Danshui, TAIWAN -- ni hao from ilha formosa! i'm in a town that's known as the coney island of the country. it's been pretty cold and wet the past few days and i've been so inappropriately dressed coming from humid bali. i had to go get myself a scarf and i found a legitimate excuse to buy boots.
i also checked out the big fuss about the taiwanese and their tea (i asked for water at one restaurant and the server looked at me quizzically and asked, "you don't like the tea?"). so far i've had chrysanthemum, madler (?), longan, oolong, and black.
one afternoon while i had some free time to myself i got a pot of milk tea and picked up a borrowed copy of 'kitchen confidential.' i'm reading this anthony bourdain bestseller in spite of his "naked contempt" for certain kinds of people (i belong to the vegetarian category). that's honey cake that's sitting next to the cup. it tasted like a less buttery sara lee pound cake.
one afternoon while i had some free time to myself i got a pot of milk tea and picked up a borrowed copy of 'kitchen confidential.' i'm reading this anthony bourdain bestseller in spite of his "naked contempt" for certain kinds of people (i belong to the vegetarian category). that's honey cake that's sitting next to the cup. it tasted like a less buttery sara lee pound cake.
more to follow.
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