星期日, 10月 31, 2010

北斗肉圓 Bar-uan (meatball)

北斗肉圓 Bar-uan (meatball)
相傳在1898年戊戌大水災,台灣的北斗小鎮有二十個庄頭被大水毀去,災情慘重,時在當地北斗地區的寺廟擔任文筆生的范先生即改利用地瓜曬乾,磨成粉後揉成團狀,再煮熟給災民食用,當時之內餡並不像如今之豐富,後來又經過改良,加入豬肉、筍子等配料,逐漸發展成現今為人所熟知的肉圓,並且流傳到台灣各地,也產生了各地不同用料與做法的特色肉圓。

The legends are backward to 1898 in middle Taiwan, there happened a large catastrophic floods along Zhuo-shui River濁水溪 (the longest river in Taiwan) . While no foods available there and then, yet at Beidou北斗town, a man of letters-called Mr. Van at a temple providing service of writing and reading for people initiated to use dried sweet potato ground into flour and then kneaded-after into round shape stuffed with pork, dried bamboo shoots then cooked to victims. Since then it has gradually developed into today’s well-known Bar-uan (meatball)肉圓and spread to all parts of Taiwan in different materials and practices.

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