If you're thinking this is about a Chinese restaurant at home, you're wrong . Is it Asian food? Yes. Does he come home? Also. But it would be a tremendous injustice to reduce Ta Xan! to those two simple concepts. This new delivery it is an open door to oriental culture , an experience that ranges from gastronomy to traditions, including decoration. And the one in charge of opening it for us is called Wenxian.
Ta Xan! It could be described as an act of generosity. Wenxian's parents they came to Spain from China in the 80s , and she was born in Almeria. That growth on horseback between the two cultures is what has led her to want to give us the best of one of them, a piece of one of the aspects that more curiosity and admiration continues to cause us: the gastronomy.
The creator of the project has a clear objective and is knock down once and for all any type of barrier that prevents rapprochement between one culture and another. “Those of us who have grown up between both societies, we have a very powerful integrating role and we have to find the tools to do it ”, says Wenxian. And so, the idea of answering the questions that we have been asking ourselves for years was born.
These are some of the dishes that you can cook at home thanks to Ta Xan!
GASTRONOMY, SOURCE OF WISDOM
It's been a few years since Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Thai cuisine began to awaken our palates . We spent a lot of time engrossed in the trio of spring rolls, rice three delights and chicken with almonds, and we were hungry for new flavors. It didn't take long for us to fall at the feet of a fascinating gastronomy, which breaks completely with our culinary customs and with which we never cease to surprise ourselves every day.
However, Wenxian became aware of the problem when she was working at an Asian food company: we didn't know how to cook it at home . “There were many obstacles when it came to making it: it is difficult to get to the original ingredients, it is difficult to understand you with the shop assistants and to find a way to prepare it”, for which she has been in charge of give us homework (almost) done and packed in a box full of surprises.
And opening one of her packs is like finding a treasure or opening a temporary door. Ta Xan! takes you on a trip anywhere in Asia and, in addition, it turns you into a real cook. Authentic ingredients, instructions and surprise elements that transport you to the most absolute tradition.
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
Let's leave the mystery behind and let's discover the cake. What is in the packs of Ta Xan!? Each menu, developed together with chef Eduard Baviera , transports you to a specific place, so every time you order, you can choose which destination you want to travel to. With china town you can cook XO stew (vegetables with hot sauce), miso soup, yakisoba noodles, fried rice and yakitori or teriyaki skewers. In it, you will find ingredients such as jasmine rice, sriracha sauce or shiitake mushrooms.
with the package Hong Kong, you will have what you need to cook Stir-fried noodles, miso soup and tempura . and with the option Macau , you can enjoy a miso soup, sushi and vietnamese rolls , with ingredients such as nori seaweed, furikake or rice vinegar.
But apart from places, Ta Xan! also offers the pack of snacks surprise , with six different types and a couple of drinks, or the one with the tea ceremony (ideal for a gift), with oolong tea, pu erh tea and ingredients to make miso soup and sushi It even includes a teapot and cups.
Open a pack of Ta Xan! It's like opening a treasure chest.
How to cook it? It is important to know that what these magic boxes include are non-perishable products. Wenxian will arrange to send a list with those fresh products that are in your charge and that are necessary for the recipe. Do not worry if the kitchen is not your thing, following the steps, none of the dishes will be difficult to prepare.
Aside from the obvious, what really makes Ta Xan! a magical experience, are the details . The surprises included in the packs will really help create the perfect environment for your meal. Fortune cookies, lanterns to decorate, lucky charms, toothpicks (and a guide to learn how to use them), desserts, drinks, snacks... Not a detail will be missing in your oriental experience.
THE EXTRAS
But if we had already made it clear that the options are endless, with Ta Xan! you can also ask kits for cooking specific foods , such as sushi or gyozas, or even individual ingredients : drinks, preserves, spices, mochis, pasta, sweets, sauces and even tableware. Once you have discovered all its products, you will have become in a true master of Asian cuisine.
You will become a master of Asian cuisine.
One of the latest news about him is that, from September 15 will go on sale too individual packs , so you can even enter this magical culture on your own. In addition, they make shipments to the entire peninsula.
We already warned at the beginning of the article: to say that Ta Xan! it is simply food at home bordering on barbarism . Wenxian uses gastronomy as the main flow for bring us and get closer to the Asian culture in general . If we already enjoyed this cuisine, now we can also be part of it.
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