2010 Christmas Brunch & Dinner 聖誕節豐富早午餐& 晚餐!!
2010 Christmas Eve Dinner 平安夜的晚餐
As usual, this year's Christmas eve we had Christmas eve dinner at my fiance's grandparent place. This year each families will cook something and bring them to grandparent's place and grandma will prepare the hot soup! Let's check some pictures that I took! :)
每年的平安夜我們都會在我未婚夫的爺爺奶奶家過~而今年也不例外, 而且今年也是一個家庭準備一到菜, 而奶奶會負責熱呼呼湯! 來看看那天的照片吧!Taiwan Eat & Play - Taiwanese food "Wan Lin Braised pork rice" 台灣食旅- 台灣味'丸林滷肉飯'
There are so many my foreign friends asked me "What are the typical Taiwanese dishes?" "Is there any famous Taiwanese food?" or when my friends came over for dinner, they will ask me "This is what kind of cuisine that you made?" But most of time, I don't know how to answer... Because the answers in my head are "This is just fried vegetables." ,"This is braised meat" or "I just put the fish in the steam cooker.. so... I think you can call it Steam fish!? " Very often, I will feel disappointed by why can't I explain what is Taiwanese food or what are the food I made. Sometimes I will use Taiwanese famous Night Market food to represent Taiwanese food; however, most of the time they are not easy to cook..
Why I struggle so much? I guess is because a lot of people expect some special names for Taiwanese food, just like Chinese, Japanese or Korean food. (Gu-Lao-Rou, Tempuro, bibimbap, etc.) Therefore, I always feel weird if I answer the names of dishes with a very straight way such as Fried Vegetables, Fried Tomatos and eggs, Fried Green Paprika with Beef, etc.
But after I went to this restaurant in Taiwan, I am very happy that I found out that the dishes that I made by my memories and learned by my mom are Taiwanese food, and the names that how we call them are just the names for Taiwanese food! Even the names are just what you see in the plate! :)
The restaurant that give me all the inspires above is called "Wan-Lin Braised Pork Rice". I feel a bit ashamed because apparently this is a very famous restaurant of Taiwanese food, and I have never been there even I lived in Taipei for 21years! This time I will have a chance to go there is because we were in a photo studio for choosing our family pictures. After we were done of the picture checking, my mom and my brother in law said this famous restaurant is near by. They told me this restaurant is one of the restaurants that all the travel books in Japan recommend as the restaurant you need to go in Taiwan! Wow~
因為在國外居住了多年, 很多外國朋友問我台灣菜是怎樣子? 有沒有什麼特別有名的菜? 或是做菜給朋友吃的時候, 朋友會問我這是什麼料理?..我都答不出來,心想~這就是炒青菜啊~或這就是魯肉啊~或這就是蒸魚啊~我常常覺得這樣的回答很虛~所以很多時候我會用台灣的有名夜市小吃來代表台灣菜, 這也沒錯, 但夜市小吃不是那麼的好做滴~
可能是因為外國人都期待像中國菜或日本菜或韓國菜一樣有個什麼很不一樣的菜名, 我總覺得回答"炒高麗菜, 番茄炒蛋, 青椒牛肉, 等等" 這種非常平鋪直敘, 看什麼說什麼的菜名很怪~ 以前我都只能用台灣特別的小吃來回答他們什麼是台灣菜~ 現在, 我感謝這一餐讓我知道, 原來我常常自己隨意炒出來的菜, 就是--台灣菜!!
丸林滷肉飯~ 對我來說是一家很神奇的店. 因為我住台北21年, 卻從來沒聽過也沒去過這家店!!但那天去中山北路挑完全家福的照片,晚上想在附近吃, 二姐夫才提到這家台灣菜的店, 聽說是日本旅遊書上必吃景點之一哦!! 我還一直一為日本人來只吃鼎太豐咧~~ 哈哈..我真是太孤陋寡聞啦~~
Lichtjesavond in Delft 荷蘭台夫特的'燈火之夜'!
Last night is 'Lichtjesavond' in Delft, Holland. The most likely English name will be "Light Night" ~ It is a night that Delf will light up their city center and Christmas tree. Most of the families and shops are also agreed to turn off their light but leave the lights for decorations on! Let's check what happened in the 'Lichtjesavond'!
Taiwan Eat & Play - 3rd Meal 台灣食旅- 第三頓
There is one shop right in the corner of my place, I remember that shop since I was a baby~ It was a luxury dinner if my family went there to eat, because you always needed to queue there! The business went down for several years, but surprisingly in these 5 years, they made some internal changes and redecorated their shops. And now this restaurant is alive again!
Right now, you still needs to queue in front of it in the weekend! and this restaurant is called -- My Home Steak!
今天要介紹的這家店,真的可以說是台灣的奇蹟之一, 從1990年開始, 經歷了20年時間的考驗, 依然屹立不搖! 尤其是我家巷口的那家店, 從我小時候到現在, 雖然經歷了一陣子的低潮, 但這幾年他們經歷了翻修, 調整, 現在又跟我小時候一樣, 每天都高朋滿座, 週末的時候一定大排長龍! 它就是~ "我 家 牛 排 "
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