Tag Archives: Xindian

Indigenous or Aboriginal Food- 翠山飲食店 (Cuishan restaurant)

City living man, it can bring you down.    After a particularly trying week and me doing my best to maintain the stiff upper lip that British people are supposedly famous for, me and Mrs. Bao went to Wulai for a day of seeing nature.  After dropping off Preschooler at her kindergarten, we got intoContinue reading “Indigenous or Aboriginal Food- 翠山飲食店 (Cuishan restaurant)”

British Food-fish and chips at Churchillls

I was going to save food from Blighty until near the end of this experiment, thinking it would be best to use Christmas as an excuse to have traditional food from round my way, but then I figured, well Churchills (the sausage and pie people) have opened up a thing in the Xindian Carrefour, it’sContinue reading “British Food-fish and chips at Churchillls”

Shanxi Food- 山西麵霸王

Am I cheating by having Chinese food twice? I’m gonna say no.  China as you may have heard is a pretty big place and it’s hard to understand the scale of it unless you have actually been. I remember reading that if you take the capital (i.e. Beijing) and all its jurisdictions, you have anContinue reading “Shanxi Food- 山西麵霸王”

Korean Food-首爾大叔

For many years, I actively stayed away from Korean food because I had had a bad experience living there many many moons ago. After graduating from Big School in 2003, I had no money and was unemployed and ended up living in a godforsaken city in South Korea teaching English. I’ll spare you the intimateContinue reading “Korean Food-首爾大叔”