At the table
Hold the food with its paper wrapper or tray, keeping the paper out of your mouth. Take small bites through both sausages; for sharing, ask whether it can be cut into pieces.
Contains pork. Rice sausage may use pork casing, lard or dried shrimp; sauces and toppings may add soy, wheat or peanuts. Check the actual ingredients for dietary needs.
The plain version is not chili-hot; added chili sauce changes that. Removing the inner sausage does not necessarily make the rice part vegetarian.
GET TO KNOW THE DISH
What goes into it?
Explore some key ingredients below. Preparations may use additional seasonings and ingredients.
Toppings vary: garlic, pickled greens, thick soy sauce, coriander, ground peanuts or basil may be offered. They are not all required in every serving.
Typical ingredients
In some versions
Recipes vary by restaurant.
How does it taste?
Sweet-salty grilled pork and toasted rice; garlic and pickles add sharpness if used.
- Chili heat
- Texture
- Chewy sticky rice around juicy sausage, with a lightly browned casing.
- How it’s made
- The cooked rice sausage and pork sausage are grilled, then the rice sausage is opened and assembled with the pork sausage and chosen toppings.
Toppings vary: garlic, pickled greens, thick soy sauce, coriander, ground peanuts or basil may be offered. They are not all required in every serving.
A CONNECTION TO PLACE
Origin & regional roots
Associated with Taiwan.
About this regional connection
Taiwan: Taiwan nightmarket snack; unverified precise origin omitted.
Ask if they have it first
请问你们有大腸包小腸吗？
Do you have this item?
A LITTLE SOMETHING TO READ
Story & history
A night-market rice-and-meat snack
This account describes a tradition or story, rather than an established historical fact.
This Taiwan night-market snack puts rice and grilled meat in one handheld package. Choosing toppings changes the balance of sweet sausage, tangy pickle and pungent garlic.