Run bing: the Taiwanese burrito
The Taiwanese run bing is a cross between a burrito and the Vietnamese summer roll. Filled with pork, cabbage and sometimes even ice cream. This filled wrap is the Asian burrito of your dreams.
Run bing is traditional Taiwanese street food. In southern Taiwan, it is often eaten by families around the Qingming Festival, also known as tomb sweeping day. A traditional holiday when ancestral graves are visited and tended to.
Packed full
The filling of a run bing usually consists of pork, cooked cabbage, peanut powder, bean sprouts and various other vegetables. They certainly don’t skimp on the filling: the wrap is packed generously. The wrap itself is paper-thin, but unlike the Vietnamese summer roll, it is made with wheat flour rather than rice paper.
Ice ice baby
But that is not even the best thing about run bing. There is also a sweet version! That’s right: an ice cream burrito. At Taipei’s night markets, the same thin wrap is used to fill with ice cream in flavors such as pineapple or peanut, after which it is further dressed with peanut powder and coriander.
How is run bing made?
In the video below, you can see how quickly the run bing is thrown together. Want to try making the Taiwanese ice cream burrito yourself? Then this recipe from The Guardian is a good one.
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