Taiwanese cuisine itself is often associated with influences from mid to southern provinces of Mainland China, most notably from the province of Fujian ( Hokkien ), but influences from all of Mainland China can easily be found.

Taiwanese Hokkien ( or ), commonly known as Taiwanese ( Tâi-oân-oē or Tâi-gí 台語 ), is the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan as spoken by about 70 % of the population of Taiwan.

Taiwanese Hokkien is generally similar to Amoy.

Like Amoy, Taiwanese Hokkien is based on a mixture of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou speech.

Due to the mass popularity of Hokkien entertainment media from Taiwan, Taiwanese Hokkien has grown to become the more influential Hokkien dialect of Min Nan, especially since the 1980s.

Along with Amoy, the Taiwanese prestige dialect ( based on the Tâi-lâm variant ) is regarded as ‘ standard Hokkien .’

There is both a colloquial version and a literary version of Taiwanese Hokkien.

Spoken Taiwanese Hokkien is almost identical to spoken Amoy Hokkien.

Regional variations within Taiwanese may be traced back to Hokkien variants spoken in Southern Fujian ( Quanzhou and Zhangzhou ).

Taiwanese Hokkien also contains loanwords from Japanese and the Formosan languages.

They also traded and intermarried with many Taiwanese aborigines ( in particular the Siraya people ) and propagated the Hokkien dialect around Taiwan.

Scholars such as Ang Ui-jin called Taiwanese Hokkien a mix or combination of both Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien ( 漳泉濫 ).

During the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan, Taiwan began to hold Amoy Hokkien as its standard pronunciation and was known as Taiwanese by the Japanese.

However, after 1945, Amoy Hokkien and Taiwanese Hokkien began to have some minor differences due to different development and evolution in the two languages.

Taiwanese Hokkien began to absorb large number of Japanese loan words into its language.

All of these caused Taiwanese to deviate from Hokkien in mainland China.

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

Although BBSing survives only as a niche hobby in most parts of the world, it is still an extremely popular form of communication for Taiwanese youth ( see PTT Bulletin Board System ).

" Pearl milk tea " is also used by English speakers and overseas Chinese and Taiwanese speakers, but it is usually called bubble tea.

Although it is not known which exact Taiwanese shop is the creator of Bubble tea, several shops are speculated to be the origin.

This popular paste is also used in Fujian and Taiwanese cuisine.

The DPP rejects the so-called " one China principle " as the basis for official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and advocates a Taiwanese national identity which is separate from mainland China.

Due to high domestic demand and a strong tea culture, most Taiwanese tea is bought and consumed by the Taiwanese.

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's acclaimed drama Three Times ( 2005 ) is silent during its middle third, complete with intertitles ; Stanley Tucci's The Impostors has an opening silent sequence in the style of early silent comedies.

In Episode 506, " Eegah ", they receive a letter from a fan which includes a photograph of a Sampo portable television set-Sampo Corporation is a Taiwanese electrical manufacturer that produces televisions, amongst other products.

However, Taiwanese independence advocates argue that there is no legal claim to Taiwan, as no legally binding treaty ever transferred sovereignty to China following World War II, an assertion with which not only the People's Republic of China but the Republic of China currently governing Taiwan disagree.

The shape of the main island of Taiwan is similar to a sweet potato seen in a south-to-north direction, and therefore, Taiwanese, especially the Min-nan division, often call themselves " children of the Sweet Potato.

Private Taiwanese investment in mainland China is estimated to total in excess of US $ 150 billion, and official tallies cite Taiwan as having invested a comparable amount in Southeast Asia.

The United States is Taiwan's third largest trading partner, taking 11. 4 % of Taiwanese exports and supplying 10. 0 % of its imports.

Beef is far less common, and some Taiwanese ( particularly the elderly generation ) still refrain from eating it.

This is in part due to the considerations of some Taiwanese Buddhists, a traditional reluctance towards slaughtering precious cattle needed for agriculture, and an emotional attachment and feeling of gratefulness and thanks to the animals traditionally used for very hard labour.

A partitioned Taiwanese crepe ( 潤餅, jūn-piáⁿ, rùnbǐng ) whose wheat-based wrapper is unfried.

* Popiah ( 潤餅, jūn-piáⁿ, rùnbǐng ), also known as Lunpiah or Taiwanese Crepes, is a semi-crispy super-thin flour crepe filled with a variety of filling, such as powdered sugar, peanut powder, egg, vegetables, pork and even seafood.

However, one part of the Taiwanese food culture that remains integral is that of the Indigenous Taiwanese people.

In Sinitic languages, this character 道 is pronounced as Cantonese dou6 and Taiwanese to7.

Taiwanese independence is a political movement whose goals are primarily to formally establish the Republic of Taiwan by renaming or replacing the Republic of China ( ROC ) ( commonly known as Taiwan ), strengthen Taiwanese national identity, reject unification and One country, two systems with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) ( commonly known as China and mainland China ) and a Chinese identity, and obtain international recognition as a sovereign state.

History recorded battles between the Hakka and the Taiwanese-language speakers ; between these and the aborigines ; and between those who spoke the Choân-chiu variant of what became the Taiwanese language and those who spoke the Chiang-chiu variant.

Others prefer the name Min-nan or Hokkien as this views Taiwanese as a variant of the speech which is spoken on Fujian province in Mainland China.

Taiwanese soy sauce is known for its black bean variant, known as black bean soy sauce ( 黑豆蔭油 ), which takes longer to produce ( about 6 months ).

* Baobing: The Taiwanese shaved ice variant

* Taiwanese Hokkien, a variant of Min Nan and most widely spoken vernacular in Taiwan

* Taiwanese Mandarin, a variant of Mandarin derived from Standard Mandarin

Coffin Lid ( 棺材板 ) is a Taiwanese variant developed in Tainan.

The Taiwanese government recognizes the 河洛 variant ( Hô-ló ).

* Type 64: Taiwanese light tank variant produced by combining turrets of decommissioned M18 tank destroyers with surplus M42 hulls.