Description
A popular skewer stall menu where enoki mushrooms or green scallions are tightly wrapped in pork bacon, charcoal-grilled while brushed with a sweet/spicy Shacha/soy-based BBQ sauce.
Restaurants serving Bacon Wrapped Skewers
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Bacon(or Pork belly)
- Enoki mushrooms(or Green scallions)
- Special BBQ sauce
- Five-spice powder
- Shacha sauce
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Skewer Prep] Make small bundles of enoki mushrooms (Jinzhengu) or 5cm-cut green scallions.
- Wrap thinly sliced pork bacon (Taiwanese bacon has mild smoke, closer to pork belly) tightly around the enoki bundle core.
- Skewer 3-
- of these rolls successively onto a bamboo stick.
- [Grilling] Place on a charcoal grill net, searing until bacon fat drips and sizzles.
- [Special Sauce] Generously brush both sides with special BBQ sauce (Kao Rou Jiang) mixed from Jiangyou Gao, Shacha sauce, sugar, five-spice, and sesame oil.
- Done when bacon fat and sauce drip onto the charcoal creating smoke, and the surface caramelizes like teriyaki. The enoki inside absorbs all meat juices and sauce.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Shacha savoriness and Five-spice
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese bacon (caution: strong smoke aroma) and enoki
Pairing
Ice-cold Taiwan Beer
Trivia
[For Youth] A kill-two-birds-with-one-stone menu at Taiwanese skewer stalls to get veg while eating hearty meat. Enoki absorbs sauce and fat like a sponge, creating an irresistible 'flood' in your mouth when bitten.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Toss one roll into your mouth in one bite, neutralizing the bacon's intense saltiness and fat with the 'sizzling' mushroom juice overflowing from the enoki!
Allergen
Pork, Soy, Wheat, Shrimp (from Shacha)