Description
A snack where customers choose various pork parts (from offal to head meat) from a glass case at eatery entrances, briefly boiled and eaten with shredded ginger and soy sauce.
Restaurants serving Assorted Boiled Offal Cold Cuts
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Various pork parts (offal
- cheek
- etc.)
- Shredded ginger
- Thick soy sauce
- Sesame oil
- Scallions
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- 'Heibai Qie' means 'cut whatever' in Taiwanese. Shops parboil all pork parts (heart, liver, lung, intestine, tongue, cheek, skin) odorless in water with scallions/ginger, displaying them in a glass case.
- Customers point to order parts (or ask for an assorted mix).
- Upon order, the vendor briefly reheats them in a boiling soup pot for dozens of seconds.
- Placed on a board, they are rhythmically sliced bite-sized with a cleaver.
- Plated and topped with sesame oil, Jiangyou Gao (thick soy sauce), massive shredded ginger, scallions, and cilantro.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Ginger and Sesame oil aroma
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Store-bought boiled pork offal or tongue
Pairing
Taiwan Beer or Yangchun Mian(light noodle soup)
Trivia
[Hardcore] Embodies Taiwan's 'nose-to-tail' pork eating culture. Learning to order rare parts like 'Zuibian Rou (cheek)', 'Fen Chang (intestine)', and 'Gan Lian (diaphragm)' instantly levels up your Taiwanese local street cred.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Enjoy the completely different textures of each part—crunchy cartilage, sticky skin, fall-apart cheek—along with the heat of 'shredded ginger'!
Allergen
Pork, Soy, Wheat