Taiwan Carrefour Jia Le Fu Grocery Store!

When my sister and I got bored, we just walked around outside my Grandma's house and went grocery shopping at Carrefour (Jia Le Fu) 家樂福! I love grocery shopping, it's so fun!

When in Taiwan, pose like the Taiwanese. 

Look at how bright all the signs are! After I took this picture I got in trouble, you can't take pictures in the grocery store. But why?!

Being the rebellious kid I was, I took more pictures. And of course I took pictures of the snack isles.

These are sold in 99 ranch markets in America, but look at how big these boxes are, super sized!

Oh, Taiwan. I love how they make pudding flavored EVERYTHING!

Even Chinese Cheetos! They have some rather strange brands of Cheetos in Taiwan.

Oh my! An entire section of the refrigerated section of ONLY PUDDING (Bu Ding 布丁)! Dream come true. It's the best dilemma when you can't decide which brand/kind of pudding you want to buy!

Light Yang Le Duo. We need this in America!

Weirdest juice ever. Sounds gross.

What we bought! I got pudding flavor marshmellows, pudding, and apple milk! Another thing I really miss about Taiwan is their fruit milks. I can drink them day and night! My sister got the Meiji Strawberry Chocolates and a plum drink (she thought it was a mango on the picture, too bad).

After we finished grocery shopping, we went home to find a nice and healthy homemade dinner at Grandma's house. It may not look that good, but it was!

Til next time! May your days be delighted with many delectable dishes. (I wonder how many posts it'll take me to finish my food adventures in Taiwan).

Taiwan Part 2

Night market street food. Not exactly the cleanest food on the planet, but close to the most delicious! Since my sister and I were snacking all day, we decided to snack some more for dinner at a neighborhood street market! 

My mom and her sister claims that this stand's "o-a-mi-sua" <-Taiwanese (slender noodles with oysters) is the best around, so we quickly grabbed some open seats (there were barely any!) and ordered. You know a stand is good if there's a line!

Why does this picture look so close? Because I sat at the stand. I had the giant bowl of it cooking right in front of me. It was so hot!

My mom also ordered this glutonous rice with Pork Sung (Rou Song) 肉鬆 and "Jiang Gua" 醬瓜 dish. It was average compared to the o a mi sua. This felt like dry "xi fan" Chinese porridge.

This was the O a mi sua. SOOOO delicious! 

More pictures of night market street food.

Pig feet. 豬腳 I love pig feet! It might sound disgusting, but this is one of my favorite dishes in the world! Especially stewed with peanuts! I wanted to have some of this, but I was too full. :( My mom makes it the best!

Seasoned stir fried shrimp. Yum.

This is my favorite chinese street snack! Maybe not this kind in particular, I like the big ones, not these tiny little ones, but they're basically just egg cakes. So delicious when it's nice and warm. 

In Taiwan, apparently Bitter Melons 苦瓜 are popular to add into fresh fruit smoothies now. I knew they were good for you, but that sounds pretty disgusting to me. I love Bitter melon 苦瓜 soup though.

Takoyaki in Taiwan! Not too shabby either! This stand had a long line, so we figured that we should try some. 

The making of Takoyaki.

It was so hot (temperature wise) but actually really good! I attended the Cherry blossom festival in San Francisco last year, and this one was better than the Takoyaki stand there! AND I waited an hour for that one in SF.

My uncle decided to have us try this Cong Bing 蔥餅. It's quite different from the traditional Cong You Bing 蔥油餅, as all the onions are wrapped inside the bun.

Cong Bing 蔥餅

Luo Bo Gao (Turnip Cake) 蘿蔔糕 , another yummy street food snack.

I forgot what these are called, but it's like a mochi exterior and it's stuffed with either green bean paste, red bean paste, taro paste, or this yellow custardy paste. They were ok in my book. Not awesome. I'd rather have filled my stomach with some egg cakes.

And the world famous Chou Dou Fu (Stinky Tofu) 臭豆腐. I think it smells good, but it's probably cause I grew up with it and I love it!

Til next time! May your days be delighted with many delectable dishes.

Street food in Taiwan, and MUCH more!

On the 20th of June this year, I went back to Taiwan to visit family. Here are the pictures!

The Welcome to Taiwan sign in the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

Right after my uncle picked me up from the airport, we went to this hole in the wall restaurant (I feel like the majority of restaurants in Taiwan are like this. Little shops in the wall) that my mom frequented next to my grandparent's place in Taipei, Taiwan.

The Cold Noodle Shop

"Cold Noodles" aka "Liang Mian" This was seasoned with enough peanut sauce and hot sauce to make it just right. I do wish they gave me more cucumbers though... 凉麵

My mom said she usually gets their miso soup with cold noodles. It was a really nice pairing.

Taiwanese Miso Soup (you can get Chinese meatballs in them called Gong Wan)

I LOVE GONG WANS! 貢丸

For breakfast the next day, my sister and I walked to the corner breakfast shop to get some Egg Pancakes (Dan Bing) with bacon and pork sung rolled up in it. It was prepared right in front of our eyes. Delicious! Espeically with that sweet soy paste sauce we drizzled over it.

Dan Bing (Egg Pancake) 蛋餅

After a quick breakfast, we walked into one of the many OK-Marts.

This was their candy section. I am in love. I adore how Taiwanese stores always have fruity flavors such as cantaloupe, muscat, strawberry, peach, kiwi, etc.

I had to take a picture of this! If you grew up in a Taiwanese household, you were bound to have had this whenever your throat hurt! It works wonders! It's called "Pi Pa Gao" or Honey Loquat Paste.  I personally LOVED this growing up! I would eat it everyday even when I wasn't sick because it was so delicious! My mom would scold me saying "Only one spoonful a day!"

枇杷膏

We took the metro and arrived at Xi Men Ding I believe. I found street food!! There are calamari balls, quail eggs, sausages, and much more!

Quail eggs on a stick with hot sauce. So simple yet so delicious.

We saw a Yoshinoya and couldn't help but take a picture.

Since the weather seemed to be consistently 85 degrees F and 90% humidity, we decided to refresh ourselves with a nice cold drink at this Tea Station.

We ordered the Yogurt Green Tea. 

Coldstones in Taiwan seemed to be the most popular store there! Look at the line! It did smell heavenly when we walked past though. There is my mom (paranoid of catching diseases from passerbys) and sister.

Til next time! May your days be delighted with many delectable dishes.

Documenting my adventures with food!

I've been eating and cooking and never remembering or writing anything down and it makes me very sad, so I've created my very own food blog! :)