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Letter From Taipei
Chinese-style breakfast food like soya milk and scallion pancakes get ‘new form of life’ in Taiwan
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While supporters say that Taiwanese cuisine is distinct, critics maintain it is merely a subset of Chinese cuisine.
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TAIPEI – It is not yet 6am on a weekday, but the queue is already snaking outside Fuhang Soy Milk, Taiwan’s most famous breakfast spot.
Tourists from all over the world flock to the Taipei eatery, bleary-eyed, to sample a “traditional Taiwanese-style breakfast” that includes items such as shaobing, or baked flat bread, scallion pancakes and, of course, soya milk – both sweet and savoury.
