Culinary Workshop: 台灣粽子 Taiwanese Zongzi

Join us Fri. May 30th for a Taiwanese zongzi-making experience with Janine YC. Lai of Ga Ma Diam Goods! Janine focuses on the unique food history and flavors of Taiwanese food ways and brings those distinct flavors to New York and beyond

This workshop will be a comprehensive guided experience led by Janine. You’ll learn how to create your own 台灣粽子 (Taiwanese zongzi), and study the unique flavor profiles of different Taiwanese varieties.

Your ticket includes:

• A comprehensive, hands-on guide to zongzi making

• Take-home instructions on cooking your zongzi at home

Additional ready-to-eat zongzi (bundle of 6) will be available for preorder to participants

SPACE LIMITED ~ rsvp is required

*special dietary note: due to sensitivity precautions, zongzi within the workshop will be without peanut and vegetarian, those preordered will come complete with braised peanut, pork and shrimp skin in shallot.

Meet Janine, Founder of Ga Ma Diam Goods:

Janine YC. Lai, Founder of Ga Ma Diam Goods

Janine YC Lai grew up in a fried porkchop restaurant (東一排骨 DonYi PaiGu) in old Taipei, where her grandparents and mom expounded on classic Taiwanese flavors and textures daily. Janine aims to share THE most Taiwanese food there is, on this side of the world, and insists on asserting Taiwaneseness wherever possible - be it food popups, provisions, art, snacks, workshops, printed matter, markets, objet d’art home goods, or conceptual furnishings.

Each time Janine does a popup, she likes to share a different, very~ Taiwanese food to underline, giving the attendees the full experience and the core essence of what makes it so~ Taiwanese. 

What is Ga Ma Diam Goods?

GaMaDiam goods is a container in the form of a concept provisions online shop, in which what makes Taiwan - “Taiwan”, gets examined and asserted, especially in New York where the understanding of this unique cuisine and culture isn’t as widely understood as other Asian cultures - yet.