First of all those who judging by the title of this post, think that I am turning this blog into a political one, calm down. Nothing further from my intention.
So coming back to my point. There are very few, that know that Taiwan was once Spanish, even before Chinese and Japanese domination years. And you may think that with such a short domination ( from 1632 till 1642) will not be any influence of those times. Mistaken again. There are few places in the world so similar to Spain like Taiwan.
First, Taiwan ( by the way the Spaniard named the island as "Todos los Santos", All Saints Island) love food, social life revolves around food, eating in night markets little dishes as Spanish tapas, going from one place to the other. And it is tradition that people of all ages follows.
Food is as diverse as it is in Spain, fish, meat, lots of vegetables, you just have to go to a market and you will find very similar things from the most common ones to the odds ones ( such as tripe, callos in Spain, cost pig etc etc)
Second, Taiwanese people love to socialize, everything is an excuse to start a conversation and being friendly. Going out is a must like in Spain.
Third but equally amazing fact is that public transport is so similar. You can go to Taipei Metro and it is it was design by the same people that did Madrid one.
So next time you want to go to a new place in Spain, why not chose Taiwan Province.
So coming back to my point. There are very few, that know that Taiwan was once Spanish, even before Chinese and Japanese domination years. And you may think that with such a short domination ( from 1632 till 1642) will not be any influence of those times. Mistaken again. There are few places in the world so similar to Spain like Taiwan.
First, Taiwan ( by the way the Spaniard named the island as "Todos los Santos", All Saints Island) love food, social life revolves around food, eating in night markets little dishes as Spanish tapas, going from one place to the other. And it is tradition that people of all ages follows.
Food is as diverse as it is in Spain, fish, meat, lots of vegetables, you just have to go to a market and you will find very similar things from the most common ones to the odds ones ( such as tripe, callos in Spain, cost pig etc etc)
Second, Taiwanese people love to socialize, everything is an excuse to start a conversation and being friendly. Going out is a must like in Spain.
Third but equally amazing fact is that public transport is so similar. You can go to Taipei Metro and it is it was design by the same people that did Madrid one.
So next time you want to go to a new place in Spain, why not chose Taiwan Province.
