this is a blurry picture, for no reason, but these huge brown chunks of things that look like brownies are blocks of sugary instant tea, which i thought was super cool.

the holy grail of adorable meets delicious

i threw a major whining fit two nights ago when we came across this little shop and they had the precious display treats all lined up and beaming, and then the two cute girls who worked there being all mock helpless and in despair for our benefit, while they said they were sold out. i'd had the poor man's boring version of the biscuit shaped, cream-filled pancakes, but these were like the japanese-style Cadillac of such things! with flavors like green tea, and coffee with pudding, and chocolate-chocolate. I found them again tonight.

indifferent breakfast

the excitement of accidentally ordering something you haven't had before is often tempered by an unexpected and uncomfortable mix of sweet and savory. this sticky rice ball was filled with some pickled radish (fine), half (or maybe even just a stingy quarter) of one of the brown hardboiled eggs (also not a problem), and then waayyy too liberally doused with a super sugary breadcrumbs mixture, which i had to shake out towards the end. is it gross that the picture includes the egg all gnawed-on?

ps RIP Ledger

this was a new thing

and i love new food things, and i love things that are in little packages, even though i didn't know what was contained in this baseball sized bundle of joy. i chose "vegetarian curry" flavor, and therefore it came floating in a pool of curry. it was a medium thick tofu skin packet housing thin rice noodles, and it kind of had some edible gummy paste swiped across the top, to keep the noodles in I guess. 阿给 wasn't, like, the world's coolest taste or anything, but I had a fondness for it.

milk tea, not just with bubbles anymore

Mine, on the left, is "pudding" milk tea. you can see a smear of ivory towards the bottom of the cup. they open a small plastic package of, well, pudding, and then dump it in the cup before adding your milk tea.

this was genmai milk tea with - since the tapioca balls weren't done stewing yet - brown sugar jelly.
on a disappointing note, as heavy metal awesome as milk tea is in taiwan, most places make it with milk powder as opposed to real milk.

if i hadn't heard of Japan

I might mistakenly think I was there.
Here, in a subway station, they sold individually plastic wrapped pieces of sushi. for instance, a piece of sushi with a hello kitty slice of fishcake on top.

I'm not kidding when i say this beer has braille on it

i drank this, braving the consequences:
but not this. too soon.

this little man of gold

tasted like warm waffle batter and was filled with custard, which was applied to the uncooked batter in its cast iron little man shaped mold as a little blob covered in cornstarch, and therefore man-handle-able. we ate a box of twelve, after we each had a sample of one.

it's what's i'm eating, mostly

subway y dunkin donuts, in a way

"The Salad Boat" consists of a bialy-shaped deep fried donut that is liberally filled with mayonnaise and then holds cucumber, tomato, hardboiled egg, and, for some, meat slices.

eats taiwan treats, snacks

rice from within a banana leaf, with nuts and beans covered in a stupid sweet/salty sauce, but with cilantro, so thank you.

sugar soup with 4 selections of beans, taro balls, and pudding.

tofu byproduct with peanuts and small fish egg tapioca type business.

mochi filled with sesame and coated in peanut.

small things filled with cream, red bean paste, taro mush, corn, or apples.

eats taiwan breakfast

flaky bread with a egg inside

breakfast addendum, a now more treasured favorite. a green onion pancake fried up with an egg fried on to it. rolled up, cut into manageable pieces, and squirted with sauce.

But how do you get it out from between your teeth?

Barbie egg kabob

Brining and dining

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