Ba-wan

Also known as Bah-oân, Bah-uân, Bah-înn, Bah-uan, meatball mochi, Rou-Yuan, Jou-yuan

Bah-uân is a Taiwanese dumpling made of starch and rice flour, filled with meat and vegetables. It is gelatinous and translucent, and often considered street food.

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Food.name: Bah-oân
Food.image: Bawan with sauce at table in a restaurant somewhere in Daxi.jpg
Food.image_size: 300px
Food.caption: Bawan from Taoyuan, Taiwan
Food.country: Taiwan
Food.course: Dim sum
Food.type: Dumpling
Food.main_ingredient: Dough (corn starch, sweet potato starch, rice flour), pork, chicken, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms
Chinese.p: ròuyuán
Chinese.poj: bah-oân
Chinese.tl: Bah-uân
Chinese.l: meat circle

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Bah-uân is a Taiwanese dumpling made of starch and rice flour, filled with meat and vegetables. It is gelatinous and translucent, and often considered street food.

==Names== The alternative term "ba-wan" is a non-standard romanization derived from Taiwanese Hokkien. In the township of Lukang, Changhua County, ba-wan are known as '' () because they take on the block-like shape of the character 回.