Taiwan - Day 4 (Taoyuan)

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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
l) White pepper chicken hot pot

Note: NT$ 1 = RM 0.1460



Chien Yen Shabu Shabu


Restaurant ambience


Variety of soft drinks, packet drinks and culture milk


Soft served ice cream and juices


Variety of fresh juices


Variety of dishes


Pastry


Salad bar


Western section


Dim sum


Cold noodles


Variety of dishes


Hot pot ingredient section


Hot pot ingredient section


Raw meat section


Fruits section


Shaved ice section


Dessert


Chocolate fondue


Variety of ice creams


Variety of ice creams


My dessert


Salted caramel ice cream and red bean & condensed milk ice cream


Address:
Chien Yen Shabu Shabu
No.180, Zhonghua Road,
Bade, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Opening hours: Mon to Sun - 11am to 11pm

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