Taiwan’s Hidden Culinary Delights

From street food to Michelin-starred restaurants, the island’s diverse and delicious cuisine beckons

Many hidden gems of Taiwanese cuisine can be found in the island’s charming small towns and night markets. Tony Yu

The island nation of Taiwan may only be one-fourth the physical size of Florida, but it has an extraordinarily diverse cuisine that’s a combination of indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, and Western flavors and styles. 

The island’s culinary traditions have been enriched, in turn, by the Dutch and the Japanese, who colonized the island for different periods of time; early Fujian, Hoklo, and Hakka immigrants from southern China; and a wave of new Chinese immigrants in the 1940s.