Today, our third attempt was successful. The first two had been during the week in which I absconded, to go to a tiny Japanese restaurant with 10 seats, which we had heard was very good but didn’t take bookings. The first time, we arrived before it opened and found it shut. Instead, we found another […]
City gods
Yesterday we went first for lunch to perhaps Tainan’s most famous export, the home of slack season noodles, Du Hsiao Yueh. Quite tasty, and they had some very nice fresh bamboo served simply with a bit of mayonnaise. This is in one of the two historic centres of Tainan, about a 10 minute walk from […]
Home style dining
A remarkable success this morning. It was a working day for both of us but first we went to a restaurant we had heard of – not a restaurant but someone’s house where they cook and serve in their living room. We arrived and no one spoke English and the cook came out of the […]
Crab
An excellent lunch today. It was a working day, and we went to famous old seafood place where they specialise in crab. Deepfried with deepfried garlic. Delicious. Some very tasty food here in Kaohsiung. Though crab is undoubtedly a hassle to eat.
New town
Here we are in Kaohsiung. It was a hassle to get here as we both had our suitcases as well as a large ikea bag filled with assorted kitchen goods and comforts of life, which nearly broke my shoulder off when I took a turn carrying it. We are staying in a most astonishing Airbnb. […]
Dumpling day
Today was the dragon boat festival so we had rice dumplings in memory of the old poet who was thrown into the river for speaking up against corruption and the people of the town scattered rice dumplings into the water so the fish would not eat his body. Annoyingly, when the Boddhisattva brought the dumplings, […]
City life
Today, Saturday. A searing hot afternoon, and we went off to the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art. There was an exhibition on, called City Life, with the low entrance fee that is usual in this country, a pleasant change from London museums and galleries. It turned out to be one of the best contemporary art […]
Back to Beitou
Today’s Chinese lesson went better than Monday’s, when both the GF and I felt rather stupid and beaten down. It made me very thankful that I was always quite good at school, as it was a taster of how deadly it is to be made to feel like an idiot and given no time or […]
Watery Sunday
The clouds burst around mid-morning and raindrops plummetted down as though from the barrel of a gun. In a climate like Taiwan’s it would be foolish to let that get in the way of an outing so we strolled down to Gongguan for an Israeli lunch at a small restaurant where there was one table […]
Actual weekend
Today is the start of the actual weekend; yesterday’s idle day was a bank holiday for the GF and a day without work for me. In the morning, the four of us went back to Serenity for another excellent meal. I must say, they have the best fried rice I’ve ever had, I would dearly […]