Top 20 Taiwanese Products

Taiwanese food punches far above its weight — night-market snacks, bubble tea, beef noodle soup and some of Asia's best sauces — and this collection rounds up our top twenty Taiwanese products, the lines customers reorder most.

Taiwan Beer is the flagship: the crisp gold medal lager and its fruit-flavoured siblings — lychee, mango, white grape and pineapple — which are lower in alcohol and dangerously refreshing. On the drinks side, Assam milk tea with brown sugar boba and Pocas bubble tea cover the island's most famous export. The frozen Han Dian range brings the night market home: Taiwanese sausages in garlic, tobiko and cheese, salt-and-pepper crispy chicken, and proper beef noodle soup.

The pantry stars deserve their reputation. Bull Head shallot sauce is the secret weapon of Taiwanese home cooking — a spoonful transforms plain noodles, rice and soup. Kimlan dark soy is the braising staple, and Chihshang rice, from Taiwan's most famous rice-growing town, is the grain to build it all on. Fruit mochi and mixed congee fill the sweet and breakfast ends.

Taiwanese food ordered online is sent from our Manchester store, with free UK delivery on orders over £75. Start with the shallot sauce and a sausage pack — the two tastes Taiwan is proudest of.