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Taiwanese-Style Eggplant by Brandon Jew
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Taiwanese-Style Eggplant by Brandon Jew

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Sep 03, 2021
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Taiwanese-Style Eggplant
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Excerpted with permission from: Mister Jiu's in Chinatown: Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food by Brandon Jew and Tienlon Ho

For this recipe, I prefer medium Chinese eggplants, the pale purple, slender ones that are ten to twelve inches long, over similar-looking but more bitter varieties. This calls for oil-…

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