Description
Taiwan's unique miraculous sweet where shaved maltose-peanut block, taro ice cream, and surprisingly 'fresh cilantro' are wrapped in an ultra-thin crepe wrapper.
Restaurants serving Peanut Ice Cream Roll
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Maltose-peanut block
- Taro ice cream
- Runbing Pi(crepe wrapper)
- Raw cilantro
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Peanut Block (Hua Sheng Tang)] Prepare a giant block (brick-sized) of solidified peanuts and maltose.
- The stall vendor uses a special hand plane (like a carpenter's tool) to shave this hard block with a 'shhh shhh' sound, creating massive fluffy peanut powder (Hua Sheng Fen).
- Spread an ultra-thin crepe wrapper (Runbing Pi), lay a thick bed of the shaved peanut powder.
- Place 2-
- scoops of traditional Taiwanese 'Taro Ice Cream (or Pineapple Ice Cream)' on top.
- [Biggest Point] Tear fresh 'raw cilantro (Xiangcai)' and place it over the ice cream.
- Before the ice cream melts, quickly fold the wrapper into a square like a spring roll, put in a plastic bag, and serve.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Intense freshness of cilantro
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Store-bought peanut powder mixed with sugar, Vanilla ice cream
Pairing
Taiwan Tea(as post-meal dessert)
Trivia
[For Women] Yilan's super specialty. Telling Japanese 'put cilantro in ice cream' gets a 100% frown, but it matches surprisingly well (acts like mint in chocolate mint). 'No cilantro' is orderable, but please try it once.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Before the ice cream melts and tears the wrapper, enjoy the chaos in your mouth of sweet peanuts, cold ice cream, and the exotic aroma of cilantro!
Allergen
Peanuts, Wheat, Dairy (ice cream)