Here is another classic Taiwanese street food – often referred to as the Taiwanese Hamburger 台灣刈包. The burger portion is a slice of pork, traditionally a bun shaped slice of belly pork with the skin left on but you can use other cuts of pork too – just cut the slice about 1cm thick and support its shape by skewing it with cocktail sticks.
Today Joanne also made the burger bun for you – from flour, water, milk, yeast, sugar. This is a steamed bread bun – made similarly to mantou but with a fold for the burger contents. Another important traditional ingredient to 台灣刈包 gua bao is the spicy sour green vegetables and some ground peanuts with a touch of sugar powder. All in all this is a delicious and unique street food – please try it!
The ingredients;
- Burger:
500g pork – sliced as shown
star aniseed
black & white pepper
sugar
spring onion
garlic
chilli
soy sauce
rice wine. - Garnish:
sour greens
chilli, ginger
ground peanut powder - Dough:
3 bowls of plain flour, 1 bowl of self raising flour
1 bowl of milk
1 bowl of warm water
2tsp sugar, 2tsp yeast
Joanne has recorded a video showing you how to make this Taiwanese Street Food classic, including the bread. Please follow it and make some for yourself!
Making Taiwanese Hamburger 台灣刈包 gwa bow, gua-bao
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2 comments
henni says:
Aug 6, 2015
i like this gua bao! btw, is that braised pork or different?
mark says:
Aug 6, 2015
Yes, it’s braised pork. You can find it in my recipes and videos too