Family Dinner at Shannover

Shannover is a restaurant near my senior hight school. So I started to love it a few years ago. Although the menu has changed and the price is getting higher, my family and I go visit it sometimes.
What makes the restaurant special is its variety of food and drinks. Thus, there are lots of appetizers, main course, and even desserts and drinks for you to chosse when ordering a combo.
This time, I oredered a combo with pumpkin soup, bread, seafood pasta with tomato sauce, blueberry smoothie and cream brulee. Also, my family ordered a plate of fried appetizers, including shrimp, chess ball, French fries and onion rings. I have to admit that we always overestimate our potential to eat. Every time we walked out the restaurant with overly full stomach. But needless to say, it's the great taste and variety of food that attract us all time.

Awesome Tai food

This Tai food restaurant is not far away from NCCU. And it's run by my mom's friend. Thus, we come to visit frequently. Since the chef has studied cooking in France before, the dish here is somehow combine Tai flavor with French.

We ordered some curry chicken with potatoes, rice noodles with shrimps, vegetables with shrimp sauce, fried shrimp cake, sweet and sour pork, and fish with lemon juice, etc. Although Tai food usually use similar spices, each dish actually taste totally different. Therefore, I always have many bowls of rice to go with these nice cuisines. Drop by next time and you'll love it!

Couldn't Sleep with Dark Chocolate

My cousin went abroad to travel a few weeks ago and got me a piece of dark chocolate from Godiva. I'm a chocolate lover but never have really tried and chocolate that is kind of original. Thus, last night after tiring TOEFL class, I went home lying on the sofa sharing that piece of dark chocolate with my parents.
It's really astonishing to have the first bite of it in my mouth. The bitterness forced saliva come out from both side of my cheeks in my mouth, and I barely can stand the first few seconds. Even now I can feel my cheeks sore. But after I swallowed the whole little piece, the sweeterness start to popped up a little bit.
Although I've been enjoying the dark chocolate, it awaked me till 3 o'clock in the midnight. Since I'm sensitive to caffeine, I mostly don't take any of it after noon. However, because of it's huge impact on me, I had some pieces of the chocolate every morning in the week to prevent me from falling asleep in classes. And it really worked!!!

Great Seafood

During the 4-day break of school anniversary, my family and I went to southern Taiwan to have a vacation. Needless to say, the weather was so great that our trip was just like during the summer vacation. Nothing bothers in our minds. First two days, we drove to Kenting to enjoy the sunshine and breeze on the beach. Next day morning, we went to play some exciting water activities. After checking out of the hotel, my dad and I went to drive small racing cars. The speed was so fast that the racing car could even drift.
And in the evening, we drove to Kaohsiung just to try some seafood that 鱘之屋 was famous for. The name of the restaurant is some kind of crab in Chinese. Thus, this must be the best place to enjoy lobsters and crabs. What makes us want to visit it the most is the price here. Since the living cost here is far less than Taipei, the cost of the restaurant is less. Therefore, we can get a bargain here absolutely. And of course, the chef at the restaurant pays high value on the ingredients he used. That makes the food here all fresh and natural. The fried crabs, rice noodles with pumpkin, and seafood congee are suggested when visiting. After the great meal, we drove to Tainan to enjoy our vacation more.

A Journey of Chocolate

My family and I love chocolate a lot, especially the one that is original and doesn't add lots of suger and milk. Thus, we bought a box of Godiva chocolate when we were at the airport last time we went abroad. Since Godiva is too expensive to enjoy it like a normal way, I spent some time picking the one that I will be especially satisfied with.
The type of chocolate I picked is truffle. Inside the box, there are four flavors to choose. One of them is smoked, and the others are dark chocolate or caramel. Since there are plentiful layers of texture and taste in each bite, it's quite hard to explain it in words, especially in English
Anyway, I think this box is worth the price and really amazed my taste bud.

A brunch at Melange Cafe

The first time I came to this cafe is due to the program on TV which introduced delicacies in Taipei recommended it. After a year haven't came here, I invited my mom to have a brunch with my brother and I.
Since the cafe is famous for its strawberry waffles, we ordered one and chocolate waffles for my brother, who doesn't like strawberry at all. The price of waffles and sandwiches is acceptable but the minimum consumption rule is tricky. It asked each person to order at least one drink besides everything you ordered. Thus, we ordered a glass of Oreo smoothie, a glass of strawberry olay and a glass of apple, passion fruit and lemon soda. Except their prices, the drinks were totally great. And speaking of the waffles,  the strawberry one is topped with a roll of strawberry ice cream, some custard, and fresh strawberry. Besides the chocolate one is a roll of chocolate ice cream with red beans in it, some chocolate sauce and banana sauce.
The brunch is overall great to enjoy since we didn't have to wait in lines as people who want to go there at any time on weekends.

Desserts at agnes b. Cafe

I'm a strawberry person. Every time when it comes strawberry, I would definitely try it. But of course, only natural strawberry will meet my flavor. Ice cream, shaved ice, pancakes... all the desserts with strawberries on them sounds great to me. Passing by the cafe, I found the cake in the refrigerator fascinating. Without tasting it, I could already feel the crunchy pastry and the sweet custard dancing in my mouth. Therefore, though nobody in my family is going to have a birthday, I bought a mille feuille with strawberry and custard in a cake size. When I arrived home, my family opened the cake box and made a teapot of tea at once. After seeing the appearance of the pie, no one is resistible to try it. After grabbing some of it in my plate, the fresh smell of the strawberries start to strike my nostril. And once I tasted it, the custard, pastry and strawberry all melting together in my mouth. The flavor was just indescribable. If you past by the agnes b. Cafe next time, don't forget to get a piece of it to enjoy.