Read about Fu Pei-Mei, a Manchurian-born housewife. As a new mother in Taiwan, with her family left behind in China, her only culinary resource was paying chefs in Taiwan who were also refugees from China. A year later, she started a cooking show on TV that lasted 40 years. I remember when beefi noodle soup first appeared in the early 1970s. Taiwan still had relatively low income, and most people couldn’t obtain passports. Food was the earliest affordable entertainment. I remember local newspapers ran essay contests about food, not recipes, but stories about food. I have an 80 year old aunt who proudly identifies herself by her turnovers. You video does an amazing job capturing the spirit infused in the food. Starting in Keelung is simply brilliant.

food like ouajian蚵仔煎/海蛎煎, 麵線, and a lot of locals food in Taiwan that are Fujianese origin food.

Bubble tea is part of Taiwan's international food diplomacy. It is subsidized & propted all over the world. Another side to food is the promotion of the indigenous population to distinguish from mainland china. Great video.

I feel like this one here had the best music edits from all the videos I have watched so far from your channel. Keep it up!

Just wanna say. Only seen your Portuguese food video and this one so far but I love how you look at cuisine from such a historical and geographical approach and have so much information on the background of dishes and the cultures that serve them. So much more engaging than a simple food review etc. I only just realised you are quite a small channel at the moment but I love this content. Jia yiu!

Best part of my Wednesdays is when Off The Menu drops a new video. :) I've always wanted to visit Taiwan. I love Taiwanese culture and cuisine and I feel like it's taking the world by storm, especially with Bubble Tea haha.

Dude, this video is amazing! Great storytelling, history, narration, and food. Keep it up

Thank you for covering this! Always a good day when you upload!

Your videos are really good, it's only a matter of time until the algorithm picks up your channel

Please do a video on Lebanese food! Even though only 6 million population it’s food is popular globally via diaspora

Your production is so good, and I appreciate the topics you cover!

I really love these video essays!!! I love learning about food and culture!

This is one of the best videos if seen so far about the cuisine of Taiwan and it's history. Thank you Matthew!

One of best parts of having a local Taiwanese friend is getting his family's thoughtful food care packages from his parents. They make me, a long-term friend in her 50's , feel loved and like the food-giddy 30 year old who met them long ago.😢😂❤🎉🥘🥣🍜‼ They had me at slender noodles with oysters and those dumplings. 😻🌋

The video is really clean, leaving the right amount of details. It's just that KZfaq is so saturated nowadays.

Awesome video bro keep it up!

Excellent video! Subscribed!

thank you for creating such beautiful video of my country

Taiwan's most unique aspect about its food is the melting pot of cuisines from various Chinese provinces with a sprinkle of Japanese influence thrown in. The KMT's retreat brought millions of people from all corners of China into the densely populated island. Of course the majority of influence is still from Fujian, since the majority of Taiwanese are decedents of Fujianese migrants prior to KMT's arrival. I've always believed Lu Rou Fan should claim the title of National Dish over Beef Noodle Soup, since beef did not became widely accessible to most Taiwanese until cheaper imports from America and Australia became available in the 70's. My favorite Taiwanese food is still the Hot Iron Plate Steak in Black Pepper Sauce, which itself was a product of the cheaper American/Australian beef imports that made steak go from a premium dish reserved for the wealthy and foreigners, to a night market staple in the 70's.

Your history is off

Awwwwwww , This is very interesting analysis , by the way , Can’t Wait For you Making a Middle Eastern cuisine analysis someday

It's like you are stalking me! I have been to Taipei, Osaka, Vienna in the last year (plus I live in London). Great video! I think the true 'origins' of the food matter less than where the food actually became famous.

This video hardly made a case for Taiwanese food actually differentiating itself from the larger category of "Chinese Food". which is a vast category covering immense regional variation - people in Guangdong don't eat all the same dishes as Fujian, to say nothing of the differences then with Sichuan or Beijing or Heilongjiang, as the video itself acknowledges. The basic tools and techniques of the food remain the same, even as ingredients change.

Excellent video, thank you!

Yes, the Taiwanese speak Mandarin nowadays, but this is the result of 4 decades of martial law. Mandarin is NOT native to the Taiwanese! If we go back to the end of WWII, they were speaking Japanese to each other. Many elder Taiwanese who grew up during the Japanese era speak BROKEN Mandarin till this day and continue to hold a nostalgic sentiment toward Japan!

Also this video should be called How "Fujianese" is Taiwanese Food? Like stop trying to compare Taiwan with the whole China okay. Like Taiwan is only similar to Fujian province. Like rest of China's provinces' foods are all unique and different and distinct, like Taiwan food has nothing on Yunnan food, nothing on Guangxi food, and nothing on Xi'an food and etc, because it is not comparable since Taiwan don't have those other Chinese provinces food. Like would you try to compare Puerto Rico food to like Rest of America? No you will not, even through this is not a great example.

Great job!

What camera do you use?

Good nuanced coverage of a complex topic in a short amount of time. Taiwanese food is influenced by many other cuisines, but unique and beyond delicious. I'll add that the Portuguese also left their culinary mark, particularly in fried foods and baked goods (e.g., egg custard and flan). Also, Taiwanese are among the kindest and friendliest...they will be happy to help with pronunciation. 😉

This video just proved how chinese is Taiwan culture. Language, people, food. Chinese cuisine was a inspiration for many other east asian cuisines, like japanese, even the hashi/kuaizi is originally from China. I dont understand why trying to erase the chinese obvious and enormous influence in Taiwan's culture.

I don't think your last point made too much sense, most of the indigeneous population of Taiwan were killed either by the Japanese or KMT. I don't think the Taiwanese Han people has the right of ownership to Taiwan at all in that sense, it is simply an isolated state made by political tension similar to North Korea. Regarding the soveriegnity of Taiwan, unfortunately that is not something Taiwan itself can decide but it's compeltely up to the current world powers. In other words, just because all the peasants of the world recognize it as a country don't really mean shit...

You should cover Cantonese cuisine too Hong Kong etc and you should check out Singaporeans cuisines since its has a huge chinese population but stand on its own

10:48 noticed the Arabic writing on the restaurant. I can read that inside it says halal but does anyone know what else it says at the front?

11:30 I guess they were not soldiers but students attending national day event.

Great video! You should include a link in this video to your other video explaining the huge variety of "Chinese food". Like you said in this video, when the National Party retreated from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949, they brought their local culture with them, including their cuisine. It would be like all of Western Europe, in order to escape the rule of a new political party, migrated to Sicily. They brought with them cuisine from their home. So from that point on, the cuisine of Sicily would have the influence of all of Western Europe, on top of their original southern Italian cuisine. Before the Nationalists got there, the cuisine of the local Han Chinese was mainly from the neighboring Fujian Province. (By the way, Han Chinese began migrating to Taiwan at the START of the Qing Dynasty. They were mostly ethnic Han people, remnants of the Ming Dynasty, trying to escape the impending rule of the Manchurians. So it's around the 1640's.) And of course, between 1640 and 1949, the cuisine of Taiwan was influenced by the Japanese. And prior to 1640, the Dutch, Spanards, and the Portuguese all had their influence to the culture of Taiwan.

13:01 Chinese people would be probably very dissapointed after they tried Chinese restaurants in Taiwan.

Good video overall, but bruh. No mention of Hokkien and the associated influence of Fujian cuisine? No note about Taiwanese distinctively accented Mandarin? No mention of the fact that they and HK are keeping traditional Chinese characters alive and in use? It was mentioned multiple times that Taiwan "also speaks Mandarin" so was just surprised that there was no nuance added there. My mom partially grew up in Taiwan and she makes a big thing about not ever using simplified characters or speaking with a "disgusting" (her words) Beijing accent. She used to take me to our neighborhood Taiwanese restaurant at least a couple times a month for breakfast. Also, again, no mention of Taiwanese Hokkien, which most people just refer to as "Taiwanese"? Bruh! All that aside, I appreciate you making this video fr. Formosa brand pork floss forever! Wei Lih Jah Jan Mien 4 life!

A Taiwanese friend took me to a Taiwanese restaurant in Tokyo. He gave his approval saying the food was really good and comparable to Taiwan. I went there expecting Chinese food. It was completely different. I was expecting it to taste similar to Cantonese cuisine because it looks similar in how it's cooked and displayed. But the flavours and textures were different. Although there was a familiarity in some ways, it's not close enough for me to feel "at home". I consider it to be a completely different form cuisine. At the same time I consider the different cuisines from different parts of China to be completely different cuisines. They are all so unique and dissimilar that there is no point in grouping them into one "Chinese Cuisine."

There are other sources that say that braised pork rice a.k.a lu rou fan or Khong Bah Png, is actually linked to Fujian rather than Shandong. It was brought to Taiwan by Fujian immigrants during the Qing dynasty. Please check it out. And the reason for the confusion also came from the character Lu, which is the ancient name of Shandong province, hence the debate.

As a Chongqing city(a former city within Sichuan province, separated from Sichuan year ago) born in PRC. I do love both Chongqing beef noddle and Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Diversity about food choices is the best. But the sad thing is majority of the customers in PRC will tricked by nationalism, you can find chain fast food branded as “Chinese hamburger” everywhere in PRC. That’s what ppl in PRC will pay, a burger which the buns been replaced by Chinese style breads and called Chinese hamburger. some brand have even more ridiculous naming frameworks, such as: city name + dish name (ex: Hangzhou burger). PS: sorry for my poor English

去大陸出過幾次差，吃過那裏的「滷肉飯」，坦白講，就是醬油煮熟的一塊「滷肉」放在「白飯」上而已，肉偏硬，帶著點肉騷味，米飯也算不上是Q彈，也根本沒淋上醬汁，倒是配菜（醬菜？）鹹到嚇死人。只能說，米其林認為「滷肉飯」或「魯肉飯」源自山東（古稱「魯」）容或有爭論餘地，但它在台灣才真正發展出特色（肥瘦摻半的剁碎豬後腿五花肉在鹹甜滷汁裡熬煮多時，澆淋在Q彈的蓬萊米飯上，再配上解膩的酸黃瓜或筍乾），這是肯定的。

Bro is johnny harris but for food

Dope video, i hope to travel more so i can do similar thngs.

What do you mean another country ''claims'' it?? LOL hand-pulled beef noodle soup IS from Lanzhou, a city in Gansu province, in western China. Traditionally, Taiwan didn't even cultivate wheat (to make the noodles), nor does it raise cattle on the island (another key ingredient in the dish). The dish was brought to Taiwan by mainland people from the Gansu region who escaped to the island with the KMT following the communist takeover of the mainland lol. In fact, apart from Taiwanese Aboriginal dishes, ALL dishes made through Chinese culinary methods in Taiwan were brought by Han settlers/immigrants from the mainland to Taiwan, over the past 3 centuries. I know that there is a separate Taiwanese Han identity and I respect your desire to be an independent country....but there is no need to deny the origins of things that come from the mainland, including the Chinese-speaking Han people of Taiwan. Unless you're a Taiwanese aboriginal, your ancestors were Chinese.

The Republic of Formosa was created to avoid getting annexed by Japan. Not the first time in history where a country is proclaimed in a territory is about to be ceded to another country. This happen due to China (Qing Dynasty) was to cede Taiwan to Japan (Imperial) after China (Qing Dynasty) lost the first Sino-Japanese war. Taiwan was returned to China (ROC) after the Japanese capitulated and not taken as a" hostage." Chiang Kai Shek just retreated to a territory where the ROC still controls and to ensure no communist cells he did lots of bad things. And it's much more harder for communists to take Taiwan because they were mostly gruella fighters thus more suited to fight on land. Taiwan would probably fall into a similar fate as Hainan eventually if the US didn't intervene. Hainan wasn't under communist control after the PRC was proclaimed and only under PRC control after they capture the last few cities in 1950.

I think you kind of underestimate the Japanese influence on Taiwanese cuisine. Some aspects of Taiwanese cuisine can be traced to Japan, I believe.

Also, I know you did a video already on Israel and Gaza, but what about another discussing Israel culturally appropiating Palestinian cuisine

Like Some Taiwanese and some Foreigner who live in Taiwan please stop claiming Fujianese Style food in Taiwan as only from and originated Taiwan... stop lying and make food political... jeeze like stealing and rebranding Fujianese style food as only Taiwanese is like disgusting and embarrassing... Like you can label as Taiwanese but give credit to the history and origin of those food from your Fujianese Ancestor who brought it over to Taiwan Island... Also some Foreigners in Taiwan who hates China, please stop lying to yourself and pretend to know all the history of Taiwan/China food okay...like Y'all never even ate other local Chinese foods from other provinces in China. China has like so many provinces, each provinces with distinct culture and distinct food style. Like Majority of Taiwan food is most similar to Fujian and maybe Guangdong. Like Taiwan food can only be mostly compared to Fujian food (Fujian relates to Taiwan the most okay). Taiwan rarely will have food from Yunnan (lots special southern Chinese and ethnic minorities food similar to south east asia), Taiwan also do not have food from Guangxi (food in Guangxi is like rarely seen in other part of China and lots of Rice noodles and special food that some folks eat it might think is similar to Viet food due to history and proximity to Vietnam), Jiangxi food, Xinjiang food (more ethnic minorities food and Muslim style), Gansu food, Inner Mongolian food, Xi'an food and more those other Chinese food are not available in Taiwan OKAY. So those who say Taiwan food is better than China food is like lying and hating on China and lying and kinda stealing Fujianese food and say those food originated in Taiwan when those food are bought over by y'all grandparents from Fujian province. STOP hating okay and like food is support to be about sharing and not hating okay.

Ooh taiwan food video i plan on going to taiwan next year its my top 5 countries i want to visit

With the number of Vietnamese immigrants/descent, I'd say Pho will be part of Taiwanese food before 2050. (which is all over the place already)

I want to see Taiwan now, because of this video

5:25 Taiwan was not independent before Japanese. Japan take Taiwan from China after won the sino-japanese war! And was not a colony but was considered part of Japan.

I would like to see how much impact Hong Kong immigrants is having on Taiwanese food with them being both trading hubs and Like Minded people seeing it as a option to continue their way of life

It's surprising how many iconic Taiwanese dishes are actually invented in Taiwan. Pineapple Cake, Dan bing (egg pancake/crepe), Taiwanese aboriginal sausages, Aiyu jelly is native to Taiwan and put in a lot of drinks. Lu rou fan originated in Taiwan according to wikipedia last time I checked - looks like they recently changed it to Fujian, China. Taiwanese fried chicken/popcorn chicken with basil Many Taiwanese people chew betel nuts which is a Southeast Asian or Indian subcontinent habit. Definitely not East Asian This one is weird but Mongolian BBQ was actually invented in Taiwan

I literally JUST sent the mcdonalds video to a friend

I think this video serves very little justice to the ethnic history of Taiwan. When the pioneering Chinese farmers travelled to Taiwan, they were mostly Minnan people, followed by Hakkas. To bunch these ethnic groups in Taiwan's history as 'Han' is oversimplifying. If you have read enough of history of Taiwan, Guangdong and Fujian, you will realise that there has always been a long ethnic divide. Even between Minnan people, there were ethnic wars between the ethnic Zhangzhou and the Quanzhou, let alone Hakka-s. The food in the south in particular is thick with Minnan identity, whereas the north is more mixed with Shanghainese and the Waishengren cuisines. Lu Rou fan, in particular soy braised pork, speaks home food to ethnic Hokkiens. It is there almost every meal. I observe that many of the western born Chinese tends to have a more generic monolith idea of Han Chinese of North and South. Whereas in history, you will see how the Southern Coasts are completely different paradigm altogether in comparison to the North-South Paradigms. Many of ethnic Han of Southern Coasts were sinicised much later in history. Some even as late as 7th to 10th century CE. In the early 1900s there were effort to unify Chinese identity through a more homogenous identity through Confucian reforms and Zhonghua nationalism. Prior to that, the people of the Southern Coasts do not see other people from mainland as their 'kins'. Hence Clan wars were very common. Heck, the Taishanese immigrated to US because of Punti-Hakka ethnic war. There were Hokkien-Cantonese clan wars in Malaya and Hokkien-Teochew clan war in Singapore. That is why, to many of those who came from very old ancestries in Taiwan and Malaya, they insisted that they are different from the latter migrants. Minnan identity is often appropriated as the generic Chinese culture 'prior to cultural revolution', but in reality, it is uniquely Minnan/Hokkien. Even when a Northerner vlogger 'Little Chinese Everywhere' visited Fujian, she was shocked to discover how different the culture it is from other parts of China.

Taiwan only comparable to Fujian, and stop trying to compare Taiwanese food to Chinese food, compare local Taiwanese food (not fusion food) to local Fujianese food. Taiwan food is not comparable to rest of China like food from Yunnan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Xi'an, Xinjiang. Is video is so biased and limited. Also saying that food that KMT bought over like Xiaolongbao, Hotpot, are now local Taiwanese food is like so laughable. Yes those are Taiwanese food but those are also Chinese food. Xiaolongbao are orginally Shanghainese local food, Hotpot (there are different kinds depending on which part of china the Hotpot is vastly different) are orginially from Sichuan and/or northern China. So stop saying that Taiwan food is not Chinese food, yeah some Fujianese style Taiwan food Fusion Japanese style food, but those are Fusion food. Like There are Fusion Chinese Korean food, there are Fusion Thai Chinese food, there are Fusion Chinese/Asian food and french food in Toronto and NYC and LA. Like are those Fusion food not part of just one culture just because it is Fusion, heck no, it will be consider part of both or multiple culture.

Hey Matthew! Really well-made video. Although to me it is very obvious that you are heavily inspired by Johnny Harris in your reporting style as well as editing style. The editing style I don't really care about, although it is visually pleasing! But the reporting style feels as though you decided on the conclusion of your visit to Taiwan before you even visited. Like the reportages in the video seems to me to have a clear bias towards the thesis you already chose. I think this is very typical of Johnny Harris as well, unfortunately, where telling a coherent story is more important than reality. In addition to this, there are a lot of problematic things about Johnny Harris' videos, so please in the future be careful who you use as a reference. Here is video someone else made expanding on the topic of Johnny Harris' videos: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZOYetGd15qWmoU.html

your videos remind of Anthony Bourdain's

Get your facts right, that's the basics

All taiwanese food are chinese food. Literally its just the same food

Some Taiwan food is created by Taiwan like Bubble Tea for example. However almost 80% to 90% of so called Taiwanese Food, originated in Fujian China. For example the Fujianese/Hokkein food Ou-a-jian (Minnan dialect) or called Haili Jianbing (Mandarin Chinese) 蛤仔煎/蚵仔煎/海蛎煎 (clam oyster pancake) that Taiwan made famous internationally actually originated in Fujian China, and Fujianese locals still consume this till today and still a popular Fujianese food. Lots of food that Taiwanese consume and think is Taiwan food originated from Fujian. If people online need to do their research and actually go visit Fujian Province in China. Fujian branch of food is unique to Fujian Province and those Fujianese/Hokkien food are call Min Food if you want to be even more specific. It is really disappointing that oversea Chinese or Taiwanese or even some people in Taiwan think and take majority of Hokkien/Fujian food to be originated in Taiwan. Please give credit when credit is due, Fujianese/Hokkien food makes up a majority of what Taiwan food, not all but like 80%-90% food of what you see in Taiwan. Also those food that KMT, national party bought over from China to Taiwan those food are mostly food from other provinces in China like Zhejiang, Sichuan, Suzhou, Guangdong and Dongbei and stuff. Taiwan also do not have many Chinese food that are from Provinces like Yunnan, Guangxi, or Xinjiang and others, since they do not have many immigrants from those provinces from the ancient time. Taiwanese and people internationally need to do their research and give credit when credit is due, especially when claiming Fujianese style Taiwan food to be only Taiwanese food and not Chinese food which is wrong. Also the Shacha sauce 沙茶酱/沙爹酱 are from Fujian and similar to Laksa in South East Asia like Singapore and Malaysia too. People need to do their research before claiming any food and distinct origin, since food will cross boundary and landmass and give credit to the origin of those food and not just claim it as your own only. Thanks

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Japanese "occupation" was an erroneous term used when the authoritarian Nationalist Party was in charge. Ever since democratization, it has been changed to the Japanese RULE. Yes, China lost Taiwan to Japan after losing the 1st Sino-Japanese War. Nonetheless, it signed an INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED treaty to give up Taiwan. If the loser of a war is allowed to dispute a treaty, then Germany can claim Poland is "occupying" historic German territory after WWII. So can Hungary demand historic Hungarian land from its neighbors because it lost 75% of its land after the defeat in WWI! Unless one is inclined to call Poland and Hungary's neighbors as occupiers, it's highly inappropriate to call the Japanese rule as occupation. After all, the Taiwanese had no allegiance toward the Chinese empire, who left the island as a godforsaken wasteland for the entire 200+ years when Taiwan was on China's map. The empire took Taiwan in the 17th century to pursue its enemy who fled to Taiwan. Once this objective was accomplished, China ignored the island for the rest of its reign. As far as the Taiwanese are concerned, China is like an irresponsible biological parent while Japan is a nurturing adoptive one. It's natural for a baby to grow up closer to a caring adoptive parent over a negligent biological one.

Like most Taiwan food is like Fujianese food, like ouajian蚵仔煎/海蛎煎, 麵線, and almost all locals food in Taiwan that are Fujianese origin food. Fujianese locals basically eat exactly the same type of food that Taiwan locals eat (not talking about Fujianese style Taiwanese food that got fusion with Japan food). Go to Fujian and people actually will find those locals food to be almost the same as mom and pop run shops in Taiwan. Please give credit to Fujianese style food. Since Fujian are not well known by other countries that is why now people think food in Taiwan food is like comparable to food in China. China is so big like each provinces has its own distinct style and favour. Like Yunnan food (will have lots of wild herbs that are only available from Yunnan and some ethnic monorities who have similarity with some SE asian so the food might have some sour and fish sauce and spices that they use unique to that region), Guangxi food (not a lot of people know about the special rice noodles variety from that region in China and its close proximity to Vietnam), Jiangxi food (nobody other than Jiangxinese know about it), Xi'an Shaanxi food (lots of lamb, beef, meat dishes that are mixed of Han and Hui Muslism style food), and other provinces.

Taiwan "USED TO" claim itself as the "real" China when the old dictator, Chiang, Kai-shek, was in power. He died in 1975!!! The government today certainly doesn't claim to be the "real" China. Case in point, statistic shows that 60+% of the people consider themselves Taiwanese ONLY. How can Taiwan be the "real" China if most people in Taiwan do NOT consider themselves Chinese? If Taiwan's official title is still the Republic of China, and its constitution continues to claim territorial rights over the mainland, it is doing so to PLAY ALONG and REWARD China for not invading the island! Yes, you read it right. Communist China actually prefers Taiwan claiming China so that the Communists can handwave to their people that the Taiwanese are longing to be part of the motherland again. If Taiwan ever drops the ROC title and/or removes the sovereign claim over the mainland from its constitution, it will push the tension with China to the brink of war!

Whatever dude. Taiwanese people will smugly claim Chinese dishes like gua bao, fantuan, stinky tofu, and three cup chicken as "Taiwanese" all day but throw a shit fit if someone says bubble tea is Chinese despite the fact that China has far more varieties of bubble tea than Taiwan does now.

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😳can we leave food out of politics. Taiwanese food is taiwanese food. People say taiwanese bubble tea, and ive not heard anyone said china bubble tea. Unless people could actually do something constructive to improve relations, i just felt its pointless to keep nitpicking on things like this. Of course, issues like this should be discussed but not in this context.

0:52 Well, it used to be, since 1911 most of the countries around the world had considered so until 1979, the US established diplomatic relations with the PRC and breaks ties with the ROC. In 1991, the ROC abolished its own "One China Policy", recognizing the PRC as China. After that, international has used Taiwan and China to distinguish two Chinas while not trigger the PRC.

A unique Taiwanese identity was already established by the end of WWII after 51 years of Japanese rule. However, when the Nationalist Chinese took over Taiwan from Japan, it pursued ethnic cleansing to murder anyone who advocated the Taiwanese identity. As a result, this identity went underground for 4 decades until martial law was lifted in the late 80s. Thus, rather than a new identity being developed in the last few decades, it's more accurate to state the old identity is now restored after decades of suppression.

Taiwan's food is amazing. So many delicious deep fried things, and the SAUSAGES! Oh my goodness, but those sausages are an experience in and of itself. Taiwan deserves to be an independent nation.

Some Taiwanese need to stop stealing/taking Fujianese culture and Fujianese food and saying that they created those food. 蚵仔煎/海蛎煎, 麵線, and almost all locals food in Taiwan that are Fujianese origin food. Stop trying to rebranded just as Taiwanese food, you can call it Taiwanese but don't forget the fact that those food are actually originated from Fujian. Those food originated from and still exist in Fujian too, and people back in the day from Fujian created those food in the first place, your ancestor bought it over to Taiwan okay.

no matter how the Taiwanese identify themselves as, the fact remains that you are ETHNICALLY Chinese. You last name is a Chinese character. Your native tongues (Mandarin and I suppose Taiwanese Hokkien) are Chinese character-based Chinese languages. And your ethnicity has nothing to do with politics, people ruled by the CCP or people living under taiwanese democracy are both ethnic Chinese.

Nice quality vid, many words but all I'm seeing is Taiwanese eating Chinese foods which is their heritage.

Dude most Taiwanese food are similar to Fujian food which is the Chinese province right across the Taiwanese strait, even the so called Taiwanese language is just the Fujian dialect. It’s Chinese food no matter how you like to spin it.

The intent to claim “beef noodle soup” a “Taiwanese national dish” is embarrassingly and utterly self-insulting of the Taiwanese to begin with - as of ~50 years ago, the very majority of, if not all, so-called “native Taiwanese people” (less the indigenous minority residents of Taiwan, analogously similar to American Indians in the U.S.) DID NOT EAT beef AT ALL - habitually for inherently cultural reasons, of which the primary was respect to cows, which were the major and only source of meaningful power for agricultural works, as Taiwan was primarily an agrarian society then, as most of the rest of the world, and also because beef was extremely expensive and scarce at the time. The consumption of beef was introduced to Taiwan gradually with the ethic-mainland Chinese who fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kaishek in 1949. Again, Taiwan needs to stop insulting itself any further with this “beef noodle soup” as its “national dish” lowly banter.

You should really learn the names of the dishes you'll be talking about, kinda lose some credibility when you talk about food and just say "I don't know what it is" 😂 cuz you keep repeating how Taiwanese dishes are so unique but barely touch on the actual history etc. behind them

Yes the beef noodle was invented by the veteran soldiers in Taiwan. You're right Taiwan used to be an agriculture society and most of the people didn't eat beef before the end of ww2 because they considered cows their best friends to work with. However the ordinary people in Suchon China had barely foods to eat and beef wasn't the food they could afford at that time. Still they had used to eat spicy food in their hometown. During 1950s US helped Taiwan with lots of foods including canned beef. When the canned beef was dispatched to the soldiers they cooked beef noodle with spices and it gradually becomes famous nationwide. In fact most of the foods you eat in Taiwan are locally cultivated. Although 70% of the land in Taiwan was covered with mountains they make the most of the arable land. With the advanced technology in agriculture they're able to cultivate and provide enough foods for themselves to consume and few foods are supplied from China.

TAIWAN ISN'T CLAIMING TO BE CHINA IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. This isn't the 70s anymore. Taiwan has developed its own independent identity, and Chiang's wild claims are no longer taken seriously.

The amount of misinformation in this video is staggering.

TAIWAN has Taiwanese foods 🇹🇼. it is an independent separate Country with own Government and Food and even Language!. Taiwan food is Better and SAFER!

Well done on the segnent![Bless Taiwan and Hong Kong. CCP believes the world belongs to it.]

Another young dude, sensationalizing geopolitics with a clickbait title. While every region in China boasts its own unique food styles, this diversity does not signify a separation from the culinary traditions of the motherland. God help us. 🤦🏻‍♂️

"A country you're not supposed to call a country".... dude, not even the USA recognizes Taiwan as a country. Only 6 or so meaningless countries in the entire world recognize Taiwan as a country. Also, China has 5000+ years of experience in making fantastic tasting food and if Taiwan wants to act like a crybaby and miss out on the unmatched richness and variety of Chinese cuisine, then so be it. But don't act like your doing anything "rebellious" or smart. You're just shooting in your own kneecap out of childish defiance and then cry "China China".

Taiwanese food is so much better than Chinese food.

bloody nonsense 😩😩😩👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿 it's Taiwan Province

He has no knowledge to draw the map China.