3 dishes people actually cook in Taiwan: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Taiwan? 3 traditional Taiwan dishes, from Gua bao (125 min, the quickest) to Xiao long bao (540 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Beef shank red-braised for hours with spicy broad bean paste, soy sauce and rice wine, served over wheat noodles with sour pickled mustard greens.
A folded flat steamed bun closed over a slice of soy-braised pork belly, sour mustard greens, sweet peanut powder and coriander.
Thin-skinned pleated dumplings whose pork filling hides a cube of pork-skin aspic that melts into hot soup during steaming.
Copper documents three dishes from Taiwan: Beef noodle soup, Gua bao and Xiao long bao. Ginger and shaoxing rice wine each appear in more than one recipe. All three are simmered. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 25 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 25 ingredients between them, of which 5 are shared by more than one dish. Shaoxing rice wine and soy sauce the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 3 use shaoxing rice wine and 17 use soy sauce. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Gua bao is the quickest at 125 minutes. Xiao long bao is the longest at 540 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 215 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Taiwan here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Gua bao is the shortest way in.
Taiwan is part of East Asian.
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