Month: June 2008

Escape41

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Escape41 is owned by a friend of a friend that happens to be another foreigner living in Taiwan. The restaurant is located by the waterfront just outside of Kaohsiung City. They serve up a wide range of different types of food, including some really unusual burger toppings. Although I haven’t been down there yet, I figured I’d give him a free plug anyhow 😉

You can find out more details about where it is, how to get there and what to eat by clicking this link

Update: This place closed some years ago.

New stuff

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Ok, it looks like the new site design is coming together, simple, yet elegant (or something). I got some help by my friend Gavin, as I really suck at PHP.

I’ve added two new pages, Places to eat in Taiwan and Food related stuff. The idea is to provide a list of good places to eat in Taiwan (mostly Taipei and Taoyuan) and a list of where to find stuff needed for cooking, or at least where you can try finding it.

I was also planning on sticking up a few recipes here if I have time, especially for things I’ve tried to make the old fashined way because they’re not available here in Taiwan or are very expensive and can be done cheaply.

I’m going to try to update the site a lot more regularly as well and maybe it’ll become useful to those looking for things in Taiwan, especially those new to the country. I’m also going to add a few more pictures to the picture gallery, but that’ll take a bit more time. That’s it for now…

Black man beef noodle

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This is possibly the best beef noodle place in all of Taiwan, the soup is rich and beefy and the beef is really soft and tender and the noodles are some of the best you can get as well. The location is on the map below, and you can call them on (02) 2913-5899, but I doubt they speak English.

You can find some pictures of their food here, and the prices are still the same, more expensive than your average beef noodle, but so worth it.

Update: This placed closed a couple of years ago, despite being quite popular after the owner was in the movie Lucy.

Cosi o Cosi

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Cosi o Cosi is a decent little Italian restaurant on Dunhua south road, section 1 and the food is generally quite good there. Some stuff is slightly over priced, but most of it is quite tasty. They also have a large selection of imported beer for those interested in that. Their phone number is (02) 2771-5883 and they’re open seven days a week from 12.00 to 14.30 for lunch and 18.30 until 23.00 for dinner.

If you’re not familiar with Taipei, then take the blue line MRT to the Zhongxioa Dunhua MRT station and then exit via exit number eight. Walk straight up the road you get out on (Dunhua south road) and keep walking for about 3-4 minutes. You should walk past a a Häagen-Dazs before you get there.

You can find more details on their Facebook page.

Update: I would say that Cosi o Cosi has gone downhill over the years and we don’t tend to go there any more. At one point they had a Gelato place a few doors down, but that didn’t last too long, most likely due to the high rents. However, it’s one of the older Italian restaurants in town.

Alleycats Pizza

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If you like decent pizza and calzone, then Alleycats should definetly be on your list if you live in Taipei. Although I’ve only been to one of the five restaurants (the one on LiShui St), I can highly recomment them. The food is good and it’s also one of only a few outlets in Taipei that servers Cider. The best part is that you can customize your pizza if the topings on the menu isn’t to your liking. You can find their website here and it has addresses to all of their restaurants including telephone numbers.