Good food is aplenty in Taipei, from the street corner soybean milk breakfast shack to fancy hotel food court to gourmet coffee/tea house to indigenous Taiwanese delicacy night market... Just pick one and answer the question: "Where do you want to eat today?"
Or just "Gomaji"!
Gomaji.com is a Groupon-like website that offers deep discount deals at participating restaurants that we happened to get wind of. We just picked those nearby with the kind of food we like, purchased the tickets and made reservations and went. Foods we thus tried included exquisite seafood (http://www.gomaji.com/Taipei_
Other great eateries I recall included a country kitchen with farm-raised chicken (http://www.paine0602.com/
Eating really is just half the fun of feasting, where the people you eat with constitute the other half of the fun. Through these feastings and various other events, I am glad I got to reacquaint myself with my sisters, in-laws, cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, friends of old and new, knowing them better each time we got together.
The world is a transient place, even the city I grew up with I have long given up trying to trace back all the places my memories like me to reminisce, because they are recognizable no more, just like the South Orange County I've been living in for the past 29 years having been in transition all these years. What's ever lasting, or we can try to make ever lasting, is relationships and compassion with people, wherever we live, whenever we meet.
With that, I conclude this long log of my long stay in Taiwan. The old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words", and in this new age of Instagram writing text without accompanying photos is borderline criminal, so here is a link to a collection of photos of my 4 months in Taiwan I have put in my Facebook photo album for those of you who may like to view them:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10206320083586118.1073741829.1387569224&type=1&l=b0de2ea607
Adios!
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