This is a traditional Northern Chinese pastry with stuffed spring onions and lard, known as Golden Crab-Shell in Chinese due to its crabshell-like outer layer of the pastry after baking even though there’s no crab meat filling whatsoever! There are a number of different fillings for this pastry including sweet fillings. Rice does not grow in northern China, therefore wheat is one of the grains they can grow which is processed into flour to make noodles and pastries for dumplings, baos, etc. You will also notice that this pastry is very similar to the Black Pepper Pork Pastries which would have been originally evolved from this spring-onion pastry over the years.
(more…)February 25, 2020
February 22, 2020
【用點心做點心】Japanese Cream Roll 生乳捲
The Japanese Cream Roll (生乳捲) or Hokkaido Cream Roll has been very popular in Asian countries for the past decade. The Hokkaido cream is reputed to be very fragrant and supposedly been pasteurized at low temperature, but it is very hard to buy outside of Japan, so just use whatever good pure cream you can get your hand on for the cream filling. I have made Cotton Sponge Roll which is very similar using the 60°C roux method. I am linking this video basically to show how to roll the chiffon roll (at about 18:50 minutes mark), this method only works with chiffon cake rolls, as they have higher moisture content, it will not work with the western-style Swiss rolls which are dryer in texture. However this video has very loud background music which is very annoying, LOL, so turn down the volume on your player…
(more…)February 20, 2020
February 17, 2020
【用點心做點心】Black Pepper Pork Pastries 胡椒餅
Taiwanese snack video from Formosa TV Entertainments‘ (民視綜藝娛樂) TV show called 用點心做點心 (translated as “Use Your Heart, Make A Snack”). From today, I will occasionally link cooking demonstration videos from Taiwan, especially Taiwanese snacks, here, and maybe I will translate the recipes into English when I have time. First off, this is a savoury Taiwanese Baked Black Pepper Pastries (胡椒餅) recipe.
(more…)February 16, 2020
Onion 洋蔥 – Aska Yang 楊宗緯
An old song from 2008 that is still so beautifully sad to listen to… The song was written especially for Aska by Ashin (阿信). Ashin is the vocalist of the Taiwanese band Mayday (五月天), who also recorded the song in 2013. Also in May, 2013, TF Family (TF家族, now known as TFBoys), a young boy band from Chongqing recorded the song on video, using the song to look for the mother of one of the band members, who abandoned him when he was very young, and the video went viral. Ashin saw the video and posted it on his facebook, and in 2019, invited Karry (王俊凱), one of the TFBoys members, to sing the song in one of their concerts.
(more…)February 8, 2020
Walk With Me – Måns Zelmerlöw & Dami Im
A special performance on Eurovision — Australia Decides 2020 tonight!
(more…)Can We Make Heaven – Diana Rouvas
I think this is my favourite song from Eurovision — Australia Decides 2020 which aired tonight.
(more…)February 7, 2020
Half and Half: Taiwanese Hokkien Relay (webisode 20200128) 2分之一強: 《遊戲王》台語傳話
Tomorrow, February 8, is the Lantern Festival (元宵節), or the 15th day, or the last day of the Lunar New Year Celebrations, so let’s have a little fun watching this snippet of game show webisode of Half and Half from Taiwan.
(more…)February 6, 2020
Arrogant 囂張 – En
Listening to this song in February 2020. Another song that became very popular late last year on TikTok (抖音) as shown in the video above… No official music video for the song as yet, only a version for KTV, which I’ve linked below, the Karaoke version with lyrics. Will link the official music video if they release one in the future.
(more…)February 2, 2020
Most Popular Mandopop Music Videos (Part 2) YouTube 破億華語歌曲（二）
Below are song 11 to 20, for song 1 to 10 go to Most Popular Mandopop Music Videos (Part 1)
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Corner Café 