A family from Taiwan comes to visit us for an educational consultation about for their youngest son’s studying in a UK’s university. They brought us several Taiwanese food, some of which being very rare to be consumed since we left Taiwan for the UK. One of those presents is Sun Cake
(Pronounced Tai Yang Bing). It is a popular snack that we love to buy as a gift of travel in Taichung, a beautiful and contemporary city at Central Taiwan.
Sun Cake is flat and round with sweet and soft malt sugar fillings embrased in layers of flaked pastry skins. The ingredients include flour, butter, sugar, malt sugar and honey. The Sun Cake is purchased particularly from a small shop named ‘Chiawisn.’ This shop is not historic, only 25 years. Nevertheless, their Milky Sun Cake has been well-known in recent years and been awarded a Fine and Outstanding Sun Cake Prize. Chiawisn’s Sun Cake is full of the smell of butter. The pastry is thin and crispy while the filling is soft and moist. A very good combination when tasting. Although the ingredients contain many different sweet things, the cake is not too sweet at all. Chiawisn claims its products are made with low sugar, low fat, low carb but high quality, suitable for those care about their body weights. In addition, it is made for vegetarians. I love to have the cake with a cup of tea (green tea, in particular).
The family comes to England for the son’s school transfer. I can tell how much the family is worried about the son’s study environment, his social activity and his adaptability in this new University. The young man will live with us afterwards and the mum keeps telling me how grateful and how lucky they are to have us with his son. We are also delighted to meet them as they are so kind and easy-going. Eventually, I hope the son really understands the efforts his family has put on him and he will work hard in order to make himself better, on study and personality.
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