One day, we were bored with eating fish, lamb, beef or pork. Thus, we decided to find a good vegetarian restaurant. Personally, we don’t really like most of vegan restaurants. They create meat using “so claimed” no animal products. Why bother to offer meat if it’s not even from animal? We once ate this “fake” meat and so we are not sure we want to do that again. Let’s just stick with spinach, broccoli or alfalfa :). However, this vegan restaurant, called  Sufood, gives us different impression.

In Taiwan, especially in Taipei, it is very easy to find Japanese restaurants. However, it is a little bit hard for us to know which one is worth our money. If you haven’t spent enough time in Taiwan Taipei, a long queue in front of one restaurant can perhaps trick you into thinking that restaurant offers a very delicious (or cheap) foods and worth your money. First, we also think long queue in front of a place means that specific restaurant/shop has something special (price, taste, or any other thing). Been here for quite a while, we reconsider our thought and now believe that Taiwanese just love to stand in a line. Ha! Back to finding Japanese restaurant, several months ago we went to this restaurant, called Watami (和民) and we have revisited it several times since then. What’s so good about it?

Having been wanting to have a “proper” x-course-meal all along, finally we had the chance to have a Christmas celebration dinner (yeah, 6 months ago :)) in one of restaurant chains by 王品; the F&B giant carrying brands like Wang Steak and Tasty.

Anybody up for coffee time in Starbucks? We bet some of you would say “yes”.. Hmmm, how about coffee time with an extra Taipei 101’s 35th floor view, then (underline the phrase: without additional charge)? Maybe a lot of you guys have heard about this.. but are you unsure how to actually get there? You’ve come to the right source (I hope :))!

Here is our about-an-hour afternoon tea time-lined experience in Wednesday Cafe, a cafe with simple stylist decor around Fuxing area.

Cafespotting has been a culture for youngsters nowadays. Simply said, cafe culture in Taiwan is very much as booming as other parts of Asia like Singapore, Korea as well as China.

Specific for Taipei, I have done some research in blogs regarding well-known cafes and found out there are numbers of well-known places which are featured almost by every food bloggers (in casual random order):

Afternoon tea vs. high tea. Let’s start this post out by discussing these two terms. Basically both are tea times, but actually bottom lining them are the timing. Afternoon tea, also known as “low tea”, is assumed as the having tea activity when we heard “high tea”. Involving things like manner, afternoon tea is meant for social-gathering during mid-afternoon and up until now is adored mostly by women.

Who’s up for Japanese Curry?  😉 Let’s go to CoCo! Not the selling tea and fruit juice Coco, but the other internationally famous CoCo fully known as CoCo iChibanya Curry House.

One very special day (12.12.12) my dear roommates L, F, and I planned to have a celebration (just kidding – we realized it only afterwards though).. Anyway, December (new month!) is coming  so we kinda feel like deserving a lunch off with yummy food  😉 (we hope to schedule at least one lunch-get-together session every month). Moreover, there is a trendy cafe cum brunch place in Gongguan just short walk away which L really wanted to try.

Monday Blue?! Nope-nope! Monday Red and Green probably I would say.. 😆 coz Christmas is coming? Partly true, but another reason is because we had reddish and greenish yummy pastas for our dinner!

Posing besides xiao long bao, stinky tofu and shaved ice, beef noodle (牛肉麵, read: niú ròu miàn) is popular all-around the globe as Taiwan’s iconic food. What makes this noodle so special?