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Food Connections

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

Time, Terroir, Taiwan: Soy Sauce Brewing in XiLuo - Full Documentary

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Provider Yun Hai Taiwanese Pantry

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.