I find myself at Formosa Chang more often than I’d like given it’s convenience and reliability for tasty and cheap Taiwanese food.
I wonder how do the locals and long-termers view Formosa Chang? Is it Junk Food, or a reasonable choice? For terms of reference, I consider Yoshinoya and MOS Burger as junk food.
More like fast food, Taiwanese fast food. At least it is open in the afternoon, not like most bientang places. But you gotta know how to order, it can get a bit pricey. Cheapie it ain’t.
In between junk food and decent Taiwanese cuisine.
I never get the biendang there- always order the single dishes. This results in a final bill of about 250 nt per person. So not cheap for local standards.
I think basically all Taiwanese night market food is taiwanese fast food.
A restaurant like Chin Yeh or Shin Yeh would be more proper meal style taiwanese food.
I ate at Shinyeh, if I recall they had some Taiwanese fare and also Shanghai style fare like Icon mentioned.
You see I learned Taiwanese cuisine from local mom and pop places and inlaws so I find it hard to relate to in more up market settings - Taiwanese food being immigrant fishermen and farmer food at heart with a smattering of Japanese and aboriginal influence .
How do you ‘big up’ geng for instance ?