Thelnie Blogs » food http://thelnie.com/blog Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:06:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Taiwan Day 8: Teppan http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/06/05/taiwan-day-8-teppan/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/06/05/taiwan-day-8-teppan/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:50:16 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=861 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.

The lobster was moving its legs while being cooked but I’m pretty sure it’s just muscle/joint reflex stuff going on there. Pumpkin soup is sooo yummy.

The first picture is of street food! Rice noodle bowl. Also, they have Costco in Taiwan. The last picture is of this huge flat bread packaged like money. Yum!

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/06/05/taiwan-day-8-teppan/feed/ 0 Street food Teppanyaki menu Salad Teppan station Pumpkin soup French Onion Soup Lamb Lamb Lobster Lobster Costco Japanese flat bread Taiwan Day 7: Family time means food too http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/22/taiwan-day-8-family-time-means-food-too/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/22/taiwan-day-8-family-time-means-food-too/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 13:17:42 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=832 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.

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/22/taiwan-day-8-family-time-means-food-too/feed/ 0 8 Order restaurant 8 Order restaurant Unagi Smoked Salmon Bowl Grilled Salmon Tempura View to the Dan Shui river Steamed Lemon Fish Woked Edamame Candied Sweet Potato cubes Eggplant Braised Pork Bittermelon with salted duck egg I forgot what soup this was, but it looks good Taiwan Day 6: Food and 101 http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/21/taiwan-day-6-food-and-101/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/21/taiwan-day-6-food-and-101/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 02:52:29 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=829 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.

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/21/taiwan-day-6-food-and-101/feed/ 0 lunch restaurant with birds tomato shabu shabu base! mmm tomato mixed combo for my dad some kind of fish...in sauce... fruit, ice cream, red bean soup money tickets electric bikes you can rent around 101 for easy travel. smart! 101! dinner at the food court downstairs Taiwan Day 5: Family food http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/07/taiwan-day-5-family-food/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/07/taiwan-day-5-family-food/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 08:22:57 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=825 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 @_@.

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/07/taiwan-day-5-family-food/feed/ 0 On the MRT On the Taipei City bus! Out the window Family Dinner I didn't get this picture in time but it's your standard cold cut appetizer dish. Jelly fish and thinly sliced meats. Stuffed shitake mushrooms with white fungusy stuff and baby bok choy. Seafood veggie soup I don't know what fish this is. Oily rice in leaf. Soooo yummy, Chicken Abalone mushroom. Nathan playing soccer. Tofu and preserved duck egg Beef noodle soup Pig ear and tofu Beef noodle soup Wonton noodle soup Drink and dessert menu. My favorite, Lemon Aiyu jelly ice slush! All gone! Taiwan Day 3 and 4: Food http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/05/taiwan-day-2-and-3/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/05/taiwan-day-2-and-3/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 04:02:19 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=819 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 outer layer, and dip the fleshy soft part in soy sauce and eat it. It was reeeally good. Kind of bamboo-like.

Then, my eye surgery was at 6:30 and that took about an hour and half of prep (pills to calm me down, more info and what to expect) and eye’s hurting, I quickly went home and my dad bought a sammich for me and I knocked myself out in bed without taking a shower or brushing my teeth. It was pretty bad. See my eye surgery post!

Day 3!

The morning after the surgery was much better and I went out to eat with my parents are family friends. The restaurant was called “I Love My Home.” and it was french cuisine. It was pretty good. Full courses with dessert and everything. Some of the pictures didn’t upload because they are more than 2mb and I’m too lazy to upload them all. But you get the gist. Then we went back to our house and hung out for a bit before going back out to eat at all you can eat hot pot! for only 198 NT! That’s…about 6 bucks. A lot of the all you can eat here is 198 now. The meats and other ingredients like fishballs come in the escalator above and you can just take the dishes. Other ingredients, like veggies, you have to walk over to the section to get it. They had a big drink section, and desserts, popcorn, chocolate fountain, and assorted toast you spread yourself.

Yes, Taiwan has a lot to do with food.

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/05/05/taiwan-day-2-and-3/feed/ 0 Cheese and Pate! Seafood Pasta Seafood Soup Cheesecake All you can eat hot pot Ice cream! Other buffet items Chocolate covered cherry tomatoes Taiwan Day 2 http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/04/26/taiwan-day-2/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/04/26/taiwan-day-2/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:19:52 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=814 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 what they feed them but it’s amazing. We had this taro stuff too that was sooooo good. I’m so glad that I like eating taro now when I used to dislike it. Food is so much more fun to eat when you’re less picky. Currently, I’m working on liking bitter melon and assorted beans. Then I think I’ll be done (insects and other exotic animals aside).

Then we went to Dharma Drum Mountain, a Buddhist school for monks to drum? The place didn’t look overbearing at all and was quiet peaceful. None of that, swooping roofs, red and gold dragons or colorful sculptures. It was really modern, sleek, and minimal.

The Center was inaugurated on October 21, 2005. The buildings in the Center were designed in harmony with contours of the mountain, with brown, gray, and white as their main color, reflecting a humanistic spirit while merging with nature, and featuring a simple and moderate architectural style, making the whole environment and the complex itself a means of teaching.

In addition, in effort to realize environmental protection, ecological construction methods were adopted in constructing the buildings, so as to show respect to, preserve, and protect life and natural resources.

This was taken by someone else. Pictures aren’t allow inside the building.

The picture doesn’t do the place justice. There is a glass window behind the statue that you can look through to see the running water on the wall behind it. There is also a pool of water running around her.

Regardless of religion, it’s a really calming place and the design is really nice.

I bought this awesome mug from the gift shop.

The sillhouette is filled with silver foil and lines eminate from him. Totally my favorite cup now.

Later we went to Black Store, a restaurant my brother keeps raving about. It was good. But I felt so guilty in the end. Which is just about every night now for the past 4 days I’ve been here.

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2009/04/26/taiwan-day-2/feed/ 0 dharma drum mountain oh my buddha mug Chicken Taro Flowers Volcano Dharma Drum Mountain Main Gate Pool Front View from the mountain Lotus Bell Tea and Coffee Shop Tea and Coffee Shop Brook Brook Lotus Bell Park Another diety A beach Black Store Black Store Black Store Eavesdropping at Hometown Buffet http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/10/05/eavesdropping-at-hometown-buffet/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/10/05/eavesdropping-at-hometown-buffet/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:36:12 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=358 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: We make fun of this place, but it has a lot of good food.

Teenaged girl: Mit? Mit?

Teenaged boy: What?

Teenaged girl: <pointing out what she is talking about> Mit?

Teenaged boy: …no, that’s M.I.T. It’s a college!

and also,

Little kid 1: <at the dessert bar> aaaah brownies! My favorite!

Little kid 2: Look! They have rice crispies!

Little kid 1: I love this place! I love everything here! And it’s free!

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This recipe has failed me twice and I am certain it is not me anymore. There is something wrong with the measurements and the dough comes out too crumbly. I’m needed to fold the dough but it always ends up breaking. Since I knew that it would be a disaster of really ugly cookies, I improvised and created these little shortbread cookies. With a couple prototypes.

They are supposed to be like this. Folding the corners in became impossible.

I kind of folded them into a dumpling…and then I made little sandwich cookies…and then I stuck with the rounds with the fruit in the indent I pushed in the middle. They don’t taste bad. The consistancy was just…off. They would taste great with some tea. ^_^.

]]> http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/07/30/failed-cookies/feed/ 0 cookie cookie Pocky and Calbee http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/07/30/pocky-and-calbee/ http://thelnie.com/blog/2008/07/30/pocky-and-calbee/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:46:10 +0000 Thelnie http://thelnie.com/blog/?p=261 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 ago? Anyway, I finally decided to buy a box and relive the Pocky moment. This was a special blueberry pocky. Tsubu Tsubu Blueberry. What’s tsubu tsubu? I’m going to guess frothy.

Pocky

Of course it comes in a nice box with a specific way to open it. I love it when my box tells me how to open him. It leaves nothing to the imagination!

There were originally…four…packets…but uh…three of them mysteriously decided to disappear.

The plastic wrap was semi translucent with cute blueberries around it. When you open the wrapping, you can reeeeeally smell the blueberry. It was reeeeally good. They need to make pocky in huge buckets or something. Each stick is gobbled up in about .5 a second. I suppose this really teaches me to savor everything. I have a feeling I’m going to lose a lot of weight if I go to Japan.

I picked this up because it was on sale and it’s ume flavored! Plum….mmmm.

Little specs of the ume. This chip was…weird to taste. It was like…salty…sour…if it didn’t look like a chip I would think it was barf. But because it was a chip, it was acceptable? I know that sounds really weird.

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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 I went to see my uncle who has had his new cat, Tigger, for about a year now. I used to live at his house while he was on vacation to take care of Tigger. I haven’t seen him in almost a year now, and he doesn’t seem to really remember me. He run up to the loft and I couldn’t find him, only to finally spot him behind the computer desk.

He used to seem more brown to me but he’s gray now. Kind of panther like!

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