There’s a new Taiwanese bento (便當）spot inside the Marina Food supermarket in San Mateo called Formosa Express. It’s a really good deal and the food is pretty good. I’d say it’s worth way more than what you pay for. They have a buy one get one free promotion right now (or maybe this is the [...]
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My original plan was to eat next door, but I got there too late in the afternoon and they were closed, so I checked out Hui Tou Xiang Noodles House instead. It was definitely a good find. They make awesome pan-fried dumplings; awesome for two reasons: the top and bottoms are crispy while the inside [...]
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People rave about the soup dumplings 小籠包 at Mama Lu’s Dumpling House 一口福 in Monterey Park, but I recommend getting that elsewhere and instead focusing on their green onion pancake 蔥油餅. It comes very crispy and flaky, reminding me of the Malaysian roti canai but a little denser with more to chew. I also really [...]
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Last Sunday, after arriving to Taiwan, the mayor of Taipei presented Jeremy Lin with a giant pineapple cake in the shape his new Houston Rockets Jersey with his #7 on it. Fortunately for me, I was surprised with one myself too this week – delivered straight from Taiwan. The most famous Taiwanese-American around plus the [...]
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So there’s a new Asian dessert spot in San Mateo. It’s called Sweet Dreams Garden and it has all of my favorite Hong Kong and Taiwanese snacks – aloe drinks, egg puffs, milk tea, honey toast, shaved snow, sticky rice, sago … You name it and it’s there. My two favorite desserts, however, are honey [...]
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Every time I’m in the SGV I always make sure to visit at least one of my favorite Taiwanese breakfast spots. This time, it was Four Sea Restaurant 四海早點‧滷味‧麵點 in San Gabriel. My favorite dish of theirs is their fried turnip cake 蘿蔔糕. Unlike HK/Cantonese dim sum restaurants, theirs is fried to a crisp around [...]
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A trip to Taipei is just never complete without a visit to Lan Jia Gua Bao 藍家割包 for their famous guabao 割包 (Taiwanese burger) and a drink from Chen San Ding 陳三鼎 in Gongguan 公館. This time I went for their fresh milk with grass jelly 仙草鮮奶. Grab a drink and bring it over to Lan [...]
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One of my more memorable meals in Taiwan this year was at Big Teapot First Floor Restaurant 阿義師大茶壺茶餐廳 in Maokong 貓空. Everything was tea infused – from the fried rice to the chicken to the soup to the popsicle – and the flavors worked great together. My favorites were the fried rice – it’s something [...]
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There’s a new Taiwanese restaurant that opened up in San Mateo and I’m hooked. It’s called TW Village Bistro 村子口 and that’s exactly the type of food they serve – various village foods from around China that immigrants, mostly military, brought to Taiwan during the Chiang Kai-shek era. There are a lot of noodles in [...]
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One of my most favorite places that I visited during my trip to Taiwan this year was to Shenkeng Old Street 深坑老街 aka Shenkeng Tofu Street in the Shenkeng District 深坑區. It’s exactly what it sounds like an old street that specializes in tofu: stinky tofu 臭豆腐, spicy tofu 麻辣豆腐, tofu ice cream 豆腐冰淇淋, soft [...]
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