The last two days of my stay in Taiwan before I embarked on the Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and HK part of my trip was spent eating. What’s new?
On Saturday, John took us to eat a late hotpot lunch (2pm) at Go Bar (?). I had already eaten a late breakfast @ this place called Apple 203 where I ordered a Taiwanese Omelet, and I had to go to my uncle’s place after lunch to eat dinner, so I was limited by the amount of all you can eat hot pot food. It was tough not to eat a lot because the selection of hotpot stuff was overwhelming and the quality was stupendous. I must have eaten twenty different kinds of fish ball/paste things and the beef was off the heezy. Sorry SSH, you might not be my favorite hotpot place anymore.
Dinner @ my uncle’s was again another eat fest. My aunt cooked a bunch of stuff and I was encouraged to eat everything. My aunt thought I liked oysters, which I don’t, so she cooked a big plate of oyster omelet. My uncle then asked what I liked to eat and for some reason I said pork intestines. More pork intestines later.
After dinner, John took us to the lounge/bar that big brother John has a minority stake in. The place is called Marquee and is across the street from Taipei 101. Fantastic place with a big expat crowd. John and I revealed that we have zero game when it comes to approaching the ladies, hence why I’ve stopped calling him rockstar in this post.
Sunday, my cousin and godmother took me to Dragon Field, a direct translation of Long Tien. It’s a farming community about an hour outside of Taipei where my godfather either grew up or use to live at. We ate throughout the day and went for a stroll along an irrigation ditch filled with dead fish. For dinner, we ate at my grandmother’s place. Since it was mother’s day, dinner was a giant feast with the whole family in attendance. There was a lot of Taiwan beer flowing throughout the dinner. Whenever you wanted to take a sip of beer, you had to cheer someone. It was a bit weird for me to have to do that, but after the first bottle, I was cheering like I had been doing it for years.
After three nights of drinking and feasting, I spent the remainder of Sunday night and early Monday morning packing and drifting in and out of sleep in anticipation of my journey through SE Asia.