But to understand the many and varied ways in which seafood is prepared in Taiwan today, and its great popularity, we have to look at the influence of the political changes which Taiwan has undergone over the past century, and the island's rapid economic development since the 1980s.
因而台灣的飲食文化中，魚蝦海鮮本來就具主將架勢，只是要談烹調口味，和今天台灣人吃海鮮的熱中與花樣，卻得看近百年台灣的政治變遷所帶來的影響，和七○年代經濟蓬勃後的迅速發展。