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Ba-wan |
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Ba-wan (literally "meat circle") is a
Taiwanese snack food, consisting of a 6-8 cm diameter disk-shaped
translucent dough filled with a savory stuffing and served with a sweet
and savory sauce. The stuffing varies widely according to different
regions in Taiwan, but usually consists of a mixture of pork, bamboo
shoots, and shiitake mushrooms. |
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Left: Changhua-style
ba-wan with sweet sauce and grated daikon radish. |
Changhua-style ba-wan is considered to be the "standard" ba-wan as it is the
most famous and most widely imitated of all styles of ba-wan.
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The gelatinous dough is made of a combination of corn
starch, sweet potato starch, and rice flour, which gives it its chewy,
sticky, and gelatinous texture and a greyish translucent hue. |
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Left: Ba-wan. |
Ba-wan are initially cooked by steaming; however, they may
also be served after being deep fried to give them a "skin" or gently poached in
oil to heat them without drying them out.
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