A Taiwanese Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one American holiday that hasn't made its way to Taiwan yet.  So they're not sure when exactly to start putting up Christmas decorations and playing Christmas songs.  I've been seeing Christmas trees and hearing jingly songs for a week already.  Has this already started in America?  I'm not sure if they celebrate Christmas here either, or if it's some kind of corporate gimmick for pushing products or a homogenizing side-effect of globalization.

One of my coworkers knows that Thanksgiving has something to do with Indians because Pet Society on Facebook started featuring Indian-themed items or something, and another coworker learned about turkey stuffing in his poultry science class in graduate school.  Poultry science?

Anyways, today was Thanksgiving.  My mom told me to eat something special and record it, so here it is.  I went to Guang-Hua Technology Market with some co-workers and ate the following things:

Black bean tofu soup with peanuts, mung beans and 粉粿 (a kind of chewy jelly made of sweet potato starch)

Green scallion-oil-pancake (a literal translation - I have yet to see an appealing, yet accurate, translation of this dish)  The message on the wrapper is particularly fitting.

(Not pictured: one of those rice triangles wrapped in seaweed and stuffed with some kind of meat (salmon) that they sell at 7-eleven)

Okay, it's not much of a Thanksgiving Dinner.  But I got to spend it with some nice people, and isn't the core of Thanksgiving about spending it with people?

Enjoy Thanksgiving!  I miss you all in America!