XXXIII: Tai Chow in Tai Pei

I know my pun is not so puny. It is half past midnight after all.
Although Taiwan has quite a few famous food, we decided to try as we go. No pressure, no stress. This is one of them when we wanted to have lunch.

The one thing you must know is that everything is in Chinese. And only Chinese. The only times you'd get English would be in more established restaurants. However, in certain districts, they would offer the menu in Japanese and/or Korean as well.

However, armed with Mandarin/Hokkien speaking skill and a lack of shyness/embarrassment with a streak of social butterfly, you should be able to survive adequately there. The people (in general) are warm and mostly friendly. At most, they'd just answer you half hardheartedly. Still better than our customer service on a whole.

Fried rice was surprisingly good. Taste similar to our version except it was milder. While it lacked the texture, the taste made up for it.

Stir fried beef noodle. Come to think of it, all the noodle dishes I've had there are soupy. Although it's stir fried, it feels like a wet noodle with some gravy that has traces of yam. The beef were cooked just right, the noodle wasn't took soggy either. However, this paled in comparison to the fried rice which I enjoyed thoroughly.