Man lol – burgers and breakfast places have these awesome stock photos, then what you get is like copy+paste “things from a can or frozen”. I swear, every single breakfast place in Taiwan uses the exact ingredients from the same vendor.
The cheapest copy+paste sweet white bread you can find
a pound of iceberg lettuce
A ton of diced cucumbers you scoop out because no one likes cucumbers in sandwiches
an overcooked egg
a slice of copy+paste artificial kraft cheese that’s probably not even legally allowed to be called cheese.
a slice of artificial canned copy+paste “looks like ham, sorta spam”.
Edit, reminder from comment below: Don’t forget to add creepy bagged mayo.
Then you order a burger or steak. “How would you like it cooked?” – I don’t know why, but they let you order 5 or 7 (medium or medium-well), but there’s really only 2 options: Raw or charred-well-done.
Medium == still breathing
Medium well == black burned well done
Then the generic bakeries will have a picture like this outside:
and it’ll just be copy+paste airy sweetbread without a single bread listed in the pic
So many conservative bakery / breakfast food places where if you combined them all into a single franchise by name only, you’d believe it.
Serve some real bread? Use Costco real cheese or meats in your sandwiches? Nope, not even gonna try to be unique.
So many people go crazy like “MUST USE GOOD OIL AND HEALTHY STUFF”, but then when it comes to everything else they’re like “canned and preserved to hell, bread slices 400 calories each, fake canned and frozen ingredients, np”
God I’d pay a premium for avacado toast and rye; it just doesn’t exist. At least in new taipei. I don’t even care about the price: Whatever it is, I’ll pay it and know that I pay for what I get.
Haven’t gone to one of those breakfast places in over a decade. Vile industrial processed crap. The scariest part is the oil they use…comes in the same tins they use to construct “tofu buildings”…which is all you need to know. And that so-called mayo they use that looks like (and probably is) axle grease…
This always blows my mind. The “everything is 好吃” culture here is hella confusing…but it makes sense. It’s what they’ve grown up with and have nothing to compare it with. Taste buds differ for everyone.
With those oil tins, there is no apparent distinction between new and old oil. I recently was watching the grease truck syphon out the spent oil from the deep frier at my local late night fry-up place, straight back into those tins, then they drove off. Who knows where the tins end up. Maybe a night market stall for another week of frying before going to pig feed perhaps.
Yeah… I remember asking here wtf that was, because it cannot be coming from egg and oil. However someone said it was indeed mayo and had made it with his wife. I remain skeptical about it.
