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Cambridge Advanced Learner’s dictionary defines food as something that
people, and animal eat, or plant absorb, to keep them alive”. Based on
the aforesaid definition, I will describe Taiwan as a nation that has
enough food for her people, animals and plants. There are multitudes of
food for human consumption. The same assumption is true for plants
because the fruit stores are, always jam-packed with a spectrum of
varieties of fruits
It is pretty difficult for many like me to select
one Taiwanese food as my favourite. As a “foodie”, I have eaten a lot of
palatable Taiwanese food –indeed I do not know the names of some of
those foods. Once the food looks nice and is not outside my “choice of
food band range”, I eat it and always found out that it is delicious.
Furthermore, delving into the Taiwanese food “mountain”, and
stabilising and recalling my memory, I guess I will be able to tell my
favourite Taiwanese food. I do not have a favourite Taiwanese food but I
have favourite Taiwanese foods: a big “s” added to food. I like the
fruits, vegetables, beverages, fish and rice. In my native country, rice
is the staple food for most people; so I enjoy the delicious Taiwanese
rice especially the rice pudding served in Jamaica restaurant in Taipei
city. The mixture of ground chicken and rice with some species and
garlic is very appetising and delicious. Mentioning this alone makes me
to salivate! This reminds me of the Gambian “Mbahal”. Rice, green beans,
lettuce, cabbage, mushroom and fish eaten together in one big meal is a
case in point. The hot sea food-spaghetti pasta with its dark red colour
served at the pasta Palace restaurant is so nice and easy to swallow
that I biasly say that it should be the only pasta served in
restaurants. Taipei (perhaps the rest of the country) has a multitude of
fruits ranging from the sweet seedless grapes, varieties of apples, to
the almost one kilogramme-weight guavas. One of such guavas can fill the
stomach of a hungry glutton.
To recapitulate, I enjoy every single Taiwanese food that is
within my “choice of food band range”, but I prefer rice in all its
different modes of preparations and servings. However, being a glutton
for fruits, Taiwanese varieties of fruits occupy a centre stage in my
“scale of preference for food”. These fruits will always be among my
unforgettable memories in Taiwan.
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