Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a ...

"Taiwanese food is, I would say, a combination of all of our waves of colonization and governance," Wei says. Enlarge this image Dried goods on sale at Shuixian Gong Market.

“Taiwanese food history is as murky as Taiwanese politics,” says Katy Hui-wen Hung, author of 2018’s A Culinary History of Taipei. Indeed, ...

One of Southern California’s most ambitious new restaurants just made a quiet debut in the San Gabriel Valley. Blue Magpie, a ...

Taiwanese food is an underdog because it is often grouped underneath the broad umbrella of Chinese food. Part of the reason why that is was because in the 60s and 70s, Taiwan was portrayed as a ...

But Taiwanese food is quite distinct in that we have our own pantry items that are unique to Taiwan. Taiwanese cuisine tends to be more sweet. Here in Tainan, the food is very, ...

Taiwanese food is a constantly evolving genre on the homeland, where it has been influenced by a half-century of Japanese rule, a tropical climate, aboriginal cultures, ...

How Chinese food in America came to be synonymous with fried noodles and sticky-sweet meat nuggets is complicated. But regardless of the history, ...

KQED’s Eating Taiwanese in the Bay is a series of stories exploring Taiwanese food culture in all of its glorious, delicious complexity. If you ask a Taiwanese American about the Bay Area’s Taiwanese ...

Originally, Chinese food came to America as a means of survival for the recently immigrated Chinese. Institutionalized racism and legislation aimed at preventing further immigration, ...