Welcoming 2023 with food – Yoshimura 吉村牛舌 and Yelo Soul Bistro 首爾餐酒館

Yoshimura 吉村牛舌 No. 110, Gongguan St, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 220220新北市板橋區公館街110號 In January, we tried a couple of new restaurants and I wanted to share some here. The first restaurant we went to for 2023 was actually a repeat — Yoshimura in Banqiao. We had dinner with T’s former colleagues and were introduced...

[Banqiao eats] Birthday dinner 2022 at Yinju Izakaya 隱居居酒屋

This izakaya restaurant Yinju Izakaya 隱居居酒屋 in Banqiao had been on my list for quite some time, and I decided to finally try it on my birthday. Here's a list of what we ordered along with their prices and photos: Litchi Kawaii Shiroi 台灣荔枝日本奶酒 220ntd Hot Sake 溫清酒 120ntd Shrimp Spring Rolls 創意炸蝦生春捲 180ntd Agedashi...

[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!...

[Banqiao eats] Friday’s

This is another late post from back in December that I just got around to writing. To welcome the new year, we had lunch at Friday’s. We went with the 2-person meal set that includes ribs, chicken fingers, fries, steak and pasta, chocolate mud cake, salad, soup, and drinks! I particularly enjoyed the drinks and...

Birthday 2021 [hotpot, ice cream, and gifts]

I received this delivery on my birthday, and it made me laugh out loud with the thought that my colleagues know me so well 😂 I took time off my birthday and had a laidback day. T and I had hotpot for dinner at Donhua Hotpot (東華川府重慶老火鍋).  Ordered quite a lot: • soup base -...

[Banqiao eats] Te Xiang Zhai Western Restaurant

I wasn't able to focus on blogging the past few months because of personal and work stuff, but I'm back and I'm catching up on backlog posts. This was our Christmas 2021 lunch that I'm only writing about today. We decided to treat ourselves over the holidays, so I looked for a bunch of restaurants...

[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...

[Banqiao eats] ABV Penthouse Bar & Kitchen

There's this restaurant in Banqiao called ABV Penthouse Bar & Kitchen that we went to a while back to end a pretty busy work week. The restaurant has a wide selection of beers and ciders (but we didn't have any because T was driving and I didn't want to drink alone), tapas, and meals. It also has...

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...

Last 2 weeks of October – little wins and a Halloween party!

Not a lot happened during the last 2 weeks of October. The most exciting thing that happened was our high school class halloween party, where I "dressed up" as Stitch (basically wore my Stitch onesie) and where we had fun playing games and catching up. T and I also ate out a couple of times,...