Hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re adding to our series on foods inspired by the Bay Area restaurant scene with a shot at a Taiwanese sticky pork and rice roll or “cifantuan,” inspired by the one found at Five Happiness in San Francisco, CA. For those not familiar, a cifantuan or “fantuan,” as it is colloquially referred to, is made up of glutinous sticky rice, wrapped around a Chinese fried donut or “youtiao,” and folded together with a savory dried pork floss, or “rousong.” Here in the states, you’ll commonly come across these in Taiwanese pastry shops and dim sum restaurants like Five Happiness, but you may also find these in Taiwan from street food vendors as well because they are so compact and easy to eat on the go. Hope you try it.

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Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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