Knocking on a HUGE block of wood - but I’ve been checked exactly once in about 4 years, I had cheese wrapped in there (it didn’t smell) and a few too many bottles of wine and they didn’t even bat an eye, just waved me through. But I guess it’s luck. Still, they seem fairly lax here.
[edit] good news is: even if they take it all away and chuck it (or eat it, the rat bastards), I’ll only be out about US$ 30 for 3kg of food - that’s about 300g of Cambezola alone in City Super!
Just finished a whole wheat sandwich -la boite-, filled with 3 slices of smoked chicken -http://site.boereworstaiwan.com/- Finlandia cheese -Costco- and German sandwich pickles -Far East supermarket. making a sandwich here is like going on a scavenger hunt.
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please note correction on website
Are you sure that SA website is right? Doesn’t work for me, nor do spellings like boerewors. Is it:
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Delivery! Very cool! Looks like some great stuff. Germans must own it? THANKS!!! 
Long shot… but I will ask: Is there any place in Taipei that I can buy by the pound: roast beef, ham, salami, provolone so I can make my own huge heart stopping meat stuffed sandwiches?
MIlkhouse sells cheap sandwiches but the one or two slices of meat is leaving me empty.
If you say Subway… I will hunt you down and dump ice down the back of your shirt. 
There are pricey deli meats (and sliced cheeses) available at Jason’s (Taipei 101, B1; [strike]closed for the next couple months[/strike], though, for renovation EDIT: Jason’s has reopened), at G&G in Tianmu, and I think at the other fancy supermarkets like at Breeze and [url=http://tw.forumosa.com/t/wcif-luncheon-sandwich-sliced-deli-meat/9981/47 Super.[/url] You can try mail order from the poster known here as El Toro, with good quality and fair prices but you’ll need freezer space (which I sadly lack) to handle the minimum quantities. Wellman’s in Tianmu may sometimes have some sliced, frozen sandwich meats. Sightings have been reported at the [url=http://tw.forumosa.com/t/wcif-luncheon-sandwich-sliced-deli-meat/9981/51 Carrefour[/url].
There’s also a thread on ham here.
Because sandwich meats done deli-style are expensive and hard to find here and often contain a lot of nitrite preservative, I’ve gotten away from relying on them, and instead just mince and cook (or cook and mince) some meat with spices, or marinate and cook thinly sliced meat (as for stir fry or hot pot). You can start with freshly roasted chicken from, say, Costco, dig in and strip the meat of the bones with your fingers (it comes off very easily), slice that up a bit more if desired, and use that in your sandwich. You can buy some thinly sliced beef or pork, grab some BBQ sauce, and grill it quickly. It’s not the same as deli meats but it’s what’s widely and cheaply available, and it’s still good. 
In general, for the cheese to accompany your sandwich, see these threads:
viewtopic.php?f=98&t=96217
viewtopic.php?f=98&t=19065
For the bread, look at threads here.
You can get most of those most of the time at City Super (basement of the Zhishan MRT Sogo, and the basement of the Zhongxiao Fuxing Sogo), but if you’re buying by the pound, be prepared for the sticker shock to give you a heart attack long before the food does.
Tianmu-Shilin Carrefour can be quite a bit cheaper (also near the Zhishan MRT station), but has less variety. I haven’t seen good deli meats at any of the other Carrefours.
I make sandwiches all the time here, but boy oh boy are they thin compared to the ones I’d make in Canada.
You’ll probably want a bread machine too.
Noticed that today as well, the meat deli has about half of what it used to contain 
Good thread subject.
The other day I bought some made in Taiwan sliced, packaged ham sandwich meat at Welcome, only because it was the most convenient location by far, and despite the fact it looked highly suspect. Turns out, surprise surprise, I definitely shouldn’t have bought it, because upon opening the package it was revealed that each piece of “ham” was literally half fat – big slabs of solid white fat – tucked neatly underneath so it was not visible before opening the package. Disgusting product and sneaky, deceptive motherfuckers who sell it. But, I won’t be fooled again. Back to PBJ and veggie sandwiches for me (or leftover home-cooked meats)
City Super has a couple of locally made hams that are good, the munich picnic ham and the honey ham, but as for the rest of the local stuff… :s
The whole picnic ham thing is always a letdown. I buy the ham and never see any kind of picnic activity.
It’s because it’s a German picnic 
Some really good stuff here. I have tried several of his products and they were great.
I sell Virginia ham (a whole leg, so 6-8 kg each) and salami pre-sliced. Salami min 1kg order. Also have pastrami and smoked beef. All are $460 per kg.
I went to your page and I dont see any mentioning of an actual store - I know that I am in Taiwan but I would assume they have some kind of policy about selling food out of your own kitchen.
quickly starts making business plans to sell pbj sandwiches at CkS Memorial
Hey, that’s my business plan you’re talking about! Actually, it’s empanadas. All you need is a permit, a quick to week course -including accounting for food stands and of course, food saftey protocols- and voila, you’re in the money. Oh, and PARC or JFRV or citizenship.
And you should read about CKS policy of “one factory in every living room”.
Yeah well, I wouldn’t be the first foreigner, or Taiwanese to be doing this.
Oi, send me over some of those pbjs. Do you roast your own nuts? Make yer own bread?
Do they do turkey ham in Jasons? (now mia C. Bon.)
I got a sudden craving. I had a look in a big Carrefour and all I could see was the nasty local ham (seriously why is it so off)
Or is it going to have to be a costco mission?
I did not even know that existed, nor do I think I’ve seen it here. So it’s … supposed to look like ham, but made from turkey?
I used to regularly buy deli turkey slices (I don’t think that’s turkey ham?) at City Super; I think the more international Carrefour branches (Zhishan) sometimes sell it too. But I haven’t bought that in a long while. I didn’t turn against it or anything, just managed to get a job with less commuting and less call for packing sandwich lunches.
