By Yiler Huang

Teach your partner the Chinese vocabulary words for the tastes (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter). Ask your partner to teach you these works in Japanese. Take notes.

Sweet 甘い（あまい）

Salty 塩辛い（しおからい）

Spicy 辛い（つらい）

Sour 酸っぱい（すっぱい）

Bitter 苦い（にがい）

​​Tell your partner about your favorite Japanese food. Ask them to introduce a place to get it at. Ask your partner if there are any Taiwanese foods they know and like, or would like to try.

I like Takoyaki and Sushi, ask my partner where to get it in Japan.

Stephanie. (2022). Takoyaki Recipe · i am a food blog. https://iamafoodblog.com/takoyaki-recipe/

Ask your partner how and where they have lunch at school. What is the process? Tell your partner about how you have lunch.

We usually order lunch together and eat in the classroom, we move tables when we want to eat things.

Give examples of Taiwanese food that foreign people probably have not had before. Ingredients, taste, occasion for eating… (include visuals)

Taiwanese stinky tofu

Give examples of drinks that foreign people may not have had before. Ingredients, taste, occasion for eating… (include visuals)

Hey Song 沙士

Introduce a Taiwanese (or Chinese) food restaurant that you would recommend visitors to eat at. What are the “must have” dishes? (visuals, Google maps, etc.)

Ding Tai Fung’s Xiao Long Bao, because it’s very famous around the world. But the dishes in Taiwan might be different .

Do your partners' parents cook? How often? How often do you eat out? What sort of food does your partner's family usually have when you eat out? What sort of food does your partner eat themselves when they are with their friends?

My parents cook sometimes.

I eat out very often.

Me and my mother like Japanese food.

My dad doesn’t have any food that he likes, he eats every food.

What does “eating” mean? What is important when eating? What does your partner care about when eating? Explain about your own thoughts.

I think eating means absorbing food and getting energy from it, but can also be a kind of entertainment.

Prepare two more questions you want to ask your partner about “food and eating in Japan” or “the area your partner lives in”.

What is their favorite food?

I like Tokyo the most, how about my partner.