Tasty Taiwanese Treats from T!

Thanks T! After coming back from her recent trip to Taiwan, T brought me something I needed to make a dish I don't get to eat more than once every few years: lun bing!


Sort of like a burrito or mushu pork, lun bing is a colorful assortment of fillings wrapped into a round dough. Fillings usually include pork (braised, like this, or steamed), cabbage, carrots, bean sprouts, egg, cilantro, pickled greens, and crushed peanuts.

The wrappers are why I don't get to eat this more often. I don't know why, but I've never seen this exact kind of wrapping paper before. I don't even know the exact composition of the dough, but I suspect it's a combination of potato and tapioca starches and flours. That's usually what's used in night market food, and the dough has a definite chew to it. It's hard to describe, but it's not as floury as a tortilla and not as chewy as a Vietnamese spring roll.

After peeling free one paper thin wrapper from a stack, we steamed it for about fifteen seconds in this makeshift steamer.

A perfectly wrapped package!

The inside. Yum!