I was craving decent bread and was on the hunt for a breadmaker, but they are not easy things to find here.
After some encouragement from a good friend I had a go at making some myself. All I have is a shitty 1500nt Sampo bench top oven, but after around 10-15 loaves I can humbly say every one has been a winner.
Takes about 15 mins I guess, not including cooking time.
Fresh bread sliced off a Rustic Wholegrain Loaf everyday 
You can get bread machines in costco, sub NT$2k, but it’s not great, kinda old fashioned I guess, but at least it’s affordable. I get quite varied results from it, one time the bread comes out great, another it’s this thiny hard loaf, not sure why, as I use about the same amount of stuff every time.
Anyone know where I can find rye flour in taipei/taoyuan as all the places I knew of (a local healthfood shop close to where I used to live in taipei, citysuper, etc) doesn’t have it any more and I’ve checked in Jasons, Mitsukoshi and Breeze… 
I got some at Wellman’s, a while back.
I spotted an organic supermarket type store in Taoyuan today. On Daxing Rd, just west of Jung Jeng.
I think there is another one about 3 blocks north of Daxing, about the same distance west of Jung Jeng.
I haven’t been to either, but you might want to check them out.
Interesting, not that I have any idea where that is… sorry, but I’m really lost here…
Any chance to either get it in chinese so I can search on google maps or something that I might know that’s close by?
Last time I got some rye flour was in HK…
Oh well, thanks for the heads up anyhow
Rye flour is sold in an organic shop near veterans general hospital, close the regular bus stop from VGH towards ShiPai MRT station.
You could also try one close to Taipower Station, on Roosevelt , not too far from the crossing with DaAn St.; someone here might be able to give better directions.
Cheers,
YingFan
Cool, thanks
The City Super in the Zhongxiao-Fuxing (SW) Sogo has this again: NT$120 for 1 kg of organic rye flour. I saw it there tonight.
dat’s cheep. I’m off to get sum. riy flowa rox.
Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to have to pass by there before they run out that. Not too bad price either.
Picked up a panasonic breadmaker today, $5500, very happy with the initial result!
Ouch, that’s expensive, the one in Costco is less than NT$2,500…
I shove mine in those clay flowerpots. Works a treat. Cost like NT$20 each or less.
And then what? I mean, sure it’s hot here (at least in the summer) but I bet even you can’t bake bread in the sun…
Nor do I think you can afford to eat beans to the extent that you have your own natural gas powered steam oven… 
I see what you mean. Yeah, I then stick the flowerpots in the oven.
So the breadmaker’s not shoved into the flowerpots. Huh. You had me wondering.
:raspberry: another person that has a real oven… it’s not fair I say! 
Yeah, my wife was warned off that one for whatever reason. Quality on this seems good, if it lasts it’ll be worth it i figure.
Well, I’ve had the one from Costo for well over a year now and it’s still going strong. Sure, I guess I only use it once every week or every other week (I use my XXL toaster oven at times as well), but knock on wood, not had any problems with it and I’ve abused it a fair bit with both rye, raisins and seeds. Most of the bread machines here look really old fashioned compared to the new thingies I’ve seen in Europe. You can get an almost real loaf of bread these days with the dual kneading machines…
Oh well, so much for living on the bread backside of the world
Wait, wait, wait! You mean the bread from these things is no good? I’m just starting to explore the possibilities.
HG