We visited sao bing Jedi Master Hong zhe fu aka swai guh. Ate so many sao bings. Stuffed with you tiao. Stuffed with egg & green onion. Stuffed with fan twan. The last was my favorite. It was swai guh's personal creation. He also let us come by his store one night to watch him make his top secret dough. The dough that makes the lightest and flakiest sao bing I have ever tasted. Thank you swai guh for your friendship and teaching these younglings the art of making sao bing. We hope to make you proud.
I also took a Chinese bread making class in Taipei. I learned that my hands are too big to form dinner rolls. I also learned that the Chinese and Texans have at least one thing in common. We all like to fry things. This class made me miss my Kitchen Aid mixer and dough hook. We kneaded everything by hand.
Much of this trip was spent eating. I have my expanded waistline as proof. We bought tastiness. We made deliciousness. Then, we ate all of it. And it felt good.
Aside from food truck research and other cooking and eating adventures, we spent a lot of quality time with grandma aka Popi. Every time I wanted to sleep, she wanted to play mah jong. So she would who pai and take all my money.
Taiwan was just what we need to rejuvenate us for The Sesame Seed Season 2. Looking forward to seeing yall on the streets soon!
