圓圓小籠湯包
Streetside xiaolongbao 小籠包 + 蔥油餅 at Da’an market. 圓圓小籠湯包 No. 60-76號, Section 4, Xinyi Road, Da’an District, Taipei City, 106 https://goo.gl/maps/vjVRsD4jhho
Double Dog Stroller!
Double dog stroller 🙄 Not sure I’ll ever fully understand this…
Lightning Hair
Watching an old school Hong Kong police film at an old school knife noodle shop. In the film, a young, water-skiing Tony Leung gets hit by lightning – and thus his hair is as pictured.
What are you look-ing for?
I was looking for appropriate hyphenation, actually.
蒼蠅頭拌飯 at Kiki’s Noodle Bar
I was starting to feel meh about the noodles at Kiki’s Noodle Bar, but this sure was tasty — and not noodles. 😀 蒼蠅頭拌飯 KiKi麵noodle bar No. 17號, Lane 186, Section 4, Xinyi Road, Da’an District, Taipei City, 106 https://goo.gl/maps/UPbQTT2Zhvs
Wangji Fucheng Zongzi 王記府城肉粽
Not the prettiest looking food, but this place has great 肉粽 and fish ball soup – so good on a rainy day. Wangji Fucheng Zongzi 王記府城肉粽 No. 374號, Section 2, Bade Road, Songshan District, Taipei City, 105 https://goo.gl/maps/gZXhG8oNgYn
Elephant Lin Wang (a.k.a. A-Mei)
I just finished reading The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi a few days ago. I had no idea that the elephant described in the book, Lin Wang, was real — until I ran into him at the zoo today! First used as a war elephant by the Japanese in Burma during WWII, this pachyderm was captured by the Chinese, trekked … Read More
Flower Arrangement on the MRT
Sweet flower arrangement spotted on the red line of the MRT.
Pizza and Books
Slowly eating pizza and reading Monkey and ME by Emily Gravett — found in the pile of kid’s books upstairs at Woolloomooloo.