An Expatriate in Taiwan

Tag: Food

  • Japan has awesome candy

    Just saw this on Youtube. Anyone know where I can get some of this in Taiwan?

  • Another Engrish menu

    Here’s another menu; this one includes full-on Engrish. The restaurants delicious dishes include: The Thai Jiao tingles a chicken Chips cattle grain The Thai dozen throws a cattle Japanese pottery plank beef Sheet iron cattle and many more!

  • The Gukeng Coffee Festival

    Last weekend, Mrs. Expatriate and I decided to take a trip to the Gukeng Coffee Festival. It’s a small gathering of people selling coffee, food, handicrafts, and other such things. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and there were quite a few people out and about. If you get a chance, I recommend you go.

  • Someone wants us to have kids

    In Taiwan, it is common to eat sweet foods on and after your wedding day. It is thought that eating sweet food will help the newlywed couple have a baby boy. The reason is a Taiwanese proverb: [hanzi]吃甜甜，生兒子[/hanzi]。 ([pinyin]chi1 tian2tian2, sheng1 er2zi4[/pinyin]) It doesn’t sound as good in Mandarin, but it rhymes in Taiwanese ([pinyin]jia…

  • A day in Taichung

    Miss Expatriate and I decided to spend the day in Taichung and had quite a bit of fun. For once, we actually did something and I got the photos organized and am blogging about it (I’m usually too busy to put the photos up until months later when it’s too late). We started off with…

  • Taiwanese Winter dessert

    Many foods in Taiwan are seasonal. That is, you can only get them during a certain time of year.  One of my favorites is only available during the winter months: [hanzi]燒仙草[/hanzi] (shāoxiāncÇŽo). Literally, Hot Immortal Grass. In English, it’s commonly known as Hot Grass Jelly. This is one of those foods that just looks so…

  • Thanksgiving Dinner

    Well, it was a pretty uneventful Thanksgiving, as Thanksgiving is wont to be in Taiwan.  It isn’t particularly celebrated, although the Taiwanese do have a name for it: [hanzi]感恩节[/hanzi] (gÇŽnÄ“njié). If you have been reading the Taipei Times, you may know that the Kaohsiung Ambassador Hotel, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, was holding an American…

  • Engrish Ketchup

    Another little gem from some restaurant. King’s Soce Ketchup. It was, apparently, supposed to be “King’s Sauce” but either through bad spelling, bad luck, or bad software, it ended up as “Soce.”

  • Engrish Chips

    These pictures were taken with a cellphone in the grocery store, so pardon the blurriness and general craptastic quality. It’s hard to read, but it says “Best Tasty. Excellent dose of delicious food adds onions. Crispy crispy good flavour.” This last one, also, has an “Excellent dose of onions.”

  • Snack Food

    I have a new favorite snack food: 大腸包小腸 (Da chang bau shiao chang), what is known as “Big sausage wrapped around a small sausage.” Yeah. How could you go wrong with 2 sausages? Here’s a picture:You may have noticed that the “big Sausage” is white. This is because the big sausage is made from rice.…