Taiwanese Street Eats Jian Dan Kitchen Launches In Toronto 🇹🇼

 

What an AmaZing weekend with the inauguration launch of my friends' Taiwanese food business @jiandankitchen2023 🇹🇼♨️ in their first ever pop up @tasteofvietnam @nathanphillipssquare!

🌟 Taste of Vietnam 2025 is HERE! 🌟🇻🇳

Three fun-filled days with mouthwatering cuisine, vibrant cultural performances, traditional wedding displays, lantern parades, fashion shows, live music, fun contests, and so much more! 

Owners Jian- former chef at One Michelin Star resto Don Alfonso and wife Jenny (my former student at Newcomer Kitchen's food entrepreneurship program) were so excited to share the best of Taiwan street food they grew up with back home! 

"Our stall takes inspiration from traditional Taiwanese street food blending it with new flavours to breathe creativity into familiar Taiwanese tastes. We aim to present a fresh take on nostalgic flavours while sharing the unique charm and innovation of Taiwanese street food with people from all cultural backgrounds!"-- Jian

A change of pace from all the Vietnamese specialties that abound, we offered samples and sold lots of fried food delights signature of what the Taiwanese is known for such as squid balls, popcorn chicken, taro balls (vegan) and sweet potato fries with plum powder (WoW right??), and in special combos with refreshing Taiwanese drinks such as winter melon tea with aiyu jelly- a natural pectin released from the seeds of the creeping fig for a unique texture! Once people tasted they had to buy 😋🙌!

Fried chicken and sweet potato fries combo 😋!

Rain ☔ or shine 🥵, the show must go on... and this team were complete troopers. Bringing their goodies to sell to patrons sheltering from the rain under the City Hall canopied entrance, the only ones who thought to do that 👏! 

Love the staff's energy and poised professionalism- so cut out for electric events like this 💪👊💥!! 

And the tight-knit small Taiwanese community who came by to support 💞

Give this food start up @jiandankitchen2023 a follow and keep posted on upcoming pop up events lined up this summer in late August and early September 😁!