Am I the only one who has the opinion that Taiwanese barbecue is complete crap?
Grab the cheapest, crappiest meat you can find, slap it on top of a makeshift barbecue made from a sawed in half gas tank and voile…Taiwanese barbecue. If you want to be really fancy, buy some crappy 7-11 bread (if you can call it that) and sandwich your crappy meat in that.
Sorry, 10 years of being force fed this crap at the in-laws for every major Taiwanese holiday and I just can’t stomach it anymore.
I brought my own meats before (as a kind gesture to share) and all I got was…“that’s not the way we do it”. please spare me from future barbecues!
Also, make the barbeque at ankle-height on the street in the inner city, so that all of the dog shit, sand, grit, dust, general garbage and fuel emissions can be blown onto it. :lick:
Don’t forget the locally produced barbecued sauces! You know those must have quality ingredients!
Mmm … lots of slices of mystery meat and mushrooms and whatever else, all basted in the same sauce. (I was a friggin’ idiot for not bringing my own ancho sauce, or SOMETHING, to a barbecue [strike]torture session[/strike] party last week.)
Hit the in laws bbq on sat nite, things were looking bad for a bit when the yellowing rancid looking beef was initially produced along with the pork wraps and clams and over cooked sausages. Of course not a vegetable in sight. Well suddenly my uncle in laws wife produced real beef fillets that they paid 2000ntd for from Costco. Holy shit even miaoli farmers are finally figuring out what the good stuff is. Kept the sauce away, sprinkled on the salt, couldn’t go wrong.
Yes it’s my turn next year expectations have been raised!
I like how much they like bbq. I don’t like that they dry off the meat and then soak it (as anything else!) in the same fuckin’ sauce. Actually what I dislike the most is the onmipresence of that stupid “bbq sauce”. I saw my coworkers (well, not only them… also relatives) to spread it over pork, beef, mushrooms, seafood and I don’t remember what else indistinctively. Don’t they find BORING if not annoying that everything tastes the same???
The government should ban sales of these ‘throw-away-BBQ-sets’ (disposable) … they are so cheap that no one cares to keep them for another ‘major’ BBQ holiday!
I was told the whole barbecue craze in Taiwan was started by a soy sauce commercial a few years back.
From their website:
1986: Kimlan participated in the Taiwan Mid-Autumn Festival Food Show and received the Golden Award from the appraisal committee and the Excellent New Product Development Award from the Economic Bureau for its BBQ sauce. This was the first bottle of BBQ sauce ever made in Taiwan. The promotions and advertisements for this product sparked a nationwide love and trend for barbecuing during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
So what you’re saying is that the BBQ is an excuse to eat the sauce?
Now everything makes more sense. Well, other than the fact that Taiwanese consumers have turfed just about every other trend I’ve seen (egg tarts, dougnuts, etc) but have persistently held onto this one.
You need to be French working in New York to come up with that … butter-layered dough, deep fried in oil, topped-off with a sugary coating and filled with more sweet stuff! :s
But hey, it’s not BBQ crap, it’s ‘refined’ French pastry from a renowned pastrychef.
[quote=“afterspivak”]So what you’re saying is that the BBQ is an excuse to eat the sauce?
Now everything makes more sense. Well, other than the fact that Taiwanese consumers have turfed just about every other trend I’ve seen (egg tarts, dougnuts, etc) but have persistently held onto this one.
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And still do eventhough there was a BBQ sauce scandal at one time!
the thing is asides from the Aboriginals, people in Taiwan didn’t have a BBQ tradition until the mid 80s, when Kimlan ran a bunch of TV ads to promote their BBQ sauce and BBQ during the moon festival. Before that moon festivals were about smelling the aroma of tea, eating moon cake and watching the moon in a relaxing mood. How it’s all about the smell of burnt stuff and smoke covered sky.
The BBQ ritual is force and a commercial stunt to begin with, and it will stay the same way it was created in the foreseeable future.
If/when I go to a BBQ in the west, I generally have to either eat before, or prepare and take food with me. Otherwise it’s the odd mushroom and lettuce leaf on a piece of bread. Should it be a beachside community, then there might be a few prawns. But generally, if you don’t like or eat steak or sausages, you’re shit out of luck.
If/when I go to a BBQ in Taiwan, I am guaranteed of leaving full. All kinds of fish, seafood, vegetables etc are a standard part of a BBQ. And if I don’t want BBQ sauce on something, I just don’t put it on.
But whether it’s Taiwan or the west, the main reason people go to BBQ is to relax and have fun with family and friends. If you don’t like the food, well it’s only one meal a year.
Ay-men, cf. Compared with China when the ancient traditional moon festival activity is ‘going to the mall’, it’s pretty fun to have a Taiwan-style BBQ with yer people, no? Kerrist, are you moaning because you have loved ones to hang out with but don’t like the sauce they put on their dinner?
Me, I was given a couple of mooncakes, but basically, I spent it home alone.
Thanks very much.
Yeah, heaven frigging forbid random groups of total strangers who don’t even speak your language should enthusiastically cajole you to join them for free frigging hot food and beer just because.
The frigging horror.
[quote=“Quarters”]Am I the only one who has the opinion that Taiwanese barbecue is complete crap?
Grab the cheapest, crappiest meat you can find, slap it on top of a makeshift barbecue made from a sawed in half gas tank and voile…Taiwanese barbecue. If you want to be really fancy, buy some crappy 7-11 bread (if you can call it that) and sandwich your crappy meat in that. [/quote]
What were you expecting…duck?? :roflmao:
One gets the distinct impression you aren’t at all sorry.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, you won’t be getting invited to mine, at least.
please spare me from future barbecues!
