Taiwan - Day 4 (Taoyuan)

- November 19, 2018

Ben's brother in law, Alan bought us "mee suah" and warm milk tea for breakfast after sending his daughter to pre-school. It's so nice and sweet of him. The "mee suah" is nice and same goes to the warm milk tea. After we had our breakfast at home, we followed Alan and Ben to visit some suppliers in Taoyuan.

Rice noodle (mee suah)

Warm milk tea

We randomly select a place for lunch and ended up at Chuanxiang. I had dry noodles comes with a bowl of ginger pork soup. I like the soft texture of the noodles. We ordered other side dishes as well such as squid, glutinous rice sausage and pork slices. The glutinous rice sausage is actually sticky rice stuffed into the pork intestine. This dish comes together with slices of cucumber and it's a perfect combination.

Chuanxiang restaurant

Restaurant ambience

Braised pork rice

Dry noodles

Soup with slices of pork

Glutinous rice sausage

Squid with ginger

Sauce

Pork with ginger

Address:

Chuanxiang

No. 92, Yiyong Street,

Bade District,

Taoyuan City

Opening hours: Mon to Sat - 11am to 8pm

Tel: 03 - 377 0626

We didn't order any drink during our meal so we bought a cup of passion fruit tea from Itso Black Tea. This shop is just beside Chuanxiang restaurant. The drink is nice but there's just too many seeds in it. The seeds are edible but it's tasteless. So it's either you chew or swallow it.

Itso Black Tea

Passion fruit tea

Alan's parents invited us for dinner and we had a fabulous buffet dinner at Chien Yen Shabu Shabu. You get to choose one hot pot soup flavour and eat what you like. There's salad bar, Japanese sushi, variety of hot pot ingredients, slices of meat, noodles, dim sum, pastries, free flow of drinks, ice creams and dessert. I wish I can try all their ice creams and desserts but there's just not enough room in my stomach to fit in all.

Types of hot pot soup:

a) Japanese seafood hot pot

b) Chinese vegetarian hot pot

c) Mongolia hot pot

d) Sapporo miso hot pot

e) Chicken stock hot pot

f) Spicy hot pot

g) Korean kimchi hot pot

h) Saimagundi tomato hot pot

i) Sukiyaki hot pot

j) Cheese hot pot

k) The extract of clam hot pot