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Friday, July 13, 2012

Big Challenge, Pig Blood Cake!


As matter of fact, hearing pig blood is uncomfortable and quite wired, and wondering glutinous rice can mix with it then become a famous snack in Taiwan, moreover, it’s one the top 10 most wired food in the world. Pig Blood Cake is famous with its name, but popular with taste, instead, it wouldn’t feel wired after taste it, and it might mark on your taste bud.
Pig Blood Cake is one of traditional snacks in Taiwan. Track back to thirty to forty years ago, it was an agriculture society, people raise pig, chicken and other domestic animals in their own houses. Most records said pig was available to eat for whole body include blood, so people considered not to waste it, they came up the idea of use pig blood combine with rice, moisten with thick soy souse, then spill peanut powder and coriander leaves. This particular taste circulates for generation to generation.
In United State, it’s illegal to import pig blood, only make in the state, but not many people actually eat pig blood and they don’t know how to eat it with. Drink pig blood sounds weird; make it in the soup is even weird; or make it like the sauce might not appropriate. Whichever ways, pig blood is not an appropriate ingredient in most people’s mind.
Not in Taiwan, the other way around, Pig Blood Cake is a popular snack. What’s specialty is eat with peanut powder and coriander leaves, both condiments are giving Pig Blood Cake more flavor and get rid off the pig blood smelly.
Even though, the pig blood smell is already vanish during the process, but peanut powder and coriander leaves are indispensably, without these two condiments, it is not call Pig Blood Cake.


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