Since the 1980s, with the deterritorialization and time-space compression that comes with advanced modernization, the social, political and aesthetic properties potentially associated with cuisine have come to be immensely significant in modern societies. Against this backdrop, food has gradually become a central focus of socio-cultural forces and gained a key position that reflects socio-cultural power relations. In this research, the case of modern Hakka cuisine in the context of Taiwan’s modern consumer culture is used as an example to demonstrate how food taste and consumption practices are reconstructed in the society of modern Taiwan. In order to achieve this, this research sets out to select indicative samples of Hakka cuisine restaurants and Hakka families from different areas of Taiwan and conduct field works. A variety of research methods such as in-depth interviews, observation, filming and photography will be employed to complete the whole research project. And special emphasis is put on how “Hakka cuisine” as a form of food taste during the past two decades has been increasingly penetrated by powerful dynamics that characterize modern consumer culture.