Taiwan

Curry is really good there, it's called a 咖喱饭. The shaved ice, especially mango season, I highly recommend getting it every day. 八方, there's a restaurant called 八方, and it has potstickers, those are really good. Honestly, you can't go wrong with any type of food in Taiwan, it's so good. The fried rice, the fried noodles, I loved 炒面, fried noodles, I loved that stuff. Noodles, rice, dumplings, and repeat.

I have to say, one of my favorite foods in Taiwan is called a biàn dāng, or the translation is like lunchbox. You just get rice and a meat of your choice and a few sides, and for really cheap, like about two American dollars probably, about 50 kuai, it's honestly one of the most filling meals. You can get a great variety of things, it's wonderful. I really love just the fried rice or Japanese-style curry or what else? There's so much good food in Taiwan, it's just hard to recall it all, but you'll definitely learn. If you don't love some things, you'll find things that you do love for sure.

Breakfast foods are my absolute favorite. Chua bings and dan bings are just so so good. Those are like small scallion pancakes per se, so they're like flaky pancakes with green onions on the inside. And you'll see people on the side of the streets in the morning that fry them, they put eggs on top, bacon on top, and then they wrap them up and they can put different sauces on the inside. Absolutely amazing. Other than that, fried rice is the best in Taiwan. Fried noodles are also great. The soups from the grandmas in Xining also top that food list.

Curry is definitely my favorite there. And one thing I do love is there's a 7-Eleven on every corner. I would get a Slurpee every day just to get my little American sugar in me because they don't have much of that over there. And the Slurpees are just so good. They're ten times better over there than they are here.

Oh, I gotta start with the fruit. The fruit in Taiwan is unreal. You got mangoes, dragon fruit, passion fruit, papaya. It's awesome. I could not get over the fruit. Oh, it's so hard to decide between foods. There's, there's beef noodles, there's, you gotta try stinky tofu. It sounds gross and it smells terrible, but it's good. It's good stuff.

Beef noodle soup, dumplings, potstickers, basically any Chinese food that you can think of is just amazing there and it's super cheap. Another one, their fried rice is super super good. They also have actually a lot of American-style food, a lot of American-style restaurants too, which are actually surprisingly good. One of my favorite foods was actually a burger from a place called The Freen and it was a peanut butter and bacon burger, which may excuse me may sound gross to you guys, but it was actually super good.

So the food in Taiwan is amazing. When I think of some of the things that I like the best, what comes to mind? I think of curry. I think of pretty much most of the 7-11 food that you can get. Shui jiao, dumplings and pot stickers. They're all super good and everything's so cheap. Another thing that's super good, it's not technically a food, but they have a lot of exercise drinks in Taiwan that are really good. There's one called shu pao and there's a couple other ones, there's like pakari sweat. They're all super good, especially if you're out on your bike riding around to just keep you hydrated and stuff. So all the food is super good. Try and eat as much of it as you can and try to experience just as much food as you can because you'll end up loving it.

One is the fried chicken. They give you this huge fried chicken just in a bag. It's like this big. It's huge. And you know, it's super good. They have really good dumplings. One thing that I really miss is the new Romeo and it's just beef noodles, noodles in a broth with beef. It's super, super good. And I haven't found any of that here. Another really good thing is the mango bingsha. It's just mango like shaved ice with like chunks of mango in it. It's so good. Oh man, that stuff is the real deal. Yeah, there's so much good food. The fried rice is amazing. Yeah, I could go on and on.

Favorite food by far is ma jiang mian. It's like sesame noodles with But tastes like peanutty And so it's just noodles with like little bits of ground meat And well, depending on where you go, sometimes there's ground meat and it's like very salty and sweet And it's just so good together And it's just definitely I got that almost every day And also the breakfast food is good the fruit's amazing Mango bing bing is ice. Um, there's like shaved ice and Honestly, all the food is good. I rarely had anything really gross

I actually really did like the stinky tofu. It takes a while to get used to. You've got to try at least three times. Three times, because it took me three times until I actually liked it. But one day I woke up and I was craving stinky tofu. I wanted to go get some, so we did for lunch. And then I ate it a lot while I was out there.

You have to have the hot pot. That is the best. Get it spicy. Get it delicious. Enjoy. Eat as much as you can while it's cheap and you're in Taiwan.

I love the potstickers there, they're cheap, they're super good, different flavors, you name it, it's awesome. Another favorite dish of mine is called ma jiang mian, or sesame noodles, and they're even better if they're colder. You'll understand when you go to Taiwan, it's hot and humid there, a bowl of cold noodles is really good. I also really really like the dumplings there, as well as the fried rice. I think my favorite food of all time was in a college town called Nei Pu, which is in southern Taiwan, and they had a fried rice dish that they put Taiwanese sausage and cheese in the middle, and so when you took a big scoop of the fried rice, all you'd get was melted cheese and sausages, oh, it was so good. So you're going to love the food in Taiwan.