Seriously I cannot eat another meal in the “restaurants” here. Either it’s sugary pasta, horrible hamburgers, greasy fried dumpling looking things or traditional Taiwanese “food” that consists of boney fried “meat”, rice or instant noodles with some boiled cabbage as veg. Or if your really looking f…

Ma you ji. Does anyone actually like this? I’ve eaten it numerous times. I don’t get it. tough chicken in some bland ass ‘ma you’ (black sesame oil) flavour soup. The flavour of the ‘ma you’ is pretty unique but not exactly in a good way. I’d put it up there with the worst or at least most overra…

For those who think the food here isn’t good, let’s have a little chutzpah for a moment. Typical fast food would be dismissed as “goyslop” by me—and by many people here or elsewhere. I’m not even talking about things like mac and cheese or instant mashed potatoes, which are considered aggressively g…

Many private liquor stores now prompt customers for tips at the POS terminal. You don’t need to tip for sure. You pick your own wine, walk it to the counter, and suddenly you’re being asked for a gratuity. The same thing is happening at Subway and even at many pizza takeout places. Sometimes it mak…

[image] RickRooney: Ma you ji. Does anyone actually like this? Yeah I love it. It took me a long time to change from not liking to really liking it though..

[image] eugenequ: I suspect many people are simply accustomed to standard goyslop and aren’t used to the cooking methods used here In my case, you would be wrong about what I am accustomed to. But have you noticed how popular McDonald’s is with Taiwanese people? When I lived in Thailand the…

[image] eugenequ: I suspect many people are simply accustomed to standard goyslop and aren’t used to the cooking methods used here. I don’t agree with this but I like the word goyslop

But goyslop is quite a fitting term for Taiwanese foods is it not? [image] [image] [image] [image] …

Looks closer to real food than fastfood. But yeah, you could pretty much eat it without teeth.

“Goyslop” is racist and offensive. I am not PC or Woke, but insulting everyone who is not Jewish is offensive.

First time I’d seen it and it is slightly offensive. Now I see ai says it has antisemitic roots because of conspiracies.

Taiwanese food sucks!

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tango42 March 28, 2026, 7:12am 3476

I actually like it.