Description
Unlike tube-steamed 'Tongzai Migao', this Tainan specialty serves steamed plain sticky rice in a bowl, topped with Lu-Rou-Fan-like minced pork (Rouzao), fish floss (Yusong), peanuts, and cucumber.
Restaurants serving Tainan Sticky Rice
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Long-grain glutinous rice
- Rouzao(Minced pork)
- Yusong(Fish floss)
- Boiled peanuts
- Cucumber
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Sticky Rice] Soak long-grain glutinous rice, steam it fluffy in a wooden steamer (unseasoned).
- [Rouzao] Finely chop skin-on pork belly, simmer long with shallots, soy sauce, five-spice, and rock sugar until gooey.
- Serve hot, freshly steamed sticky rice in a bowl.
- Pour the piping hot Rouzao and its sauce generously over the sticky rice.
- Top with Tainan's famous 'Yusong' (crispy sweet fish floss made from marlin, etc.), boiled peanuts, and sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Five-spice and Fish floss savoriness
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Mixed rice, Store-bought Lu Rou Fan topping, Salmon flakes
Pairing
Four Herbs Soup(Sishen Tang)
Trivia
[For Everyone] Another representative Tainan rice bowl. Similar to Lu Rou Fan but uses 'sticky rice' for better satiety. The sweetness and savoriness of fish floss (Yusong) make it a completely different, supreme gourmet.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Experience 'four different textures'—chewy rice, gooey pork, crispy fish floss, and crunchy peanuts—all at once, resetting with the cucumber's acidity!
Allergen
Wheat, Pork, Seafood, Peanuts, Soy