Taiwan is known as the motherland for many things: highly sought-after semiconductors, the best traditional Chinese learner textbooks money can buy, innovative electric scooters, and pineapple cake. But it’s a little known fact, at least internationally, that Taiwan is also known as the ‘Kingdom of Fruit’. This means that it’s common to see both supermarkets …
Month: February 2024
Unlike the name suggests, Honolulu Cafe is not Hawaiian: it’s Cantonese. Doling out delicious egg tarts since 1940, this Hong Kong-born Taiwan-bred cha chaan teng chain (like a teahouse) has become a popular fixture of malls in Taiwan. Though it’s a fairly standard Cantonese cafe with similar product offerings to other shopping mall competitors like …