Lan Jia Gua Bao

藍家割包

Address

No. 8, Lane 316, Section 3, Roosevelt Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, 100

City

Taipei

MRT Station

🚇 Taipower Building

The bread, I noticed, was more like a pita sized bread, rather than being a bun, and instead of having to cut it over to add the insides (like a baguette), it was rather just folded half over like a taco to create the pocket for the meat filling. You can ask for your gua bao with a combination of either fatty or lean pork, but from what most people recommended, they said half and half is best – don’t go too lean or you’ll lose the flavor.

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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