Life is a bitch, so we should be bitchier;

Monday, June 23, 2008, 11:33 pm :

It has been long. I should be blogging about more food!!

But before that, let me lament about my life a little.

Working for about a month has been ~~slack~~ relaxing to say the least. And tomorrow is payday! And I got a cute new watch that looked so cute that it looks like it can be eaten! (its so cute that even my sentence is quite incoherent)

It is ridiculously colourful and cute! And it looks edible!

Ok, on to food from Taiwan!
Some unglam photos of me but the food is good. So ignore my face k. Concentrate and focus on the food!

The huge sausage in Ximending. Which is not very nice by the way. Its just huge.

The ridiculously sweet strawberries from Shilin. And for some reason I'm looking really spaced out so...stare at the strawberries, not me. :)

And my favourite! Mushrooms! Fried! Double the sin! Glutton galore!

Of course, there is no escaping Starbucks ANYWHERE. I think my supposed budget trip was not exactly budget because I kept splurging on Starbucks coffee. But but but...I need my dose of coffee so that is not an expense. Coffee is a necessity!

We saw this vending machine at the 中正纪念堂. It is a really cute vending machine that supposedly vends lollipops! We were so amused that we wanted to try and turn something out of the silly machine BUT it cheated our money instead! It ate our NT$10 and no lollipop came out despite attempts to ~~kick~~ 'reason' with the machine to give me my due, which was an obvious failure since it can't understand me. :(

Pork chop with curry at some cafe along the street. I ate spaghetti. It wasn't exactly the best I've tasted and my spaghetti was not fantastic too. I guess Taiwan is all about street food.

The somewhat Thai food we had in Kending. For some reason, there are alot of thai (alleged) cafes in Kending and honestly speaking, the food was just normal. But the prawn (3rd picture) was great. It is fried prawns without shells (hooray!), doused with generous amount of mayonnaise and candy sprinkles that are usually used for ice cream! It was such a sweet delight. Thinking back on it makes me drool..

Delicious prawns we had in 旗津. Just look at the translucent colour of them, don't you just want to pick them up and suck them dry?! They were live prawns caught fresh and they are cheap. It was so sweet that I threw any reservations towards prawns with their blackish guts out of the window. It was the freshest-tasting prawn I've ever tasted! Of course, I didn't have to do the shelling. (I found out that when I am talking about food, my language somehow gets tangled up in funny structures. Must be the stomach doing funny things to my brain)

Back to street food. They may look bland but hell, they taste heavenly. The rice was so tasty that I think I don't even need the chicken or the pork as side dishes. 10x better than any of the 鸡丝饭 they claim to sell here.

Actually I forgot what this was. Something with mushrooms and pork and stuff. I think it is some dumpling-like thing which I wasn't really fond of. Maybe it was because of the incriminating cucumber-lookalike thing on top of it.

Some form of ji cha meal in Hualian. Fried rice (again!) with tau gay (obviously not ordered by me), some cabbage thingy and sweet and sour pork.

And I got this off the streets too! Some guy just walked up to me and gave me 2 packets of this mushroom-flavoured-mamee-like thing and told me I can give him any amount. I was too stunned to reject him and I thought that he was giving me food for free, it must have been the glutton in me taking control, and I just gave him NT$10, I think. On a side note, it actually taste quite good, just a tad too salty.

With all the Chinese food, I just HAD to indulge myself in some other forms of sausages, the Western- style. Hotdog bun with a generous dopping of cheese. Damn. I'm hungry already.

The enjoyable thing about eating in Taiwan was that I do not have to think at all when I order or buy anything. It is almost definitely to be affordable and cheaper than I've ever paid for anything here.
Well, ending off the post with some melons and fruits. :)

Look at the size of those melons!

Fruit galore! It makes our fruit stall looks like masak. And I think my mum will love this and most probably lug back boxes of *fill in names of fruits*, just like how she made me lug 2 boxes of peaches back from Chengdu the last time we went. -_-"

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