In most U.S. cities? Thatâs some serious hyperbole there. Youâd be lucky to find a good Chinese restaurant in most U.S. cities. Although I guess your definition of good may be different than mine.
Iâve seen that before too, where searching for âTaiwanese restaurantâ often brings up pan-Asian or pan-Chinese places serving one or two Taiwanese dishes but they arenât really Taiwanese restaurants.
Maybe they need to made things clearer, like this:
@Gain why do you keep bringing up this topic? Just take your $200 refund payment and call it a victory. Or as Morris Chang would say, çŹć°éèĄć»ă
My guess is you have been away from the US for too long. I have noticed this trend as well. Before I left in my overly white college town of 100K people there was a beef noodle/baozi place and now there are three more restaurants marketed as Taiwanese food with guabao, luroufan, xiansuji etc.
I think after bubble tea took off more and more actual restaurants are opening up just based on what Iâve seen traveling the US.
I have gone back and noticed it more now. Plus if youâre from CA itâs already everywhere.
And that has allowed places to branch out. I see bubble tea places offering Taiwanese snacks. And then shave ice etc.
Just randomly checked places like SLC and Albuquerque and they all have places with beef noodle soup, guabao, luroufan, bubble tea etc. marketed as Taiwanese food.
Reminds me of Pakistani food world wide. I mean Indian. Darn it, nothing.
Luckily now things are improving. There is more than just the usual Cantonese ish buffets in north america. I bet there is even some real authentic Taiwanese cuisine in big cities in the US now. would imagine probably very expensive, but it is improving as ignorance on food is diminishing.
Anyone know of some true to form local taiwanese (not chinese) cuisine outside taiwan? I would think perhaps Japan and Western US and Canada perhaps?