I dunno if it’s just my crappy non-Taiwanese stomach or something everyone else goes through, but in the course of an all-you-can-eat hotpot session, somewhere in the middle I find it necessary to have a break. During this time I like to take in my surroundings. The people around me, all stuffing their faces or [...]
At a typical Taiwanese wedding after paying your entrance fee (or good luck money or whatever you want to call it), you usually get some sort of gift box or some such as a token of appreciation. A favourite (and I can only presume staple) thankyou gift appears to be a box of individually wrapped [...]
As a connoisseur of energy drinks, Taiwan is pretty good to me. There’s a whole bunch of them here and they’re pretty cheap. I’m not entirely sure when 7-11 started stocking it but I’ve had my eye on a little blue can I noticed popping up in the energy drink section of their refrigerators. A few [...]
Around June of last year I paid a visit to Laodong Beef Noodles down in Banciao Distict of Taipei County and enjoyed a highly satisfying bowl of regular flavoured beef noodles. With LaoDong’s regular flavour beef noodles being an excellent mix of spice and oniony broth, with the meat slow-boiled for around 24 hours, I [...]
Lord knows I’m the last person to preach about taking a love of hamburgers too far. It was only just recently that I went inexcusably giddy when I learnt McDonalds Taiwan had started to sell the much-missed Quarter Pounder. Still, there are times when I feel, as much of a devoted follower of the hamburger [...]
With the standard price for all you can eat hotpot in Taipei city starting at roughly $500 TWD ($16.50), sometimes it pays to venture out of the city into the surrounding Taipei County. If you look hard enough, it’s often possible to score yourself an all-you-can-eat hotpot meal for well under $500. As the current [...]
Not really having a stocked kitchen, much the less an oven, this year we found ourselves once again eating out on Christmas Day. The venue of choice for Christmas Dinner in Taipei this year was On Tap, a bar situated in central Taipei City.
Back in Australia without a doubt my favourite junk food escape was a McDonalds Quarter Pounder meal. Not something I’d eat regularly, but when that fatty food craving hit, a Quarter Pounder meal was always the ticket for me. When I came to Taiwan unfortunately I had to give this treasure up. Unfortunately McDonalds Taiwan [...]
The first thing you’ll probably notice about the Taipei International ‘New Row Mian’ Beef Noodle Festival is the ridiculous spelling of the event. I’m not sure why, but rather than opt for calling it the Beef Noodle Festival or using the correct Pinyin, the organisers seem to have just slapped together English words that sound [...]
Usually when I want some quick and easy chocolate in Taiwan I have to settle for a Snickers bar from 7-11. I know Snickers isn’t ‘real’ chocolate but at $30 TWD ($1 USD) a bar they’re cheap and readily available. I did use to like the Toblerone bars 7-11 had until late last year they [...]
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