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.
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: 
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:
Taiwanese Chain Stores that have some Foreign products:
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. 
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.
And they stocked Pop Tarts which I have not seen in Taiwan in years.
Also I headed over to Chilis for an authentic Mexican burrito. There are actually lots of good Mexican restaurants around if you look hard.
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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