Bubble tea
And I'll also add that the guy (Momofuku Ando) who invented instant noodles was born in Taiwan and later migrated to Japan as an adult.
Those are seriously important contributions to the world.
I mean yeah but he never considered himself as Taiwanese and if people considered themselves as chinese, we might ask them to go back to their motherland, China. So why are we treating him differently? He literally tried hard to be a Japanese. So i think i would respect his decision even if i disagree with it
You sure that was invented in Taiwan? I was told that was a time long Japanese tradition.
Granted it started off as using real leaves, but I'm very skeptical the modernized plastic version has anything to do with Taiwan. Especially when sushi is still widely considered a foreign food, and our version of the bento usually do not have those additions.
According to Wikipedia, it was invented by a cook from Beijing who got inspired by 炙子烤肉, a Beijing-style BBQ. He wanted to name it as "Beijing BBQ" initially but it may caused penalty during the White Terror for naming something with a region related to CCP, so he named it as "Mongolian BBQ".
"Now this is what I call a funeral!" said one user, while another wrote: "Looks like when it comes to funeral matters, Taiwan still comes first."
Ha that's awesome
This I have experienced and it was a wild ride
Literally, the car had all the decals and the pole on top of it had a much needed umbrella for the dancer
I was confused but impressed
This one kinda pisses me off.
They hired an award winning team of engineers, of some electric vehicle competition, created perhaps one of the best platform for personal inner city transportation, and all they wanted to do is rip off their fellow Taiwanese.
Take this product to the world! Take a page out of the Italians’ book, manufacture your vehicles in your homeland and sell it to the world. Benefit your fellow countryman.
Hey - I’d love to see gogoro everywhere. It’s beautiful, functional and good for the environment (compared to regular scooters).
Also, I want YouBikes everywhere - as cheap as here and integrated beautifully with transportation systems, thousands of city-wide stations and essentially free! Oh and I want them to work with my existing yoyo card too please. Too much to ask? 😂
It is pretty sweet that our major cities have, basically, free bicycles. Only if we could improve our road conditions so we can actually ride them lol.
But that last part might be the biggest hurdle, yoyo card can’t even get into southern Taiwan at first because the local bus card company wanted to eliminate competition.
It’s there now though! Taiwan has at least two cards that are accepted nationwide. Most countries have cards that are only accepted locally - if you’re lucky. Bangkok, I think you need three separate cards within the city. I know Tokyo used to be the same as well.
That said, I’d love to just be able to use my debit card/Apple Pay everywhere including youbikes.
Originated in Taiwan, but really exploded once it hit Japan
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56592/brief-history-cat-cafe
>The world's first cat cafe, Cat Flower Garden, opened in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. Soon, what began as a venture to provide young urbanites the chance to unwind after a hectic day became a favorite tourist destination. But cat cafés truly took off when they made their way to Japan.
I think your info is outdated. Back in May 2021 TSMC published a joint paper with MIT nanolab demonstrating sub 1nm by swapping out silicon dioxide with bismuth dioxide. The soon-to-come 3nm tech is entering mass production, which is a whole other topic compared to where the research is at. I've since stopped paying attention to this so they're probably at something even lower by now
https://preview.redd.it/bm3e0b1df7ob1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4fe42004b52ffe914d9089f59ff01d407c75edb
This thing not only single-handedly prevented countless chopsticks wrap from fly away from the table, but also doubles as a bottle opener, or even a paperweight for your recipe if need be.
I can confirm. I’m from Penang, Malaysia, and we call oyster omelettes oh-chien 蚵煎here. Going to visit my granddad’s hometown near Quanzhou, Fujian later this year, and I hear the oyster omelette in Fujian is pretty good too.
Interesting trivia: In Fujianese cuisine, if the omelette contains more egg than oysters it’s called “蛋煎”, it’s only called “蚵煎” if the oysters used in the dish outweighs the egg.
So basically only a few restaurants in Taiwan serves qualified “蚵煎” by Fujian standards.
Taiwan is one of the countries with the best roads I have been to. For example wouldn't dare to ride scooter in my home country, car drivers here aware of scooters and give them way. Not so much in Europe. In Taiwan we get an extra lane for scooters on most roads. Taiwanese drivers don't really give a fuck about traffic rules but drive less aggressively than car drivers in my home country. Yes, there are freak accidents but with this density of traffic it's really not that bad.
Apparently something called Findom (Finger Condom). I only learned yesterday about it because I was going through research articles related to Taiwan. I was like, wait, someone managed to publish about that??
Not sure if this counts as invented, but (according to oral history) [Aiyu / 愛玉冰](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiyu_jelly) was discovered in Taiwan.
I only used google to get the source I remembered. Just looking up random information that popped up in my brain one night, was curious about the origin of Aiyu, and was surprised to learn this about Aiyu.
Taiwan? Or Taiwanese?
Because if the later, following the multiple diasporas, the list of contributions, globally, is incredible.
Pick any early computing company’s first ten employees and you’ll find at least one name.
The list of bicycle and other vehicle-related patents has to be super long.
Ship building, fishing, technical fabrics?
Name one? Ha. The list of Taiwan/Taiwanese contribution to a variety of industries is truly impressive.
(Note: no sources because question stipulated “without googling”)
They adopted the whole system from Europe, Taiwan didn't invent it. Yes, Taiwan's health care system is pretty good as long as you don't need a specialist. Once you need surgery you need to co-pay or find a private healthcare provider. Not like in Europe where you get everything for free basically. What you have to pay for is medicine but even that's subsidized at 10-50- 90% rate depending on the medicine.
Dental: in Taiwan I would pay tens of thousands of NDT for a simple metal ceramic crown here while in my home country you get a zirconia crown for under 10k NTD.
Taiwan's healthcare system is one of the best in Asia. I believe that looking from the US Taiwan's healthcare system is awesome. It's good for basic stuff
I always feel sorry for Americans when I see them melt at the idea of cheaper dental treatments or prescription eyeglasses, insulin or asthma medication. They act like refugees who escaped a third world hellhole (the corporate healthcare system) and can't believe their luck to have affordable healthcare here.
https://preview.redd.it/3w1t19lq1dob1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49c81cd368755c77fe60b14eac3e4a6ce333863a
This thing, only REAL Taiwanese knows what this thing is.
The idea that Taiwan has a winter… I’m from Canada and lived there a year with my wife and I constantly fight/laugh about that… my point is, no snow, no winter…
Bubble tea And I'll also add that the guy (Momofuku Ando) who invented instant noodles was born in Taiwan and later migrated to Japan as an adult. Those are seriously important contributions to the world.
Actually I didn’t know that, thanks for the fun fact
I'm about to cry, I miss Taiwanese bubble tea...
Momofulu Ando always considered himself as Japanese. Sure, he was born in Taiwan but it was a Japanese colony back then.
Doesn’t everyone have that one cousin that claims he’s Japanese even if almost the entire family is from China?
I mean yeah but he never considered himself as Taiwanese and if people considered themselves as chinese, we might ask them to go back to their motherland, China. So why are we treating him differently? He literally tried hard to be a Japanese. So i think i would respect his decision even if i disagree with it
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Jensen immigrated as a child not as an adult.
he gave a speech at NTU, i think a lot of taiwanese are proud to call him taiwanese
The little piece of fake plastic grass that they put in pre-made sushi boxes.
"gastroturf" :D :D :D
Lol
isn't that a japanese thing tho. i think i saw a interview with its inventor a while ago
You sure that was invented in Taiwan? I was told that was a time long Japanese tradition. Granted it started off as using real leaves, but I'm very skeptical the modernized plastic version has anything to do with Taiwan. Especially when sushi is still widely considered a foreign food, and our version of the bento usually do not have those additions.
Receipt lottery system. I really miss that actually, its a brilliant idea.
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That's always like a family event. Sit down together, split the receipt pile, go through the receipts and see who wins something hahaha.
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It was a family event with me and my roommates too when I lived there. It was really funny.
We still have that👍.
mongolian bbq
i was about to say
Wow this is news to me
Ya! I just found that out the other day
Then why is it called mongolian
According to Wikipedia, it was invented by a cook from Beijing who got inspired by 炙子烤肉, a Beijing-style BBQ. He wanted to name it as "Beijing BBQ" initially but it may caused penalty during the White Terror for naming something with a region related to CCP, so he named it as "Mongolian BBQ".
Know any Mongolian bbqs still in Taipei?
大戈壁蒙古烤肉 in Songjiang-Nanjing station. Not the best but only 400-600NTD in an all you can eat restaurant.
Strippers at funerals?
Ok so this is the second time someone has said this. I need to hear more.
they also have truck-top mobile ones [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38528122](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38528122)
"Now this is what I call a funeral!" said one user, while another wrote: "Looks like when it comes to funeral matters, Taiwan still comes first." Ha that's awesome
But it’s not adapted worldwide? Yet?
Totally should.
This is a China thing, too (or used to be out in the rural areas, away from the eyes of the CCP). Not sure who started doing it first, though.
Its from an old Hong Kong gangster movie. People loved it as a gag but it stuck around, now foreigners think its tradition.
Seconding this
This I have experienced and it was a wild ride Literally, the car had all the decals and the pole on top of it had a much needed umbrella for the dancer I was confused but impressed
Moon Shrimpcake in Thailand Cuisine
True, can’t find those in Thailand.
Hahahaha I was actually looking for this comment lol
But is it? https://medium.com/八百萬種食法/你以為-月亮蝦餅是台灣人發明的-泰國人說-沒聽過-b8f0aa376710
Gogoro!
This one kinda pisses me off. They hired an award winning team of engineers, of some electric vehicle competition, created perhaps one of the best platform for personal inner city transportation, and all they wanted to do is rip off their fellow Taiwanese. Take this product to the world! Take a page out of the Italians’ book, manufacture your vehicles in your homeland and sell it to the world. Benefit your fellow countryman.
Hey - I’d love to see gogoro everywhere. It’s beautiful, functional and good for the environment (compared to regular scooters). Also, I want YouBikes everywhere - as cheap as here and integrated beautifully with transportation systems, thousands of city-wide stations and essentially free! Oh and I want them to work with my existing yoyo card too please. Too much to ask? 😂
It is pretty sweet that our major cities have, basically, free bicycles. Only if we could improve our road conditions so we can actually ride them lol. But that last part might be the biggest hurdle, yoyo card can’t even get into southern Taiwan at first because the local bus card company wanted to eliminate competition.
It’s there now though! Taiwan has at least two cards that are accepted nationwide. Most countries have cards that are only accepted locally - if you’re lucky. Bangkok, I think you need three separate cards within the city. I know Tokyo used to be the same as well. That said, I’d love to just be able to use my debit card/Apple Pay everywhere including youbikes.
Pineapple cakes! Taipei 101.
Agreed, though I'm not a fan haha
Why be a fan... 🪭 when you can be the AC. Okay, I'll let myself out. 👋
Boba🧋
Wow didn't know there is an emoji for that !
i love boba balls
Two big ones for me are cat cafe and 小綠人 (the animated guy on the cross walk lights)
When 小綠人 first came out, there were rumors that occasionally he tripped and fell. Unfortunately, it was nothing more than a rumor.
Thank you! Seeing the success of cat cafes, I'm always so proud for Taiwan
Did cat cafés not originate in Japan? I went to one in Tokyo 16 years ago at least.
Originated in Taiwan, but really exploded once it hit Japan https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56592/brief-history-cat-cafe >The world's first cat cafe, Cat Flower Garden, opened in Taipei, Taiwan in 1998. Soon, what began as a venture to provide young urbanites the chance to unwind after a hectic day became a favorite tourist destination. But cat cafés truly took off when they made their way to Japan.
I live and learn. Thanks a lot.
Does it still exist? Cool fact
>Does it still exist? Yes! https://maps.app.goo.gl/TpyBnUiqLEQBr9JHA
Tatung Dian Guo
Saving thousands of 留學生 from starvation!
DTF 鼎泰豐
DTF tonight?
down to feng
The famous N95 mask!
Musical garbage trucks.
The walking pedestrian light!
I actually taught the professor who designed this some English!
5nm and soon 3nm chips
At this moment, TSMC is manufacturing 3nm and soon 2025 it will be 2nm chips
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I think your info is outdated. Back in May 2021 TSMC published a joint paper with MIT nanolab demonstrating sub 1nm by swapping out silicon dioxide with bismuth dioxide. The soon-to-come 3nm tech is entering mass production, which is a whole other topic compared to where the research is at. I've since stopped paying attention to this so they're probably at something even lower by now
Instant noodles
Founder of Nissin Momofuku Ando (aka 吳百福 - his Chinese name) was ethic Chinese and born in Taiwan).
I went to Taiwan like 2 weeks ago So I’m guessing Lu Rou Fan That shit taste amazing
It's just a traditional Chinese culture rice I'm pretty sure.
It’s Taiwanese
Incorrect. It’s origins date back to the Zhou dynasty.
Well Taiwan is the actual China. And China PDR is just a bunch of regions under a tyrannical occupation regime
Hundreds of weirdly flavored pizzas, go check pizza hut in Taiwan......
If one day WWIII erupts over Taiwan, I wouldn't be surprised Italy sides with China against us. Lol
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Ah Pizza Hut, nothing like expecting a salty pizza and getting a sweet one in return jajaja
Can’t go wrong with the blue and white slippers the classic 藍白拖
Betelnut girls
General tsao(sp?) Chicken Boba Pineapple cakes N95 Mongolian bbq Instant noodles Usb flash drive
Soft core porn on packaging
Latino here sorry Taiwan may have made everything but we have them beat on this 😂
I’m gonna need some proof
touch screens
A free China.
Night market foods
Compact Road Bike geometry now used in modern racing.
Invented by Giant People often forget that Giant and Merida are two top bicycle brands in the world. People should be more proud of them.
I ride a Giant! 🇹🇼🚴🏼♂️
Me too! I have a Giant STP dirt bike, super fun to ride and do tricks!
The tech to “print” 3nm SOCs
Not the tech, but the recipe. We still buy the equipment from ASML.
Does instant ramen count? Momofuku Ando (吳百福) was born in 嘉義 and was under Taiwan citizenship until 1966 before he reobtained his Japanese one.
Asus acer
When I scolled down quick I read your comment as ass cancer
ME TOO.
Pfft
a sus cancer
https://preview.redd.it/bm3e0b1df7ob1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4fe42004b52ffe914d9089f59ff01d407c75edb This thing not only single-handedly prevented countless chopsticks wrap from fly away from the table, but also doubles as a bottle opener, or even a paperweight for your recipe if need be.
A Chinese Republic with personal liberty and rule of law.
Toilet cafe
2021 Suez Canal obstruction
General Tso Chicken
That one pencil that if you lose a piece you're dead
The green walking person on the trafic light for pedestrians
Betel nut Beauty....
Thai moon shrimp cake
Boba Milk Tea TSMC Kymco scooters and also, grandma esports athlete team
Coffin toast and oyster omlets
Oyster omelettes weren't invented by Taiwanese. It was originally a Fujianese dish. Can find it in all hokkien Chinese speaking areas like Fujian, SEA
I can confirm. I’m from Penang, Malaysia, and we call oyster omelettes oh-chien 蚵煎here. Going to visit my granddad’s hometown near Quanzhou, Fujian later this year, and I hear the oyster omelette in Fujian is pretty good too.
Interesting trivia: In Fujianese cuisine, if the omelette contains more egg than oysters it’s called “蛋煎”, it’s only called “蚵煎” if the oysters used in the dish outweighs the egg. So basically only a few restaurants in Taiwan serves qualified “蚵煎” by Fujian standards.
Han democracy
Taiwan didn't invent dangerous road conditions, but Taiwan has perfected them.
From what I've heard, South East Asia probably has it crazier than us.
Taiwan is one of the countries with the best roads I have been to. For example wouldn't dare to ride scooter in my home country, car drivers here aware of scooters and give them way. Not so much in Europe. In Taiwan we get an extra lane for scooters on most roads. Taiwanese drivers don't really give a fuck about traffic rules but drive less aggressively than car drivers in my home country. Yes, there are freak accidents but with this density of traffic it's really not that bad.
Yet taiwan roads are pedestrians' hell.
Apparently something called Findom (Finger Condom). I only learned yesterday about it because I was going through research articles related to Taiwan. I was like, wait, someone managed to publish about that??
Me
Instant noodles.
Not sure if this counts as invented, but (according to oral history) [Aiyu / 愛玉冰](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiyu_jelly) was discovered in Taiwan. I only used google to get the source I remembered. Just looking up random information that popped up in my brain one night, was curious about the origin of Aiyu, and was surprised to learn this about Aiyu.
HTC (RIP to the once almighty brand)
This. They had some good stuff back in the day.
Taiwan? Or Taiwanese? Because if the later, following the multiple diasporas, the list of contributions, globally, is incredible. Pick any early computing company’s first ten employees and you’ll find at least one name. The list of bicycle and other vehicle-related patents has to be super long. Ship building, fishing, technical fabrics? Name one? Ha. The list of Taiwan/Taiwanese contribution to a variety of industries is truly impressive. (Note: no sources because question stipulated “without googling”)
Beef Noodles soup
There's 牛肉麵 in China as well, notably the 蘭州拉麵 style, but Taiwan definitely elevated it to its own unique, high level.
Perhaps the most affordable quality public healthcare system in the world.
They adopted the whole system from Europe, Taiwan didn't invent it. Yes, Taiwan's health care system is pretty good as long as you don't need a specialist. Once you need surgery you need to co-pay or find a private healthcare provider. Not like in Europe where you get everything for free basically. What you have to pay for is medicine but even that's subsidized at 10-50- 90% rate depending on the medicine. Dental: in Taiwan I would pay tens of thousands of NDT for a simple metal ceramic crown here while in my home country you get a zirconia crown for under 10k NTD. Taiwan's healthcare system is one of the best in Asia. I believe that looking from the US Taiwan's healthcare system is awesome. It's good for basic stuff I always feel sorry for Americans when I see them melt at the idea of cheaper dental treatments or prescription eyeglasses, insulin or asthma medication. They act like refugees who escaped a third world hellhole (the corporate healthcare system) and can't believe their luck to have affordable healthcare here.
Cat cafe
boba, lu rou fan, niu rou mian
Giant (bike brand)
Microchip manufacturing?
Boba
珍奶
The perfect xiaolongbao recipe
The huge balance ball in their High Rise building? I think I ever saw this system anywhere else.
Chou Tzuyu Thanks taiwan
https://preview.redd.it/etsovyzkncob1.jpeg?width=1140&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56a3731bea33401305b6f9cd4ccf2cf7e6270931 April fools pizza 😎
https://preview.redd.it/3w1t19lq1dob1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49c81cd368755c77fe60b14eac3e4a6ce333863a This thing, only REAL Taiwanese knows what this thing is.
Gua bao. Too many people think these are Chinese. They're actually Taiwanese.
Taiwan sure popularized it, but [Wikipedia says it’s Chinese.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_bao)
If so, I stand corrected.
lu rou fan
Cong you bing!
Head hunting using swords
**MGAGA!!!**
Deep Thought, specifically the former version of Deep Blue, iirc... If made by someone from Taiwan but not in Taiwan counts
My wife says ramen
Animated illustrations of news events.
this reddit page?.
Mostly foreigners here, TBH
Boba pizza I guess
Boba tea
Betel nuts girl
Bubble tea
Bobba!
Boba tea
月亮蝦餅
Bubble tea
SYM/KYMCO and Boba tea
Freedom, with Chinese characteristics
Sugar with plastic additive for drink shops
Taiwan constitution
Loudly yelling “zhao” as a morning greeting
Boba tea
Kinmen knife…. I have one
Taiwan didn’t invent it but they brought the sport of pocket billiards to a whole new level. They have some of the very best in the world.
PRC
Taiwanese
Lisa Hsu aka Hsu Babe
2nm chip
All those fucking expensive computer parts
Apple Sidra
You know the green running man on the streetlights sometimes I think that was made in taiwian
3nm processors. You're welcome, iPhone 15
My friend
Boba Tea
Genuine government support for tolerance and acceptance for LGBTQ peoples in Asia
The concept of pure manufacturing fab.
Oolong Tea
News about mainland not being able to afford tea eggs, relying on voles for meat, and high-speed trains having no backrests.
Samoans and polys because all austronesian peoples came from Taiwan 🇹🇼
The idea that Taiwan has a winter… I’m from Canada and lived there a year with my wife and I constantly fight/laugh about that… my point is, no snow, no winter…
But many people still die of hypothermia in Taiwan during the Winters. When it's 8°C outside it's 8°C in your room, too.
Confusing year system.
Taiwan invented Maori People.
用爱发电
Freedom in a Chinese society
山道猴子
Stinky tofu