Pork Tapioca Dumpling

Pork Tapioca Dumpling, known as Ba-wan in Taiwanese, is a famous local street food in Changhua. Made of sticky rice flour, tapioca powder or sweet potato starch, tapioca pork dumpling is stuffed with chopped bamboo shoot, mushrooms and, of course, pork. Like a large savory crystal tapioca ball, pork tapioca dumpling features it transparent and chewy skin. Moreover, there are regional differences considering cooking methods. Pork tapioca dumplings of the southern region are usually steamed while that of the northern region are fried. Coriander, sweet red yeast sauce or chili sauce. Sakoo yat sai is a Thai tapioca dumpling shares similar quality with ba wan. Made of sago starch, sakoo yat sai contains chopped, lean pork, onion, roasted peanut, fish sauce and brown sugar, served with red chili, coriander and lettuce.