2019 Taitung Slow Food Festival
#Reunion Dinner Feast
Event Site│Fantacy Tiehua
Event Date│2019/12/7-8 15:00-20:00
Besides the indigenous communities, more and more people of various cultural backgrounds have settled down and called Taitung home. When it’s time that family members get together and enjoy the reunion dinner, Taitung has a lot to offer in terms of its variety. Take Paiwan community in Tuban for example, Masuvaqu/Millet Harvest Festival in summer is when they harvest millet, worship their ancestors and hold a pig-slaughtering ceremony to express their gratitude. Vuvu, an indigenous respectful term for elderly ladies, will prepare gavay/millet dumpling and binilawi/millet sweet balls to share with everybody in the community. You can also find salty and sweet cake originating from Tainan, rice cake soup from Japan and Spaetzle from Germany and many others. Let’s discover what’s on the reunion dinner table at Taitung Slow Food – Reunion Feast on Dec. 7 and 8.
Slow Food Festival Map
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Activities
Slow Food Making
Slow Food Taro Dessert Making
We’ll learn how to make Paiwan dessert, djinukul. First, we boil the taro root; next mash it to mix with peanut powder and then use the mixture to make taro balls. It’s one of the Paiwan reunion dinner dish.
Slow Food Making
Dumpling Making with Xiaoqing
Xiaoqing is a senior food critic and the director of Slow Food Association. She’ll teach us how to make dumplings with her favorite recipe of filling - fennel, parsley, celery, shallot and tomatoes. It’s a delicious dish that usually involves all family members for its lengthy preparation, perfect for getting together and catching up.
