At last!

Mister Donut Shops to Open in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's President Chain Corp. and Japan's Duskin Co. signed an agreement Tuesday to form a 50-50 joint venture to start a Mister Donut chain in Taiwan.

The first store of the venture, called Mister Donut Taiwan Co., will open in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, in the fourth quarter of 2004, the companies said in a joint statement...

President Chain, a unit of Uni-President Enterprises Corp., operates 7-Eleven shops, Taiwan's largest convenience store chain. It also operates Starbucks coffee outlets.

Duskin owns Mister Donut stores in Japan and also makes household cleaning products, ranging from mops and deodorizers to air purifiers.

The President-Duskin partnership expects to open 100 Mister Donut stores in Taiwan within the next five years, said C.Y. Kao, chairman of Uni-President Enterprise Corp.

Several years ago the bakery in the basement of the 大力 Isetan dept. store in Kaohsiung made some delicious things something like a cake donut but without the hole. They were absolutely delicious. I keep going back there hoping to find them; no such luck. I hope Donut Sensei donuts are the cake type and not the glazed type, and don't taste like household cleaners. As for crispy creme donuts, they're a little disgusting.