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Taiwan Day 8: Teppan

Met up with my aunt for some teppan action. At this point, as you can tell, I was getting pretty guilty with food. Later this day I bought some new Nike running shoes that are compatible with the Nike+ thingy. I’ve only uploaded two runs so far but I plan on using it more often.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Taiwan Day 3 and 4: Food

Day 2 wasn’t much. We ended up going into the mountains again to eat at the same chicken restaurant with a different set of people because it was soooo good that we had to share this restaurant. We ended up ordering something new though. It’s kind of like hearts of palm, and you peel the [...]

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Taiwan Day 2

On my second full day, my parents and my aunt and cousin, Nathan, took a trip to Yang Ming Mountain to eat some really good chicken. Omg it was good. I don’t usually like chicken. It’s such a common flavor. Everything can taste like chicken. But the chicken here taste soooo good. I don’t know [...]

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Eavesdropping at Hometown Buffet

Hometown buffet is…an interesting place. Whenever I go there, I feel like “whoa..these people…where did they all come from?” You can take that as it is.
Anyhow, I’m a notorious eavesdropper…
Teenaged boy: You know, you’ve got to admit…as much as we make fun of this place, it has some pretty good food.
Teenaged girl: Wait, what?
Teenaged boy: [...]

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Failed Cookies

I like to bake. Unfortunately, I had no one to learn from because my mom doesn’t bake. My baking experience comes from watching the food network channel and acts of bravery in the kitchen. My best results are muffins and sugar cookies, but sometimes I want to make something special.
This recipe has failed me twice [...]

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Pocky and Calbee

I’m not an avid consumer of Pocky, as hard as that might be to believe. I’m not a pocky fan or one of those people that create a shrine for Pocky. I look at it realistically and think…
“well, it’s a biscuit stick dipped in frosting”
I think the last time I had Pocky was mm….5 years [...]

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Fish and Cats

I went to Kitayama lunch one day. This is what happens when you’re bored.

Ebi tails for the eyebrows.

I scooped out the pulp of the lemon and replaced it with wasabi.

Then you spread the wasabi around and peel apart the ginger so it is completely flat (no wrinkles!), and lay it around. A work of art.
Then [...]