Recently I’ve been on a crunchy cookie craze (ccc). I want to eat them all the time! Normally I can easily get my fix from the Chinese grocery store. However, with stay at home orders in place, it seemed unwise to venture out JUST for cookies. Fortunately, I have a number of good icebox cookie…
Updated: 2/22/21 If you have ever visited a Taiwanese or Japanese bakery, you will always find a loaf of white bread packed in a clear plastic bag with a twisty tie on top. Shokupan (食パン) is the Japanese term for this bakery staple and it literally means “eating bread”. The bread is characterized by a…
Mantou (饅頭）is essentially a type of Chinese “bread” that is finished by steaming as opposed to baking. Along with bing and wheat noodles, it is eaten as the carbohydrate staple in Northern China where wheat instead of rice is grown. In Taiwan where I grew up, mantou is a common breakfast staple. Ways to eat…
Have you ever had the Taiwanese Crunchoco Cookie made by Yi-Mei (義美）foods? Well if you like crunchy chocolate cookies you will definitely love these! The best way to describe them is crunchy chocolate crumbles bound together in a cookie. They’re addicting! It’s funny that I never thought too much of these until a recent trip…