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just wrote a weird email explaining to the gov't that I've been a Taiwanese national for over 50Y and didn't know until today

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The beef noodle soup is amazing of course. But my favorite comfort food is salty bean milk soup (xiandoujiang/鹹豆漿) with the traditional baked & fried breads (shaobing/燒餅 & youtiao/油條).

It works strangely. Thanks to the Taiwan Nationality Act, I inherited Taiwanese citizenship from my dad. I thought I could APPLY for Taiwanese citizenship but I didn't realize that I already have it. The paperwork is just a formality.

This is technically true of any citizenship by descent. You are asserting rights and privileges you already have, not 'gaining' citizenship, which would be naturalization.