Tasty wafer rolls made using antique 80-year-old machine
Tasty wafer rolls made using antique 80-year-old machine
2025-12-01
Have you ever thought of eating wafer rolls made the traditional way? In a wafer roll shop in New Taipei City they are made by hand using an 80-year-old antique machine. Each time a roll is made, the heavy 200-kilogram machine has to be pushed so it rotates. Although it’s an onerous job, it has still helped the shop’s manager Lin Ping-his get over a terrible car accident. He’s teamed up with his mother to make these delicious snacks. Let’s hear more.
Open up the heavy mold and pour in the mixture. Each time Ms. Lin, aged 75, makes a wafer roll she has to work hard to rotate this 200-kg machine.
She quickly rolls up the wafer roll on an iron griddle with a temperature of 180 degrees. In less than an hour, her hands are burned red. But she cannot stop as both Ms. Lin and her son have placed their hopes on this 80-year-old antique contraption.
Lin Ping-hsi
Wafer roll shop manager
My arm was broken and my internal organs were turned inside out. There was a tube coming out of my heart and my foot was almost sawn off. I was critically ill many times.
Ms. Lin
Wafer roll shop owner
You have to get over it. He won’t get over it. He says he’s tired, but I’m even more tired.
Over 20 years ago, Lin Ping-hsi, the manager of the wafer roll shop, was in a traffic accident shortly after he was discharged from the army. He was caught underneath a lorry and nearly didn’t make it, with the hospital issuing a certificate that his condition was critical. Originally Lin Ping-hsi was proactive about rehabilitation, but after three to five years of hard work, he hadn’t made much progress, which made him feel discouraged. However, when he saw the silhouette of his mother working, he slowly got over it.
Lin Ping-hsi
Wafer roll shop manager
Yes, because I can’t bear it when I see my mother is so tired. My mother has been with me since I was a child. It’s her and me.
Ms. Lin
Wafer roll shop owner
Seeing me work until after 9 p.m., he said, okay, he would do it himself. He’s like this. If I won’t work with him, who else would?
Lin Ping-hsi could not bear to see his mother work so hard. She would do this even in 35-degree heat, sweating profusely and with burn blisters on her hands. Lin Ping-hsi sticks to the old ways as he rolls up wafer rolls one by one. Although one closed door for him, he and his mother helped each other, and in doing so forged a new way of life.
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80年老機器做蛋捲餅 為身障老闆轉出生命出口
2025-12-01
新北市一家蛋捲餅店，以80年資歷的骨董機器，手工製作蛋捲餅，而且每做一個餅就要轉動200公斤的機器，雖然繁重，卻也為老闆母子倆，轉出了生命出口。
打開沈重鐵板，放進材料，75歲的林媽媽，每做一個蛋捲餅，就要賣力轉動200公斤重的機器。
180度的鐵板上快速捲起蛋捲餅，才作不到一小時，雙手就被燙到發紅，卻不能停下來，因為這台80年的骨董機器，承載著母子倆的希望。
[[業者 林炳熙]]
“手也是斷的，然後整個內臟全部翻出來，心臟的管子，腳也是差點鋸掉， (發病危)病危N次”
[[業者 林媽媽]]
“要看開啦，他不看開，他累我比他更累”
20多年前，老闆退伍沒多久就發生車禍，當時醫院還發出病危通知，從連結車下救回一命，老闆原本積極復健，但努力3、5年卻沒有太多進展，讓他心灰意冷，不過，看到媽媽工作的身影，才慢慢走出來。
[[業者 林炳熙]]
“對啊，也是看媽媽累沒辦法，我也是不忍心，從小到大都是媽媽，所以都是媽媽跟我”
[[業者 林媽媽]]
“看我做到九點多，他就說好啊，他自己再下去做，就這樣。他都這樣了，你不跟他做，誰要跟他做”
捨不得媽媽辛苦，即使頂著35度高溫，熱到滿頭大汗，手上都是水泡燙傷，老闆依舊堅定的捲起一個個蛋捲餅，雖然上天關起一扇門，但母子兩彼此扶持，為自己打開另一扇窗。
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