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February 8, 2010 5

Street food part 2

By in 10: Taipei

More street food! This is called Cart Wheel cake, it was inspired from Japanese’s Imagawayaki which is round waffle with sweet red bean paste filling. Cart Wheel has similar waffle shell but has other types of fillings: custard and shredded turnip (the one with leaf on it). Both were very delicious! Not sure how to […]

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February 5, 2010 2

Spot-Taipei film house: Cafe Lumiere + Le Ballon Rouge (Taipei: Zhongshan)

By in 10: Taipei, Favorite Food Entries

I mentioned before that I really like the Zhongshan area a lot. Another big reason is Spot-Taipei film house. It is mainly a theatre that shows indie and foreign films, but it also has a gift shop that sell local design stuffs, a coffee shop and a bar on the 2nd floor. Located in the […]

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February 5, 2010 4

Shilin Night market (Taipei)

By in 10: Taipei, Travel

Even though I had gotten a little tired of Taiwanese food at that point I still wanted to check out Shilin Night Market, the largest and most well known night market in Taipei.  It’s a short walking distance from the MTR station (though it’s not at the Shilin station…it’s 2 or 3 stops before it), […]

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February 4, 2010 Off

Green leaf Taiwanese cuisine 青葉餐廳 (Taipei: Zhongshan)

By in 10: Taipei

It had been 5 days in Taipei and we realized we hadn’t gone to a nice proper traditional Taiwanese restaurant for dinner. So we decided to check out Green Leaf, a famous Taiwanese restaurant that’s been around for years.  For some reason the entire restaurant was filled with Japanese tourists and business men. Looks like […]

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February 4, 2010 2

San Hsi T’ang Tea house 三希堂 (Taipei: Shilin)

By in 10: Taipei

We waited till a rainy day to go to the National Palace museum which has a very impressive collection of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks. You can spend hours in there. So it’s good that they have a range of eateries there, from simple cafe to chichi gourmet dining. We chose to go to the […]

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