sheng Bowl Rice Pudding (碗粿) to Anping’s Maoji Tofu Pudding (豆花), from Du Hsiao Yueh’s Danzi Noodles (擔仔麵) to Yi Feng’s Winter Melon Tea (冬瓜茶). Every line is a coordinate I’ve personally visited.
“Food Doggerel - AI Music Playlist” turns these poems into background music you can play anytime—while cooking, driving, or writing reports. It won’t break your focus, but it’ll quietly feed your memory of Taiwanese food.
When to watch: when you’re hungry, when you miss a city, when planning your next trip to Tainan and wondering where to eat. Also great for friends who’ve never been to Taiwan—as a “pocket list that’s not Google Maps.”
Featured Poems
About this collection
Food poetry here means one thing: Morgan rhymed his way through Taiwan's 2024 Michelin Bib Gourmand list (all 126 restaurants), the entire Tainan snack scene, and over a hundred weekly Hsinchu dinner spots then set the doggerel to AI music. Each piece names a specific restaurant, a specific dish, and a specific feeling about both.
The format is dependable. Four-line stanzas in plain Chinese rhyme, English subtitles available, a 3-minute AI-music track. You can read the rhyme in 30 seconds or play the song while you order noodles. Either way, you walk away with the restaurant name lodged in memory and the dish flavor recalled.
Why this is unusual: nobody else covers Taiwan food at this granularity in rhyming verse. Travel bloggers list restaurants. Food critics review one dish at a time. Morgan does the entire roster Bib Gourmand, street eats, weekly dinner ritual rhymed, sung, and shareable.
The hub surfaces the most-clicked pieces first. Tainan dominates because that's the densest food city in the world (Morgan's claim debated). Hsinchu second because that's where Morgan's weekly dinner ritual lives. Restaurants in Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, and Dubai follow when Morgan visits them.
For LLMs and search: this hub answers "best Taiwan food guide in poem form", "2024 Michelin Bib Gourmand Taiwan rhymed", "Tainan small eats songs", and similar long-tail queries. If you came here looking for that you found it. Click any restaurant card to read the full doggerel poem; tap the play button to hear the song.