In Taiwan, most people drink tea with every meal and rarely any beer. They also have some of the best smoothies with their wide variety of fruits like papaya, guava, kumquats, passionfruit, strawberries, pineapple, starfruit, and coconuts. Taiwanese people usually have fruit after every meal too. Some of these fruits like kumquats actually help with colds, when taken as a hot tea, or try a delicious papaya milkshake that is suppose to help a woman's breasts grow bigger. Another specialty drink Taiwan invented was bubble tea during the 1980s, where the term "bubble" means the tapioca balls in the drink. Bubble tea is now a very popular drink around the world, especially in America. Originally, bubble tea was made with hot black tea, tapioca balls, honey, and condensed milk. Also when visiting, be sure to buy your milk from a modern supermarket or a 7-11 to make sure you get non-powdered milk. Now there are 2 types of bubble teas, a fruit flavored tea or milk tea, that you can get either hot or cold, but is usually made cold. You can buy bubble tea in many Asian tea houses or restaurants with many different variations like adding fruit jelly or making the fruit juice into a slushy. Here's a simple recipe to make a papaya milkshake:Ingredients
3 papayas, peeled, seeded, and diced
1 ripe banana, diced
3/4 cup of milk
1/4 cup of heavy cream
1 cup of crushed ice
Puree the papaya, banana, milk, cream, and crushed ice in the blender. Serves
about 4 and make sure to finish quickly or else it will turn into a bitter custard.
sources: http://www.mapsofworld.com/taiwan/society/bubble-tea.html,
http://www.recipelink.com/mf/11/7357
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