Monday, August 16, 2010

Lazy Sunday

Today was a very typical lazy sunday for Koggy, which went like so:
Waking up really late in the afternoon & spent a few more minutes (hours) rolling around, chatting, and singing along to the iPod. Then Koala made one of her big brunches: warm egg sandwiches with garlic butter, lettuce, & tomato.

At around 5, Koggy had "tea time" - which was more like CAKE time as u can see ;)


Just a few hours after THAT, Koggy was dreaming of this uber-delicious cold noodles we had a few days ago.


However when we went out to buy some , t'was closed! Then, we wandered around the neighborhood for quite sometime but we couldn't find anything to our liking. Right before Koggy went back home empty handed, Koggy decided to visit the good ol' 7-11! Oh, how we love this super convenient store. We shall do a more in-depth post explaining how convenient 7-11s in taiwan are ;)
So thanks to 7-11, we found our decent dinner of the day.


These are the 7-11 versions of the Taiwanese cold noodle, which are really not bad. 2 boxes of these for a grand total of 68ntd (about US$2). Can't get any better than that!

Good night!
*'o'* & ^'(00)'^


August = Ghost month

BoO! Greetings from the Formosa Island

August = Ghost month here in Taiwan which could be either good or bad.
It's bad if you believe in ghosts coz all of 'em are supposed to be out wondering around.
On the other hand, it's good if you don't because you don't need to be afraid ;) Also during this time of the year, most grocery stores are having huge sales on food. This is because a lot of people here likes to feed 'em ghosts so that the ghosts would leave 'em alone. But if you really think about it, if you keep feeding them won't they keep comin' back for more?

So this is the reason why Koggy has A LOT more snacks than usual ... because all of 'em are on sale!



Happy munching!
*'o'* & ^'(00)'^

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Yu's Almond Tofu

The weather in Taipei earlier in the week has been a combination of hot, comfortable-hot, and extremely-hot with some chance of precipitation (usually less than 50%). So, Koggy's been sweating and craving for something cold! Then 1 day, we found this place called "Yu's Almond Tofu".

When we got there Piggy was overly excited just because she's a big fan of almond flavored desserts, and it's been hard to find almond flavored stuff here in Taipei. Most of the tea shops don't have almond milk tea or any other almond flavored drinks.

Anyway, now please welcome 1 of the best dessert ever:


It is a BIG bowl of shaved (frozen) almond tofu with toppings underneath. We had 4 (+1) toppings underneath our mountains of frozen goodness, they are: azuki bean, mung bean, sweet potato QQ ball, lychee ball (thats what they claimed but we were pretty sure it had some kind of peanut inside. It was good nevertheless. So no complain here), and a free extra topping of jelly noodle. It was simply delicious!

If you want to check out their other products and locations, you can go to their website:

Yu's Almond Tofu, we'll be back!

Cheers,
*'o'* & ^'(00)'^

Modern Toilet Restaurant

Right after, we were done shopping around at the Photography St., Koggy went to the next "Taipei international food festival" target, which is the Modern Toilet Restaurant.


We visited the Modern Toilet restaurant located around Ximen area which isn't too far from the Photography St.

Look at how interesting the interior of this restaurant is.




And when the food came, we couldn't help but to pose with the dishes we ordered, which are: spicy hotpot in the yellow toilet bowl, chicken curry in the black toilet bowl, and strawberry calpico with konyaku jelly in the yellow urinal. And these meal also came with some small side dishes which was covered by that big "poopoo" !

Oh, look at the damage!

Last but not least is the most anticipated order, which was the dessert!
This restaurant indeed is a very interesting restaurant. The food was not bad. Definitely worth the time and money we spent. We were definitely happy and full walking out of this place.

*'o'* & ^'(00)'^

Photography St.

1 Saturday afternoon, Koggy was feeling adventurous and decided to explore a different part of Taipei.
So, we hopped on the MRT and headed to find the famous Photography Street.


The street is packed with camera (and other photography equipments) left and right. And of course, their prices are very competitive.

We don't have any particular favorite store just yet, but we'll be back the next time we need to find any cool gadgets for our photography needs ;)

*'o'* & ^'(00)'^