The Week of Food!

Last week comprised a flurry of food-making~! I taught one of the chi-mates how to make banana cake so he could teach his students at school. :) Then Ingting taught us how to make some bing, which are like pancake things (although bing can also mean a cake-like thing).

This is a vegetarian oyster bing (technically it's a jian, which is more like a fritter).
It was size of my head. And delicious.

丼家 Donburi (Rice bowl)

You can get just the rice bowl or a set meal, which comes with side dish, pickles, dessert, and soup or fountain drink (refillable). There are daily specials for cheaper.

Location: Right across the street from MRT Houshanpi exit 3.

Price: $$ of 5
Vegan/Vegetarian option available -- although the side dishes sometimes have seafood.

Vegetarian Set. It's the tomato one (there's only one). The savoury egg custard had shrimp in the bottom, which I'm okay with, but make sure to ask for a substitute if you're vegan. You can't see the pickles 'cause I ate them already :) The mochi is pretty tasty for standard fare.

The grilled fish single order. You get the whole fish, which is a LOT of protein. @_@ It does come with bones, so be careful! It was a bit too dry for my tastes, but I'm happy it came with the pickles and lime.

Chicken-onion-egg set. According to Tai it was a soggy disappointment. I ate his pickles, which were delicious :)

Their chicken-katsu is very good, and that's what Tai gets whenever he goes. It's about NT$130 as a set, if I recall correctly.

Their tonkatsu is purportedly delicious as well.

Autumn Garden Pictures!

These flowers look just like red leaves!

Cake, Employment...? and MORE Cake!

It has been a very eventful several days.

On Monday, I declined my first job offer because they couldn't afford to pay me more. But then it turns out that NT$15,000-20,000/mo is pretty standard for an entry-level position with a Bachelor's degree. Getting a degree from overseas'll land you a nicer NT$30,000-35,000/mo, which works out to about a grand+ USD. However after taking into account lower cost-of-living [insert long and way more detailed-than-necessary analysis here] it might be more financially responsible to take the job, despite the fact it pays less per hour. But enough about money, let's talk about CAKE!!!

Tuesday: Tai and I went to the compassion field for lunch. And Cake-making.

Chocolate-mousse cake at Taipei compassion field!
It was Sister Lixue's birthday!

Lunch! A delicious noodle medley!

Then I made a test cake with bananas using Gracie's super-awesome steamed banana cake recipe.

This is a very unattractive picture of my cake.
There were chocolate truffles inside.

Yesterday, I made more banana cake for the Wednesday night event. Except with SEVEN bananas and it took like TWO HOURS to steam. This is in part because the steamer at the compassion field has a busted lid so steam escapes all the time instead of staying and cooking the cake. Also, there were raisins and walnuts in addition to chocolate truffles, 'cause some of the chi-mates heard about cake-making and brought over baking things!

And the Ingting's mom brought 3 different kinds of Taiwanese fluffy cake, which was ALSO delicious. So much cake we had.

What I wore to my interviews!
High-waist skirt

Random picture: Broccoli pickles!

The Week in Pictures: MOAR Halloween and then some other stuff, like employment

Flashback: Halloween Baking party on Sat. 10/29!

With Bailey's!
Everyone was still sick, so Teddy did all the baking.

Anniversary! We has it :D

Coincidentally, it Uni-President Hankyuu department store (Taipei) is also having their 1-year anniversary.