Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts

Friday, November 09, 2007

The main attractions in Taiwan - Street food

Well, apart from enjoying Taiwan's signature dish, shopping, shopping and shopping. It seems that everybody in our group enjoys one common activity that is to EAT!! *Scary* In fact, before my departure day, family and friends kept updating me on what's good to eat and what's not. The location of restaurants, the proper way to pronounce the name of the "die die also must eat" dish in Chinese. I tell you, it took me a lot of work memorizing those names. In fact, I printed the list of food on a piece of A4 paper! Anyway, I failed to accomplish 10% of the list during my 5 days trip because the truth is...L'abeille never gets hungry every time she sees clothings, shoes..clothings and more CLOTHINGS..Buahahahaahaha... *evil grin*

Anyway, here are the food street food I encountered and tasted during my 'short shopping breaks' ;)


Yam balls from Chiu Fern, Taiwan




Yummy fruit juices @ the night market



Taiwanese love their balls...err...I mean MEAT BALLS!
They're sold everywhere...


No doubt I am a fan of strawberries but I've to say no to these sugar coated lollies..*eeeeks*



Greens! Guess this is the only dish I love and ordered over and over again throughout the 5 days tour.


Fried Carrot Cake with sweet sauce



Savory cakes



Fried Oyster
*Give me Penang and Malacca's Fried Oyster ANYTIME but definitely not those from Taiwan, it's too starchy!*



Taiwan Tea Eggs


Potato chips on sticks



They just love 'em longggggg... I mean tall!


Long.. juicy.. Taiwan sausages...


Snails?


BBQ mushrooms

I shall be back with more foodie photos soon... *Burp*

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Bubble Tea -Taiwan

Tea drinking is a cultural thing in Taiwan. You'll see the old gathered around tables with a pot of Chinese tea and the young queuing up to get a cup of cold bubble tea at little shops or kiosk mushrooming all over Taiwan.



It's already 11pm in Tai Chung and yet the Taiwanese were queuing up to grab a cuppa milk tea at one of the many shops in the city.


Big straws for big pearls and small straws for mini ones.
*The chewy balls are called "pearls"*



If you can understand what the tag line is trying to tell..
please enlighten me *scratch head*



Here's my cuppa original bubble tea with lots and lots of pearl.. *Slurpppppppp*