If You Are Tiawanese Please Help Me!?

Question

okay, i have a project due for cooking class and it's called cultural foods project and i was assigned to do Taiwan. All I need is for you to help me answer these 2 questions. I really need ur help because i've searched for the on the internet but i can't find the answer. i would appreciate it! thanx tiawanese people ur the bomb!

1. What foods are served on special occasions?

2. What are the special occasions?

Answer 1

We eat a lot of "glutinous rice balls" (aka: sticky rice rolled into a ball after it's cooked), and usually at any celebration. As for what special occasions we eat these foods on, pretty much any special occasion that you have in America (are you American?), plus all of the traditional Chinese holidays and Lunar Holidays. Take a look at the links below for some examples of our holidays.

Good luck on your project!

Answer 2

During the Dragon Boat Festival, they eat Zhonzi (spelling right?). These are sticky rice dumplings. I think this practice takes place in China also, so it may not be unique to Taiwan.
Taiwan is also famous for "stinky tofu". It's tofu that has been brought a little further along in the fermentation process, so it has a pungent aroma. This food isn't tied to a particular festival though.
Moon cakes are a big deal, as the earlier poster noted, and they also eat strange grapefruit like fruits called pomelos for the Moon Festival holiday. Barbeques are a really big deal for the Moon Festival, during the festival while I was there there were tons of people cooking food on the sidewalks.

Answer 3

Special occasions are weddings or meals for an honored guest.

Usually consist of 7 to 9 courses of food, which include meat, crispy duck, fish, vegetables, and a special "Buddha jumped over the wall" soup or shark's fin soup. At the end of the meal, either fruit or sweet mung bean soup is served. For refreshments, both juice, and Shaoshing wine is served - for occasions with only men, toasts are made with Kaoliang (white lightning).

This is just a sampling of what all the courses may consist of. There is a great variety in what is presented, and also how.

Answer 4

seafood and black goose soup is often served at weddings.

at chinese new year 'glutinous rice balls' are served to signify aging one year.

on moon festival people often eat barbequed pork, beef, chicken and squid. and as already mentioned, moon cakes.

every time you walk along the street people quite often have tables of crackers, doritos and cola set up with burning incense sticks next to it. They are giving food to an ancestor to eat. on 'tomb sweeping day, and during 'ghost month' (usually in august and early september- it changes based on the lunar calendar) when the gates of hell open and the dead come a-visiting, in particular, you will see this all over. apparently ghosts like coke, more than pepsi, and there are no ghosts drinking diet cola yet that i have seen.

after the incense is finished burning and the smoke has cleared from burning copius amounts of newspaper decorated like money (ghost money) and the food has sat in the sun for a couple hours the ghosts are deemed to have 'absorbed the essence' of the food and then the living can pork out on the leftovers of the ghosts repast.

I am not taiwanese, but my wife is.

every city in taiwan has a 'special' famous food. in Taichung it is 'sun cake'

its not served on special occasions, but its very culturally unique- its stinky tofu! it smells like raw sewage mixed with old vomit and they love it!
other interesting culturally unique foods here include chicken feet, (you can see the claws!) chicken butt (the end of the intestines of a chicken), pig ears, pig nose, cow tongue and giblets. just think of whats in your hotdog and put it in raw form.

Another food that I actually will eat and is very modern Taiwanese cuisine is 'hot pot'. Basically you take an open flame and boil the hell out of a pot of mixed veggies, meat, fishballs and tofu with a side order of rice or noodles and you take 2 hours or so eating all you can eat until you are full and talking. I love it! This is just a normal food as well.

Answer 5

there are a lot of special occasions in taiwan.... ex the moon holiday, the dragon boat holiday, chinese new year etc each special holiday has diff food! best to go to Chinatown and find someone who speaks English to take you to a shop then buy something!

Answer 6

no prob.
1. moon cakes (they are like sweets that are really fatning:)
2.moon festival
*good luck with that project of urs :)
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