Over the years, Taiwan has been a vortex of food fusion--Japanese food while under Japanese occupation, China's eight major cooking styles when outstanding chefs arrived with the KMT government in 1949, and frequent exchanges with the rest of the world as Taiwan's economy took off.
至於台灣，歷經日據時代的中日融合，接著民國 38 年國民政府退守台灣，帶來中國 8 大菜系名廚，加上經濟富庶的起飛，國際美食交流頻繁，先天條件優渥。