I am wondering if I can find any pork faggots (or similar) in Taiwan? I had some in NZ last month but couldn’t import them into Taiwan due to restrictions on pork.
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Seen these at ASDA. Any good? I usually steer clear of the frozen and manufactured stuff.
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I usually get them fresh from the butcher.
In Orewa NZ there is a good English butcher with traditional pork pies etc… but the faggots are the best. Especially with mashed potatoes and peas
Looks good. Would probably pair well with mashed potatoes and carrots.
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They absolutely do! Fairly easy dinner to prepare.
The only problem is that most apartments in Taiwan don’t have a proper oven, and the counter-top ones can be quite niggardly. Risky, too, if you plug it in to a wall socket that doesn’t have grounding.
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Yum Yum actually. I buy them from a store near Excel House when I attend events in London.
They’re in most stores of Iceland in the UK, unless they’ve been “cancelled”
For Taiwan, probably best trying to make them yourself. You may struggle to find the real thing in TW but you’d as sure as shit have the ingredients. That’s if you’re prepared to learn what the ingredients actually are #eyelidsInFrankfurters
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They are also in Tesco and Aldi nationwide in the Uk
Can get them from Madbutchers everywhere in NZ or even from New World and Packn save
But I’m wondering where in Taiwan I can buy them.
I’ll check my local, most of the residents of where I live are blue-haired hippie vegans so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was too utterly shocking for their American-contaminated brainfeeds.
Last person I know who said that about meat also loved a bit of the ol’ crack cocaine and heroin. C’est la vie
Edit: sorry I didn’t mean to mix English and French in front of a Canadian 
I thought faggots were bundles of sticks.
I once had a flatmate that bought all food items from Iceland. I got them kicked out . Friggin smell of that food----like cardboard and shartimus.
Got a run down of what it is (ingredients and processing). I bet a beer it can be made here relatively easily.
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The ones at the butchers are usually the best.
But I might just make them myself
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Good video. It convinced me that I need to try them 
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I’m certain you can find the necessary offal (which is not awful) at a wet market or, particularly, a meat market (肉品市場). The video even includes metric units. The biggest issue, as @UnderArmor mentioned is the lack of decent ovens.
By the way, didn’t the Taiwan Tattoo Face bloke have a sausage business at one point? Maybe we could start a petition to give him asylum on the condition that he be in charge of supplying the people with their beloved faggots. I mean, Taiwanese are always SO ADAMANT that people from other countries can’t eat organ/offal meat. Let’s show them!
Cheers. I had no idea they were called this. I grew up in Canada with grandma’s cooking (very much an English family) and had very similar. Minus the stomach lining. Basically very large meat balls, or non flat burger patties but made from the “waste product”. I have a lot of respect for places that use the “throw away” parts. The video you posted is basically not so different than taiwanese ways if we get down to the roots. Taiwan is just more industrialized than the UK. This is going to be easy as hell to make here! In my opinion. Just my thoughts of course.
All these body parts are readily utilized here already. Some of those organs are a delicacy, so it might not be considered cheap like in some western countries for certain cuts.
I think heart, lung, stomach, liver etc is easy to get here already. The grinding machines can buy easily as well. Taiwan manufactures a butt load of them.
The hang up will probably be that net like stomach lining. That’s going to be a scale thing probably. Normally all these small peices get thrown into a massive pot and put into whatever factory making whatever “meat paste”. I feel the basic reality is this ones logistics of getting only 1 lining per pig (means not much KG per animal, per tonne of feed, per meter square of land etc) and the very obvious issues with contamination/disease/spoiling, coupled with the very very limited market is going to make that a hard one. These no money in it, and lots of government bullshit. That’s my bet.
However, basically every Township has a pig butcher on the street. The disadvantage is most of these butchers are served by trucks from Massive factories with overnight fridge delivery (Taiwan is second to none in this regard, just like betel nut). They are already gutted usually. For all the obvious reasons. Like a salmon being delivered, they tend to be gutted on site and either discarded or thrown into the “mcdonalds goo pile” type of thing and sold at bulk buy the tonne for XYZ meat balls and pastes.
If you can chat up a butcher and ask them who buys whole pigs, organs and all (also shit, which enters problems with both EPA and FDA regulation, might need a local person without a shop) you can probably buy them a beer, tea or something and get them to freeze this stomach lining for you each time. Or maybe it’s already a thing? I haven’t seen it separated though, it’s thrown into the grinding pile.
I’m trying to think where I have seen it before in Taiwan. However the basic business model of pork here I guess this is going to be hard without scale. If you had a company making these, it would be easy as anything to get it if ou can guarantee regular purchase at scale. I doubt restaraunt scale is enough either unless a very large chaun/franchise like breakfast shops, McDonald’s, dumplings etc. Perhaps someone else can chime in with a lead.
My best suggestion is start getting friendly with old people running a single table butcher situation with those single cold delivery trucks. See if they know someone getting whole pigs, not gutted. You could buy all their lungs, livers, stomachs, hearts and whatever as well. That might be the key in getting the golden ticket…that white mesh stomach lining 
If I may insert one suggestion. I’ve worked in the swine factory farms in taiwan before. They are no joke filled with hormones, medications, metals, contamination essentially no meaningful feed inspection etc etc. Not going to mention the ethics, but the bullshit in pig feed here is quite serious, and corrupt as all shit. All that to say, if someone wants to eat pork. Sure. But don’t eat the animals filter. The liver and kidney specifically. The whole body is a filter, but the liver and kidneys especially accumulate a lot of garbage toxins. They’re pretty fantastically horrible. Personally I would avoid eating any filter. Regardless of species. Or even whole animals like mussels, clams, shrimp etc hat are filters themselves. Or at least not broken into peices like larger animals, but rather eaten whole. I don’t really care what others eat, but I feel it needs to be openly discussed how gross they are. And the risk involved. Like deep fried snickers bars. Eat them all day, but do be aware of what you’re eating. Heart meat is friggen great in my opinion. Not trying to preach. But units should be said and people that might be unaware can do their due diligence 
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I wouldn’t trust any food for him after seeing his restaurant menu… scribbled on a wall in pen.
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Yup when camping I collect faggots to cook my faggots.
I feed them to my son who does not identify as a pork sausage
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