Archive for May, 2009
Taiwan Day 7: Family time means food too
Yes, lots and lots of food. At this point, I was feeling reeeeally heavy and fat. Every day, lunch and dinner, heavy stuff. If a little starving African kid went on the food tour I was on, he might have died by now.
This day my aunt on my dad’s side and her husband came over to our house to sit around and we later went to 8 Orders (Ba Dian). Their menu contains just eight different entree sets. Mmm Japanese food! Miso soup is refillable. The best part is that these entrees are only 200 NT each. That’s roughly a little less than 7 bucks. Cheap!
Then we drove around Dan Shui.
Finally, we met up with my uncle on my dad’s side, and his family. I haven’t met my cousin Danny in a long time. I don’t meet my dad’s side of the family very often, actually. They’re in Taiwan or Australia, not really in California though. I know my mom’s side a whole lot better. We ate at this restaurant in Dan Shui that is the only restaurant my uncle will go to. He has cancer so he trusts this restaurant to be light and delicious. Emphasis on the light.
Taiwan Day 6: Food and 101
I went to the dermatologist this day. I have these little milia seeds in my skin that don’t seem to ever go away. After painful lasering carbon powder on my skin (think tiny explosions), my face was all red.
And then we walked to Taipei 101 building, yay! With my red splotchy face……yaaaay!
We went to eat lunch at this restaurant that had birds in their cages hung around the place. The atmosphere was really light and asiany. Lots of….asian artifacts placed around.
Taiwan Day 5: Family food
Day 5! Big family dinner. Everyone came out, except for one of my aunts’ husbands and one cousin, who is in the compulsory army right now. The food was yummy. My little cousin, Karen, was a pretty good girl, but still very lively. My other younger cousin, Stina, who is a few years younger than me, wanted me to go to her university to go to the night market there, but I had told my older cousin, Nathan, that I would go watch his soccer game. It’s the kind of thing I usually do.
It had been raining so the field was muddy and had puddles in some bare spots of grass so everyone got pretty dirty. The other team wasn’t much of a competition and my cousin’s team had beat them before and this game was a rematch. Not much of a rematch @_@.
Then, after going back to Nathan’s house and cleaning up, we, my parents, and his parents took a bus for about 15 minutes to go to some awesome place to eat….sometimes great, but it was closed because it was a sunday! So we went to a nearby noodle house to eat. It wasn’t so bad. I took these with my camcorder, and I realize now that I can’t take pictures up too close with it @_@.
