Saturday, April 23, 2011

Bringing da islan' to 台灣島

Believe it, guys!  I handcrafted Jamaican patties for my Taiwanese friends.  I wanted to share some grub from another small island nation half-way around the world.  

I got all of the ingredients from a combination of the 7-11 and fruit/veggie stand across the street.  Some improvisation was needed and is as follows...

ground beef → ground pork (often used here to make dumplings)
thyme → parsley
dry bread crumbs → crushed soda crackers
beef broth → instant beefs noodles seasoning packet
Scotch Bonnet pepper → red chili pepper
convection oven → rusting toaster oven


Yin Rou and Mei Yun, homeroom teachers at Wu Ta Elementary.  
 Cherish, my co-teacher at Wu Ta.  
 Sonia, Junior High homeroom teacher.  

And I transformed the Restaurant Station at English Village into a cooking class.




My Chinese teacher, Zhan 老師, and I had a "cuisine exchange" before class.  She treated me to cabbage pickled in passion fruit.  Total sweet and sour goodness.  Below she skillfully consumes her patty with chopsticks.  台灣 swag!  

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

patties ! yum YUM

hope you get to re-create your pastry magic in California sometime !

-UN

Anonymous said...

cabbage pickled in passion fruit?? sounds so interesting!