TAIPEI – It is not yet 6am on a weekday, but the queue is already snaking outside Fuhang Soy Milk, Taiwan’s most famous breakfast spot.

Tourists from all over the world flock to the Taipei eatery, bleary-eyed, to sample a “traditional Taiwanese-style breakfast” that includes items such as shaobing, or baked flat bread, scallion pancakes and, of course, soya milk – both sweet and savoury.

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