Sunday, February 7, 2016

Chinese radish cake (turnip cake)

                                                                                                                                        2016.02.07(Sun)
There is an old house which used to serve as a rice milling plant in Shen-gou.
This old house have been rebuilt into a restaurant which called Mrs. Cat's dinning hall.
It located in the most prosperous area in Shen-gou.(However, comparing with the Yilan downtown, it is not prosperous at all.)
Many young farmers always go there for eating, chatting, discussing...etc.
As a consequence, this place serve as a base for those young famers.
Moreover, this restaurant take the system as reservation, and it only open on Friday, Saturday,and Sunday.
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Last Friday, some people gathered at there for making Taiwanese traditional food called  radish cake.(蘿蔔糕)
Taiwanese always eat it as breakfast, and you can easily find it on the menu of most breakfast shops.
Following are some steps of making the Taiwanese radish cake.

INGREDIENTS

☞ ONE


RADISH

about 3 kg.







☞ TWO

RICE (在來米 )   

about 3 kg.


These are rice,but had already milling with water into this state.




☞ THREE

Some pepper.
(It depend on yourself!)

☞FOUR

Some salt.


STEPS


First, cut the peel out and mill the white radish into the state like the picture shows.













Second, make the rice as the picture shows.
(This step should via the special machine.)














Third, fried the muddy like white radish until the smell reinforcing.















Fourth, put salt and pepper into liquid rice, and don't forget to stir it.














Fifth, pour the liquid rice into the pot which the radish put in.














Sixth, pour the mixture into the container.
We called it 蒸籠.













Seventh, pour some water into the pot, and put the container onto it.
Then steam it about 1.5 hours.














Eighth, pick it out, and wait for it getting cool.














Finally, fry it when you want to eat it.















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In Taiwan, we always eat it with fried egg as breakfast; therefore, you can also fried an egg if you want.
By the way, the black liquid on the dish is soy sauce; we also add it when eating.
If you're interesting in cooking, maybe you can try making it at home.


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BTW, the following picture shows the traditional chair in Taiwan.
There are some in Mrs. Cat's dinning hall.

















Finally, I hope you'll like this article although I cannot express it accurately in English.

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There is a tragedy happen in Taiwan yesterday.

Today is Chinese New Year Eve, it should be a happy time for all family to gathering together and having a great dunner.
However, a serious earthquake happened in Tainan county, which located in southwest part of Taiwan.
It caused large casualties and some people's house were destroyed.
Although there are many earthquake happen in Taiwan every year' however, it still caused a serious damage to Taiwan.
I hope every thing will be okay soon, and I know there are many generous and passionate people in Taiwan are willing to help who suffered in this disaster.
I believe the peace will come back soon.




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