Introduction
London, Paris, New York… Hull are all internationally recognized as food destinations and even a passing knowledge of these swinging towns will know that there is a huge variety on offer.
I, however, reside in Taipei which to most people across the world would probably put it just above Hull in the culinary landscape. I’ve lived here since 2004 and have seen massive improvements in terms of the food on offer. Bread has got better, “Western food” is no longer just an amorphous blob of anything that isn’t rice or noodle-based, vegetarian options are much improved and food knowledge has improved too. Like everyone, I have my haunts, my go-tos and have got a little bit too complacent in going to the same places in this city.
I did a mental count without the internet and came up with around 30 different nations’ foods that are available around town, from the obvious (Japanese) to the more left field (Peruvian) and figured there must be more, so I have tasked myself with eating a different country’s food once a week for a year. A call out on Facebook netted me some other options, and my chief scientist Mr. R (after an hour of googling) found a list containing 59 options. The list was undated, so some may have disappeared, others may have taken their place. Either way, I am gonna try.
Rules
The criteria is pretty loose, if I’m out and about, it can be night market level prices so around 100NT (about 3.3 USD) to 500NT (just under 17USD), but I may break that if there is a significant thing happening like me and the bread knife’s wedding anniversary, or if I get an out of town visitor. Besides, I’m not made of money.
I’m counting China as three possibly four options because the place is so blinkin’ huge that for example Xinjiang food and Cantonese food cannot really be compared as being from the same place.
If I’m running low on places, and I can find someone who can cook “unexpected place food” that will count, but as a last resort. And of course, I’ll pay.
I have no pretensions as seeing myself as a food critic or anything like that, so this isn’t a review site per se, but I will say if I liked the food or not. There are many more fine people doing exactly that and who are much better at it than I am. This is mostly my experiences of the stupid shit that goes with eating unfamiliar food, a little about who I’m dining with and general blogging-ness. So if this is interesting to you, press blog feed up at the top and tell me what you think
It is a bit bare bones at the moment, but when I’m more familiar with blogging, it’ll look nicer. Maybe with colours and stuff.
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