a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwanese, dining out, food, food & travel, restaurants, traveleating on Oct 22nd, 2009
My first guest blogger is fellow foodie and über-photographer Kang from LondonEater, who kindly agreed to write about his recent (and first) gastrotrip to Taipei, Taiwan. When I visited Taipei, I fell in love with the food, but I’ve written very little about my visit, as I wasn’t blogging back then. Taipei is also on [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, London, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwanese, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jan 6th, 2009
[UPDATE: June 2009 - I went for dim sum at Leong's Legend and had a much better experience. You can read about it here.]
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Background:
Leong’s Legend in London’s Chinatown (a second branch has just opened around the corner) has bounced on and off my restaurant wishlist ever since I first started reading mixed reviews about it. [...]
Posted in Beijing, China, Chinese, Shanghai, Taipei, Taiwan, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 12th, 2008
This is the eleventh in a series of Postcards from the recent Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing traveleating trip. Rather than writing up each food experience in separate posts, which would have taken me up to Christmas, I thought it would be more fun to outline the trip in diary form, to include travel and [...]
Posted in Chinese, Taipei, Taiwan, dining out, dumplings, food, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Jun 14th, 2006
Din Tai Fung’s xiao long bao (Shanghai steamed soup dumplings) are considered to be the best in the world, and the Taiwanese restaurant chain has many branches world-wide, including Beijing, Shanghai (of course), Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and the US.
During our five day stay in Taipei, my friend and I walked past one branch of [...]
Posted in Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwanese, dining out, food, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Jun 12th, 2006
Specialising in cuisine from Tainan, the ancient capital of Taiwan on the southwestern side of the island, Slack Season Tan Tsi Noodles is a fabulous little restaurant that my friend and I visited two days in a row. Given that we were only in Taipei for four days, two meals in the same place indicates [...]
