Making Food

We can all go onto the web and see great pictures of food, but I like some of the equipment used to make that great food. At a lantern Festival Fair there were some MiddleEasterners using a wok in a novel way to make nan, the traditional baked bread. Underneath the upsidedown wok is the typical Taiwanese natural gas burner with its big blue flame.

 The best roasted chicken I ever have had was cooked this way. The chickens are put in these metal boxes and the boxes are put on top of a wood fire. The heat in the hot house is so intense that only unmarried men can work there. I think the problem is that the heat will destroy their sperm. If a customer can last one hour in the cook house their meal is free.

 We recently bought some chicken and goose eggs from an itinerant farmer. They bring their produce from the farms surround Taipei in to the city and sell them door to door.

 They sell by weight and what got me was their balance, it was a work of art. Probably the same designed as 2000 years ago and still works in a blackout.

 

Probably every culture has something that looks like a burrito. In

Taiwan it is call a "Rume Bing." When they make it for you, they ask you what you want on it, I don't know the individual names so I just say Everything!

 Another happy camper.