DIY baking supply / supplies

enigma, do u have a reliable baklava recipe? care to post it in the food forum please please please? :pray:

There’s a small baking store called DIY 烘培教室 (DIY hong1pei2 jiao4shi4)
on 研究院路一段96號 (Yan2jiu4yuan4 Rd. Sec. 1, #96), north of the Academia Sinica in Nangang too. From town, take 忠孝東路 Zhong1xiao4 E. Rd. east as far as it goes; turn right where it ends at Yanjiuyuan Rd., and you’ll see the store soon on the right. Ph. 2783-4843. Best deal in the store is the very strong extruded aluminum cookie cutters for only 12NT each! They also have inexpensive miniature tart crusts which would be perfect for bite-sized pecan pies or cheesecakes. Oh, I’d better stop before I make myself hungry. :cookie:

enigma, do you have a reliable baklava recipe? care to post it in the food forum please please please? :pray:[/quote]

I do and I will. This stuff is awesome. I’ll find the receipe in my files and post it as soon as I find it.

I saw one on line today that looked great! I didn’t save it cuz I figured I’d never find filo sheets in Taipei (and I’m on a diet) :stuck_out_tongue:

hehehe … filo … you can get it … but need to know where … hehehehe :smiling_imp:

Ok, I’ve waited patiently, expecting you to post the answer, but seeing as how a year and 18 days have passed, I give up. Where?!?! :taz:

And while we’re on baking goods stores, I’ll copy this from another thread. Here’s a store near the Minquan Bridge in Taibei:

Heading east (towards Neihu) on Minchuan E. Rd. in Taibei, after passing the aquarium shops and crossing Fuyuan St. (the last before the bridge), go past the start of the upramp for the Minquan bridge (i.e., don’t take the bridge; go off to the right below the bridge). Go a short block, just past a Bridgestone tire shop; turn right (south), and go about 50 meters, and the shop is on your left. 義興西點原料行 is the shop name; the address is 富錦街574巷2號 Fujin St., Lane 574, #2. Phone 2760-8115. Open 9a-9p; closed the 2nd and 4th Sun. of each month. The owner does speak a tiny bit of English in case you need to ask for something like baking powder.

Their selection of baking stuff is very good, and most prices quite reasonable. Their 1 lb. of butter is cheaper than Welcome or RT Mart, for example, at 65 NT.

Most the people who have been here a few years understand that they need to look around to find the foods that they really crave and are used to. There are several DIY stores around Taipei County and a search will turn up several. I recall a couple years ago that I was really wanting some cornmeal. I now know where to buy it in several locations. However, when I asked, one of our prolific and knowledgeable posters (Namahottie) invited me to number 4 Park in YongHe. (Taipei County but off the MRT) I met her and she showed me a grocery mart that had Jiffy Cornbread mix. I bought them out. She then showed me a DIY baking cooking store nearby. Well, that prompted me to write again.
I went to the DIY store again today. I was actually planning on buying some powdered sugar for my morning French Toast. As I was strolling the aisles, I wondered how many of these items people on this site miss. You really should see the selection. I have bought dried split peas and lentils before. They didn’t have them, but I was able to score a kilo bag of Navy (small white) beans. Of course the have all the cake and cup cake packaging that one would expect but think about:
capers
refried beans
powdered sugar
bagged walnuts
bagged almonds
bagged nuts of about every kind
creamed cheese
butter
frozen rounds of breakfast hashbrowns
pizza crusts
bagels
olives (green and black)
some specialty breakfast cereals
pinto beans
lentils (sometimes)
dried peas (sometimes)
Cool Whip
Flavorings that rival the Choclate Factory
rum, raspberry, strawberry and many other liquors by the large bottle
Pre-made cookie dough
I think I saw pearl tapioca but I wasn’t sure so I didn’t buy it
Canned soda water
Canned tonic water
others
Huge (like kilo sized) chocolate bars of every description
Hershey’s unsweetened cocao
various odds and ends of pre-formed and frozen ready to cook and eat crap
Also a reasonable selection of utensils and appliances - ex:
a damn fine looking huge oven for about 6,500, KitchenAid Mixer and numerous others.
Hell, I can’t recall any more but there was much and many
Go check it out. It is a good place to shop. Some of the stuff was just out of control as it had been imported. For example, the various Betty whomever cake mixes and Jello stuff. However, there were imitation knockoffs that were cheap. Go try it and report back.

EDIT:
Thank you Temp.
Just a couple too many Gin and Tonics here.

Directions:
YongHe in Taipei County
Find Number 4 park on any map
Once you find the park circle it keeping the park on your right or left
When you see a Family Mart across an alley from Hess, turn in. This lane T’s at the park so there is only one way to turn. There is no street sighn but it is Lane 118. Go to Number 14. You got it.
I guess the key is finding number 4 park. Those of you who live nearby can probably help but it is on the MRT map and not that difficult.
Sorry for the remiss. Thanks again Tempo.

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directions? thanks.

Do you have the exact name, address and phone of the store, or more specific directions? That might help people trying to find it.

Sorry. I edited my original post with I think some pretty good directions. I didn’t get the card from them but the name outside in English is “DIY”. Not many of them in that area so if you follow the directions at number 4 park, I think you got it.

DIY
Zhonghe City
Yi An Road Lane 118 # 14
02-8860-8895
Open 10-9pm

Here’s the address :smiley: enjoy. It’s not that bad of a drive from Taipei, unless you’re in Tianmu…

Just finished a big bowl of navy beans with ham. Damn I missed that. I got the largest ham end (hock) that RT Mart had to offer. I sliced the skin logitudinally in about three lengths. Boil the hell out of it for about 2 hours. The skin will pull away from the meat. When it does, pull the skin off, discard, and leave as much of the fat and meat as possible. Keep adding water as it boils down and add about a pound of the navy beans (dried green peas and lentils are great instead). Add enough garlic to scald the hair off your head, some salt and pepper to taste. Keep the beans and pork on low simmer for about as long as you can stand to wait. Eventually, the meat will fall off the bones, maybe with a little help, and now you have a great pot of white beans and ham. It won’t be smoked ham but it was damed good and I will freeze several packages for later dinners.
Note: I have been looking for the small white beans (Northern Beans or Navy Beans) for several years. They are very uncommon here so if you see them, buy what you want and let others know where you got them.
Now, next time I will make a big pan of cornbread to be eaten with honey butter with my beans.
Hope you can try this. It’s easy to make and goes a long way to keeping you in “comfort food”

damn I’m hungry now.

I thought a search would turn this up, but no.

I’m going to make a birthday cake. So I need self-raising and plain flour, greaseproof paper, baking tins, confectioners sugar.

If there’s a specialized shop, I suppose they might have candles and holders as well. I suppose I could always beg a pink wax question mark from one of the places that make the runny Taiwanese trifle-cakes. Maybe they’ll even let me have a transparent plastic knife and some dolls house paper plates as well!

All help appreciated. Going shopping tomorrow 21st March.

ok, self-raising flour I’ve only seen in Jasons, citysuper etc, plain flour is available in just about any supermarket, or costco, greaseproof paper, cheapest in costco but comes on a huge roll, baking tins, I’d suggest the Korean home store, I think it’s even called Home or House or something like that, can’t remember offhand, but it’s the cheapest place I’ve found for round fairly large baking tins, I tihnk I paid NT$250 and it has a removable ring as well. confectioners sugar, isn’t that just powder sugar? again I think you can find that in most supermarkets, I’ve never had any problem finding that stuff. besides, you don’t really need self-raising flour, just add baking powder.

OK, I have been searching for half an hour now and I can’t find the baking goods store thread. I know it is somewhere by Nanking West road, if I recall well.
I need to go back there to buy some stuff.
Sandman, can you find the thread for me or do you havve the address of the store I am talking about?
Thanks.

[quote=“igorveni”]OK, I have been searching for half an hour now and I can’t find the baking goods store thread. I know it is somewhere by Nanjing West road, if I recall well.
I need to go back there to buy some stuff.
Sandman, can you find the thread for me or do you havve the address of the store I am talking about?
Thanks.[/quote]

there is a better baking store on a lane just off Civil Blvd. on the SW quadrant of the Civil/DunHua intersection.

[quote=“Deuce Dropper”][quote=“igorveni”]OK, I have been searching for half an hour now and I can’t find the baking goods store thread. I know it is somewhere by Nanjing West road, if I recall well.
I need to go back there to buy some stuff.
Sandman, can you find the thread for me or do you havve the address of the store I am talking about?
Thanks.[/quote]

there is a better baking store on a lane just off Civil Blvd. on the SW quadrant of the Civil/Dunhua intersection.[/quote]
Good to know. Thank you, I will go there this afternoon.

[quote=“igorveni”]OK, I have been searching for half an hour now and I can’t find the baking goods store thread. I know it is somewhere by Nanking West road, if I recall well.
I need to go back there to buy some stuff.
Sandman, can you find the thread for me or do you havve the address of the store I am talking about?
Thanks.[/quote]

Here’s a post I put up on the 14th. Included is a link to a map you can print.

viewtopic.php?f=98&t=75127&start=10

Please excuse if the image hosting site dumps a pop-up porn picture in your browser. I chose to call it a “family” image when I posted it, but the image hosting site now seems to think porn links are appropriate for families.

[quote=“Sleepyhead”][quote=“igorveni”]OK, I have been searching for half an hour now and I can’t find the baking goods store thread. I know it is somewhere by Nanjing West road, if I recall well.
I need to go back there to buy some stuff.
Sandman, can you find the thread for me or do you havve the address of the store I am talking about?
Thanks.[/quote]

Here’s a post I put up on the 14th. Included is a link to a map you can print.

forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … 7&start=10

Please excuse if the image hosting site dumps a pop-up porn picture in your browser. I chose to call it a “family” image when I posted it, but the image hosting site now seems to think porn links are appropriate for families.[/quote]
Thanks, but no map of the store you mentioned. The map is for a DIY bake shop in Fu Yuan street. This is a different store, right?