Diners eat at the Ye Jia Meat Porridge food stall outside of the Dadaocheng Cisheng Temple in Taipei.
Photographer: An Rong Xu for Bloomberg BusinessweekTaipei Is Transforming Into Asia’s Next Major Foodie Capital
The city’s knockout culinary scene gets a fresh dose of flavor
Taiwan bubbles up in culinary conversation, literally. That’s thanks to bubble tea, its most famous beverage. The island is widely acknowledged as the place that first immersed tapioca pearls in sweet, milky tea, a drink that’s become almost as easy to find worldwide as a cappuccino.
Taipei is likewise home to the world’s best-known — and most profitable — makers of xiao long bao: Din Tai Fung, which now has more than 170 locations worldwide. The capital was also an early adopter of the modern night markets now proliferating around the world.