{"id":1394,"date":"2011-10-28T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2011-10-28T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T00:12:12","slug":"post_18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"\u9326\u5bcc\u58fd\u53f8\u5c4b"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget the street food in the night markets – the thing you have to go for in Taiwan is Japanese food. Yes, fans of Japanese food out there, you read me right. Call me a snob, but I’m really not a huge fan of the food in the night markets in Taiwan. That’s mainly ‘cos I don’t really like food that’s deep-fried nor too fatty. I’m careful of what I eat because I’m afraid of falling sick if I eat too much of those unhealthy food. And trust me, it’s NO fun when you’re sick and all alone in a foreign country where there’s no mummy dearest to fuss over you.
\nAnyway, Japanese food is really good and cheap (compared to other big cities) in Taiwan and I was determined to have my first omakase (a Japanese phrase meaning “I’ll leave it to you [i.e. to the chef]”) meal during my recent trip. In Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, I’ve never dared to go for an omakase meal because I was always afraid that I might get a heart attack when the bill came.
\nI was lucky to have Grace from Piggy’s Cooking Journal<\/a> take me to this family-style Japanese restaurant for a scrumptious Japanese meal. Incidentally, she was also my dining companion for the meals at \u5c11\u5e25\u79aa\u5712 and \u5927\u5c71\u7121\u50f9. Here’s what we ate at the Japanese restaurant – don’t ask me what fish each picture is ‘cos I couldn’t catch what the chef was saying! Maybe you could tell me after seeing the picture. Anyway, my sole task that night was simple – EAT. And eat I did.
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\nAbalone
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\nThis is a kind of vegetable found in the mountains called \u8fc7\u8c93\u83dc. Literally translated it means ‘cat crossing vegetable’.
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\nEbi aka prawns
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\nNormally I don’t like eating this type of fish roe, but these were so fresh and tasted so sweetly of the sea that I gobbled it down.
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\nThought I died and gone to uni heaven. Yes, it was oh so creamy and rich!
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\nWhite bait fried in a light batter
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\nA type of bamboo grilled and sprinkled with some chilli powder
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\nTuna handroll wrapped in a nori sheet that was so crispy and nicely roasted as you bit into it
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\nCheck out this pulsating sushi – it doesn’t get any fresher than this!
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\nMatch made in heaven – uni wrapped within a slice of toro topped with a pinch of wasabi and yuzu for added layers of flavour.
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\nRice with tuna, fish roe, uni and spring onions. Yums.
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\nThis was the only disappointing dish – it was some bits of chicken which I found very tough. Anyway, by the way this came along I was so full that I couldn’t stomach anymore.
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\nA richly flavoured miso broth made from all the goodness of fish bones, pork, spring onions, leeks etc.
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\nDessert was boring but really, at that point, I didn’t really care about it.
\nI had all these food for NTD2300 (approx SGD92), which is a fraction of what I’d have paid in Singapore or Hong Kong. The fish were all very fresh and of really good quality and by the end of the night I felt like I was rolling out of the restaurant. Many thumbs-up for this place!
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