Tag Archive: Fruit and Vegetable


HOT-POT RESTAURANT – A popular DIY food

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25/08/2011

Vegetables arrive neatly stacked in a bowl – ready for cooking at the table by yourselves.  Cooking is in sunken dishes electrical heated.  Customer controls the heat level. Each person has their own hot-pot.

Seafood is one choice.  Various sliced raw meats or chicken is an option.

Finally, there is a delicious soup made from everything cooked. Food  eaten as cooked or required, with sauces for added flavors.

No Hot-Pot restaurants in Australia.  Authorities would be concerned by boiling soup close to customers, I’d  imagine.  In Taiwan it’s very popular.

An average price might be NT $500  (US $16) for two persons.

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EATING CHEAPLY – KAOHSIUNG

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20/07/2011

I don’t read many Chinese characters so this menu on the wall was a waste of time for me.  I spotted fish and rice at the counter behind glass. The fish cutlets were Spanish Mackerel (OK when the fish is small – avoid large-sized cutlets as this species is a known source of a tastless and non lethal but nasty thing called ciguatera – that few doctors would recognise the symptoms of ).

I had a small part of fish, white rice, cabbage, garlic tofu and a fried chip that was either sweet potato or maybe taro.  Good tasting.  With a packaged drink of black tea the cost was NT65 – all for about $2 in Australia/USA.  Prices in this city are about 15% lower than Taipei – or less.

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