[Taiwan Eats] Taoyuan weekend: Brunch at Butiaoshi, coffee and dessert at Gonna Cafe

We had a weekend brunch with T’s ex-colleagues the first week of January. First place we went to was 不挑食 Butiaoshi.📍 No. 99, Dazhi Rd, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City We ordered:🍛 Thai Green Chicken Curry & Rice 有點泰綠咖喱椰汁雞 NTD320🍲 Sautéed Chicken Breast With Rosemary 香煎迷迭香雞胸 NTD400🥣 Truffle Mushroom Soup 加購湯品 +NTD69 It had been such...

[Taiwan] Taichung trip 2022

This is the continuation of our central Taiwan trip in early May. After we left Chiayi, we drove to Taichung where we stayed for a few more days. We checked in at Gogo Hotel. We didn’t have a good first impression though because when we entered the lobby, we were welcomed by 3 dead cockroaches!...

[Banqiao Eats] Kanpai and Aunt Stella’s

We went to Kanpai to celebrate T's birthday a couple of months back. They had this event where if you successfully guessed the weight of the steak (+-5g), you would get it for free. Luckily, we were able to guess correctly for one of the steaks that we ordered, so that was on the house!...

[Monthly Summaries] December 2021

I don't think I've fully reflected on what happened in December. Off the top of my head, I had a couple of wins at work, ate a bunch of good food, had a couple of meet-ups with friends, and celebrated Christmas with relatives. Let me share some of the books, restaurants, movies, and shows that...

Of family days and food explorations

November was filled with a couple of family days and food explorations — as you can see from the title of this post. My cousin's daughter celebrated her 1st birthday in October, and we had the lunch celebration in November. We went to this restaurant in Xindian and had a lot of food and cake! Can't believe...

[Chua family in Taiwan] Pon Pie 澎派

A funny memory I have of this dessert shop is first seeing it on my friend's feed and not realizing that it was the same place until I passed by their shop one time and felt that the name seemed familiar. Since then, I'd been wanting to try their pies so when my sister was...

[Jiufen Eats] SIIDCHA 吾穀茶糧

The first time I passed by this cafe was when I went to Jiufen with kuya Ronald and his friends but it was full so we ended up going to another place. This time around, we were lucky that they had an available table because it was a rainy day so there weren't a lot...