Taiwan Treats

I've just spent a whole week in Taipei and discovered a very important fact - Taiwanese food is the best and Taiwanese people are the BEST-est! Every night, I was feted and feasted by my Taipei colleagues and we had such a good time. A BIG thank you to Reco and Jackie for their wonderful hospitality.

Fantastic feast at Hao Ji Restaurant in downtown Taipei

On Monday night, Reco introduced me to John, her husband-to-be who turned out to be a handsome 183cm funnyman. We went to Hao Ji Restaurant, which specialises in Taiwanese food. We had prawn noodles, steamed prawns, fried fish roe, 3-cup chicken, fish-roe omelette and vegetable & lamb soup. It was unbelievably good...my mouth is watering just blogging about it. But the company was even better than the food. We chatted about everything from their wedding preparations to our hometowns to office gossip. Reco and John are a lovely couple and they deserve every happiness in the future...CONGRATULATIONS!

Aunty Jo Jo with her Taiwanese friends - John, Reco, Jessica & Jackie

On the second night, the HR girls took me out for another traditional meal. This time, it was a ginger duck soup cooked over an old-fashioned charcoal stove. It was accompanied by loads of mee suah (noodles), cabbage, mushrooms, and some other indescribable ingredients :-) All of it delicious!

But the real treat showed up after dinner - a gorgeous little boy named Daniel - who is Jackie's son. All the adults were squealing with joy and vying for his attention. And as you can see from the photos - Aunty Jo Jo won. Thanks to her invincible "incey-wincey-spider" trick!

Aunty Jo Jo - the crade snatcher - strikes again!