Mingming’s Baozi Dairy in Taiwan
2006 Taipei International Beef Noodle Festival is on now. The purpose is to promote Taipei City as a capital and hometown of the beef noodles world. The beef noodles are noodles with beef stock soup. Very common in Taipei City like Japanese ra-men. The price is about NT$100-150.
「2006臺北國際牛肉麵節」到來。在台北，牛肉麵是常見的麵。我想台北的牛肉麵是日本的拉麵。一碗牛肉麵，自100塊至150塊。
We chose “Lao Zhang Beef Noodle […]
Zhong Sheng (Chiang Kai-shek) Memorial Hall.
中正記念堂。
The reason we are here is not to see the Memorial Hall, but to visit “Wedding Photo Street.” There seems to be 20 studios or so.
我們來了這區，因為找婚紗攝影館，不看記念堂。這婚紗街有十數家以上之婚紗名店。
With a few steps on this street, you receive these…
很多賣人一定給你很多的傳單。
This kind of wedding photo album is quite weird to […]
We finished basic salsa steps for singles last week.
單人教室上星期修業了。
The class starts one hour later than before; so we had time to eat.
我們吃晚飯。
Fried Rice Noodle (NT$20) for me, Braised Pork Rice, small (NT$20) for Shin-chan.
我吃炒米粉，20塊。小信吃魯肉飯，20塊。
He also ordered Duck Blood Jelly Soup (NT$35) as usual… Well, I ordered Braised […]
Continuous roaring noise woke up us at 7.00 in the morning. New apartments are under construction near our house. Today’s noise is just dreadful.
我早上七點起床，也我先生七點半起床。太太大噪音，因為他們建築新公寓大樓。
Next apartment from our bed room. 10-year-old or so. The same as ours.
對面的公寓大樓。十多歲。我們家一樣。
Some new ones are just over there. Looks nice. The noisy ones will be like those? The […]
We wanted to try real Chinese tea, but eventually we sat down in an ordinary cafe:( Anyway this pearl tapioca milk tea was good.
我們想喝真的中國茶，可是到了平凡的咖啡館。這杯珍珠奶茶（熱）很好喝：）
Housewife talk with a Korean friend Jin Yan Zhen. I found she has her own goals and dreams. I have been down for a while, but I decided […]
I tried to cook pickled lotus, one of Japanese dishes, I think.
我做日本菜醋拌蓮藕。
We didn’t have red pepper, so I used spicy “Dou Ban Jiang.” Similar, isn’t it? (Mine just lacks sliced pepper in the top photo.) Although this dish was not what I expected, Shin-chan liked it a lot:)
我沒有“鷹爪“，用豆板醬。很像嗎？我不喜歡這菜，可是小信說很好吃。…謝謝。
“Eagle nail” is another […]
Wow! Is Shin-chan cooking?
小信做飯嗎！？
Oh, just peeling a skin of… a lotus smuggled from Shanghai!
・・・不，他只去皮洗淨走私的上海蓮藕。
Rice porridge with chicken and lotus. We used the pressure cooker for the first time. Chicken became very tender!
I also stir-fried some lotus: Shin-chan preferred spicy “Dou Ban Jiang” taste (right) and I sweet buttery one […]
Today is Sat., but Shin-chan goes to work. Why? Because it is a substitute “work-day” for the 5-day holidays that the government announced just one week before. I don’t understand their logic. The Taiwanese stock market opened. Schools or classes openings depended on their decisions.
I will have our extra class in Nov., so I […]
“Mandarin Notebook” for practicing writing Chinese characters. Approx. size 15cm x 20cm. NT$6. Shin-chan told me that he used this when he was a kid. The cover did not change that much…. The spelling “Middel” can be overlooked? Come on.
我的「國語作業簿」，1本6塊。15公分 x 20公分。小信小學生的時候用這種作業簿… 封面沒有變。Middel 拼錯了。我想台灣必要進步，加油！
I was practicing Chinese characters on the bus. A […]
台灣的「綿綿冰」好好吃〜。
Taiwanese sorbet “綿綿冰 (Mian mian bing)” - cotton cotton sorbet - is soooo delicious! The ice itself includes condensed milk. Very soft like cotton.
… and very big. “Mulberry Milk Cotton Cotton Sorbet” NT$50.
I had an idea of introducing this to Japan, but it was late. Ice Monster (冰館) has a Japanese branch…. […]