Taiwanese food

It was hard to find a restaurant serving Taiwanese food. There were lots of Japanese places or western places: shabu shabu, okonomiyaki, Starbucks, Mister Donut, Dunkin Donut etc etc. The first place we tried had no English menu and no pictures and no one would help us fill in the spaces on the note book (how you often order in Taiwan), so we left. The next place we tried we were given a Chinese menu and two hard boiled eggs. The menu had pictures and we realized it was a shabu shabu place. I’m not into boiled meat that much so I asked if there was anything else apart from shabu shabu. The waitress showed us a picture of a fruit platter with noodles on the side. She saw that this wasn’t tempting us, so directed us upstairs. Upstairs served Italian food, but the man on the next table was eating a fried rice dish so we asked for two of those. It arrived quickly and to our amazement it tasted really familiar. It tasted like special fried rice from Lee’s Kitchen (Chinese takeaway) in Dalkey. Does this mean that Chinese food in Ireland and Wales is actually authentic Taiwanese food?