Taiwan cuisine

Taiwan's is perhaps the most famous street food in Chinese culture. Influences include the (Min Nan) flavor brought by the emigrants during the Ming loyalist rule era and Japanese tastes in the Japanese colonial period, to 1949, when the Nationalist retreated to the island with people from every other province of the mainland.

Let's start with breakfast. Chinese breakfasts vary greatly between different regions. Except for Hong Kong, Western types of breakfasts or their derivatives are rarely eaten. In Northern China breakfast fare typically includes huājuǎn, mántou (steamed breads), shāobǐng (unleavened pocket-bread with sesame), bāozi (steamed buns with meat or vegetable stuffing), with Dòunǎi or dòujiāng (soy milk) or tea served in Chinese style as beverages.

In Taiwan, due to the influx of mainland Chinese in the aftermath of the Republic of China's retreat to Taiwan in 1949 after the end of the Chinese Civil War, breakfasts tend to be a mix of Northern and Eastern Chinese fare in addition to the traditional South eastern Chinese fare. This is more pronounced in cities with high proportions of people of mainland Chinese descent, like Taipei.

Below you will see soy milk, shāobǐng and yóutiáo.


Youtiao or you tiao is a long, golden-brown, deep fried strip of dough in Chinese cuisine and other East and Southeast Asian cuisines and is usually eaten for breakfast. Conventionally, youtiao are lightly salted and made so they can be torn lengthwise in two. Youtiao are normally eaten as an accompaniment for rice congee or soy milk.
Youtiao

Shabu-shabu is a Japanese variant of hot pot. The dish is related to sukiyaki in style, where both use thinly sliced meat and vegetables, and usually served with dipping sauces.


When you are in Taiwan you gotta have a hot bowl of delicious Beef Noodle Soup composed of stewed beef, beef broth, vegetables and Chinese noodles. It exists in various forms throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia. It was created by the Hui people (a Chinese Muslim ethnic group) during the Tang Dynasty of China.



Pizza anyone?


One of the coolest things I have seen in Taiwan is food vendors display their food made out of wax that makes it easy for anyone to order. What you see is what you get.



Below is various pictures of various meals I ate, it was endless selection...



My Aunt and Uncle took us to one of the best buffet restaurant I have ever ate ate. No clue what the English name is but it has everything. From sushi, peking duck, dim sum, and the dessert selection includes a chocolate fountain, cakes, Swiss ice cream...