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Aiyu jelly – Jelly popular in Taiwan and Singapore; Apple bread – Taiwanese aromatic bread; Bakkwa – Salty-sweet dried meat product; Chhau-a-koe – Glutinous rice dumplings colored green with herbs; Coconut bar – Chilled, gelatinous dessert made from coconut milk
Since then, ba-wan has spread to different regions of Taiwan and is now considered by many as a national food, and can be found in most night markets in Taiwan. The traditional wrapper was made with sweet potato starch alone, sweet potatoes were the dominant food crop in pre-1950s Taiwan and were traditionally preserved by extracting their starch.
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From 1956 to 1967, Liao Jingang founded a pharmaceutical factory in Taipei, Taiwan, initially named "Nan Fang Hong Co., Ltd.," which later became "Dongda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." The company shifted its focus to manufacturing biscuits and snack foods in 1968, launching the "Kuai Kuai" series of products aimed at children. [ 2 ]
Kuai Kuai culture is a phenomenon in Taiwan wherein people put snacks of the brand Kuai Kuai (Chinese: 乖乖; pinyin: guāiguāi; Wade–Giles: kuai 1 kuai 1) next to or on top of machines. People who do this believe that, because the name of the snack—"Kuai Kuai"—stands for "obedient" or "well-behaved," it will make a device function ...
Taiwan's best-known snacks are present in the night markets, where street vendors sell a variety of different foods, from finger foods, drinks, sweets, to sit-down dishes. In these markets, one can also find fried and steamed meat-filled buns, oyster-filled omelets , refreshing fruit ices, and much more.
Chhoah-peng (Taiwanese Hokkien: 礤冰 or 剉冰; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoah-peng) [1] or Tsua bing, also known as Baobing (Chinese: 刨冰; pinyin: bàobīng) in Mandarin, is a shaved ice dessert introduced to Taiwan under Japanese rule, [2] and then spread from Taiwan to Greater China and countries with large regional Overseas Chinese populations such as Malaysia and Singapore.
Tàⁿ-á-mī [1] (Chinese: 擔仔麵; pinyin: dànzǎimiàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tàⁿ-á-mī; lit. 'shoulder pole noodle'), also known as Ta-a noodles or danzai noodles, is a type of snack found in Tainan, Taiwan. [2] Also known as "Slack Season Ta-a Noodles", they originated in Tainan (in southern Taiwan) about 130 years ago.