YOUTUBE HERE .  (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCng_Lf6NbY9K1KRDE18s4eg) These 12- part videos are direct transfer from photos and notes originally posted on Facebook - a total of 392 photos and 6 videos.  They are fun supplement to our book published in October 2018. And we hope to have them shared to a wider audience outside Facebook. First entry May 2018 and last Nov 2020.  Part I   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZLg2g31Ac Part 2  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG-xdZWiVQs&t=237s Part 3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfiN6iCf-LE&t=17s Part 4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWdRmxXZzM&t=68s Music - Taiwanese Melodies Part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ojmczDVSE&t=33s Part 6  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKTQbozUHYs Part 7  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DL3vnJHFVg&t=40s Part 8  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svIM6R9kkRA&t=37s Part 9  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9XMvnU2hA...

  (This is also 'NOTE 23' of the main ongoing Anthropology page  HERE . https://katyhuiwenhung.blogspot.com/2020/04/food-anthropology-notes-from-taiwans.html) It went back to Feb 2019, a young chef and ' London Bao Soho ' researcher and I met up in Taipei. Of the limited time we had, I took her to National Taiwan University to 'explain' our book title 'Beyond Pork and PONLAI'. There is not better way and location for this purpose.  We visited 'ISO HOUSE' (Dr Iso, the father of Ponlai rice) -  A relatively neglected 'Formosa rice' development center, unknown to most expats and many Taiwanese locals.  Formosa rice refers to Ponlai rice. She mentioned she liked to bring some souvenir back to London for her chef friends to enjoy, something interesting and 'delicious'.  'Goose Fat with Crispy Shallots'   I knew she would like it! when I introduced her this goodie at NTU campus shop of agricultural produce and upon my showing a...

  Taro ball with 'oil millet' coating on 'South Asian' taro 南洋芋 leaf (This entry is 'Note 22' of the main Anthropology page HERE ) 'Formosan Beard Grass 台灣油芒 ' - 'Millet of the Future 'The Forgotten Oil Millet of Taiwan' was discovered by Dorian Fuller (UCL Institute of Archaeology) before a follow-up rediscovery in Pingtung by Academia Sinica researchers. It is now known as 'Formosan Beard Grass 台灣油芒 '. It grows all year round, and now promoted a good substitute for the traditional millet (foxtail), it was said.   'Lalumaj' is its Rukai name and 'Ljumay' Paiwan's. Austronesian linguistic connection was done by a research team led by Laurent Sagart .   I recently became acquainted with this forgotten and magical grain because of some creative dishes served by Bunan peoples in Taitung.   The best way to promote a grain /crop is to develop recipes, cook and serve.  Check it out when in Taitung.   Exhibition at 'N...

My casual artistic 'golden moldy rice'!  (This entry is also  NOTE 21  of the ongoing Anthropology post  HERE .  ) UPDATE 12/19  (Added information on Rice Fermentation and Puli Immigrant Aborigines ) YU I did not yet get my grandmother's name. However, I *did* get some clarification on the fermented stew from my Dad.  My grandmother cooked brown rice (Dad is specific on this point) and various grains (possibly wheat but he could not remember), with nothing else (no meat, no veggies, no seasoning). Then she let the pot cool and placed it on the high shelf to grow the beneficial mold. After a few days she stirred the mixture, and re-heated it with meat and seasonings. Dad said again how delicious it was and how the kids used to ask her to make it. He says 'it wasn't really a dish-- but a way to make dishes better.' CHENG 稉米   ( sticky short-grained)  + 小米 (millet) then. Aboriginal. Some fermentation involved (maybe why the unique taste) HUNG ...

HO Te-Lai  （何德來 ）1904-1986 Tofu 豆腐 1971  . Ice Cube 冰 塊 1933 RAN In-ting （藍蔭鼎） 1903-1979 Yongle Market Taipei   永樂市場 1950   KUO Hsueh-Hu （郭雪湖）1908-2012  （Kuo is one of   "Three Youths in  Taiten "   台展三少年   ）  Spring in the Garden Lai (Taichung) 萊園春色 1939 TAN Ting-pho (陳澄波) 1895-1947 East Taiwan Seaside Road  東台灣 臨海道路 1930 Painting History  - An extraordinary journey of a missing painting.   Notes I made from a very special exhibition. From either Taiwan history points of view or current personal art interest (layers of colors).   NOTE - By the 1920s in the beginning is incorrect. 1920s was still  綏靖時期 ( Appeasement   period). Arts development did not start until  承平時期 (Peaceful period) when Japanese arts moved to Taiwan. My Hung family ancestral home (Tamsui Red House 淡水紅樓） in three paintings.  Left to right from top: KUO Po-chuan 郭柏川 1953. CHANG wan-chuan 張萬傳 (Father of Fauvism). CHEN Chih-C...