After the Nationalist Government relocated to Taiwan, a huge number of veterans along with Chinese cultures were brought to where we live today.

Due to poverty, the quantity of food was more important than the quality.

Therefore, people started to cook foods with a hometown-reminiscent taste and sold it at a small corner of a street.

Since the Qing dynasty, the Han agricultural people reclaimed the mountains and forests of Taiwan.

Street vendors brought all kinds of cold and hot snacks to the fields and mountains for the farmers.

In the early reclamation period, people usually gathered in front of temples and held several ritual celebrations; thus, street vendors started their business near those places as well.

In the following decades, Taiwan’s economy revived, street vendors were relocated in the food court in department stores where people nowadays can choose to eat indoors or outdoors.