lard and shallots

Perhaps you have heard of this.  Perhaps amidst that journey you've always wanted to take, physically or culinarily, you've left a little trail of footprints through this Southeast island distancing itself from China, sensed the disturbance in its waking yearnings to voice out.  Chances are you weren't charmed by its political ambiguity or perhaps even curious but that's all right, because that's not what we truthfully know of either.  What we know of is this, our last fair stance on independent nationality, what even brought you to take an impression on our not-much-ness, the last pride.  This, Taiwanese street foods. You may be a small number, much smaller than the majority-others who sought fashion in more posh things like kimchi or banh mi, but that's all right, too.  The word cult sounds rather fitting to any springing culinary movement that just found itself inheriting a semi-spokesman like Eddie Huang.  In fact, pffff

Salty Crispy Poppers

(简体)(繁體) Once upon a time in a land far far away, there lived a young girl. Everyday after school, she took the same road home, wearing her same brown shoes, humming the same little song.  One afternoon just like the day before, she passed by the usual food stall on the way, but felt unusually hungry.  She realized that she forgot to eat lunch because she was probably too busy chasing boys during lunch break.  Remembering what her mother had always warned her about the forbidden street snack, she reached for the changes in her pocket and hesitated.  An old, wrinkly lady behind a huge wok of boiling grease smiled at her and said, "Hi there, little one.  Would you like to have some Salty-crispy chicken?  Oh they are awfully delicious." The little girl pondered about all those stories her mother had told her.  Stories about little children who disobeyed their parents' warning and ate the forbidden street snacks.  Stories about the horrible things that happened to them afterwards

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