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choochoocachew

🇹🇼 Food Photographer who cooks & does art in #Minnesota
📍 Now: MN
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New Youtube Video! It's me eating and talking abou

New Youtube Video! It's me eating and talking about Taiwanese sausage in front of a temple and why I was so excited to find them Minnesota. 😍 Taiwanese sausage holds a special place in a lot of Taiwanese peoples hearts.

👉 Subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out this video @seanarcherphoto worked really hard on. We welcome any comments and feedback, just dm us! 💖 Hope you enjoy this mini trip to Taiwan with us. I'm super hungry after watching this video now I might need to go grill a Taiwanese sausage for dinner. 😜

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#taiwanesefood #streetfood #asianstreetfood #taiwanesesausage #大腸包小腸 #高雄

🎉Save the date for the next @localfeast festiva

🎉Save the date for the next @localfeast festival: Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023 10am-4pm at the @mayociviccenter in Rochester, MN.🎉 FEAST! Is an event that brings all the local MN/WI/IA food makers and producers all under one roof for you to sample and learn about the delicious foods we have to offer in the region. You really don't want to miss it.

From Taiwanese sausages @taiwanesesausages , cheese, bloody mary mixes, artisan nuts, to probiotic drinks, coffee, and ready-made meals, I've always loved discovering amazing and delicious local foods I didn't know about. Im constantly surprised by how TALENTED and bountiful it is where I currently live.

I've partnered up with @localfeast to tell you about a few vendors that will be at the festival this year, but you really need to visit and see for yourself! Visit https://www.local-feast.org/festival2022 to learn more and get your ticker TODAY. 💓

Ps. Im also doing a chef demo on November 4th at 3pm. 😍

#RochesterMN #foodevent #localfood

Please! Follow, subscribe, like, whatever people d

Please! Follow, subscribe, like, whatever people do on Youtube. 開啟小鈴鐺？🔔🤣 I know you all wanted to follow me around Taiwan and eat with me, so we filmed a series of videos talking about fooood in Taiwan. The series is focused on Taiwanese food, how it's made, how to order and what's special about them- more educational than just "oh, this tastes good and we're going to stand in line for 2 hours to get this trendy food item".

The pilot episode is just a little preview as we were figuring out our setup and setting our tone. (I didnt even take photos of the food 😢) It was a special episode because it was filmed in my hometown Taoyuan, the scooter ride was on a road I'd go on almost daily growing up and the view has barely changed. My cram school was in the building across the street from the bao shop. I hated it there(the cram school). 🫣

Anyways! Please visit the YouTube channel if you haven't already, I'd appreciate it if you subscribe to the channel so I can do more things on it! 💖

Ps. We welcome feedback! @seanarcherphoto is working really hard to film and make these videos better in each episode. 🥰

Im exhausted and it's late right now but still can

Im exhausted and it's late right now but still can't wait until tomorrow to share my excitement about this book with you! It's a Taiwanese cookbook called "Made in Taiwan" by @dearclarissa and @kitchenivytaipei ! I was so excited to see my friends @siangkhaulu in it, whom we visited on this trip back. It's so amazing to see their hard work known by more people in the world. 😭😭😭 Thank you for transporting me home with this cookbook, @_simonelement !

I had so much to say as I flipped through this book and initially made a 4 minute video then I learned 90 sec is the max for reels. 😅😂 IG newbie here obviously. 🤪

Anyone wants to cook this book with me? Let's have a party! 💖

This drizzly weather has me thinking about JiuFen,

This drizzly weather has me thinking about JiuFen, Taiwan. A little mountain town that is SO charming and magical(when you don't go on the weekends 😛)

Do you ever feel like the universe is against you? I try not to let it get to me but this week is one of those. 🤷

I needed to post something that makes me happy, so here it is. 💖

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat and huma

Thank you to everyone who braved the heat and human waves to come to the @mnstatefair to see me cook and the ones who cheered me on from afar. You have no idea how much it means to me.

I feel extremely lucky to be able to collect such an experience and memory under my sleeve. I'm a traveler who's all about unique experiences and learning about local cultures and it really doesn't get any bigger nor FIRE for a local experience than COOKING UP A CHEF DEMO at the Minnesota State Fair while being in Minnesota! 💖

It was hot but I had a blast! A huge thanks to @renewingthecountryside for this invite, @ootorisushi for being my rice sponsor and volunteer, @seanarcherphoto for these photos and my biggest cheerleader, @graisefarm for the duck eggs, and @taiwanesesausages for the sausages. We did it! 😻

Some highlights from the demo:
🍚 " this is the best fried rice I've ever tasted"
🍚 "i usually hate fried rice but this is AMAZING."
🍚 "I didn't know you can add vegetables and cabbage to fried rice"
🍚 *People's face when I started talking about how we eat raw garlic with Taiwanese Sausages in Taiwan*
🍚 seeing familiar faces 😭

If you missed the demo but would like some recipe cards, ill start bringing them around Rochester's breweries and coffee shops so you can snag one. ✨

Until next time! ✌️

Sometimes I think I like taking photos of food mor

Sometimes I think I like taking photos of food more than I like to eat them. Actually... That's not true. 😂 These are Taiwanese Sausages wrapped in rice sausages. While this shot was taken in Taiwan, I can't believe I can get LOCALLY MN made Taiwanese sausages here!

I'll be doing a chef demo at the ✨MN State Fair✨ this Saturday(9/2/ at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the eco experience building, and it's all about using locally grown and made ingredients! @taiwanesesausages, @graisefarm duck eggs, and vegetables grown by the farmers of @villageagcoop ! 💖

See you on Saturday! 🎉

📷 thanks, hand model @seanarcherphoto

I made it in life. @tsingtao /@tsingtao_usa sent m

I made it in life. @tsingtao /@tsingtao_usa sent me one bottle of their new special beer to make a post about! TsingTao beer has been around for 120 years 🤯 this special edition beer tastes different, better than the OG I'd say. Sometimes Hot Days call for light refreshing beer and honestly I'd drink this!

(Because I can't get Taiwan Beer in MN 😢) ⬅️ there goes my real paid sponsorship 😂👋

If you think because I grew up in Taiwan so I must

If you think because I grew up in Taiwan so I must know everything about Taiwanese food, you'd be wrong. One of my favorite things about Taiwan is- even though I grew up there and spent my whole life eating and trying new food, it still surprises me. I constantly discovered food I've never tried nor knew existed before during this visit. It also terrified me because it felt like so much of the more time consuming and traditional foods are going to become a lost art as the generation retires without a succession plan...

I'm not sure why im always looking at food photos late at night. 🤷 Now im hungry.

📷: 豬腸丸 📍 XiaoLiuQiu 小琉球
豬腸丸 Pork intestine "ball"
It's like an intestine lasagna if you will. Intestine over intestine over intestine until it turns into a firm donut looking ball. Then cut into small pieces and dressed with garlic soy sauce. SUPER labor intensive and the texture is interesting. Bouncy. With each bite it's like cutting through thin rubber bands but in a good way, it's just the closest thing i can think of right now to help you relate to the texture.

💖 STATE FAIR CHEF DEMO 💖 at the eco-friendly

💖 STATE FAIR CHEF DEMO 💖 at the eco-friendly building on 9/2- 11am, 1pm, 3pm. 😍 Do not underestimate this Taiwanese sausage fried rice! It's PACKED with flavors and featuring amazing local ingredients including @graisefarm duck eggs, @taiwanesesausages, and lots of MN Grown garlic, cabbage and scallions! 🤤

Honestly im not a huge fan of fried rice, but I could eat THIS one anytime. Garlicky, a little sweet, with a hint of spice from the Taiwanese sausage. This is a flavor you've never tasted I'm sure because I've only tasted it in my mom's kitchen. 😭 I had all the feels when I tasted it for the first time while doing R&D.

✨ Mark your calendar, and join me on Saturday 9/2 so you can taste this too. (And get recipe cards!) ✨

A huge thanks to @renewingthecountryside for this wonderful opportunity and allowing me to bring a little bite of Taiwan to the MN State Fair this year. 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

Taiwan feels like a dream. It feels like i never l

Taiwan feels like a dream. It feels like i never left America and the two months in Taiwan didn't actually happen. It's the weirdest feeling, things about Taiwan seems to be stored in a different brain and it's hard to connect it to my life here. It's just SO different, but both of them are my life, there are two of me in the same body.

Here are some photos of Taiwan, a city called Kaohsiunh 高雄. I remember the heat and the humidity, the markets and the temples nestled in-between buildings. Hot soupy food in hot weather, freshly cleaned and butchered right in front of you.

It's been a while since i made any kind of cooking

It's been a while since i made any kind of cooking video. Enjoy the ASMR 🤷

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