Friday, November 07, 2008

Gastronomical Tour of Taiwan Part V

This was the meal i had in Five Cents Driftwood. There were at least a couple meals where we had sweet potato rice. This was one of them....take a look at the bowl, it sure was heavy...


We had Chinese dinner....here are the first few dishes that were served. The herbal soup was refreshing, and free-flow...so we could top up as many times as we liked. The drink that we had tasted something like tea with a tinge of coffee flavour in it. I can't really put it into words, but it tasted downright odd...and this drink was also served at a multiple of our meals, so i suppose it is some sort of Taiwanese drink that people enjoy having there.



Ahhh...here it is...the free-flow herbal soup i was just mentioning. It came with a cute little handle that had a small flame to keep the soup warm for consumption.


At first glance, i thought this was 2 large pieces of omelettes cut up into smaller pieces. Upon tasting, i realised it was actually fishcakes... my favourite among the dishes served here.


Prawns!!!....are so not my kind of food =(



And for dessert, we had soft gooey Muah Chee....our chaperone from Singapore was gushing about this, cos according to him, he looks forward to this muah chee during each of his visit to Taiwan. It tasted really nice, but i was already too stuffed to enjoy it.


This is a nice snack we had in Tainan...direct translation from Mandarin meant 'Bamboo Charcoal peanuts'.... but i'm really not entirely sure how you incorporate bamboos and charcoals into peanuts...



Chinese-style spaghetti! The sauce is actually not the tomato or bolognese sauce you normally have at Italian restaurants. It is in fact those sauce you have along with your 'zhajiang' meat la mian....haha....



When we ordered this chicky meal, we were baffled cos no utensils were provided. Instead, we were given a pair of gloves.... and well, when you're in Taiwan, do as the Taiwanese do!



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