Formosa Bites

Formosa Bites is back with our delicious Taiwanese dishes made with ingredients from our farm and other amazing Tasmania producers🔥🔥🔥

We are at tonight with Formosa Bites signature , Spiced Pork Rice Bowl and 🍲🍚🍢🦑

Testing out our new charcoal BBQ for DarkMofo with a delicious home dinner🔥🔥🔥

#台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞 #烤肉 #冬季 #晚餐 #小島生活

10th of April 酪梨入土

This is a milestone for us, we had the very first crop, 100 avocado trees, IN THE GROUND! hooray🎉

It was cloudy and humid in the air when we taking the tree from current garden to Breem Creek. “Not the weather we want for a long digging day but at least it’d be good for the tree”- what we thought on the drive. Then as we went, the sky cleared up and our spirits was getting high☀️

Especially thanks to Nathan, Alex and the best neighbour in the world- Nicola, Carlos and the Wherrett family. Can’t have it done so nicely and quickly without you💚

There’s picture before and after, plus time lap videos from the morning to the end of the day.

Having the tree in is only just one of the steps on this journey, there are still so many things to do in different season and different stage of the tree froth. Hopefully we have most of the thing done right and eating our own avocado in three years!

四月十號
是我跟Sam的里程碑- 種了我們農場的第一個經濟作物「酪梨」入土啦🎊

從去年五月開始架圍欄的一切一切準備，都在這一天發揮作用。後續還會有很多持續照顧和維持的工作讓我們繼續忙碌，還有更多東西要種。還有房子要蓋（我多希望房子也可以用種的，它就會自己慢慢長大😂）

這一百顆酪梨樹不但能提供我們食物、經濟收入、還有透過將空氣中的二氧化碳轉化為土裡的碳來抵掉一些些我們生活的碳足跡。因為即使做再多的減塑、環保建築和環保生活的所有方面，我的生活脫離不了網路、汽油和每年搭飛機回家。

好啦，三年。三年後我開吃播，直接從酪梨樹上邊摘邊吃給你看🥑🥑🥑

蜂蜜青李酒
Green Gage Wine
Still 11m1w to go

Ingredients:
3100g green gage
1000g raw honey
1 year of time

Greengage (Prunus italica Borkh) 青李在塔斯是很普遍在各家後院有的果樹，一到夏天，就會結實累累滿樹。完全成熟的青李有濃郁的梅李果香，甜而不澀，直接吃就是甜點。非常適合拿來醃漬或做成甜點餡料或果醬。

Sam姊姊後院就有三顆果樹，在短短一個月的果期要吃完那三顆樹根本不可能，放著讓它掉滿地又好可惜。反正我每年都心心念念想要找台灣青梅來釀梅酒，不如就試試看青李吧！

成份只有後院的無農藥青李加上當地的生蜂蜜，一年後看我po品酒照啦！如果失敗了，那我就默默倒掉不另通知了😁

Yes oh Y.E.S 🙌🙌

See you tonight
is back this Friday 🦑🦑🐙🐙

做果醬還是水果酒？
Picked a 9L bucket full of cape goose berry in lest than 10 minutes and there’s still a lot more to collect. Humm...what should I turn them into?

Any good ideas 💡?

關於這個果子，我所能查到的範圍內有三個名字—燈籠果/好望角醋栗/鵝果，如果有知道台灣俗名的人請幫我正名一下吧！
or ?

前潛水教練職業病
Harvest for tomorrow💥

看到我前面一大包、後面一大包，Sam大笑說你看起來很誇張！

我OS：阿這不就是後面一組重裝，左手抱著自己的蛙鞋加上客人的蛙鞋，右手空下來扶著剛體驗潛水完的客人走上沙灘的標準配置而已，怎麼了嗎？

對，我2020一整年沒回台灣潛水，想潛水想瘋了啦！中文英文文字完全不搭嘎，我也不管啦！
#收成 #豐收 #自給自足 #自然農法 #小島生活 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞

放山雞蛋和那些爽雞們
These eggs and those glamorous chicken

Our Egg Froed Rice is made with true pastured eggs and homegrown + local small farmer grown seasonal vegetable, cooked with Australia olive oil, natural brew soy sauce and . It’s the best quality on both nutrient and value you could possibly get from street food. Only available .

See you this Friday from 4-9pm😉

之前朋友貼給我看一張台灣高價雞蛋的文宣，四盒十顆裝烏骨雞蛋500塊。強調母雞的飼料富含亞麻仁油、杏包菇粉、蒜頭粉等，且母雞在自然放養環境中長大。很貴嗎？不，這樣的蛋在澳洲一盒是$12澳幣。

我看完的念頭是，這不就是我家雞蛋嗎？我家爽雞都是吃我家蒜頭、魚肉、菠菜、節瓜、各式切下來邊邊角角的海帶、南瓜、蘋果、櫻桃、龍蝦鮑魚長大的。 知道在台灣也慢慢有族群重視食材產生的環境和飲食這件事情讓我很開心！

Formosa Bites 的蛋炒飯用的就是用這樣品質的蛋、我們自家或像我們一樣小農的時令蔬菜。好的食材只用澳洲橄欖油、自然釀造醬油和塔斯海鹽調味，就能有豐富且圓潤的滋味。如果不是我們自己種、自己養，是不可能負擔這些等級食材的價位。在塔斯的任平價餐飲，找不到更高規格用料的蛋炒飯了啦！
#蛋炒飯 #炒飯 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞

一個東西合併的概念
羊排薯泥配熱炒菜
Lamb steak, mash potato and caramelised onion with egg plant, silverbeet, broccoli and tofu stir fry- a fusion of West and the East dinner!

I should’ve made the tofu myself then it’d be all Tasmanian😝

Weather forecasts that Summer will be back from tomorrow and throughout the whole weekend, why not enjoy it with while it’s here!

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🌞 Summer has arrived and Franko is firing 🙌

Up on the Band Stand for the rest of January 2021 👇

| Friday January 15
4.45pm ☆ Dylan Burgos
6.45pm ☆ Gabe + the Degazarios

| Friday January 22
4.45pm ☆ Alice Jane Trio
6.45pm ☆ Belle's Boys

| Friday January 29
4.45pm ☆ Billy + the Men of Steel
6.45pm ☆ The Skinks

Book your tix online at 👇 www.streeteatsfranko.com.au or grab 'em at the gate if we're not sold out.

See you there Hobart 💥😋

4.00pm - 9.00pm Every Friday
Franklin Square Hobart

食用叢林
With the rain, warmth and longer day, the garden is turning into an edible jungle!

We have been harvesting asparagus, kales, celtus, spring onion, carrots, spinach, bok choy, zucchini, potato, garlic, silver beats, lettuce, chives, garlic chives, coriander and more!

This Friday we are turning those fresh and spray free vegetables in to our delicious chicken salad and egg fried rice to serve in from 4-9pm. Come relax with the music and healthy goodies😋

在夏季的長日照及溫暖氣候的滋潤下，所有菜園裡的植物都瘋狂成長。現在進菜園就像是走進矮灌木叢林一樣，隨手一摘都是好吃的菜。

對我來說種可以吃的植物遠比種花有吸引力，因為菜開起花來也是美得不要不要又可以吃，比只能看不能吃的東西更實在。送我一束花椰菜花會讓我比收到一束玫瑰花還開心！哈哈哈

殷殷企盼的樹苗們到了
The babies have arrived🤩🤩🤩

Formosa Bites’s January and February schedule

Because we are meanwhile building our farm and house this year so only doing Franko fortnightly.

I feel terrible when I heard people missed out us in Franko, so I’ll update our two month schedule monthly from now on.

We’ll see you next Friday in Franko!

桶仔雞的新境界
We introduced Sam’s mum to this new fire cooking experience when we camp on our new farm with her in the New Year’s Day. She was stunned🤩

I also trialed roasting a whole cabbage. It turns out well! The sweetness of this cabbage from plus the caramelised flavour makes it so yum!

自從發現桶仔雞桶子拿來烤羊腿也很成功之後，在盛產羊肉的塔斯，我開始有機會就來烤隻羊腿練習火候的掌控。樹幹粗細、距離桶子距離以及火相對桶子和底下陶甕裡的蔬菜的高低都會影響烤的時間和肉的口感。

正好從附近社區菜園買了顆鮮採高麗菜，順便就練習一下直火烤菜。炭火烤有一種電烤出不來的甜甜焦香，讓人欲罷不能！
#露營 #炭烤 #烤肉 #小島生活 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞

Hobart 難得少數對COVID 採用跟台灣一樣高標準且嚴格執行的夜市
A Night Market that’s COVID safe for patrons and stall holders in Hobart!

Formosa Bites will see you on 22nd Jan in Franko!

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What's the $5.50 entry fee for?

This is a very common question asked of us and, communicating the rationale behind it to people who do not understand the complexities (and costs) associated with operating a highly regulated, Covid-Safe mass gathering is a difficult task.

And we get it, unless you are knee deep in it as we are, it is difficult to understand.

So perhaps yesterday's experience at Franko will go a long way in explaining the entry fee.

The entry fee allowed us to build a new website that facilitated an online ticketing system so that we could capture the contact details of EVERY person that plans to enter Franko.

At 12.00pm yesterday, the State Government closed our borders to 5 LGA's in QLD deeming them high risk given the UK strain of Covid-19 identified in the community.

The entry fee then paid for one of our team members to work through our ticketing database and contact the approximate 50 residents from those suburbs who had booked tickets for the night to Franko, to determine if they were able to attend.

Some already knew, some were unaware that they should be in isolation effective immediately. A minority thought that they would come anyway. We advised them otherwise.

The entry fee then paid for 10 gate staff to vet the origin of customers who came to purchase tickets at the gate. We turned away 3 groups who were unaware of the latest updates and informed them they should be in isolation and they needed to call the Public Health Hotline immediately.

The entry fee pays for the masks our team wear when we are interfacing with these patrons, the phones we use to capture visitor numbers and scan tickets, the radios we use to communicate across gates and it pays for the gallons of hand sanitiser that we, and our customers use adhering strictly to Covid-Safe hygiene principles.

In a nutshell, the entry fee keeps us all safe.

A shoutout to our awesome team for their hard work and diligence yesterday 🙌🙌

完美的好天氣
It’s great day out in the water 🌊
get exercise and food🎣

Happy New Year!!

Let’s have fun at the first night market in 2021 on this Friday 🥂

See you this Friday for the Christmas Special 🎄
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🎄 Franko's Funky Christmas Special⁣ 🎄

Join us as we bring you a V.E.R.Y Merry Christmas Friday December 18, with⁣ an action packed stage including , (and some very special guest performers), Mr Kelly Ottoway and⁣ the 🎺 Horns Of Justice 🎷 bringing jazz + soul classics with a twist of 🎅Christmas⁣ to Franko!⁣

Friday 18 December⁣
4.00pm - 9.00pm⁣
Franklin Square⁣
Hobart⁣

Book your tickets online at www.streeteatsfranko.com.au or, pick up a ticket on the gate if not sold⁣ out prior.⁣

See you there Hobart 😎

💃 Let's D.A.N.C.E Hobart 🕺

From 5.00pm tomorrow arvo!
Just as well we brought the big bands back 🙌

If you haven't booked your tix for tomorrow 11 December (Uncle Gus + the Rimshots) and Friday 18 December (Franko's Funky Christmas) ... you better get onto it 'cause they're flyin' now.

Whoop whoop, pack you're dancing shoes and meet up 🤩🤩

Dance like these tentacles 🦑

Hobart, we can dance again in Franko! Things has became different, let’s dance with the social distance and keep enjoy life💃🕺
#台灣小吃 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞

Tickets are available at the gate this Friday🎷

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We may not be able to dance Hobart, but it doesn't mean we don't have ears and that we can't jive on the inside!

This Friday, we put the pedal back on the metal as we fire up the Band Stand 💥

4.45pm it's the Finn Seccombe Trio up first with pop/soul/R+B/reggae + jazz baby.

6.45pm it's the jump-jive swing band that are

We've done away with our 2-hour sittings and capped the number of tickets so that you can stay as long as you want.

Head to or website www.streeteatsfranko.com.au  to book now 👌

From December 1st, with the new regulation, no more 2 hours sitting limited 🙌 Plus this Friday it’s Uncle Gus and the Rimshots playing!

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Fridays ...... tix available on our website 🙌

www.streeteatsfranko.com.au

See you on Friday Hobart

💜💙💚💛🧡❤

這，才是雞蛋該有的顏色
This is how a nutritious egg should look like- very saturated orange yolk

We have very similar environment to the wild chicken habitat- low bush canopy for chicken to scratch, to hunt, to sand bathing, to hind from predators for the pastured raising. We give our chicken nature diet- whole grains, raw meat/seafood and fresh from the garden vegetables or all you can eat grass😆 Our girls give us this beautiful nutrition dense eggs in return.

We use these eggs to make our Egg Fried Rice . We aim to lift our street food quality as high as possible from the ingredient 🥚🍳

你買的雞蛋蛋黃是什麼顏色，淡到幾乎快跟牛奶一樣白的慘淡黃色還是鮮豔飽滿機乎要偏紅了的橘色？

在工業化之前，雞蛋和雞肉都是非常珍貴的營養補品，因為那得是自己家有養才能吃得到的。我爺爺就曾說過，他小時候曾經病到奄奄一息，是遇到一個喪子的有錢老奶奶把他當兒子，一天給他吃一顆雞蛋才救回他這條命。

工業化後，工廠式的養雞模式出現，把吃雞/蛋的成本大大降低，雞肉成為全世界食用量最大的低價肉品，雞蛋每天都爽吃。可同時，雞肉/蛋的品質也被降低到前所未有的程度—因為品質並不在工業化追求的大量、低價的標的裡。

人類大腦會自動喜歡色彩豐富而鮮豔的東西，因為鮮豔豐富的色彩確實是有意義的。以天然食物來說，鮮豔的綠色、紫黑色、橘紅色代表他們的葉綠素、花青素、胡蘿蔔素、omega-3等等的含量相對高。攝取這些食物能得到的養分濃度也更高。

以前住在凱恩斯時我不懂為什麼Sam很堅持只買一盒貴兩塊的小規模放養雞場的蛋，但他吃的開心，我們不吵架就好。是在搬來塔斯，自己養了雞，偶爾再吃到外面的蛋才發現—味道完全不同！

這一趟自己養自己種的食物旅程，讓愛做菜的我對美味的要求提升到了從食材的風味及營養開始，而我非常享受這趟還在持續的旅程。
#慢食 #慢食堂 #雞蛋 #跑山雞蛋 #農場到餐桌 #自給自足 #小島生活 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞

疫情後新生活 開賣！
It’s happening!
🥂
#台灣小吃 #烤魷魚 #鹽水雞 #蛋炒飯 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞

It’s TONIGHT! 🦑

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Yaaaaas, it’s official Hobart, we’re coming back at you 💥⁣
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Franko⚡Lo-Fi⚡hits the Square 👉 Friday November 27, 2020 👈⁣
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The (events) world has changed significantly with the onset of Covid, and so too will Franko.⁣
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But the changes that we've come to embrace, are about keeping us all safe.⁣
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What hasn’t changed is the stellar 100% Tassie eats, drinks + music....and THAT park 🥰🥰⁣
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In the coming weeks we’ll keep you updated with the changes so that you are rip ready to go on our first Friday back 🙌⁣
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A shoutout to the team of champions at for helping us to make this happen.⁣
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See you there Hobart 💛

鹽水雞
“Yen Shuie Ji”
the Taiwanese Chicken salad 🥗

How did everyone cope with the roasting day yesterday?

This cool salad “Yen Shuie Ji” is the perfect summer dish that is not only because it’s temperature but also it’s high lighting the summer vegetables and and Sam’s favourite- new season pink eye potatoes 🥔🥒🥔🥕🥔🥦🥔🍠🥔🥑🥔🌶🥔🌽🥔🍅

Local free range chicken lightly spiced and slow cooked to its ultimate tender and juicy stage, plus ours+local farmer’s in season vegetables lightly poached in the same rich flavour broth then sit chilled.

This light, refreshing yet rich in flavour without any dressing Taiwanese Chicken salad will be served in this Friday!

Head to 👇
streeteatsfranko.com.au for the ticket now!

昨天的高溫讓你食慾盡失了嗎？

來來來，這到結合塔斯馬尼亞精神食糧—馬鈴薯的綜合鹽水雞可以是你的救星！

我們挑選了最即時的當季蔬菜—我們和當地農夫的菜園有什麼你就吃什麼（任性😆）；還有東南塔斯在地放養雞場有好好運動肉質鮮嫩的free range 雞肉，跟香料一起低溫慢煮到極致的鮮嫩多汁。

明天晚上，融合在地特色的經典台灣小吃鹽水雞在@Street Eats Franko等你！

應映COVID safe plan, Franko改成購票進場，記得看另一篇發文去買票喔！
#鹽水雞 #台灣小吃 #夏夜 #夜市 #台灣人在塔斯馬尼亞