Minister Cheng says that in the past there has been much political and ethnic strife in Taiwan, but "only in eating has there been no strife." Whether it's Japanese cuisine from the colonial era, the various Chinese regional cuisines brought over with the Nationalist government, or the Western styles that have taken off in recent years as globalization reaches Taiwan, they all have a place here.
鄭文燦指出，台灣過去有很多政治及族群間的掙扎，唯獨「在吃的方面沒有掙扎」，不管是日本殖民下的日本料理、國府遷台帶來的中國各省美食，或是這幾年台灣國際化過程中所引進的各種美式歐風飲食，都兼容並蓄地存在這片土地上。