Posted on 02/01/2021 12:47:53 PM PST by mylife
Tucked deep into Taipei’s night markets, vendors disguise scoops of ice cream as a savory snack. Customarily, Taiwanese cooks fill their flour crepes with pork, cabbage, and ground peanuts to make a traditional roll called run bing (a relative of the Chinese breakfast jiānbǐng). But street hawkers use this same wrap to swathe a sweet-and-savory treat.
To assemble, the vendor lays out a flour crepe and shaves fine pieces of peanut brittle over it. On top, he adds three scoops of ice cream, often in flavors like pineapple, taro, or peanut. After a sprinkle of cilantro (the soapy-to-some herb can be omitted, on request), he folds the edges in and rolls up the contents into a burrito-esque creation. The combination of flavors and textures achieves a balance of creamy, crunchy, chewy, sweet, herbal, tart, and nutty.
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The nice thing about the cilantro tasting like soap is that if they are out of cilantro, they can just replace it with soap flakes and I won’t know the difference.
Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura are always very cool. I look forward to getting those emails. I does cause me to spend money and eat things I probably shouldn’t. I have made Panther Milk and Marlboro Pie. I have recently taken delivery of some Tonka Beans and Cougar Gold cheese. All this because of these websites.
I don’t read them all the time, but they run a good site.
“Choco Tacos, get’m at Walmart.”
I have always liked a Choco Taco. Get them now before they get banned for cultural appropriation or something.
It no longer tastes like soap to me, but the 1st time I swore someone failed to rinse the cookware.
And cilantro seed is awesome it would work in iced cream
If Ranhofer thought buying Alaska was a bad idea, he would have called it a Half-baked Alaska...
Badda bump tshhh..
Taiwan is a great food country.
It’s like a giant food court.
We should do these things in America
Ping
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