One of the things I miss about Australia is the availability of late-night ice-cream. Taiwan’s climate is perfect for it yet when the sun goes down, for the most part you’re restricted to Taiwanese ice-dessert places or 7-11 prepackaged icecream. There is the odd icecream parlour around but it’s mostly overpriced Haagen Daz or some [...]

I’d just finished a bicycle ride in one of Taiwan’s 30 degree humid days (although you wouldn’t think so given the horrendous torrential rain we’ve had these last few days), and had pitstopped at 7-11 to grab a bottle of Cherry Coke. Standing at the refrigerator trying to find it on the shelf, it was [...]

You don’t get too many proper pasta places here in Taiwan so when I saw Cherry Bubble offering all you can eat pasta dishes I figured I had nothing to do lose by giving them a shot. Situated next to one of our favourite all you can eat hotpot places, ‘Guo da yeh’, even if [...]

Most of the Old Streets that dot Taiwan tend to get pretty depressing at night. Unless there’s a cultural festival on, nearly all the shops start to wind down around 7pm and by 9pm usually the only things that are open are ice-cream stands and the odd juice vendor. After a nice hot spa we [...]

Dunno how long it’s going to be on the shelves for, but I walked into a 7-11 yesterday and saw bottles of Cherry Coke on sale. I think previously I’ve had Cherry Coke once before in Australia but that was so long ago that I couldn’t really remember what it tasted like. Succumbing to one [...]

After being entirely unimpressed with seeing sausages left out in the sun on a bright sunny day, we decided to hunt around Wulai Township for some quick and easy alternatives. Not wanting to sit in somewhere and hungry after a decent enough ride into Wulai through the mountains along route 9, the Wild Pork King [...]

It was a beautiful sunny day and we’d just ridden the better part of 15kms out from Taipei into Wulai Township. Finding a place to lock the bicycles up, it was lunchtime and the aromas of Wulai’s Old Street were assaulting our nostrils relentlessly. Resistance was futile so we set about looking for something to [...]

It was a Saturday night and we were en route to a high-school reunion. My girlfriend hadn’t seen her classmates in a while and was excited… and although I didn’t know anyone, I tagged along because I’d never eaten at Taoban before. Here’s what dinner at Taoban House (陶板屋), in the southern area of Taipei City [...]

Here in Taiwan candy (or lollies if you haven’t yet been Americanized) are somewhat of a hit and miss affair. Sure I have a sweet spot (no pun intended) for those little $100 per some local measurement I have no idea about where you just fill up whatever lollies you want in a plastic bag. [...]

Situated in the Daan District of Taipei City within a stones throw from Taiwan National Normal University, although modest in size Shida Nightmarket is one of Taipei’s most crowded nightmarkets. What Ximending is to young adults and fashion in Taipei, Shida Nightmarket is to food. There’s plenty to eat here and it’s priced for university [...]