2024-07-23

The 2024 Taiwan Food Show will be held on August 2, bringing together more than a hundred popular Michelin restaurants and gold medal chefs from all over Taiwan. Take a sneak peek at the 4 exhibition areas and 6 highlights!

2024 Taiwan Food Expo Exhibition Map Revealed

Taipei--- The biggest food event this summer, the Taiwan Food Show, will be held at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1 from August 2 to 5. The organizer, the Taiwan Tourism Association, has planned four exhibition areas: "Gold Medal Specialties, Exploring Taiwanese Flavors, Exotic Food, and Amazing Art and Music." It will bring together hundreds of popular brands, Michelin Bib Gourmand-recommended food, five-star hotel meal coupons, and fresh ingredients directly from the source, covering products and cuisine from all over the north, central, south, and east of Taiwan, presenting Taiwan's diverse and rich food culture. People can taste the delicious flavors of Taiwan in one stop!

Highlight 1 : A large collection of Michelin and Bib Gourmand recommended food, allowing you to taste all the delicious food in Taiwan at once

In the hot summer, gourmets who want to taste delicious food but don’t want to travel a long way can come to the Taiwan Food Expo to taste Michelin-starred, Michelin-plated and Bib Gourmand-recommended food from all over Taiwan! The Grand Mercure Taipei has launched a super-value food voucher, with a maximum discount of 55 % per voucher, which can be used to taste the Michelin one-star Taiwanese restaurant "Mi Xiang"; the Ministry of Economic Affairs' most popular "Taiwan Good Food House" every year brings together 30 gourmet restaurants, including Taichung's Bib Gourmand-recommended "Shanghai She Yu Wei" which will bring the pan-fried buns that sold out every day last year, "Luo's Ancient Flavor" serving delicious sesame oil dishes; and Tainan locals highly recommend the "Fresh Steamed Shrimp Meatballs" with chewy skin and fresh fillings ; and "Shan Xin Folk Creative Cuisine", which has been recommended by the Michelin plate for four consecutive years, presenting Taiwanese cuisine interpreted with innovative cooking techniques.

Highlight 2 : You can eat and drink the best food in Taiwan at one stop

Continuing the highly acclaimed Chiayi Triple Crown last year, the Chiayi County Government brought black gold - mullet roe, black gold - high mountain coffee, tea gold - high mountain tea, white gold - sea salt and green gold - wasabi to "Chiayi. Hardware Store" this year, including the "Lin Family Champion Mule Roe" which won the National Top Ten Shennong Award; "Zhuo Wu Coffee" and "Qingye Coffee" with world-class boutique coffee; "Shengli Farm" located on Provincial Highway 18 in Alishan and "Jin Yangxin Tea House and Coffee House" which won the silver award and special flavor award in the French AVPA World Tea Competition; the most expensive buffet in Taiwan. , the "Zhounan Salt Field" which uses salt for the Michelin Bib Gourmand-recommended A-Sha Hotel; and the "Alishan Extreme Wasabi", the only successfully restored site in Alishan, allowing the public to fully explore Chiayi's champion delicacies.

With "milkfish" as the theme, the Tainan City Government invited Chef Huang Jinglong, the "Prince of Taiwanese Cuisine" who has won numerous awards in domestic and foreign culinary competitions, Chef Cai Ruicheng of the 2023 Bib Gourmand-recommended "Dongxiang Taiwanese Seafood Cuisine", and Chef Xie Jiaxin of Taiwan's first Bib Gourmand-recommended "Changying Seafood House" by Mama Tian to take turns to perform a milkfish cooking show to present the deliciousness and purity of Tainan.

The National Treasury Agency of the Ministry of Finance invited businesses to exhibit and sell certified liquors that have won awards at home and abroad over the years, including the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Co., Ltd., which has won many international wine competition awards with its " OMAR Whisky"; the Taichung City Wufeng District Farmers' Association, which won the gold medal with its "Chuwu·Shochu" at the San Francisco Spirits Competition; and the Shuntang Laijia Co., Ltd., which won double gold medals with its "Shuntang 58 Super Sorghum Liquor", as well as 8 businesses including the Fulu Shou Distillery and the Zhongfu Distillery .

Highlight 3 : A food exhibition combining tradition and innovation, with special agricultural and fishery products and delicious food delivered directly from the production area

You can also experience the delicious taste of the farming and fishing villages at the food exhibition. The Ministry of Agriculture's "Taiwan Agricultural Center" invited 13 rural youths who have won awards or obtained certification in international competitions to exhibit and sell high-quality agricultural and fishing specialties from various regions, including "Little Sweetheart Handmade Jam" to exhibit and sell citrus jam that won many awards in the world competition; Kaohsiung Yongan " The Xingang Community Cooperative brought the only pure seawater-raised grouper in Taiwan; the Shanheng One Tree Agricultural Innovation in Maolin, Kaohsiung, which has won the iTQi Flavor Rating 3- star medal for two consecutive years, sold organic rose soft serve ice cream; the rural youth "Young Grandpa - Fang Ziwei" who had just won the World Agro-Tourism Award would appear to promote Taiwan's vegetable market culture.

If you want to explore the local customs and culture of the place of origin, you can't miss the local flavors brought by 12 Tian Mama restaurants, including the "Natural Tea House" in Xizhi, New Taipei City, which has been certified as a three-star traceability restaurant by the AMOT Association for four consecutive years, using Baozhong tea with production and sales history or organic ingredients in dishes; "Guan Furen Countryside Cuisine" in Zhuangwei, Yilan, has launched a cantaloupe-flavored meal. There is also a limited "Tian Mama Small Banquet" on site, with 7 Tian Mama restaurants taking turns to serve up good flavors passed down through their skills, and more than 100 carefully selected rural souvenirs delivered directly to the exhibition site.

Highlight 4 : You can eat without queuing, and you can get all the popular delicacies at once

The popular Chiayi "Lin Congming Fish Head Casserole" also brings popular casserole dishes; the "Haibin Seafood" in Cijin, Kaohsiung, which has been a long-established restaurant for more than 40 years, provides abundant and affordable seafood dishes; Taiwan Bingxin Vienna soft-serve brand "France Baking" sells the most popular Vienna milk bread and the popular thousand-layer egg tart; Taipei's popular hot pot restaurant "Handmade Hall Spicy Hot Pot", which focuses on all-handmade hot pot ingredients and uses natural vegetables, fruits and bones to cook the soup base, provides tastings at two times a day; Taipei Dadaocheng's creative Taiwanese restaurant " The Carp " brings the signature mullet roe dish; Taiwan's popular Japanese tofu pudding shop "Shanhai Tofu Pudding" will provide the signature silk tofu pudding with good ingredients and delicious taste.

Highlight 5 : Champion chefs will give on-site demonstrations and cooking classes will allow students to cook together

Taiwan Food Show is an exhibition that brings together chefs from all over Taiwan. The Hakka Affairs Council invited THOMAS CHIEN, which was awarded the 2023 Michelin Green Star, to "Chef Jian Tiancai will demonstrate innovative Hakka cuisine; Regent Taipei has invited Lin Yunshun, the first sommelier in Taiwan to win the Michelin Award, to share a guide to food and wine pairing; the Chiayi County Government has invited chefs Yao Yuanhao and Wu Bingcheng to give cooking lessons; chefs Aji, Afang, Xiaogang and others will go to the Ministry of Finance's National Treasury's Qiongjiang Yulu Pavilion to teach certified wine cooking; the Ministry of Agriculture will have Mama Tian and rural youth conduct food and agriculture education classes, taking everyone to DIY experience the preservation of food techniques that combine modern and traditional wisdom; the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Tourism Administration's "Taiwan Fun" exhibition hall has planned a number of cooking classes, where you can learn to cook Taiwanese dishes with chefs and eat them right away!

Highlight 6 : Providing recycled tableware rental, eating delicious food should also be sustainable

In order to move towards sustainability and achieve environmental friendliness and reduce the use of disposable tableware, the organizers encourage the public to bring their own environmentally friendly tableware and bags. The exhibition site also provides a rental service for recyclable tableware. The public is welcome to respond to environmental protection and practice plastic-free eating.

 In line with the spirit of giving back to society, the organizers are also planning a blood donation ticket giveaway limited to 10,000 tickets this year. From July 28 to August 3 , at 18 blood donation sites in the Beibei Base area , donating one bag of blood can be exchanged for one ticket, and donating two bags of blood can be exchanged for two tickets. The public is invited to respond to public welfare and roll up their sleeves to donate blood.

Pre-sale tickets for the Taiwan Food Expo are now on sale. Before August 1 , you can purchase pre-sale tickets for NT$ 180 at the six major ticketing channels: ibon ticketing system, FamilyMart FamiPort , OK convenience store OK ‧ go , udn ticketing network, Klook , and TaiTIX at a 10 % discount . Grab the bargain now.

2024 Taiwan Food Expo
Time: August 2 ( Friday )  ─  August 5 ( Monday ) 10 : 00-18 : 00
Location: Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1  ( No. 5 , Section 5 , Xinyi Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City )
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