San Want Taipei

... puree, and tomato soup. Interesting. It definitely set the tone for the meal. The lunch menu today offered the choice of two appetizers. The grilled scallop with fig and parma ham resting a a bed of arugula with balsamic was nice; but the pan-seared duck breast topped with candied orange peel and Barolo sauce made me so happy. Each slice of duck breast was tender and flavorful. I then had the "cream of onion and ...

... perjantai iltana siis aivan järjettömästi! Täältä Night Marketilta saa todella halpoja vaatteita, kenkiä, ruokaa, löytyy soittajaa ja lurittelijaa ja sitä ei ikinä tiedä mikä perhanan kärmes mistäkin korista pongahtaa! Tässä on nyt todellista markkinahumua perskules sentään! Ja ehdottomasti nopeimmat piraattimyyjät mitä olen ikinä nähnyt! Meinaan, että purkavat ja kärräävät koko kauppansa noin 10:ssä sekunnissa piiloon, heti kun tieto poliisin läheisyydestä kiirii ...

... to see in Africa seemed even more so in rural Spain, especially between Madrid and Zaragoza, almost even more African in fact. Those spires look less like Christian steeples than Islamic minarets, and villages seem to be perched high on hills for protection in a futile feudal world. The houses themselves are mud inspired, like negative space, something carved out of block rather than something erected from components, something more ...

... as we ran for the bus station we planned to whisk ourselves away as swiftly as possible to a tropical, palm fringed beach and begin intensive, self study courses in navel lint appreciation before her feet could hit the frigid Toronto airport tarmac. As harsh as that may sound May had the opportunity to comment on, or request changes to our itinerary. Indeed, we fully expected to receive an e-mail saying "Hey, I wouldn't mind some of that beach action myself" but instead ...

Back in Taiwan. Flight back was on time. About 1 hour, 40 minute flight. Customs wasn't a problem. Train to Taipei Main Station using the Kuo Kuang express bus was quick and efficient. 125 NT and then MRT back home! Monday, I start another 3 months of Chinese. Hopefully, by then, I'll be able to speak quite well. We shall see. all my friends/classmates from the previous session have left for home. I'm kind of sad, but I hope to see a few of them again next year.

... re really lucky, the Thai massage place over the road. The actual house is nice - you can't really go inside, but the outside has lots of cool designs on the walls and the roof. The best thing was just the randomness of the garden. There were so many quirky little things to explore. There was a bridge you could walk over, or along underneath through a secret rock cave. There was a rock garden mocked up to look like ...

... from the ancestors. Those who have their faces tattooed are eligible to get married. A person without facial tattoos or with only a forehead tattoo is not an ideal spouse. It is also believed that he or she will be rejected by the world of ancestral spirits after death. Having infected tattoo wounds or blurred and faint tattoo patterns is usually considered to be an ancestral punishment on unchaste young men or women, while a woman with clear and dark tattoos ...

... 7/11 stores may have English newspapers, in the mountains there is no chance to get one. Paoma trail goes from 50m to 550m, has some great views onto the Ylan plain, but is otherwise not very beautiful, as a larger stetch follows an abandoned road of past misguided fun park development, now shut down. Still it's better to follow this trail than walk up the long and winding road No.9. I arrive at the top, the highest place of No. 9 before the ...

We took off from Hong Kong in driving rain with thunder and lightning surrounding us, booming and flashing respectively with unnerving regularity. As we climbed through the dense clouds, I realized I hadn't told my parents where I was going or when. I was jittery and needed to calm myself. Nothing says comfort like Steven King. I was almost half way through his collection of short stories called Everything's Eventual. It did the trick, and before I knew it, we landed in ...