Description
Taiwan doesn’t really eat at home. It eats standing up, at nine in the evening, under a string of orange bulbs, out of a paper bag.
This book brings that food back to your kitchen — the festive, comforting, gloriously greasy side of Taiwanese cooking. Six signature dishes, each on a single landscape page, illustrated step by step and written for a domestic hob rather than a night-market wok burner.
Built for a tablet on the counter
Landscape format, one recipe per page. Ingredients down the left, numbered method down the right, everything visible at once. Prop it against the backsplash and you’ll never scroll with oily fingers again.
What’s inside
- The Secrets of the Night Market — what actually transfers from a Taipei stall to a home kitchen, and what doesn’t.
- Gua Bao — the tiger that bites the pig. Steamed bun, braised pork belly, pickles, sweet peanut dust.
- Scallion Pancakes — with the illustrated lamination technique: the oil roux, the log, the coil, the crush.
- XXL Fried Chicken (new) — the cutlet bigger than your face, and the double-fry that keeps it crisp.
- Popcorn Chicken (new) — thigh, five-spice, and the fistful of Thai basil thrown into the oil at the last second.
- Oyster Omelette (new) — Taiwan’s most argued-about dish, wobble and all.
- Crispy Turnip Cake — steamed one day, seared golden the next.
- The Street Food Pantry — ten ingredients that unlock every recipe here.
Three recipes you won’t find on the blog
The XXL fried chicken, the popcorn chicken and the oyster omelette were written for this book and have never been published anywhere else.
« The first fry cooks. The second dehydrates. Skip the second and you get a cutlet that is perfectly cooked and disappointingly soft within two minutes. This is the single most important technique in the book. »
Product details
- Format: PDF, A4 landscape, 11 pages — optimised for tablet reading
- Language: English
- Illustrations: original artwork throughout, plus step-by-step technique diagrams
- Delivery: instant download after payment
- Downloads: unlimited, no expiry date
The natural next step after The 10 Essentials of Taiwanese Cooking — where that book taught you the foundations, this one is pure celebration.
