(Shops selling CNY decorations, ChangAn W Rd, Taipei on 5 February) January 30, 2010, Dihua Street, Taipei at 5pm Dihua Street is the oldest and most traditional shopping area selling medicines, dried seafood and canned abalone. Other crowds anticipated at Ningxia Night Market, Huayin Street, and the Bingjiang Market. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4I4pDAXW8
Archive for January 2010
TAIPEI PREPARES FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR Leave a comment
CHOCOLATE COINS; GOOD USE FOR GINGER TEA Leave a comment
(click for larger picture) Ginger and sugar tea It would be a good idea for Australian tourist boats, especially those working the southern Great Barrier Reef, to make ginger tea available as an anti-seasick preventive – or cure? Not a ‘medicine’ but works as one. It’s not uncommon for an ambulance to meet a charter [...]
ABALONE – CHINESE NEW YEAR FEAST Leave a comment
(click for larger picture) Dihua Street merchant, Mr Kai Lin knows Calmex brand abalone (from California-Mexico) is the top class. Current Taipei price per can NT$ 2250 – which might just be a new record high. Elsewhere a package of two cans of Calmex , plus fish roe (center) and dried scallops was priced at [...]
ORIENTED – TAIPEI JANUARY 2010 Leave a comment
(click picture to make bigger) I’m in the dark as to what Carnegie’s is – apart from being a Hard Rock Cafe clone. Perhaps there is a string of them around the globe? Oriented held their January social meet here. About 170 members turned up – which is the the mid-range of attendance figures. Not [...]
LUNCH AT THE ASTORIA Leave a comment
(click on picture) Probably could be classed as a museum, the Astoria has entertained VIP’s for decades. Movie stars, US servicemen, Heads of State – the works. A former president (the son of CKS) favoured Russian cuisine over the Japanese variety, this is how the Astoria began. For decades it was the only place to [...]
TERESA TENG – IN MEMORY OF Leave a comment
(click for larger picture) The first time I heard a Teresa Teng song was in a Chinese restaurant in Australia. I inquired who the singer was and remembered the name Teresa Tang. This was long before I knew anything about Taiwan and how she was the darling singer born on the island to mainlander parents in [...]
RESTAURANT WORTH CHECKING – NT$300 Leave a comment
(click for larger image) Near the former Food Circle, just meters away, is this now famous restaurant with a menu said to be 80% Japanese style. Correction: LANE 250 NANJING ROAD WEST (not Nanking). Smoked salmon wings are one of several house specialties. Taiwan beer on tap. I eat here often. Select your own [...]
ROAST DUCK – RICE, VEGETABLES Leave a comment
I’ve been eating at this place for a few years. Lunch or dinner for NT$80 is a good deal. The rice is far better than anything I can cook for myself in Australia. The duck (or chicken) is delicious. The three vegetables change each day. Usually some cabbage, or cooked tomato and half a [...]
FRIES WITH OPTIONAL SAUCE – PIZZA EXPENSIVE Leave a comment
In a promotion effort to lure locals to eat French fries, tomato ketchup is offered free. Not so in Australia. (A 10-week preservatives test, - fries win by a mile) Pizza is an expensive treat in Taipei
HOMELESS AND SHIVERING Leave a comment
I went back to get a picture of this poor hound and saw it was shivering. I’d just been to lunch at Carrefour and had purchased some chicken for dinner – plus I was not that hungry anyway. Picture (top right) shows a young dog and a sad one too. I fed it the chicken. [...]
