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A FOOD TRADITION

Taiwanese Cuisine

Taiwanese cuisine combines Fujianese roots with local ingredients and Japanese, Hakka, and indigenous influences in richly varied street and home cooking.

Dishes linked to this cuisine

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Tainan Eel Noodles

A Tainan noodle dish of stir-fried eel and wheat noodles seasoned with soy sauce and aromatics, often finished with a lightly sweet sauce.

Tainan Shrimp Roll

A Taiwanese fried roll centered on seasoned shrimp with pork, aromatics, and a tofu-skin wrapper.

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

A Taiwanese noodle soup of braised beef served with wheat noodles in a savory beef broth seasoned with soy sauce and aromatics.

Taiwanese Fried Rice Vermicelli

A Taiwanese stir-fried rice vermicelli dish combining rice noodles with pork, shrimp, cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, and savory seasonings.

Taiwanese Hot Pot

A Taiwanese communal hot pot in which meat or seafood, tofu, mushrooms, and vegetables are simmered in a seasoned broth.

Taiwanese Pork Chop Rice

A Taiwanese meal of a seasoned, usually fried pork chop served over steamed rice, commonly accompanied by savory aromatics and soy-based seasoning.

Taiwanese Sausage

A sweet-savory Taiwanese pork sausage seasoned with garlic, salt, sugar, and rice wine before being grilled, pan-fried, or simmered.

Taiwanese Shaved Ice

A Taiwanese dessert of finely shaved ice topped with sweet syrup and varied fruit, bean, dairy, or nut toppings.

Taiwanese steak

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Taiwanese Tea Egg

A hard-boiled egg is cracked and simmered in tea, soy sauce, and aromatic seasonings until the shell pattern and savory flavor develop.

Taiwanese Tian Bu La

A Taiwanese tian bu la (甜不辣) snack made from seasoned fish paste shaped into pieces and fried until firm and lightly crisp.

Tangyuan

Glutinous rice flour dumplings, often filled with sesame or peanut paste, that are simmered and served in sweet syrup.

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