How is Taiwan cuisine different from mainland China?

I take it that Taiwan cuisine is unique for its diversity and its mixed as well as traditional Chinese way of making a cuisine. Before 1949, Taiwan cuisine was one of the conventional Fujian Province cuisine branches. read more

As Colin has said below, the cuisine in Taiwan is unique in that people from all over the mainland fled to Taiwan with the Kuomintang after being defeated by the communists. So you can get food from all over China in Taiwan. IIRC correctly from a visit some years ago, the dumplings from street vendors in Taipei are justifiably famous. read more

Having been to both Taiwan and China, I prefer Taiwan. More freedom. The people are much friendlier. Much cleaner and you can actually drink the water. No bribes. I think if you are a single man, meeting and dating Taiwanese ladies is much better and easier than Chinese. read more

However, due to their long and turbulent history, Taiwanese Food is highly influenced by Chinese cuisine. This is further helped by the fact that historically Taiwan has been part of mainland China and that majority of its settlers were and are Chinese descendents. read more