I find the beef noodle soup overrated, but palatable
Kinky
sorry man, stewed meat is pork here. they appropriated another cultures meat. I am cool with calling that Taiwanese only when the thread doesnt exclude japanese cuisine. that was my point. repeatedly. it is a weird metric to include and reject foreign foods. it simply creates a false narrative which I am now being stubborn about not perpetuating 
As a vegetarian, I’ll take that 
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you guys’ food purism is comical. So beef noodle soup is not Taiwanese because it’s Chinese? What a joke. I guess New York style pizza is also an Italian dish because pizza was brought over to the US by Italians. Croissant is not French because it was brought over to France from Austria.
Give me a break. 
Yeah it’s so stupid.
I’m curious, which Japanese dishes in Taiwan would you consider as Taiwanese?
The only ones I can think of are maybe donburi and shabu shabu. Maybe sukiyaki.
Most other Japanese dishes came long after the Japanese colonial period, and are not a part of the daily Taiwanese diet.
I think that disgusting sushi with pork floss counts as Taiwanese food though. If it’s been Taiwanized enough, it deserves that honor.
Come on. Sweet pork floss is delicious if you mix it with ground peanuts and smother your pig blood cake in it.
Not all of us, I consider the food here to be basically Chinese food. Just a poor imitation that offers little enjoyment, but basically Chinese food.
And my point, which I also keep hammering away at, is it doesn’t seem to matter what the sign says, the food is generally not very good.
Not a surprise 711 is basically a restaurant here. McDonald’s is incredibly widespread and always busy. Speaks to the expectations.
So please, don’t lump us all in together. Us guys look at it a bit differently and are united by nostalgia for an enjoyable meal in a restaurant
Of course! It just doesn’t work for me in sushi.
Try it on red bean and taro ice cream next time!
I wouldn’t put it on red bean and taro ice cream but red bean and taro are pretty good flavors for desserts.
Desserts in general are much better in Asia because they aren’t too sweet. There are some exceptions but generally speaking desserts in the west are quite inedible.
Never saw century egg with tofu anywhere outside of Taiwan. And sweet potato leaves are fed to animals in other Asian countries (I like it though). 
I read that it’s very healthy.
You are entitled to your wrong opinions (and taste buds).
you are thinking pure that countryfare. I am saying Taiwan has been colonized by both Japanese and chinese. and the food here reflects it. as such we can be pure taiwnaese (meaning aboriginal) or we cna accept outside influence. but if we accept outside influence, likethis thread has overwhelmingly accepted chinese cuisine, we shouldnt really disregard other outside influences like japanese. that seems illogical based on food.
another example. taiwnaese breakfast stores certainly serve a lot of sausage. also ground beef. none of which are taiwnaese. but if we want to judge Taiwanese breakfast food with their foreign foods, we cannot disregard decent burger joints I.t aiwan either because the metrics should be parallel and .logical.
I don’t eat dessert anyways, but I don’t find cake or ice-cream here less sweet. That shaved ice I had once was a sugar bomb. Talk about wrong opinions.
As for my tastebuds, maybe they don’t work anymore. That would explain why everything tastes like nothing
Don’t let the local food gaslight you. It’s not you, it’s Taiwan.