Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Christmas 2008
Ah, my first Christmas in Taiwan.
Despite what ultra-Fundamentalist groups preach about the sinful dangers of the Internet, I say thank God for it, as it allowed me to spend a wonderful few hours with my family back in the United States. I laughed and cried while opening gifts with Austin, Amanda, Chelsea, Mikayla, Theresa, Amanda, Brayden, Emily, Lori, Mark, Holly, April, Wade, Nana, and Papa. These people are my life.
I received some special gifts, including:
That evening Chyo treated me to an all-you-can-eat barbecue in 南崁 (Nánkǎn). It was cool because each table has a little hibachi and hot-pot bowl to cook your food. We ate ourselves silly on various styles of beef, chicken, fish, shellfish, veggies, and whatnot. By whatnot I mean items like 甜不辣 (tián-bú-là), which I'm still not sure what it is. As an added bonus, I tried fish fins and ostrich for the first time.
Christmas Dinner 2008 in Taiwan 吃到飽 BBQ
Despite what ultra-Fundamentalist groups preach about the sinful dangers of the Internet, I say thank God for it, as it allowed me to spend a wonderful few hours with my family back in the United States. I laughed and cried while opening gifts with Austin, Amanda, Chelsea, Mikayla, Theresa, Amanda, Brayden, Emily, Lori, Mark, Holly, April, Wade, Nana, and Papa. These people are my life.
I received some special gifts, including:
- A huge coffee mug with "coffee" printed in several languages, which I'm using as I write this, and...
- ...hazelnut flavored Coffee Mate (How I've missed thee!)
- Favorite chocolates (Almond Joy, Mounds, Junior Mints, and Lindor truffles)
- A Shrek Chia Pet ("Ch-ch-ch-chia!")
- A Humboldt County T-shirt
- A Christmas tree ornament that plays a recording of my kids' voices
That evening Chyo treated me to an all-you-can-eat barbecue in 南崁 (Nánkǎn). It was cool because each table has a little hibachi and hot-pot bowl to cook your food. We ate ourselves silly on various styles of beef, chicken, fish, shellfish, veggies, and whatnot. By whatnot I mean items like 甜不辣 (tián-bú-là), which I'm still not sure what it is. As an added bonus, I tried fish fins and ostrich for the first time.
These are from Chyo's cellphone, so the quality isn't the best. Click on photos to enlarge.
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| All this food... | ...plus this sizzling barbecue... | ...equals happy tummies ☺ |
Christmas Dinner 2008 in Taiwan 吃到飽 BBQ
Monday, December 22, 2008
Movies & More in Taipei
On Sunday (12/21) I went to see The Day the Earth Stood Still with Jim. While it had some cool special effects, the film was just OK in my opinion; I could have waited until the DVD was released and saved myself NT$300+. Anyway, had a nice visit with my friend, who still longs to go back to the US.
We had lunch at Burger King in the mall (only my second time eating at BK here), then wandered around the biggest Eslite store I've been in so far (large foreign language learning section). On our way to Starbucks we saw this guy performing an impressive dance with a large hoop. I don't know what this style is called, but here's a video I took:
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