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[Cindy Tsai]

Hello!!! I come from Taiwan. Do anybody ever came to Taiwan?If you come to Taiwan . I want to introduce our nightmarket . There have a lot of fun and food.Especially our strong-smelling preserved bean curd,it's a very special food.And there still have another food that you can't miss,it's our Bubble Tea. It's very delicious and popular.If you come to Taiwan,iust try it

[jasmie]

Bubble tea is very delicious!
I fell it can be a famous product in Taiwan.

[philanthropist]

Hi guys,

Bubble tea??? That sounds interesting, what is it?
And in general, what is Taiwanese food like? Hot and spicy? Wholesome? Do you use a lot of meat or rather rice and vegetables?

Your food seems to be so different from food in my country, I think you need to describe things a bit more clearly! I have no idea how your "strong-smelling preserved bean curd" would taste. I mean, I can imagine that it's tasty, but "strong-smelling" puts me off a bit....

[polaris]

Bubble tea is a kind of tea beverage where sweetened tea is mixed with milk and later they add tapioca balls (hence the name "Bubble tea": "bubble" corresponds to the tapioca balls I think). We use a wide straw to drink bubble tea, wide because of the tapioca balls. Between sips in addition to the tea we also chew on the tapioca balls.

As for "strong-smelling preserved bean curd", I guess this is a rough translation from Chinese, which I myself have no idea.
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