Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, Q () is a culinary term for the ideal texture of many foods, such as noodles or boba, and fish balls and fish cakes. Sometimes translated as "chewy", the texture has been described as "The Asian version of al-dente ..soft but not mushy." Another translation is "springy and bouncy". The term originates from the

Taiwanese Hokkien Taiwanese Hokkien () (; Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-uân-uē''), also known as Taigi/Taigu (; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú''), Taiwanese, Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by about 70% ...

word khiū (), which has a sound similar to the letter Q in English, and has since been adopted by other forms of Chinese, such as Mandarin. It also appears in a doubled more intense form, "QQ".

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