I loved reading this so much! My mom also grew up on a shoestring in Taiwan, and pork lard rice is a nostalgic childhood dish for her. I recently started eating meat again this year after 17 years of being vegetarian and then pescatarian, and my mom's pork lard rice was one of the first dishes I had after the transition.
I also went to the restaurant featured in the clip you shared, it was genuinely one of my favorite dishes in all of Tainan!
Ahhh!! This post made me very, very happy. Albert has converted me into a lu rou fan person and he's fond of saying that this would be his last meal on earth. Yet it's sometimes hard to persuade visitors to understand its greatness when they come to taiwan, as lard on rice doesn't quite have the right ring. So this post is such act of public service, haha. Thank you!!
also, this made me laugh: "I was horrified by her story, picturing a bowl of room-temperature rice with pasty white fat sitting on top and thinking 'wow poor mom' and 'i’m so lucky' and 'i better eat my vegetables.'"
I loved reading this so much! My mom also grew up on a shoestring in Taiwan, and pork lard rice is a nostalgic childhood dish for her. I recently started eating meat again this year after 17 years of being vegetarian and then pescatarian, and my mom's pork lard rice was one of the first dishes I had after the transition.
I also went to the restaurant featured in the clip you shared, it was genuinely one of my favorite dishes in all of Tainan!
Brilliant!
Ahhh!! This post made me very, very happy. Albert has converted me into a lu rou fan person and he's fond of saying that this would be his last meal on earth. Yet it's sometimes hard to persuade visitors to understand its greatness when they come to taiwan, as lard on rice doesn't quite have the right ring. So this post is such act of public service, haha. Thank you!!
also, this made me laugh: "I was horrified by her story, picturing a bowl of room-temperature rice with pasty white fat sitting on top and thinking 'wow poor mom' and 'i’m so lucky' and 'i better eat my vegetables.'"