With the Spring Festival approaching, just like on the mainland, people on the island are looking forward to being able to reunite with their families on Chinese New Year's Eve and share a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, so they have begun to order New Year's dishes.
According to Taiwan's United News Network on February 4, Taiwan's "Social Lab" tracked the online volume of the topic of "New Year's dishes" in the past year through the "Opview Community Word-of-Mouth Database" and selected Taiwan's "Top Ten New Year's Dishes". The survey found that the top dish was "Buddha jumping over the wall". Some Taiwanese netizens said, "If you can only choose one of the must-eat New Year's dishes, I will jump over the wall because there are all kinds of ingredients." Due to its rich and diverse materials,Eating Buddha jumping over the wall during the Chinese New Year has the implication of hoping that the future will be rich"Not only can you enjoy the abundant ingredients, but you can also reuse the soup base and add your favorite ingredients like eating a hot pot." "Dumplings" came in second placeThis food, which resembles an "ingot", has a beautiful meaning of attracting wealth and treasure. When talking about how to eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, Taiwanese netizens shared, "Dumplings are 1 yuan, called ingots", and eating dumplings with coins symbolizes that there may be good luck in the new year, "dumplings are delicious and fun". In third place is "Pig's Feet".It is also one of the must-have diets for many families on the island during the Spring FestivalThere is a saying that "eating pig's feet adds longevity, and eating legs replenishes the treasury".Eating pig's feet with your family on a festive occasion like the Chinese New Year is a sign of financial abundance for the year ahead. The fourth to tenth places are long-term vegetables (vegetables in Chinese New Year's Eve rice, usually mustard greens, and spinach is often used as a long-term dish in Tainan and Kaohsiung), rice cakes, chicken soup, mullet roe, rice cakes, radish cakes and shrimp.
It is not difficult to see from this list and the sharing of netizens that people on both sides of the strait have similar eating habits and cultural customs. Taiwan's food culture is based on the food culture of Fujian and southern Fujian, integrating the essence of Hakka cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and other major cuisines in mainland China, and innovating them. The historical changes of its food culture have roughly gone through three stages of development:One is the embryonic period before 1949; The second is the period from 1949 to 1987. At that time, there were many officers and soldiers of Sichuan and Hunan origin in the Taiwan army, which made Sichuan-Hunan restaurants popular on the island for a while, and produced a series of special dishes that integrated the major cuisines of the mainland, such as "eight treasure hooves" and "scallion oil fat chicken". The third stage is the period of innovation from 1987 to the present, from simply following Chinese food culture to bold innovation. It can be said that all kinds of famous dishes and snacks in Taiwan have been deeply imprinted by Chinese food culture, and even if there are differences, the essence of cross-strait culture with the same root and origin will not change.
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