Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud" said that DPP "legislator" Tsai Yiyu posted a video of making borscht on Facebook on March 10, declaring that he wanted to "justify" borscht. He said that borscht originated in Ukraine, and that Shanghainese were mistaken to think it was Russian Soup, so it was transliterated as "borscht". He believes that the soup should now be renamed "Ukrainian Hero Soup". Some netizens on the island sarcastically said, can you do something serious?
Screenshot of Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud" report
According to reports, Cai Yiyu claimed that in order to show his support for Ukraine, he visited Chef Huang Yuxin together with Wang Xuanmao, the proposed candidate for Tainan City Councilor, and Zhang Jialing, the proposed candidate for New Taipei City Council, to make authentic Ukrainian soups, and to name the "borscht" named "Borscht" in Shanghai in the past as "Ukrainian Hero Soup".
Cai Yiyu. Video screenshots
Cai Yiyu claimed that in the early years of borscht spread to Shanghai, Shanghainese because of the Russian English for "Russia", "Russian soup" was transliterated as "borscht", but borscht soup is not from Russia, but from Ukraine, in Ukraine borscht is called "борщ", written in Roman characters is "Borshch", is the staple food of ukrainians for hundreds of years. As for why it became borscht, Cai Yiyu claimed that this is because Ukraine is next door to Russia, and after it is transmitted to Russia, it will be transmitted to the East through Russia, and it will become "borscht".
According to public information, borscht, also known as red cabbage soup and suber soup, is a thick vegetable soup originating from the East Slavic peoples (including Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus), which is popular in Eastern and Central Europe. Authentic borscht is made with beets as the main ingredient, and then added potatoes, carrots, spinach and beef chunks, whipped cream and other ingredients to cook, so it has a purple color.
As for Cai Yiyu's desire to rename borscht to "Ukrainian Hero Soup," some netizens on the island sarcastically said: "Legislators" do not do their own work, and they are doing some messy and insignificant things.
Some netizens asked the "Green Committee": "Can you do something serious"?
Some netizens criticized the Green Committee for being very good at rubbing hot spots.
Some netizens said: Who cares.
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the DPP authorities never forgot to take the opportunity to speculate, first following the European and American sanctions against Russia, on March 8, the leader of the Taiwan authorities Tsai Ing-wen herself also "went down", posted orchids sprayed with the color of the Ukrainian flag on Facebook, declaring that "Taiwan's orchids are Ukraine", and the result was ridiculed by netizens on the island "engaging in some useless things all day long".
Source: Central Committee of the Communist Youth League