At a time when the DPP authorities are trying by all means to cut off Taiwan's ties with the mainland, many people in Taiwan have chosen to take the initiative to "embrace" the mainland.
According to a report by the global network, after the Nanjing dessert "plum blossom cake" appeared in Taiwan's Shilin Night Market recently, many people on the island came to visit, and there was a long queue at the scene, and everyone was looking forward to eating delicious. In addition, sauerkraut fish, hot milk treasure, meat sandwich buns, pancake fruits, and konjac shuang are also quite popular in Taiwan.
(The people on the island surrounded the plum blossom cake stalls)
Some people may wonder why mainland delicacies have always been the "bearers" of the food and beverage circles, and why they are gradually being liked by the people on the island now? On the surface, the popularity of these mainland delicacies in Taiwan stems from the love of "foodies," but the following two factors are inseparable from the following two factors.
First of all: the mainland's active social media allows people on the island to learn more about food, try it, and then fall in love with it.
With the growth of social media, many people have been able to "open their eyes to the world" even without leaving their homes. At present, several social media that are more popular in the mainland, such as Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, etc., due to the rich and colorful content, many people forget the time as soon as they swipe it.
After these social media were spread to Taiwan, many netizens on the island were amazed, and they were pleasantly surprised to find these stages that could show themselves, and at the same time, they also found a mainland that was different from what they imagined. In the face of the rolling new wave of the Internet, more and more Taiwanese netizens have begun to experience and use these various APP products for a long time.
For example, Douyin, which set up an operation team in Taiwan in early 2018, has successfully entered the top four of Taiwan's free app download charts in just three years, with 3 million active users in Taiwan, more than 200 creators, and even as many as 50% of users in northern Taiwan, with an average interactive reposting rate of 45% and about 3.1 billion video views per month.
Relying on these social media, many people in Taiwan were pleasantly surprised to find that there were so many mainland delicacies around them, which they had never heard of before, so they naturally wanted to go and taste them.
However, as TikTok became more and more popular in Taiwan, the DPP authorities panicked, and they were worried that "as soon as Douyin sounded, the Internet army would be raised in vain", and began to try to ban the use of TikTok by the people on the island, but judging from the current situation, it is obviously not effective.
Secondly: the diet of the two sides of the strait has the same genes and affects each other
Speaking of which, Taiwan is also a big food province, with a wide variety of snacks, from pineapple crisp and salted crispy chicken to xiao long bao and beef noodles, a long list can be listed. Compared with delicate and labor-intensive hard dishes, although snacks cannot be put on the table, they are all-encompassing, showing the exchange and blending of various Chinese cuisines, which not only have unique flavors, but also engrave the imprint of the changes of the times, becoming an important representative of Taiwan's food culture.
For example, the military village is the ancestral land where the mainland culture has branched out in Taiwan, and the military village cuisine has also become an important taste of Taiwanese food. When it comes to the snacks of the military villages, the most common mention of the people on the island is the Sichuan-style beef noodles, which are inextricably linked with the fried beef of Yangong in Zigong, Sichuan.
Sichuan-style beef noodles came to Taiwan, took root in Taiwan, and became Taiwan's "specialty". Interestingly, now, across the sea, this taste has entered Sichuan and Chongqing again, and has been affirmed by the high score of the mainland food review APP. The aroma of Sichuan-style beef noodles wafted through the streets on both sides of the strait, becoming a warm background color that brought the people on both sides of the strait closer.
(Braised beef noodles in the military village)
In fact, there is no distinction between the two sides of the strait. The mainland and Taiwan face each other across a strait, and although the ingredients, cooking, and tastes may be different, they share the same genes. Although the food on both sides of the strait has undergone a long period of evolution, it is still about the spiritual temperament based on the same cultural roots.
The DPP authorities are trying to sever the feelings of the people on both sides of the strait and create feelings of contempt, hatred, and even "discrimination against the mainland," but they cannot destroy the memories in their taste buds, and exchanges between young people on both sides of the strait in the field of food will become more frequent in the future.
The ordinary taste of snacks is people's perception of food, and it is also the accumulated memory of daily life. Thousands of people have thousands of flavors, but the mouth has the same taste, this is the memory of history, but also the trace engraved on the DNA. The close interweaving of taste and life makes the food culture reveal an invisible power and warm the hearts of people on both sides of the strait.