North Coast Day Trip 三芝-石門

We went for a day trip in north coast again. The beach front restaurant we picked this time is run by a latino looking guy from LA. Why do we know where he's from? Well, when we looked at the menu and decided to try their quesadilla (pronounced as ge-sa-di-ya), the cute local waiter didn't heard of its original spanish name and missed to note it down, so we called for it twice and this guy must have heard us. He came up to check our order and asked us if we're waiting for quesadilla, and we said yes, then he looked at Jason and said, "you're the first chinese i met who pronounced quesadilla so accurate." (os: it was Me who taught Jason the correct pronunciation! -_-"') Then he asked Jason if he's been to CA because he assumed that's how Jason learnt to speak it right. And then he told us he's from LA. What an arrogant and bumptious guy.

After taking photos of this restaurant (another try-to-look-in-bali-style specialty restaurant to me, nothing much to say), we headed further north and stopped by the famous zong-tsi place 劉家肉粽. I only heard of its name and passed by several times, but since there's always a long queue in front of the stand, I never had chance to try it. Luckily it's not packed tonight. The size of the zong-tsi is not very big, but the special part is in the rice. The taste of the rice is not same as my grandma's (I always think my grandma's is the best in taiwan!), it's got some mysterious spice flavor except for soy sauce. I admit this zong-tsi deserves its reputation. In the side notes, the basic meat zong-tsi (as the photo) costs only 20NT, and you get bulk discount at 100NT for 7pcs.

Back to Taipei, we popped in this traditional sweet place near Shi-pai (石牌) mrt for its famous sweet dumpling (mua-chi) 黑糖麻糬. The place was again all packed with a long queue waiting for the order (taiwanese obsess the queue for no reason...-_-"').It's famous with the traditional taiwanese ice shavings and sweets, and the shop is decorated with 50' local furnitures and households. I personally love the muachi, which is fried in brown sugar and covered with peanut powder. It's not as sweet as the ones with peanut stuffing that we buy in the street, nor as powdery as japanese muachi. This is the muachi that you can only eat in store.

Hoohoo... having had perfect muachi and sweet soup as the ending, my stomach finally felt satisfied and got ready to call it a day. No no, not yet!! The party in cashbox ktv just started! Their hors d'oeuvre has been changed and it's even more tasty than before!! Wahaha... this was indeed my stomach's day!:D
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 望海的小黑 (LA guy's dog)