蜆（黃金蜆）─阿嬤的鹹蜊仔風靡海內外

Nian gao (New Year rice cakes)—known as tinn-kué in Taiwanese and tiam-pán in Hakka—varies slightly between Taiwan's ethnic communities, but most versions share the same amber or reddish-yellow hue and chewy glutinous rice sweetness. The Taiwanese saying goes: "Eat nian gao, rise higher each year," playing on the homophone between gao (cake) and gao (high). In times past, when sugar was precious and hard to come by, sweet foods naturally became symbols of prosperity.

What Taiwanese commonly call zaozi is actually the Indian jujube, revealing its origins in India. While the exact timing of its introduction to Taiwan remains unclear, cultivation records date back to the Japanese colonial period.

在只見稻田、幾乎見不到小麥田的台灣，麵粉卻是台灣民眾穀物糧食的第二名，因此麵粉原料小麥超過9成必須進口。根據2023年農業部統計，國產小麥年產量只有區區4000公噸，占全年用量約千分之三。