“Each grain of rice on your plate is the accumulated hard work of farmers,” as the traditional Taiwanese saying goes. Here’s where to get your fix of the hallowed grain in Taipei.

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Date: 2017/10/15

Taiwan is a nation founded upon rice; yet, as we become more diversified and

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internationalized, so has our diet, and rice is no longer our only carb option. Yet, the culture of rice-based diets are still deeply rooted in the hearts of Taiwanese people and rice is always served at important festive meals.

For example, during Chinese New Year, sweet rice cakes and turnip rice cakes are always offered to the ancestors and gods; rice dumplings wrapped with bamboo are eaten during Dragon Boat Festivals; and rice balls for Winter Solstice. It wouldn’t be right to spend a festival without eating the appropriate corresponding rice-made food.

Here are a few places around Taiwan to try that serves delicious meals with rice as recommended by Good Eye Taipei — a new bilingual Taipei city guidE.
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