Taiwanese food sucks!

[bdog]

@frictionfusion

most of the food is Q as the article is saying

If you take the statements in the article as undisputed fact.

[korat]

@Dontknow

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 for a treat try the famous noodle soups which consist of instant noodles and two sad, thin slices of “meat” floating on top. How do people survive here? I’ve been here a month, have looked for food everywhere, but I am losing my mind with hunger. And the tiny stingy meal sizes charged at near-on western prices leave me gob smacked. And another thing! There isn’t any point looking at the pictures of the food. No matter what you order what your served looks nothing like what they advertise.

i fully feel you as when i was traveling US and tasted orange chicken and fried noodles in Panda Express, they tested like WTF

[chilifries]

Boiled bamboo shoots slathered with mayonnaise and topped with candy sprinkles.
I
Have
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[Van]

Date Night!

[tango42]

@chilifries

Boiled bamboo shoots slathered with mayonnaise and topped with candy sprinkles.

Amazingly common around Taiwan.

[afterspivak]

@chilifries

Boiled bamboo shoots slathered with mayonnaise and topped with candy sprinkles.

That concoction (I am familiar with it) sucks donkey balls.

Why do they mess up nice bamboo shoots like that!

Guy

[Dr_Milker]

@chilifries

Boiled bamboo shoots slathered with mayonnaise and topped with candy sprinkles.
I
Have
No
Words

How about “beyond the pale”?

[chilifries]

Amongst all the dishes we had at that lunch, I clung to the water lilly stems and clam soup like a life raft to save me from drowning in mayonnaise (there were shrimp with the same candyman cream pie treatment).

Dessert

[Van]

looks clean. no lithium grease?

[Dr_Milker]

@chilifries

Dessert

Dessert of champions.

[Brianjones]

@Dr_Milker

How about “beyond the pale”?

You either go with it or hate it, no in between . They doubled-down with sprinkles on top there, bold move Kotter.

Historical “Pales”:
Ireland: The English established “the Pale” as an area in eastern Ireland under their control, with Dublin and surrounding counties being the only parts still under English rule. The phrase “beyond the pale” referred to the lawless, uncivilized territory of the native Irish outside this protected boundary.

[Brianjones]

@Dr_Milker

@chilifries

Dessert

Dessert of champions

Yes a food desert of champions

[Van]

makes sense.
don’t do it
too hard
crazy

[TT]

@afterspivak

Why do they mess up nice bamboo shoots like that

Answer is in the thread title

[hansioux]

Betel nut is common though out South East Asia, including Vietnam and Thailand, as well as the more obviously Austronesian places.

Having said that, I’ve never tried one.

[TT]

@hansioux

Betel nut is common though out South East Asia, including Vietnam and Thailand

I tried it once in China. I lived in Thailand for years and don’t remember seeing it, definitely it wasn’t all over the road there like in Taiwan

[hansioux]

Because Taiwan is the OG of betel nut culture. It is the symbol of love.

[RandomName]

@hansioux

It’s true that when you go to a Greek restaurant in Europe, you get a huge silver plate with piles of meat on it. I am guessing that’s more like a Fourth of July barbecue kind of thing. I doubt that’s what the Greeks eat everyday. They probably have a lot more wraps and pita breads and stuff.

There are a lot of Greeks in Australia and I’ve seen some pretty large ones (Greeks that is).

[Explant]

@chilifries

Boiled bamboo shoots slathered with mayonnaise and topped with candy sprinkles.
I
Have
No
Words

This one infuriates me as well. So much h so, just proxy, when we order our betel nut flower salad, we immediately tell them NO mayo and NO “chocolate” sprinkles. This habit must have been dreamt up by a toddler.