The text of the article is good, some minor mistakes like the green chilli in gambas al ajillo. But, overall the article is well written (I haven’t checked the linked recipes). Also the top 10 is fine, everyone will have a different top 10 but none of those foods look like out of place.
But the photos… No Spanish person was involved in the making of those dishes.
A Spanish tortilla is completely different than a Mexican/Central American tortilla. The Spanish version is basically an omelet.
It’s been too long since I’ve made one of those… maybe next time I’ll actually get it out of the skillet in one piece!
Yes, but not because you chose a bad example
I had leftover potatoes from my Salisbury steak (which was awesome, by the way) and almost did a potato omelet this morning, but for the amount of potato I had would have needed 4 eggs so did a 2 egg cheese omelet with a big side of golden potatoes.
Also considered breakfast at one of the 3 MWD nearby, but no I didn’t 
Huh? That’s Mexican.
No. They definitely don’t.
Can we get back to how Taiwanese food sucks ass, instead of pontificating and blathering about Spanish food?
Taiwanese food is fine. The only problem is that it gets overhyped by locals and various vloggers, food tourists etc to a level way beyond reality.
It’s not bad but also very far from one of the great cuisines of the world. Another issue is low quality of ingredients used by Taiwanese restaurants and accepted by the locals to keep prices low. What you pay for is what you get…
This.
It’s not FAMOUS, it’s popular. In Taiwan. Stop conflating the two terms.
If it’s all you’ve ever eaten because you’ve never left Taoyuan, of course you’re going to love it. It’s all you’ve ever known.
Yeah, but I’m bored of that. Can we go back to Spanish food again?
Isn’t that called marketing? Don’t people do that for everything they are trying to sell?
Yes 100% but the observation here is that when discussing the topic of Taiwanese food is that the delta between what is marketed and reality is especially large.
Taiwanese cuisine is adequate BUT average food quality is low (quality of ingredients, how demanding the local populace is). You can compare this with say Swedish cuisine where you could argue cuisine is below that of say Taiwan but average food quality is very high. I know where I’d rather be eating…
Not really. I’d jump off a building if I had to eat Taiwanese food for every meal.
Trying to stay on topic. Does anybody remember the Taiwanese quarantine hotel meal horror show that was posted up here? That was arguably worse than the pandemic itself.
This thread has some of it:
My quarantine experience last summer (which caught me off-guard, as I was under the false impression I could stay in my room—NOT!) was expensive but thankfully the hotel provided mostly good food and some damn fine coffee roasted by these guys:
Guy
Gabee is the premium stuff, those guys have been around for some time now.
I think this sums up my feelings pretty well…in general I would say a lot of it is overrated, not bad, just overrated. Some popular/“famous” places with way too much ‘style’ and not nearly enough substance…although that is hardly unique to Taiwan. That being said though there are quite a few things I like, seemingly more than my Taiwanese friends.