Taiwan is known for its food and cuisine, no doubt.
LA’s Din Tai Fung? I just walked by the original in Da’an yesterday.
Boba? Taiwan.
Night market food? I’m living in the district in which it started.
And the closer proximity to Japan makes a wider availability of Japanese snacks.
And of course there are the thousands of 7-Eleven convenience stores, the densest packing of them in the world. I’ll get a photo of two on the same block soon.
Here’s a sampling of what foods I’ve got around me at this moment:
Milk in Taiwan tastes differently from milk in the U.S.
Something interesting to note about shopping culture in Taiwan is that rather than there be strictly reward point systems that dole out discounts, the rewards systems here give out collectibles. A few weeks ago 7-Eleven was giving out LINE (Taiwan’s primary mobile messaging service) paraphernalia, and there was a neat pile of the stuff sitting on my cousins’ table. I told my cousin about this difference and he joked that if it was just rewards points for discounts, people would riot here.
I wouldn’t doubt it.
Sorry for the number of posts; there’s been some downtime in the wee hours of the morning due to jet lag…