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Day: June 6, 2007
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Day 2 – What I ate
How exciting is a list of my meals, day-by-day!? I know! I can hardy stand the excitement.
Still, I’m doing this for science. There are just some things that I either can’t get at home or they suck back home.
This morning I went back for Shao Bing You Tiao just so I could get a picture for everyone. We went to a place (might as well be nameless) on Heping Rd that my wife likes to get breakfast at. It wasn’t as flavorful as the “famous†(and yet still nameless, as far as I know) place we ate from yesterday. Photographically, though, they were pretty much the same. (Incidentally, if anyone knows the name of the famous place, it’s located near exit 4 of the Shandao temple MRT station.)
Lunch: Costco, hot dog and a soda. They used to have proper beef hot dogs at Costco Taiwan, but they’ve switched to pork for the “local tasteâ€, which just means they’re aren’t particularly good, but they’re better than any hot dog you’ll get at a Taiwanese 7-11.
Dinner: Stopped in at the Emperor’s Happy Pork Chop near Xinsheng and Xinyi Rds. Two years ago I had the pork chop with noodle soup. I recall liking the pork chop but being unimpressed with the soup. This time I went with a simple pork chop and rice. It still came with a bowl of clear soup, which just didn’t have much flavor. The rice was served with a variety of toppings.
The highlight of the meal was, of course, the pork chop and it was quite good, although there was a rather large fatty section near the bone which mostly went to waste.
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Next Season’s Writers….
BBC – Doctor Who – News => Script Doctors
Just because I’m in a foreign land doesn’t mean the Doctor Who stops. The writers for next season have been announced.
The good news: Stephen Moffat is writing two episodes; Russell T. Davies is writing only four; the remaining four returning writers have all turned in passable or better episodes.
The bad news: No Mark Gatiss (again); Russell T. Davies is writing four episodes.
Heading the list is, of course, Russell T Davies. He’ll be tackling the 2007 Christmas Special and another four episodes.
Steven Moffat will become the only other writer to work on all four seasons of the show when he delivers a two-part story – his first since The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances.
Also back for a double-bill is Helen Raynor, responsible for this year’s Daleks In Manhattan / Evolution Of The Daleks.
Gareth Roberts (The Shakespeare code) Tom MacRae (Rise Of The Cybermen / The Age Of Steel) and Stephen Greenhorn (The Lazarus Experiment) all return for single episodes.
The season also boasts two newcomers – James Moran and Keith Temple.
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Day 1 – What I ate
Had three meals today, for breakfast, on the way “home†from the airport, we stopped at some “famous†place that makes shao bing you tiao (
ç‡’é¤…æ²¹æ¢ ). I forgot to get pictures and will try to get some later, but it is basically several pieces of deep fried batter in long stick shapes, wrapped by another piece of pan-fried dough, rather in the shape of a squared-off pita. It’s filling, but it can hardly be nutritionally wholesome. This place apparently had “thin†and “thickâ€, the thick being a unique non-traditional specialty form from this particular restaurant. The difference between the two was almost imperceptible.
Lunch they insisted on taking me to Din Tai Feng, which is almost always welcome.
We went out later in the day to stay awake and we stopped at the nearby MOS burger (a new one has opened up less than three blocks from home) for my dinner.
I enjoy MOS Burger because it is different but, of all the hamburger places, they make it the hardest. There’s no combo meal with a cheeseburger, and there’s no pretty picture menu for the illiterate foreigners (like me), and then they have to ask about options so I always have to order my food “the hard wayâ€. “I’d like one MOS Cheese hamburger, spicy, no tomato. One small order of french fries (if only I knew how to ask them to salt them.) One large drink, cola. To eat here.†(In chinese, of course)
The incompetence of my pronunciation not withstanding, I can usually get my point across, unless they start asking questions. Now they’ve added a new one, “Do you want ice in your cola?†Anything they can do to make it hard for me.
Because I basically don’t have a huge repertoire of restaurant reviews for Taipei, but Ifrequently read the Hungry Girl’s Guide to Taipei blog, which has a nice back-catalog of restaurant reviews, for her comments on:
I’ll try to link to her reviews on places that I eat at.
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