Food

Now that I've been in Taiwan for about a week, I feel a bit more prepared to talk about food. These are my main thoughts about food:

1. Is cheap: in night markets specially, where you can try most of local specialities for less than 2 euros.

2. Is tasty: peculiar flavors will fill your mouth and will inspire your imagination, most of them very different from what I am used to eat in Spain.

3. Is diverse: from Chinese imported noodles to local aborigine barbecue meat or Japanese influenced varieties of sushi, there is little you cannot find on a Taiwanese table at lunch time.

4. Is optionally spicy: "la bu la" (spicy?) is one of the most pronounced questions related to eating. You can choose not spicy, of course, but I would recommend "yi dianr dianr" (just a little bit), as gives the food another perspective, also because there are many types of spicy here, and none of them taste the same. This is amazing, coming from a culture where spicy rarely exists.

5. Is a lot: always get full before the food is over.
Then, say "chi bao le" before somebody fills your dish again.

6. It is funny and surprising: nothing is what it looks like.
Sometimes eggs are black and carrots look like meat. Sometimes you think you're eating pork, but what really is in your mouth is tofu. Sometimes seems like aubergine, and the taste tells you that is fish.