Meanwhile Taiwanese cuisine, long consigned to sidewalk ignominy, has also been repackaged and spruced up to provide consumers fond of the local cooking with some classier dining out. The Green Leaf restaurant, opened in 1976 by Taiwanese Opera star Yang Li-hua, typifies the new acceptability of simple vegetarian rice gruel and side snacks and is hugely popular with big-spending Taiwanese businessmen.
在這同時，一直屈居於路邊攤的本土化食品，也經過精心包裝搬上檯面，為習慣於台灣本地口味的消費者，創造了較佳的進餐場所。