May 17th & 18th: Experimental Cooking

Steamed Vegan Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Rightside-Up...

The curious divets are from water dripping onto the cake after condensing on the lid.

Upside-Down (and elsewhere)

The cake was VERY soft.  Too soft. T_T Less water next time.

Pineapple rings!

We also eat real food.  Like vegetables.

香春 Chinese Toon/Chinese Mahogany

An aromatic herb.

Making 香春醬, it's like pesto, but smells kind of like onions, and is DELICIOUS.

Also, trying a drier steamed cake.  It turned out quite dry.

At least it marbled nicely and had a good crumb!

Also, this elevator:

Bring protected during somebody's remodeling project.  Usually they just cover the thing in blue tarp and a thin foam sheeting like things.

May 16th: Veggie & Vegan Options at Burgery

Actually, there are no vegetarian entrees. But if you ask they'll make you a vegetarian salad (vegan if you ask for no cheese) with either balsamic or orange salad dressing. I prefer the balsamic (can you believe I used to hate balsamic vinegar?!), but the orange is delicious as well. It tastes like Fanta, but more orange-y :D

Vegetarian Salad with Orange Dressing.

 The salad is quite filling, though at NT250 rather expensive.  I'm a pretty happy camper with one of those and a bottomless milkshake (yes, you read that right.  BOTTOMLESS.)

Bottomless Chocolate-Banana Milkshake.

All their drinks are bottomless. Except alcohol, obviously.  All the regular entree meal things come with drinks and you can upgrade to a milkshake or smoothie for NT60.

The banana milkshake is made with REAL bananas, and shitty chocolate chips.  If I got it again I'd ask them to leave off the chocolate, it's waxy and disgusting.  Or, use chocolate ice cream.  I don't know why they don't; they HAVE chocolate ice cream (it's what the chocolate milkshake is made of!)

I've also had the OREO milkshake, which was FANTASTIC and not too sweet (a major factor in consuming as much milkshake as possible; at NT150-160 you've gotta get your money's worth!)

For vegans there are the smoothies, which are just fruit and ice and I think some sort of sweetener/thickener -- I've seen drink places use a mysterious syrup that makes this occur.  It doesn't make me sick, and I'm fairly sensitive to chemicals, so I don't worry about it ^^.

I've had the strawberry smoothie, which was filled with real strawberries and very cold (a deterrent to maximum smoothie consumption).  There's also kiwi, strawberry-banana, hazelnut coffee (probably not vegan), and a couple other ones that didn't tickle my fancy.

Last but not least, there are cheese fries, which are AMAZING.  They're made with nacho cheese and come with a tasty mayo-based dip.  I think it's chipotle mayo but I'm not positive.

I don't know why they don't offer nachos.  It would be fantastic.

GLORIOUS Nacho Cheese. It may very well be the only nacho cheese in all of Taipei.  Or, at least within a 1 mile radius.

Oh yeah all this stuff is su (素), for all you crazy-diet people out there like me ;P