Taro pastry

Taro pastry
Typepastry
Place of originTaiwan
Region or stateTaichung
Main ingredientsflour, butter, sugar, taro filling

Taro pastry (Chinese: 芋頭酥; pinyin: Yùtóusū) is a Taiwanese shortbread snack with a spherical shape and made with taro as sweet filling.[1] It first appeared in Taichung City, Taiwan in the late 1980s. At that time, it was made from surplus taro, but it later became a local snack.[2]

  1. ^ Bull, Marian (2014-02-18). "At Win Son Bakery, a new vegan treat delights". Gothamist. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  2. ^ "Ah-Tsung-Shih Taro Culture Museum". Gothamist (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2023-06-09. Retrieved 2024-04-22.