Chun Lan Gua Bao

春蘭刈包

Address

No. 21, Renyi Street, Qianjin District, Kaohsiung City, 801

City

Kaohsiung

MRT Station

🚇 Formosa Boulevard

Chun Lan specializes in gua bao (Taiwanese pork belly buns), and they offer a variety that goes beyond the standard version. Their menu includes fat kong ba bao for those who love the rich, melt-in-your-mouth fatty pork, lean bao for lighter eaters, mixed bao for the best of both worlds, and even vegetarian options. Each bun is steamed until it's pillowy soft, then filled with tender braised pork, pickled mustard greens, crushed peanuts, and cilantro. The combination of textures and flavors - soft bread, tender meat, crunchy pickles, and aromatic herbs - is what makes gua bao so addictive. It's Taiwanese comfort food at its finest, and Chun Lan has mastered the craft.

Foods Available Here

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Pork Belly Sandwich

Gua bao, also known as steamed bao, pork belly buns, or ambiguously, bao, is a Taiwanese snack food consisting of a slice of stewed meat and other condiments sandwiched between flat steamed bread. The steamed bread is typically 6–8 centimetres (2.4–3.1 in) in size, semi-circular and flat in form, with a horizontal fold that, when opened, gives the appearance that it has been sliced. The traditional filling for gua bao is a slice of red-cooked porkbelly, typically dressed with stir-fried suan cai (pickled mustard greens), cilantro, and ground peanuts. The food is known colloquially in parts of Taiwan as hó͘-kā-ti (虎咬豬; "tiger bites pig") due to the mouth-like form of the bun and the contents of the filling. Gua bao are also called "Taiwanese hamburgers" due in-part to the wide variety of novel ingredients used as filling, such as fried chicken, fish, eggs, and stewed beef.

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