General Tso’s chicken to bento bowls: A food guide to Taiwan politics
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Chef and owner Alex Peng says he wanted to combine the delicious simplicity of his people’s cuisine with what he learned from Chinese, Italian and French cooking – from millet-topped bread, which acknowledges the central role the grains play in indigenous life, to local pineapples served with a gentle mascarpone spiced with mountain pepper, native to northern Taiwan.