Taiwanās marketing is pathetic.
Iām still mad that HTC became irrelevant when they made incredible hardware and owned Beats when it was at its peak of popularity. They didnāt know or was too cheap to do what actually sells phones. The phone is either cool or not for 99% of phone buyers
When you see Samsung and Apple phone ads, itās no wonder they got banished to the shadow realm making random stuff now.
I go to the laundry in Noriega st to wash my blankets and there is a GUS mini market nearby
GUS is a mini version mimicking Whole Foods but with even more wallet hurting pricing
Here they got two brands of Italian Panettonne I have not tried and they careful didnāt put pricing on it so that most people wonāt put it back
One is 16.99 and the other is 19.99
Too much for me since Costco and trader joe ones also made in Italy are both under 10 bucks and the Brazilian one I buy at cvs near my house is only 7.99 and itās pretty good
Unless
Someone tells me that these brands are to die for I aināt paying that much
On the other hand I must be more country hick than I thought because apparently GUS is reasonable
Dang everyday I wake up poorer than I thought I was
Bauli ones are often eaten in Italy. Iām sure itās not the best ever but they buy them in Italy so itās good enough I would think.
Both average. Not bad, but donāt pay a lot for them. I slightly prefer the maina myself.
I told am, OK was, a hardcore HTC fan. Best hardware I have ever owned on a phone since old times. For sure the best built smart phones at the time. Itās a crying shame how they just disintegrated into irrelevance 
I donāt know what that is but congratulations! Taiwan won another good award.
Nice award, but Taiwanese do not eat it. More wine with it is better. Betel nut cake more popular in Taiwan it seems.
Panettone isnāt terribly far off what Taiwanese would call
ābreadā. Can kind of see how this started.
Some people still think taiwan isnt ultra sweet and salty 
Folks with broken tongues havenāt checked an ingredients list or a nutrition label. Itās amazing the disconnect between cultures sometimes. Let them make -whatever dish- themselves, and realize the reality.
It actually started with a Taiwanese woman who moved to Italy over twenty years ago. I think she has some arts background as sheās been helping coordinate Taiwanās involvement in the Venice Biennale for many years.
Anyway, her main business is sourcing Italian food ingredients (olive oil, flours, etc.) and exporting to Taiwan. At least a decade or so ago she also started organizing a team of Taiwan bakers to participate in this annual panettone competition.
I think theyāve won medals before, but not quite sure. Anyway, I happen to buy bread at one of the winning bakeries and every year they make a big deal of their panettone.
I mean itās pretty hard to cook/bake decent western food with the ingredients available here. They must learn many tricks.. finally cooking with Italian ingredients for Italian food must have made it easyā¦
More seriously, for some more money you can get most things done really well in Taiwan. Maybe except German type of bread, where choice is tiny so you better import grains yourself, buy a household mill and bake yourself, culture your sourdough and so onā¦ But then go to Germany 99% of so called bakeries are outright crap just heating up semi baked goodsā¦ Cutting costs everywhere so donāt except butter used but some cheap substitutes and so on so most people just buy it in supermarkets now as there is often better quality or the same.
France on the other hand many bakers actually baking high quality themselves.. Italy still has maybe 10% of bakeries actually baking from scratch too.
If Taiwan tastes were different they would actually likely beat Germany on bread. Cause what Germans are good at standardized processes and industrialising manual processes Taiwanese tend to be at least as good without being so stingy on food spending so quality products would be easier to find (yeah 50-60% would be outright rubbish in Taiwan still but easier to find good quality). Germans will have the best equipped kitchens with the cheapest ingredients they found on offerā¦
Those bakeries winning likely are part of the upscale high quality share of the market.
Wish we had these year round but itās only the Christmas season
Got the trader Giotto brand tonight
7.99 and thatās why I canāt see spending 20 bucks at GUS
Made in Italy
Italy was not in the competition because they were the reigning champions. The rules were changed this year (the 4th edition) so only one team can represent each country, and 12 teams/countries were selected to compete. Also, the previous yearās winner cannot compete, but instead is represented on the jury to help ensure fair evaluation. There were 30+ teams in each of the previous competition, and Italians won all of them. Well, at least Taiwan beat the other countriesā¦
