So, the mrs couldn't wait to have some traditional breakfast, which we have not been able to find any decent imitation even in the SG Valley.

First picture is two bowls of hot freshly made soy milk (豆漿) with cane sugar and a Taiwanese style bun with the fried dough (燒餅油條) wrapped in it.

A close up of the Taiwanese style bun with the fried dough (燒餅油條)

A close up of the Taiwanese style bun with fried egg with scallion sprinkled over it (燒餅夾蛋).

After that, we stopped at a bakery and had some freshly baked Pineapple bread (菠蘿麵包). Funny thing is there is no pineapple in it, but it is translated as such because it looks like a pineapple with its famous bumps.

 

Wow looks awesome! How long you there for?

 

Taiwanese Fried Chicken nuggets (鹽酥雞) + Coke + Vanilla Shake = WIN!

Mrs. Norton - ??????

 

We are here for two weeks. Was going to go to Bangkok, but it is looking like we'll be missing Bangkok again this year.

 

OK, this fried chicken steak over rice at the Taipei Zoo of all places beats the pants off of anything we have had at the SG Valley, which has the best Chinese food in the U.S.

It might be the soy oil that they use in Taiwan, or the sweet potato breading, but fried food here is so light and fluffy and not greasy and heavy at all.

 

Had the Taiwanese hot pot last night.

Same ole awesomeness as last year.

The dipping sauce, consisting of chopped scallion, minced garlic, Taiwanese BBQ sauce, and a raw egg. Ask AJ, this is teh awesome.

The spread, helping #1.

The price, ridiculously cheap, at 32 to 1USD.

 

Went to this Korean place. It is a big chain in Korean, and they have one branch in Taipei.

I don't know how they do it in Taiwan, but this seafood pancake, like everything else that is heavy and doughy in the U.S., is incredibly light and tasty. And according to the mrs who used to eat a lot of Korean food in the Beijing Korean area, this is more like what she remembered it to be than the doughy and heavy version in the U.S.

 

Had some quite authentic greasy Northern food.

Scanllion pancake (油蔥餅)

Wheat congee (小麥粥)

Beef scallion pancake wrap (牛肉捲餅)

Strangely, like everything else in Taiwan, despite it being greasy, the food is not heavy.

 

Red bean shaved ice FTW!

 

Raining in Taipei, so we got some food across the street from our hotel.

Fried porkchop over rice

Shredd chicken over rice

Oyster vermicelli with chilli sauce, minced garlic, and cilantro.

Red bean cake