This film documents the story of Yu Ding Xing, a third-generation soy sauce brewer in Central Taiwan, as they make traditional Taiwanese soy sauce by hand, using black soybeans, terra cotta vats, the sun, and wood fire. It offers a portrait of the brewers and Taiwan's terroir, with a look back to the early days of the brewery and forwards to the next generation.
Clarissa travels around Taiwan and learns how to cook from grandmothers around the island. In this episode, she learns how to make a dough knot soup (mian ge da) from YouTube influencer Wang Pei-jen. At the age of 70, Wang is a feisty online personality with over 200,000 subscribers, whose channel
13:16This film documents the story of Yu Ding Xing, a third-generation soy sauce brewer in Central Taiwan, as they make traditional Taiwanese soy sauce by hand, using black soybeans, te
13:56Clarissa travels around Taiwan and learns how to cook from grandmothers around the island. In this episode, she learns how to make a dough knot soup (mian ge da) from YouTube infl
