China ban sours Taiwan's 'freedom pineapple' harvest

While much of Taiwan's pineapple crop is consumed at home, 90 per cent of its overseas shipments head for sale in the vast Chinese market. PINGTUNG: A Chinese ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan has sparked a flood of patriotic buying of the fruit and forced restaurants to come up with inventive new menu choices, but it has also left many questioning Taipei's overwhelming economic reliance on its giant neighbour.

Social media has filled with calls for consumers to buy pineapples while restaurants are coming up with ever more ways to add pineapple to their offers.Among the food choices now on offer are pineapple salmon pasta, pineapple seafood rolls, pineapple shrimp balls with red curry fried rice, pineapple chicken and bento boxes featuring the fruit with meat.

A restaurant employee holding a dish of pineapple fried rice at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Taipei. But despite the increase in tensions, bilateral trade rose 13.5 per cent on-year to US$216 billion in 2020, including US$1 billion of produce, according to Taiwan's official data.

Harvest was sold out

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