Hello! Hi everyone, Wesley here. Today we are diving into a series that I have been planning for some time now. A few weeks back we did a series of videos dedicated to EVERYTHING that I ate in eight days traveling through Taipei Taiwan, and. Wow. I ate a lot of things. Much of which I genuinely had never seen before. So! As promised, we are now diving into a series of videos dedicated to my very best attempt at making all of these street food wraps, baos, and bites that we came across traveling through Taiwan. And of course, first up on this list is probably one of my very favorite things that I ate the entire time I was in Taiwan, which is this deep fried green onion pancake that we came across at the train station in Beitou.
For those not familiar, the green onion or scallion pancake known as "cong you bing" is a classic Taiwanese dish consisting of a flour and water based dough that has been wrapped and coiled into a ball with green onions, then rolled out again to yield its flaky texture. Though fundamentally a very simple concept, the cong you bing poses an inherent challenge, because it does not contain any leavening agents whatsoever. A traditional cong you bing attributes its flaky qualities solely from the way that it is rolled, yielding a flaky but not puffy texture. BUT. As you may have noticed in our travel vlog though, our deep fried pancake has A LOOT of rise and puff, so much so that they had to pop the air out of the thing before serving, which leads me to believe that there is, in fact, some leavening agents tucked into this pancake, which would have been activated by the deep fry. Hope you try it.
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0:00 Hello Hi Everyone!
2:10 Mise En Place (veggies)
2:46 Mise En Place (pancakes)
4:14 Mise En Place (sauce)
4:46 On The Stove (deepfry)
7:10 Let's Eat!
8:47 Thanks For Watching!