Since it takes a while for me to update my blog, i am going to summarize my experience in the past month, staring with food.
鼎泰豐 Ding Tai Fung
One of the best known Taiwanese restaurants, a must on any tourist group's itinerary. Their dishes are simple food, skillfully prepared, served by efficient but friendly wait staff, eaten in a pleasant but not fancy setting. After going there a couple of times, I recommend: 蟹粉小籠包, their English menu call it steamed pork dumpling with "crab meat" but it's really the crab roes. the crab roes lend a rich, buttery flavour to the pork, and the delicate wrapper is paper-thin. Very tasty. Also recommend: vegetable & meat bun, fried rice, chicken soup. Their food are not cheap. Sometimes it feels as if such simple food in such a no-frill restaurant shouldn't be so expensive, but then it's hard to find the same food so well-prepared somewhere else.
The bun that defied my expectations. I expected the dough to be sweet but it was not. I expected the filling to have more seasoning but it had not. Then when I expected the bun to be bland and boring, the flavours emerged in many layers. It was kind of zen.
Erica devouring the last steamed dumpling...
Mo Mo Paradise
All you can eat sukiyaki place. We like to go for the $ 299 NTD lunch with drink bar. Sliced beef cooked in their special sauce, dipped in raw egg, hot and tender and savory and slippery. it's beefy yet elegant. Also great selections of vegetables and mushrooms.
Teppanyaki
This is a style, not a restaurant. We ate at many places that do this, some better than others but I don't remember all of them. Usually you order a main dish and it comes with bean sprouts, cabbage, rice, soup and sometimes drinks.
This is in 士林 night market, whereKevin discovered this specific style of cooking. Our favourite place is close to 雙連 Station, but i don't have a picture of that.
