I know you have not heard from me in over two weeks! Sars! I am not dead and did not fall off the edge of the world. I just had finals and Christmas, and then flew over the edge of the world to Taiwan. So, really I have not had any time to pick up a camera, let alone consider cooking or eating anything. Today was our first day exploring Taipei, so I tried to take a few pictures. There will be definitely more to come! Street food looks so interesting/crazy, so it should be exciting to post all the pictures I take! I promise I will limit it to food related pictures :)
We went to an awesome bakery with the most beautiful cakes! I was so enamored with them that I pulled out my camera and started snapping pics. I was so enthralled that I didn't even notice the shop workers speaking to me. I guess they were telling me that I couldn't take pictures of their cakes. Oops. I didn't notice though since I don't know Chinese. I feel like not knowing the native language can either mean you can break lots of rules innocently or you can get in a whole lot of trouble. So here are the beautiful cakes that almost got me deported from Taiwan!
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| hello kitty! or "xiao mi hao!" |
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| This picture cannot possibly do these cakes justice. |
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| The workers said I could take a picture if I was in it. I guess Steve forgot to get the cakes in there... cmon! But that's ok. Now you get to see the cute purple top his aunt bought me ^_^ |
Also, I was quite interested in the vending machines that sell all sorts of interesting foodsies and drinksies. I think it's especially cute that the sides say things like "I <3 milk!" Super cute. The vending machines have drinks like Coke (no big deal), juices (it's interesting to look at the variety), peanut soups (I had no idea such a thing could exist!), and some bottle with a bunch of Chinese words along with the word "sweat" (I am hoping that they mean you should drink it while you are sweating and working out... I don't want to drink someone's sweat!!).
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| I love milk...but the vending machine sells other stuff, too. |
Finally, there was a super old man at a park who was surrounding by squirrels and birds. They loooved him, maybe because he was a gentle old man, but mostly because he had a big bag of food. He would hold out a piece of bread and animals would come nibble it from his fingers! Crazy! Yes, I know this is barely related to food.
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| This old man is feeding squirrels straight out of his hand! |
