A lot of the time in Taiwan we were stuck inside. This is what we watched, when I could convince my brother to watch it. He would rather watch Spongebob (bleh, he played it 24/7 while we had chicken pox) or just flip through the channels for hours. Except, we watched it in Chinese. Hamtaro is cute in any language, though. I still love this show, even though I never watch it. The animation is so cute, and plus, Hamtaro and Cappy have the same birthday as me. My friends and I used to draw our own Hamtaro characters. We even made up a world for them to live in and drew a map of it. That would probably be my PostSecret. =P
and the rest October 23, 2008
Star Fruit
There were two other fruits that I really liked in Taiwan, star fruit and dragon heart. I’ve seen star fruit at home before, but never dragon heart. I guess we just bought one in Taiwan, because we were feeling adventurous.
Star fruit (also known as Carambola) might be my favorite fruit, but I’ve only eaten it once, so pomegranate still holds the record.
According to this post, that’s a good thing, since star fruit can kill. Murderous fruit.
Dragon Fruit
Then there was dragon fruit (or Pitaya), which was probably the strangest fruit I’ve ever seen.
It was the special “surprise dessert” our hosts presented to us after dinner at their apartment one night.
The one we ate was dark purple/magenta on the inside.
It was really, really sweet. I didn’t like it as much as some fruits, but it was a nice switch from the daily apple.
7-cent pomegranates October 18, 2008
Pomegranates are my most favorite fruit (maybe even food) ever. I’m pretty much obsessed with them. You can get your technical info on ‘em or some recipes and such (personally, I don’t know why you would want to ruin a perfectly good pomegranate by adding other stuff to it).
Ahhhhh
In Taiwan we could only find pomegranates costing over $1, like over here (but at least we found them).
During our travel through China (after being fooled into buying one for $2) we found a fruit stand in Kunming that sold them for 7 cents! It was heaven. I wish we could have stayed there longer.
Luckily, I still get the occasional pomegranate over here. The good ones are rare, usually the ones we buy turn out to be half-rotten. Oh, well, they’re still half un-rotten and perfectly edible!
Taiwan Blogs October 14, 2008
Here’s a nice collection of some of the best Taiwan blogs out there. I didn’t sign up, of course. Just, if you want some more info on Taiwan, there’s a treasure trove.
Sunny Han’s October 1, 2008
In my house we’ve grown up on Sunny Han’s. It’s almost the only Chinese/Taiwanese food we eat, besides what we make ourselves. Whenever Friday comes around we know we’re eating pizza or Sunny Han’s.
My mom recently ran into the owner (Sunny Han, of course) when she was picking up some dinner for us. It turns out he had grown up in Taichung, which is where we stayed for three weeks during our trip to Taiwan. Supposedly next time we go there, we are supposed to ask if he’s around so he can eat with us and talk about Taichung. To my family he’s sort of like a celebrity, so we all thought this was pretty cool. =P
