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We finally got to mom's birthday, and decided to pick another new place to treat mom to dinner - our third straight day of dining out. I had told mom about DN Innovacíon some time ago, and thought this would be a perfect opportunity for her to try out some Spanish cuisine in Taipei. Not surprisingly, we picked up a couple of stragglers just before dinner… Last Minute Uncle and my younger cousin.
Chef Daniel was apparently down with an illness over this long weekend, and the Spanish sous-chef was left in charge. I guess business was kinda slow, so the kitchen didn't seem to have enough ingredients to provide for some added variety that I was looking for. Bummer…
February 27, 2012
February 26, 2012
Dinner with a palatial view
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Tonight was the second gathering for mom's birthday, and I decided to revisit Le Palais (頤宮). My last visit piqued my interest and I wondered what it would be like with more people and a wider range of dishes. Heaven knows this family needs to find a few more venues for our gatherings, and this one happens to be extremely convenient for me to get to…
The setting is great. We took a private room on the top floor of the Palais de Chine Hotel (君品酒店), which faces west and just happens to have direct line-of-sight of my apartment building. The period Chinese decor - with many accents dating from 2 millennia ago - worked well and achieved the mood I wanted.
Tonight was the second gathering for mom's birthday, and I decided to revisit Le Palais (頤宮). My last visit piqued my interest and I wondered what it would be like with more people and a wider range of dishes. Heaven knows this family needs to find a few more venues for our gatherings, and this one happens to be extremely convenient for me to get to…
The setting is great. We took a private room on the top floor of the Palais de Chine Hotel (君品酒店), which faces west and just happens to have direct line-of-sight of my apartment building. The period Chinese decor - with many accents dating from 2 millennia ago - worked well and achieved the mood I wanted.
February 25, 2012
Birthday lunch with No. 88
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It's coming up to Mom's birthday, and this year we decided to celebrate it with a few small groups of close friends and relatives. For the first meal, I decided to take them to something a little different - for them, that is. Lunch at Gyodoike (魚道生) seemed like a pretty good idea…
Raw Hokkaido oyster - I offered this to Mom for a taste, thinking that she would split it with me. No such luck… She enjoyed the fresh oyster so much that she ate it all by herself. Oh well…
It's coming up to Mom's birthday, and this year we decided to celebrate it with a few small groups of close friends and relatives. For the first meal, I decided to take them to something a little different - for them, that is. Lunch at Gyodoike (魚道生) seemed like a pretty good idea…
February 19, 2012
Dim sum with good friends
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It's been a while since I last saw some of my foodie friends, and I was really looking forward to this gathering. Not having had good dim sum in a long time, that was what I wanted to eat with the gang. Since I had just been to Fook Lam Moon (福臨門) a few days earlier, Fu Sing (富聲) became the venue for the day.
Fu Sing char siu (富聲叉燒) - this is the way to start a meal here… and we asked for the cut to be "half fatty (半肥瘦)". Very succulent and tender indeed. How I have missed thee, O fatty char siu!
It's been a while since I last saw some of my foodie friends, and I was really looking forward to this gathering. Not having had good dim sum in a long time, that was what I wanted to eat with the gang. Since I had just been to Fook Lam Moon (福臨門) a few days earlier, Fu Sing (富聲) became the venue for the day.
February 17, 2012
Shivering on the roof
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I was invited by the Specialist to join her friends for dinner tonight. For some reason she thought it would be a good idea to do a barbecue on the rooftop above Hong Kong Wine Vault in February, although she did advise us to dress warm for the occasion. I suppose it was my own fault for not adding a woolen layer underneath my jacket…
The first thing I noticed besides the temperature - which dropped lower as the evening went on - was the smoke. Given that the evening was mostly about wine, the smoke was definitely an annoyance. We would have been better off staying in the dining room downstairs…
As the evening went on, the wind picked up and I started to shiver. My friend next to me very kindly lent me her spare scarf, but that wasn't enough. I started spending more and more time standing next to the outdoor heat lamp, jokingly hugging them for warmth. I probably looked like one of those unfortunate homeless people in the States, keeping warm by standing next to an open flame inside an oil drum…
I was invited by the Specialist to join her friends for dinner tonight. For some reason she thought it would be a good idea to do a barbecue on the rooftop above Hong Kong Wine Vault in February, although she did advise us to dress warm for the occasion. I suppose it was my own fault for not adding a woolen layer underneath my jacket…
The first thing I noticed besides the temperature - which dropped lower as the evening went on - was the smoke. Given that the evening was mostly about wine, the smoke was definitely an annoyance. We would have been better off staying in the dining room downstairs…
As the evening went on, the wind picked up and I started to shiver. My friend next to me very kindly lent me her spare scarf, but that wasn't enough. I started spending more and more time standing next to the outdoor heat lamp, jokingly hugging them for warmth. I probably looked like one of those unfortunate homeless people in the States, keeping warm by standing next to an open flame inside an oil drum…
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