Stressed-Out Hong Kongers Seek Better Life in Taiwan

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AFP, Aug 31, 2015.
gulfnews.com/news/asia/other/stressed-out-hong-kongers-seek-better-life-in-taiwan-1.1575842

Note:
(a) "Carlos Cheung 張, 28, moved to Taiwan’s central Taichung City last year to run a noodle shop there. He says being a food vendor in Hong Kong would have been impossible, with a closet-sized space costing 10 times his current monthly rent [in Taichung] of HK$10,000 ($1,300). * * * his shop Toi Heung Traditional Snacks 台香麻辣麵線 [with oysters, of course--the Taiwanese style]."
(b) "Hong Kong-based Uni Immigration Consultancy 寰宇移民顧問有限公司. * * * Tyson Ho, who advises clients at the agency"

(c) "Ah Tong [at 士林夜市] sells 'ngau chap 牛雜,' braised beef offal, a Hong Kong street food beloved by the city.  ‘ "Ngau chap" is something new for Taiwanese. It’s not something they would eat every day,' he says.  * * * What matters more is adapting the taste of his street snacks to a new market.  Ah Tong says he conducted a questionnaire to test tastebuds in Taiwan and found he had to add 40 per cent more sugar to his recipe.  “They all thought it was too salty,” he said. “The Taiwanese have a sweeter palate.”
(i) Sure, Taiwanese do not eat 牛雜 "every day," but it is not "something new" to us.
(ii) And people in Taiwan has an impression that Hong Kongers have a sweet tooth! What with sweet pork sausage of Canton, the only sweet sausage in China.