Day 1 – What I ate

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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 (燒餅油條). 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 “thick”, the thick being a unique non-traditional specialty form from this particular restaurant. The difference between the two was almost imperceptible.

Din Tai Fung

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 way”. “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)

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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:

MOS Burger

I’ll try to link to her reviews on places that I eat at.

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