Ba-wan
Taiwan · East Asia
- Short description
- This chewy dumpling is served in a bowl with a glossy sauce that clings to the wrapper.
- Ingredients
- Rice or sweet potato starch wrapper, pork, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, shallots, soy sauce, sugar, and thick sauce.
- Cultural note
- Snack shops often serve it steamed or gently fried, with sauce added just before eating.
- Common misconception
- It is not a Western-style meatball; the meat is enclosed in a springy starch wrapper.
image credit
- creator:
- Takoradee
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no content edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.