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The Most Wanted Foreign Products in Taiwan

3/28/2022

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Two weeks ago I asked all of my followers which products they missed from their home country, and these are the results. In the process, a lot of people gave great suggestions on where to buy these products in Taiwan. I am giving out this information for free to anyone that wants to use it as market research, or wants to know which products people are missing in Taiwan, so that someone will start importing these products to us!

Which products do you miss from your home country that you wish were sold in Taiwan? I'll go first: graham crackers, Pop Tarts, and Old Spice.

It turns out that these three products have been found in Taiwan. 

Which products do you miss from your home country that you wish were sold in Taiwan?
I'll go first: graham crackers, Pop Tarts, and Old Spice.

— Foreigners in Taiwan □□ 外國人在台灣 (@foreignersinTW) March 15, 2022

​Responses/ List of wanted foreign products:

Please note that the below products may already exist in some form in Taiwan, but are not exactly the same as one would find in their home country. Most of these suggestions were given by the foreign English speaking community in Taiwan. 

Ackee and saltfish

Arizona green tea
Armanti Mayonnaise

Anchovette
Apple Butter
Ayran
Bacon

Baklava
Ben & Jerry's
Beer* 
Big turk
Body Wash
Boerenkaas (raw milk cheese)
Bread*
Breakfast Cereal
* (Cheerios/Chex/Grapenut Flakes/Weetbix)
Carrot cake
Cashew butter
Cottage Cheese
Cheese*
Cheese fondue
Chick-fil-A
Chocolate
Cinnamon rolls
Coffee before 8am
​Corn tortillas
Chinotto
Chipotle
Dark soy sauce
Deodorant* (specifcally Old Spice/
Mitchum)
Dr. Pepper
Dried coconut
Entenmann's crumb cake
Easter eggs.
Eggo waffles
Entenmens
Florida orange juice
French Andouille
Fresh jalapeños
Fish and chips* (with cod/curry sauce)
Fried fish ball
Fried breakfast be it English, Welsh, Scottish, or Irish
Fruit squash
Fresh coconut cream cafe
Frozen Spinach 
Frozen berries
Frozen juice from concentrate
Fry's dark chocolate creams
Fry's Turkish delight
Gatorade
Girl Scout cookies*
Gregg's the Baker
Ham/lunch meat/deli meat
*
Hard taco shells
Hint of lime tortilla chips
Hostess products
Hot Cheetos
Hummus
Irish meat
Jelly babies
Jollibee
*
Jugo en polvo
Ketchup chips.
Kraft crunchy peanut butter
Kohuke curd cake
Liquorice
Lunchables
Mac & Cheese
Manila Folders
Maple butter
Marmite
Mars bars
Mashed potatoes
​Mason Jars
McDonald’s caramel sundae
Melktert
Mexican food
*
Milk and dairy products*
Mince and Cheese pies from NZ!
Mitchum deodorant 
*
Montreal smoke meat sandwich
Nestle
no sugar jelly
non sugary chocolate milk
oh Henry
Old spice
Old Bay seasoning
Pancho Villa's Taqueria
Paua fritters
Pickles
*
Pickle-flavored chips
pickled beetroot
pickled mint
pickled mussels
Paprika chips
Pasta
Philly Cheese steaks.
Pizza
Pizza Rolls
Plantain
Potato Chips* (various flavors mentioned in this list)
Pop Tarts
Pork pies
powdered sugar donuts
Poutine*
Reese's pieces
Ricotta
Rhubarb pie*
Salt and vinegar crisps
Salt and vinegar potato chips
Sausage*
Savoy cabbage
Schnitzel
Seasoning salt
Shake and bake
Siggi’s coconut based yogurt
Size 15 shoes
Smoked mozzarella
Soused herring
Steak and kidney pie
Stevia
Strawberry preserves
Strong tea
Tacos.
Toaster strudels
Tortillas
Thick beef gravy
Triscuits
Tomatillos.
Tuna with Vegetables
Turkey 
Tums
Twinkies
Victoria's Secret
Wall ovens
Wine
Wish Bone Italian dressing
Yorkshire puddings
Zatarans Cajun blackened seasoning


note: * = mentioned multiple times

Where to find these products:
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Someone mentioned that I can buy Filipino M.Y. San Graham crackers from Shoppee. I did and they were pretty good, not as sweet as Honey Maid but still gets the job done. 

Here are a list of other places mentioned by my followers where you can find some of these foreign products in Taiwan:

Specialty Foreign Chain Stores:
  • Costco 好市多 (https://www.costco.com.tw/)
  • Jasons Market Place
  • City Super
  • Carrefour 家樂福 (https://online.carrefour.com.tw/en/)
  • Sunny Buy 孫記洋行專業美國代購  (https://www.sunnybuy.com.tw/)
  • EEC Global TK Supermarket
  • R7-Mart

Taiwanese Chain Stores that have some Foreign products: 
  • Poya 寶雅
  • PX Mart 全聯
  • Wanglaixing 旺來興
  • Kuangnan 光南
  • SOGO

Other:
Various Thai, Filipino, and Indonesian shops.

Online:
Shopee 
蝦皮 (https://shopee.tw/)

Please note we are not endorsed by any store or brand, we are just sharing info for free.
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After reading this I headed over to City Super in Xinyi, the closest store to me that I had never been to. Sure enough they had lots of foreign products.
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And they stocked Pop Tarts which I have not seen in Taiwan in years.
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Also I headed over to Chilis for an authentic Mexican burrito. There are actually lots of good Mexican restaurants around if you look hard. 
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And I made some delicious S'mores.

I hope the above information is helpful, and hopefully it will inspire someone to start importing the above products. 


If we missed anything, please leave your suggestions in the comments. 
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    We are US Expats that have extensive experience living, working, and travelling in Taiwan. In our day, we had to learn many things about Taiwan the hard way. But we have come to learn that Taiwan is one of the best places in the world for Foreigners to live. ​Our blog does not represent the opinions of every foreigner in Taiwan. We are just trying to help others learn more about this beautiful country.

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