Type of Restaurants

    “Bread is the staff of life.” People cannot live without food, so there are lots of restaurants emerge. As the time goes by, we have different type of restaurants be the options for we to choose. We can follow our inclination to decide what we shall eat today. Restaurants can be divided into three types in Taiwan based on the menu style, preparing methods and pricing. (n.d.) In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 9, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_restaurant

    The first type of restaurant is fast food. Fast food is convenient to get and serve very quickly. Most of the fast food restaurants are chain stores. They have mass produced food to supply, the owners just have to follow the SOP (standard operating procedure) to make the food be heating, processing and packing. For example, McDonald's and KFC are the typical members of this type. They are both chain stores and they have similar menu. They sell French fries, fried chicken and hamburgers and so on. Lots of children like to eat fast food because it is delicious and sometimes they can get a toy by buying a meal, so they love it.

  

    

  The second type of restaurant is ethnic. Actually ethnic food means different country’s cuisine. This type of restaurants full of the specialize in nation cuisine. In Taiwan, we can see verity ethnic cuisine, for example Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine. Each country has their own flavor and some special ingredients because of the climate, habit and location. You don’t have to go aboard; you can also taste the delicious cuisine in Taiwan.

    The last one is the most popular food in Taiwan which is Taiwanese snack. (台灣小吃) As the result of Taiwanese culture, we have night market, which is a best-known spot for tourist and local people. Lots of Taiwanese snack are sold in night market, there are variety different food. Some snacks should eat in with the table and chair because they are not easy to eat while walking. Such as Oyster-filled Omelet (蚵仔煎), Mango ice and Health spareribs soup with Chinese medicine. (藥燉排骨) Others snack are suitable to carry-out, for example bubble milk tea, fried chicken cutlet and pig blood cake. (豬血糕)

    People in Taiwan are very lucky because we have many types of restaurant to choose. There are three main type of restaurants in Taiwan. First is fast food restaurant for the people who don’t want to wait too long. Second one is ethnic restaurant for the people who want to taste the different flavor from Taiwan. The last one is Taiwanese snack, which can represent the night market culture in Taiwan. Both type of restaurants is delicious and unique, you will feel happiness and satisfaction when you visit each type of them.