Taiwanese Sandwich, Vancouver

A while back there was a Taiwanese festival, which to my knowledge, was just about food. It's known to anyone with taste buds that the Taiwanese have some of the best street snacks in the world, but amongst the array of soups and meat popsicles and deep fried chicken bits, here was a Taiwanese sandwich!

Now under colonial rule there was and still sort of remains the popular teatime sandwich, but this ain't it. This was a pulled pork sandwich that reminded me of the Chilean sandwiches that haunt me in my dreams.

Here, the "bread" is in fact a large steamed bun, or steamed flat bread, with a mound of pork and cilantro. The bun bread held its contents better than ever expected, but if you read this blog with any regularity, you will note how important the bread is to the integrity of each sandwich. This was more of a delicious meat dish encased in a shell, which some may say sandwich, but I am not convinced. In the same way a Jamaican patty or empanada (Salvadorean or Columbian) are delicious, but not sandwiches, this falls into the same category for me.

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