Hi, I am Omar nice to meet you all. I am Italian and I will probably get to Taichung in May with my wife, she is Taiwanese and we have a little one. We met in Australia, I tried to get my permanent residency but it look like it is getting worse for us so we are considering moving there. I am a butcher, started when I was 14 back in Italy and now I am 32, never stopped. I am a good cook as well so I was thinking maybe I should open up a business but I do not really know what to expect there. I visited Taiwan in 2019 and I didn’t mind it at all, actually I was surprised in a pleasant way to be honest, I like Taiwan but I am not sure what to do when I get there. Any advices? I might start to learn Chinese obviously but I need a job, I can’t stop working 
Thanks everyone in advance. 
Open up your own butcher shop? Getting good prosciutto and salami for a good price in Taiwan is impossible!
48 month Iberico is still a bargain.
I know how to make prosciutto, I have successfully made here in Australia but you need a lot of equipment and cellars to be able to cure them properly. Salami and cacciatori would be my best shot really, I am a professional smallgoods maker.
Spanish prosciutto? …
Very similar.
Like day and night
I’ve never seen a proper butcher’s shop in TW. I think most people buy their meat either at supermarket or at outdoor markets. Some high end supermarkets have a butcher’s counter. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for a butcher’s shop though. I feel like the concept would work in high end residential areas (think Tianmu or anywhere with a large foreigner/ABC population). Come to think of it I would imagine Tianmu probably does have a butcher. I think you’d want to appeal to wealthier people who actually care about the quality and origin. You’d want to be very clear on your supply chain. Opening a small shop somewhere like Tianmu would easily cost $1 mill NT+ in just startup fees though.
Another option for you would be to just open a stand at an outdoor market, targeting regular people. You would need good Chinese though and you’d be competing with locals (you’d easily beat them).
do this please but also can he do that without APRC and whatnot?
If he has ARC due to marriage to Taiwanese with HHR, yes.
Discount Prosciutto from Spain.
Not even close.
He’s married to a Taiwanese person. Open work permit.
huh didn’t know it was that easy, thought the marriage arc was a bit more of a pain
Well I still need to get there and see, I will get some free time that I really never had In my life​:joy: I will try to look around for opportunities but I like your ideas guys, maybe not a butcher but how about a little smallgoods factory? Like my wife if telling me that there is a website there where people sell their own stuff, shopee, which I wouldn’t mind to start from there but I might have enough funds to open up a little shop
Sausage is a big business here. The market is flooded with Chinese and taiwanese sausages but I think there’s a big potential market for foreign sausages. There’s one brand charging A premium for British sausage ls and I’ve seen it expanding recently so there’s clearly a market for it
I vaguely recall eating in an Italian in Taipei which also had a kind of charcuterie. It also had a wine cellar.
Big initial outlay and high risk starting a restaurant, though.
Can confirm. 
Doesn’t have to be a restaurant. I just want salami to bring back to the house and not break the bank. No i don’t want chorizo.
Welcome!
Who will be the breadwinner in your house in Taiwan?
Curious what brought you 3 back?
Have your wife find a language institute in Taichung for 2 hours a day. Then try to do something part-time.
If you get spousal Alien Resident Certificate (ARC), you can work anywhere anybody wants to hire you, even 7-Eleven.
Have fun, your learning curve will be big.