I often hear Taiwanese say that a foreign dish or dessert needs to be "modified", "tweeked" for local taste. I don't like that, and it's not quite necessary. True, there are things some people are not used to, but then again we all live on the same planet, breathe oxygen, will very likely find eggs, butter, sugar, milk, salt and flour in our markets. And apples.
So instead of modifying something and selling it as something it isn't anymore, I prefer making things that can be accepted without modification, and apple crumb cake (Apfelstreusel in German, some wild people apparently like to drown it in chocolate) is one such dessert. So far I only met one Taiwanese who wouldn't want to eat it. (No, it's not the one in the photo.)
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