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is difficult for me to distinguish the most delicious Taiwanese food or
my favorite Taiwanese food. I’ve been here for a month, today. I tasted
many Taiwanese foods and I think those that I have eaten so far are all
good, delicious, and I classified all of them as my favorite Taiwanese
foods. All of them are good! When I am having trouble with identifying
or naming which foods can be the favorite one, I usually let my stomach
do the honor and make the selection. So, my theory is, always trust your
gut! If your gut is making sounds, it means trouble, but otherwise, be
quiet, sit down, and welcome the foods your stomach selected for you.
Because I am facing difficulties toward making
the selecting of my favorite Taiwanese food, I will tell you my
experiences in getting my delicious meals. I had encountered several
interesting experience with getting around the many street markets, to
pick and buy my delicious Taiwanese foods. And I can also tell you my
experience I always had while eating my delicious food.
Most eating places can offer me what I will always like to take a
bite or at least sniff it. Unfortunately, I can only get those that I
can point at! I mean there is always the oral communication barrier. I
often visited these places with the other international students and we
usually go to the ones that we feel that the restaurant’s owner
understands us or knows our desires. In fact, there are couple places
that we are familiar with and we often visited, because for the most
part, the owner already know what kind of food that these poor
international students are crying for!
I also like to visit the, “kitchens”, as named by my Taiwanese
dorm-mate. I enjoy coming to these type of restaurant, because I can
find all I want to eat and I can easily tell the owner what I like. And
not by saying it out loud, but by pointing! I like everything from the
soup, or what most of my friends refer to as appetizer, all the way to
the main dish. I admire how the kitchens’ owners on every corner of the
Taipei streets serve their customers, especially the international
customers. Whenever, me and the other international students approach a
kitchen or restaurant, we often greeted by an appetizing smiles.
So, there I am, eager to take a bite of what my stomach already
selected for me. I picked up the soup, if available or if my guts call
for it, otherwise, I will often look around to make sure no body is
looking at me. I will always make sure that I hold the chopsticks
perfectly and in the most appropriate chopsticks manner. My stomach is
already producing juices to digest what is about to come down my
esophagus, but unfortunately, it has to wait, because my fingers are
trying their best to hold the two pieces of sticks together and
perfectly in a way that when I am picking up food, the chopsticks don’t
fall apart.
At the very beginning of my each meal, I am doing perfect. I can
pick up foods between the two sticks, just like a pure Taiwanese. This
is often my most perfect time of the meal, especially, when someone at
the table is telling me that I am good. And that really increase my
appetite, but, within several minutes, my fingers become numb and the
sticks start to slip, slide, and few times, fall down!
And, that’s it! I told you my experience in getting my favorite
food. Unfortunately, I cannot identify my favorite Taiwanese food, and
that doesn’t mean that I cannot find any, but it means that there are
many out there and all of them are my favorite Taiwanese food.
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