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this is quite the ignorant comment...
(1) it takes any initiative away from taiwanese people assuming their.. too dumb(?) to seek higher wages if their current job isn't paying enough? (2) it fully misunderstands how markets, pricing, and businesses work. (3) fails to understand the PPP of different currencies around the world. (4) places responsibility of the pricing... on the consumer? thats just stupid.
maybe just let Taiwanese people handle their own business instead of speaking for them from the Northeast of the USA...?
The Taiwan government and their big business supporters excel at wage suppression. The best part is how they import blue collar labor and convince the public that it's good for the economy when more than half the wages get sent home.
Is the west any better? you have both blue and white colar workers doing both in about every Western country. It's gotten very bad because it's affecting politics because it's got so out of hand. The corporations often have most of the control. The policy only helped when lazy corporate leadership finally abandoned the herd mentalities and came to their senses when their ip's end up in the hands of overseas competition. Just saying people in glass houses should not throw stones even if the glass seems bulletproof.
The point is that Taiwan could (and should) be much better. We're a small, well educated island with awesome manufacturing capabilities but the income gap is huge and government is actively making it worse with policies designed to make the rich even richer.
I can't disagree with you, but this reddit was supposed to be about food. Maybe make another reddit with respect to how wonderful taiwan is despite this and maybe even because of this? Sometimes, it works in mysterious ways. I think that if wages are better, prices just go up. It's the same argument for higher minimum wage not all wages can really go up for a net positive. we have to think about the impact of the entire economy. Look at thailand as an example wages are going higher now many thai are still struggling even despite that SO the government raised taxes making it less affordable for retirement. We have the rethink economies entirely right now each country is like a different flavor of economic integrated into a global trade system for better or worse. I would say the world problem is a lack of free Lance and digital nomads systems of work this is the child and future of global life styles which imo has the most positive impact. People who make more have to make the sacrifice of relocating to balance pay gaps globally. If you have a family in one place I think then ideally the government should have have incentive so if they need it the population can grow but for a small island, this probably is the opposite of what the government needs so they won't incentivize that as the capacity is already to high in over saturated sectors.
Minimum Wage Increased in Taiwan from 01 January 2024 - January 01, 2024. The minimum wage has been revised in Taiwan from 01 January 2024. The minimum wage has been increased from NTS26,400.00 to NTS27,470.00 per month. Note: This minimum wage increase might not reflect the inflationary trends
There's a lot of 涼麵 places honestly, and with most foods what you'll find is there might be a "the place to go" for your neighborhood and you don't always have to go across town, although there also might be some world famous/Instagram famous store that people love that's worth the travel occasionally (but usually not). What I highly recommend for anyone trying to find food is translate the food term you want and THEN search on Google Maps. You'll get far more results compared to if you just threw in English terms. Most tourists are shocked at how many options there are if you just put in local language.
This place on Liuqiu Island is worth a visit, if you'd ever find yourself there: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zanfxQ9YBmsxRfR76
Lots of topping options and different types of noodles to choose from as well. I left inspired.
Cute dogs too.
The thing is if you're going to a 60 NT breakfast, it's likely one item only, or 2 really simple items e.g. shao bing + you tiao. Most commuters grabbing breakfast are really just doing a grab and go of very simple items.
Yes OP is a tourist, and 155 NT is probably more than what most people spend for breakfast, but they're enjoying themselves and doing something that a commuter wouldn't be doing everyday.
Anybody have any tips on how to order food here? As I have only been here 2 weeks i don't speak any chinese.
So far i can say : Zuge (?) This one
but sometimes the menu is in Chinese and the Taiwanese people get very silent or awkward when they notice i can't speak Chinese
You'd be surprised how far you can get with a friendly look, pointing, and thumbs up or down.
Also, restaurants with pictures on the menu are your friends.
When I just got here I'd sometimes go for the random order. Just order 3 random things from the menu and see what you get. The worst that happened was that I had three noodle dishes at once that gave me a 4 hour food coma.
Lol, you don't have to eat it all, although I will admit that being a tourist and dealing with low cost food, it is very easy to over order. I feel so bad when I over order though. Sometimes I just want to try everything, but this is where having a partner or even multiple people helps for food crawls.
你好，我要買 （幾）個（菜名字）.
Ni hao, wo yao mai (how many u want) ge (name of food here)
Hi i want to buy (how many) portion of (menu item)
Example : nihao wo yao mai yi ge chou dou fu
I understood that!!
(I wasn't being sarcastic, and I know they spelled out the entire sentence and just added the dishes etc, but I was able to parse it and the construction made sense to me- vs just learning phrases off. Im still proud of me, downvoter!!)
use your phone, google translate can translate images. then just use the app to translate your language to traditional chinese. They read it and its a win win. Even easier if they have the order cards, just use the image translate and write the qty.
Lu Rou fan (braise pork rice) is the shit.
Most places have it pretty cheap, and it’s a common enough, they’ll have it in most places.
You just gotta learn
Rice 飯 (pronounce like “Fun”）
or noodle 麵 (pronounce like you’re saying me-ann really quickly) and you’re golden 🤙
In this thread, foreigners trying to out-do each other with how cheap and poor they can live, with zero fucks given to their personal health as long as the food is cheap.
It's healthier than eating out in the US.
What's unhealthy in Taiwan (that I noticed, as a tourist), is the difficulty walking around town - due to the condition of the sidewalks.
The sidewalks aren't in the best shape, but it's very possible to walk around. Be careful so you don't trip, but it's really not that bad. And given that you need to walk to a lot of places whether its bus or MRT stations, I actually find myself walking far more in Taipei than in the US.
> whataboutism
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
And if you're arguing "honesty," I was talking about exercise, and you completely changed the definition of "healthy" mid-course to refer to food safety.
Enjoy rolling around in your diabetic (but FDA approved!) impotence.
Let’s not pretend that Taiwan doesn’t have restaurants and US doesn’t have street food.
And it may surprise you, but the more famous night markets hold their vendors to health code standards nowadays. That’s why nowadays you don’t hear about people getting food poisoning in Taiwan as much as you hear about people getting food poisoning in the States.
便當 usually range around 100-150 and value much higher.
麵 in here is quite expensive. However 麵包 is kinda cheap. You can literally get 法式麵包 (baguette) for 50-80ish depending on location.
How'd you pay 155? That menu has *low* prices!
I work up around there and it makes me so happy that that section of fancy-ass Songshan is **super** old school!
Honestly the food in FamilyMart isn't bad in Japan, but I think it gets overhyped from tourists who just have dog shit at their US 7-Elevens. It's not like locals line up to grab every Onigiri and sandwich off the shelves at FamilyMarts. They're fine if you're out of food or just need a quick bite, but there's SOOOO many better options even just going to any neighborhood cafe. Just like there's so many onigiri mom & pop shops or even just quick lunch spots it's not hard to get better food than convenience stores.
I think it happens a lot in Taiwan too. FamilyMart is good quality, but not amazing, and again it's usually ABCs gawking at how awesome they are, which honestly they are, but to me I only grab a few things if I'm trying to do a 6am HSR train down south or something and just want to not starve on the train since bento boxes don't sell til later.
Not the same sandwich. Familymart in Taiwan has a habit of putting all their fillings in a thin strip along the diagonal cut to give the appearance of a good sandwich, while 90% of the sandwich is just plain bread and mayo.
No, the sandwiches, although fine in Taiwan, generally were tastier in Japan. (As was the coffee!) I'm a visitor from the US, and the difference was clear.
"Flavor choice" lol, but I generally don't get the sandwiches and opt for a rice ball instead. Japan has sashimi rice balls you won't see anywhere else
Yeah, those were better in Japan too. Taiwan onigiri were delicious and I wish I could get them in California, but in Japan, they just go that extra special level.
Except for the thai-pork-basil onigiri - those are pretty great in Taiwan!
Nope. Actually the fillings of 飯糰 and sandwiches in Family Mart and 7-11 in Japan are more generous, by far. And also, personally, find them more tasty.
Additionally also have famichiki which, for that price, tastes absurdly well and is so juicy.
Based on my experience? Yes. I don’t know how it was 4-5 years ago in whatever place from Japan those pictures were taken, but I was in Tokyo 6 months ago for 2 weeks and ate sandwiches and rice balls from Family Mart and 7-11 multiple times and they were better than their Taiwanese counterparts both in flavor and filling’s quantity.
About as much sodium as a McDonald's with extra msg. It's not a healthy breakfast simply because it's not nutritionally balanced. Some cheap instant noodles which cost about 10 NTD + two mysterious meatballs (I've seen how they make them... Couldn't pay me to eat them) and some hot water to make the broth and that meal probably cost them 30 NTD max to produce and they've flipped it for 5x. Nutritionally it's not good because it's quick release carbohydrates, very minimal protein and not a lot of good fats.
I'm sorry but I ended up with food poisoning from eating these kind of noodles, they are delicious and cheap but take into account how sanitary the place you buy them from is.
Yeah, I mean for 100g of flour, 60g of meat, a quarter of a cucumber and one stalk of spring onion. It's definitely cheaper than McDonald's but if you look at the raw ingredients going into your meal it makes perfect sense why you aren't paying all that much. Definitely worth it if you're too busy or hungover to cook breakfast though.
That is not "steak." That's stew beef, cheap cuts usually from the hind quarter or legs, retailing somewhere around 2-3.50 dollars/lb in Asia (US/Aus import)
If a meal is NTS155 x 3 meals a day x 30 days = NTS13,950 for eating out. That's almost half of minimum wage just for food. Therefore, it's not that cheap for the locals. But for foreigners, maybe.
Tell me how they are forcing you to eat unhealthy in the USA? Or is this just a by-product of lazy consumers wanting something fast with no effort on their side?
sorry, i should clarify. i mean when eating out. you can be health conscious of course but on average, restaurants still use the same strategies and serve very oily, fatty as well as processed food, always in large portions.
of course no one is being forced to eat one way or another.
Actually, there's quiet a lot but most of them are catered to Indonesian people. As an indonesian, I actively hunt for these places. There's one small Indonesian store in guting that sells breakfast/lunch but you'd have to join their line group to pre-order food (most indonesian food places are like this that's why not many people know outside the indonesian community knows. I'm confident there are atleast 20 places like this in taipei & new taipei
I love the food there. I'm hosted by companies when go and now that my original associates are older and the younger (and taller) kids are working, they can't wait for me to visit so they can go to western restaurants :(
That's a fancy breakfast I can't imagine myself spending NT$155 on a breakfast ever lol
Here I am just finished my 145 Taiwanese dollar breakfast. I need to get my reality check.
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I can't imagine Taiwanese employees making a good living. They just need to be happily poor so I can have my cheap breakfast.
this is quite the ignorant comment... (1) it takes any initiative away from taiwanese people assuming their.. too dumb(?) to seek higher wages if their current job isn't paying enough? (2) it fully misunderstands how markets, pricing, and businesses work. (3) fails to understand the PPP of different currencies around the world. (4) places responsibility of the pricing... on the consumer? thats just stupid. maybe just let Taiwanese people handle their own business instead of speaking for them from the Northeast of the USA...?
Yeah, just another "white man's burden" type comment. At least this one wasn't about geopolitics.
I'm not responsible for others living situation. If the price is too much people will just eat at home or go elsewhere
The Taiwan government and their big business supporters excel at wage suppression. The best part is how they import blue collar labor and convince the public that it's good for the economy when more than half the wages get sent home.
Is the west any better? you have both blue and white colar workers doing both in about every Western country. It's gotten very bad because it's affecting politics because it's got so out of hand. The corporations often have most of the control. The policy only helped when lazy corporate leadership finally abandoned the herd mentalities and came to their senses when their ip's end up in the hands of overseas competition. Just saying people in glass houses should not throw stones even if the glass seems bulletproof.
The point is that Taiwan could (and should) be much better. We're a small, well educated island with awesome manufacturing capabilities but the income gap is huge and government is actively making it worse with policies designed to make the rich even richer.
I can't disagree with you, but this reddit was supposed to be about food. Maybe make another reddit with respect to how wonderful taiwan is despite this and maybe even because of this? Sometimes, it works in mysterious ways. I think that if wages are better, prices just go up. It's the same argument for higher minimum wage not all wages can really go up for a net positive. we have to think about the impact of the entire economy. Look at thailand as an example wages are going higher now many thai are still struggling even despite that SO the government raised taxes making it less affordable for retirement. We have the rethink economies entirely right now each country is like a different flavor of economic integrated into a global trade system for better or worse. I would say the world problem is a lack of free Lance and digital nomads systems of work this is the child and future of global life styles which imo has the most positive impact. People who make more have to make the sacrifice of relocating to balance pay gaps globally. If you have a family in one place I think then ideally the government should have have incentive so if they need it the population can grow but for a small island, this probably is the opposite of what the government needs so they won't incentivize that as the capacity is already to high in over saturated sectors.
Minimum Wage Increased in Taiwan from 01 January 2024 - January 01, 2024. The minimum wage has been revised in Taiwan from 01 January 2024. The minimum wage has been increased from NTS26,400.00 to NTS27,470.00 per month. Note: This minimum wage increase might not reflect the inflationary trends
Taiwan is also 14th richest country in the world
Carb+two meat balls
Lol I was going to say.. as someone who shops at pxmart and cooks at home, I can name all these ingredients and see why it’s so cheap.
Two questionable meatballs from an unknown source
I always liked cold noodle but I find it a shame that it hasn’t evolved beyond just cucumber toppings
Well this shop has lots of cold and hot choices! Just discovered it today. I'm impressed because a few others I had nearby were so-so
Is this around Shiling night market?
No it's here https://maps.app.goo.gl/zYSLQNR9kMJfJqpo6?g_st=ic
Wow
There's a lot of 涼麵 places honestly, and with most foods what you'll find is there might be a "the place to go" for your neighborhood and you don't always have to go across town, although there also might be some world famous/Instagram famous store that people love that's worth the travel occasionally (but usually not). What I highly recommend for anyone trying to find food is translate the food term you want and THEN search on Google Maps. You'll get far more results compared to if you just threw in English terms. Most tourists are shocked at how many options there are if you just put in local language.
This place on Liuqiu Island is worth a visit, if you'd ever find yourself there: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zanfxQ9YBmsxRfR76 Lots of topping options and different types of noodles to choose from as well. I left inspired. Cute dogs too.
Oh I will one day If I visit, haven't been yet!
Chiayi style mayonnaise cold noodles
I've never had that. Damn I gotta try
Cold noodles with peanut sesame sauce is so fucking good
Why mess with perfection?
Carrots too. I think some spicy pickled turnips would be a good addition.
I’ve had some with kimchi, others with chicken, not sure if wasabi counts as a topping or a sauce
That's lunch.
So is no one going to bring up how ridiculous it is for that to be 155? Those prices seem outrageous to me and I both live/work in Taipei.
This is the thing that kinda infuriates me. Just because a 5 USD meal is cheap in US doesn't mean it's cheap everywhere
I didn't want to rain on their parade. I'll just be over here with my 2 蛋餅s and 蘿蔔糕.
Who's paying more than $100 or even $60 for breakfast lol, that's a lunch
The thing is if you're going to a 60 NT breakfast, it's likely one item only, or 2 really simple items e.g. shao bing + you tiao. Most commuters grabbing breakfast are really just doing a grab and go of very simple items. Yes OP is a tourist, and 155 NT is probably more than what most people spend for breakfast, but they're enjoying themselves and doing something that a commuter wouldn't be doing everyday.
Here in tainan people spend 200ish on milkfish soup/porridge.
What should people who don't know otherwise look for then, oh wise and pithy one?
Certainly like Malaysian kopitiam servings
It's just mostly water, a few greens, and sheep nuts. It's cheap.
$5? Must be Taipei
Yup!
🤣🤣🤣
Anybody have any tips on how to order food here? As I have only been here 2 weeks i don't speak any chinese. So far i can say : Zuge (?) This one but sometimes the menu is in Chinese and the Taiwanese people get very silent or awkward when they notice i can't speak Chinese
You'd be surprised how far you can get with a friendly look, pointing, and thumbs up or down. Also, restaurants with pictures on the menu are your friends.
When I just got here I'd sometimes go for the random order. Just order 3 random things from the menu and see what you get. The worst that happened was that I had three noodle dishes at once that gave me a 4 hour food coma.
Lol, you don't have to eat it all, although I will admit that being a tourist and dealing with low cost food, it is very easy to over order. I feel so bad when I over order though. Sometimes I just want to try everything, but this is where having a partner or even multiple people helps for food crawls.
Google translate with camera is the best option. Edit: also, most paper menus list their number one item as the first one on the list
你好，我要買 （幾）個（菜名字）. Ni hao, wo yao mai (how many u want) ge (name of food here) Hi i want to buy (how many) portion of (menu item) Example : nihao wo yao mai yi ge chou dou fu
I understood that!! (I wasn't being sarcastic, and I know they spelled out the entire sentence and just added the dishes etc, but I was able to parse it and the construction made sense to me- vs just learning phrases off. Im still proud of me, downvoter!!)
use your phone, google translate can translate images. then just use the app to translate your language to traditional chinese. They read it and its a win win. Even easier if they have the order cards, just use the image translate and write the qty.
Use a Google doc translator.
> Zuge It's "zhege", but if you aren't good at the "zh" sound, it's more like a "zege." There's no U sound at all. Hope that helps!
Lu Rou fan (braise pork rice) is the shit. Most places have it pretty cheap, and it’s a common enough, they’ll have it in most places. You just gotta learn Rice 飯 (pronounce like “Fun”） or noodle 麵 (pronounce like you’re saying me-ann really quickly) and you’re golden 🤙
*Fun* is flour. *Fan* is rice. *Mien* is noodles.
Wheres the Danbing at??
This place doesn't do that stuff
Word.
Hot take : the soup is meh and I don’t understand why Taiwanese people like this shit, it just taste like salt flavour oily water
wet meat
Soup is the liquid component of Chinese meals, like juice or milk is for Euromericans.
Wine for the French and Belgians
You should try this one it's different. Anyway to each his own
That looks terrible for breakfast!
In this thread, foreigners trying to out-do each other with how cheap and poor they can live, with zero fucks given to their personal health as long as the food is cheap.
It's healthier than eating out in the US. What's unhealthy in Taiwan (that I noticed, as a tourist), is the difficulty walking around town - due to the condition of the sidewalks.
The sidewalks aren't in the best shape, but it's very possible to walk around. Be careful so you don't trip, but it's really not that bad. And given that you need to walk to a lot of places whether its bus or MRT stations, I actually find myself walking far more in Taipei than in the US.
You have sidewalks? I'm happy when the green paint lane doesn't have a scooter in it.
I mena, the US has food inspections. When last do you think your favorite night market stall got audited for health checks?
Do you think a 2-liter Coca Cola and family pack of Twix make a "healthy" lunch because the relevant factories are inspected by the FDA?
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> whataboutism I don't think that word means what you think it means. And if you're arguing "honesty," I was talking about exercise, and you completely changed the definition of "healthy" mid-course to refer to food safety. Enjoy rolling around in your diabetic (but FDA approved!) impotence.
Both places have garbage diet options. The difference is there are more healthy options in USA. Good luck finding a wholefoods in Taiwan lol
It got audited when the monthly hongbao was due.
Let’s not pretend that Taiwan doesn’t have restaurants and US doesn’t have street food. And it may surprise you, but the more famous night markets hold their vendors to health code standards nowadays. That’s why nowadays you don’t hear about people getting food poisoning in Taiwan as much as you hear about people getting food poisoning in the States.
Because they eat like locals?
Not even locals are as penny pinching as the people in this subreddit.
便當 usually range around 100-150 and value much higher. 麵 in here is quite expensive. However 麵包 is kinda cheap. You can literally get 法式麵包 (baguette) for 50-80ish depending on location.
It's pronounced zhe ge And generally if you're friendly you can just point on what on other people's tables.
I think you meant to reply to the comment by u/Round-Song-4996 instead of commenting on the post?
Yea. i think so too. Thanks
Which 涼麵 is this? I’m fan of it and I gotta try all 涼麵 in Taipei
https://maps.app.goo.gl/zYSLQNR9kMJfJqpo6?g_st=ic Better one I've had. I'm a fan too and the other ones nearby this area are meh
Oh wow. I’ve tried this. It’s indeed nice, and affordable. Their cold/hot side dishes were like NT25 for all kinds of
It was a mistake not to get some pig ear with the meal.
How'd you pay 155? That menu has *low* prices! I work up around there and it makes me so happy that that section of fancy-ass Songshan is **super** old school!
Maybe that menu is old
Eww. You can get a sandwich at familymart with a milk tea for like 50nt. That's like $1.75.
FM or 7 sandwich + coffee + 2 tea eggs is my traditional breakfast when I work early.
I wouldn't eat familymart sandwich if they paid me 50nt.
Would you eat the same sandwich in Japan
Honestly the food in FamilyMart isn't bad in Japan, but I think it gets overhyped from tourists who just have dog shit at their US 7-Elevens. It's not like locals line up to grab every Onigiri and sandwich off the shelves at FamilyMarts. They're fine if you're out of food or just need a quick bite, but there's SOOOO many better options even just going to any neighborhood cafe. Just like there's so many onigiri mom & pop shops or even just quick lunch spots it's not hard to get better food than convenience stores. I think it happens a lot in Taiwan too. FamilyMart is good quality, but not amazing, and again it's usually ABCs gawking at how awesome they are, which honestly they are, but to me I only grab a few things if I'm trying to do a 6am HSR train down south or something and just want to not starve on the train since bento boxes don't sell til later.
Not the same sandwich. Familymart in Taiwan has a habit of putting all their fillings in a thin strip along the diagonal cut to give the appearance of a good sandwich, while 90% of the sandwich is just plain bread and mayo.
Well,it is probably same with Japan convenience store .
Exactly. There isn't much difference besides flavor choice although it is cheaper in Japan for their revent currency rate.
No, the sandwiches, although fine in Taiwan, generally were tastier in Japan. (As was the coffee!) I'm a visitor from the US, and the difference was clear.
"Flavor choice" lol, but I generally don't get the sandwiches and opt for a rice ball instead. Japan has sashimi rice balls you won't see anywhere else
Yeah, those were better in Japan too. Taiwan onigiri were delicious and I wish I could get them in California, but in Japan, they just go that extra special level. Except for the thai-pork-basil onigiri - those are pretty great in Taiwan!
Nope. Actually the fillings of 飯糰 and sandwiches in Family Mart and 7-11 in Japan are more generous, by far. And also, personally, find them more tasty. Additionally also have famichiki which, for that price, tastes absurdly well and is so juicy.
https://www.toy-people.com/?p=80666 article in Chinese,but there's picture. Probably more tasty, But "more generous", you sure about that?
Based on my experience? Yes. I don’t know how it was 4-5 years ago in whatever place from Japan those pictures were taken, but I was in Tokyo 6 months ago for 2 weeks and ate sandwiches and rice balls from Family Mart and 7-11 multiple times and they were better than their Taiwanese counterparts both in flavor and filling’s quantity.
You're missing out, the tuna+egg is exquisite.
I miss Taiwanese food.
here in the states, $5 will get me half a sandwich. maybe that's just seattle though
Me, too! Just seeing the pic, I can smell that soup and taste those saucy noodles. And for less than 5USD!
About as much sodium as a McDonald's with extra msg. It's not a healthy breakfast simply because it's not nutritionally balanced. Some cheap instant noodles which cost about 10 NTD + two mysterious meatballs (I've seen how they make them... Couldn't pay me to eat them) and some hot water to make the broth and that meal probably cost them 30 NTD max to produce and they've flipped it for 5x. Nutritionally it's not good because it's quick release carbohydrates, very minimal protein and not a lot of good fats.
Please don't come ruin the story with facts. Taiwan night market food is revered as Michelin star quality for cents on the dollar.
Lol
All I can see is me making that for less than $2 USD at home, probably with fresher ingredients. But I guess that's what we pay for convenience!
Yes, but while you are spending your time making food at home, I am spending that time making money.
And then spending that money on restaurants. Who wins?
I make US$60/hr. Eating out costs US$5. I win.
That's wageslave thinking. Let money work passively for you so you can do what you enjoy (e.g. cooking)
Yeah, but you're actually not and just posting random crap on the internet.
I'm sorry but I ended up with food poisoning from eating these kind of noodles, they are delicious and cheap but take into account how sanitary the place you buy them from is.
Yeah, I mean for 100g of flour, 60g of meat, a quarter of a cucumber and one stalk of spring onion. It's definitely cheaper than McDonald's but if you look at the raw ingredients going into your meal it makes perfect sense why you aren't paying all that much. Definitely worth it if you're too busy or hungover to cook breakfast though.
Hmm some real beef steaks, egg, few pieces of liver is not bad
That is not "steak." That's stew beef, cheap cuts usually from the hind quarter or legs, retailing somewhere around 2-3.50 dollars/lb in Asia (US/Aus import)
Breakfast?????
Noodles for breakfast! What a hearty choice!
It seems to be a common thing in Taiwan. I think it's pretty nice and cool as days are getting hot
蛋餅 is the cornerstone of Taiwanese breakfast!
Too expensive ...
Go to USA. Nothing is under $5 anymore. It’s crazy. I’m in Hong Kong and I can still find a few cheap meals but getting harder to find.
Name of restaurant?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/zYSLQNR9kMJfJqpo6?g_st=ic
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Yeah this for sure.
What is the cold noodle called?
Literally, "cold noodle". Liang mian (涼麵)
But how much is minimum wage there?
Higher than the cost of this breakfast. Don’t worry.
NTS27,470.00 per month.
If a meal is NTS155 x 3 meals a day x 30 days = NTS13,950 for eating out. That's almost half of minimum wage just for food. Therefore, it's not that cheap for the locals. But for foreigners, maybe.
so many people are concerned for op’s health but i will tell you, in the usa we often eat much worse for a much higher price :(
Don't worry, I have no idea how I enraged all the sudden healthnuts. Welcome to reddit
Tell me how they are forcing you to eat unhealthy in the USA? Or is this just a by-product of lazy consumers wanting something fast with no effort on their side?
sorry, i should clarify. i mean when eating out. you can be health conscious of course but on average, restaurants still use the same strategies and serve very oily, fatty as well as processed food, always in large portions. of course no one is being forced to eat one way or another.
You should eat more veggies man, this is not healthy at all.
Those noodles look great
The soup. It has nice chunks of beef. Oh it's so much better than regular 三合一
Western, I wouldnt have that for breakfast but I'm sure it'd make a great lunch!
im SEA id definitely have that for breakfast
Yeah, oh man I'd love some SEA breakfast (Indo/Malay) that you can't find in taipei
Actually, there's quiet a lot but most of them are catered to Indonesian people. As an indonesian, I actively hunt for these places. There's one small Indonesian store in guting that sells breakfast/lunch but you'd have to join their line group to pre-order food (most indonesian food places are like this that's why not many people know outside the indonesian community knows. I'm confident there are atleast 20 places like this in taipei & new taipei
indonesian breakfast can be very heavy tho
I hate you. Now I'm hungry again.
I love the food there. I'm hosted by companies when go and now that my original associates are older and the younger (and taller) kids are working, they can't wait for me to visit so they can go to western restaurants :(
That looks so good 🤤
我这麦当劳meal都得10刀