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The
Food, continued
Here are
some of the fancier, more gourmet dishes on the menu.
Highly recommended!!
Many of these foods are
considered delicacies.
Appetizers
 Purple potatoes
and Thousand Year Eggs (pidan). The purple
potatoes taste just like sweet potatoes and are served
cold. Thousand Year Eggs are a delicacy that are
also served cold. They taste like a boiled egg that
is
spicy and sweet at the same time. They are good!
Korean
spicy calamari dish and lotus root dish. The
Korean dish, though served cold, was very spicy-hot.
The lotus root was in texture like water chestnuts, but
was sweeter and slightly spicy.
Shark's
Fin Soup. The sharks fin in consistency is spongy
like an orange slice. This dish is also considered
a delicacy. It is really good!
The Main
Event
As yummy
as it is beautiful! Chinese dinners come in several
courses. Dinner can be easily a few hours long! As
tempting as each dish is though, it is best to just
nibble at everything because you have to save room for
what is to come!
Roast pigeon.
Pigeon is a favorite dish
in Cantonese cuisine. It is served in a variety of
ways, but frequently it is roasted. Hard for the
inexperienced Westerner to eat with chopsticks, but
definitely delicious!
Garlic
crabs. 'Nuff said! Yummy!
Mixed seafood
basket. Shrimp, crab meat and silver-dollar sized
scallops tossed in a light sauce and served in an edible
noodle bowl. This dish is pure paradise if you
love shellfish. Yes, those are real orchids
garnishing the plate. Pretty!
Steamed
fish. So
tender you don't even have to open your mouth to eat it.
Bok Choy.
The veggie dishes are as wonderful as the meat dishes
are.
Lamb
stew.
Green
vegetables and mushrooms with brown sauce. This
is good, even if I don't remember what the veggies are
called exactly.
They taste like a cross between broccoli and asparagus.
Birthday
noodles. Traditional birthday fare.
Dessert
Dessert
in Chinese dinners can be in multiple courses by itself!
Less rich and heavy than Western desserts, Chinese
desserts have a very lightly sweet and satisfying
flavor.
Sweet bean soup
Sesame
soup
The
Chinese have a variety of sweet soups that are
traditional dessert dishes. But the word soup is
deceptive. If you think of it as more of a thin
pudding, that describes the taste and the texture more
clearly. They are served cool.
Birthday
buns. Yes, we had a few birthdays in the house when we were there!
A bready kind
of bun with a sweet bean paste center. Very good.
Sesame
balls. My favorite! These are chewy, sticky
and sweet, and taste very much like a popcorn ball but
with a sweet paste center. They are fabulous!
There is another variety on the plate as well that is
more of a pastry, and sprinkled on top with coconut. Mmmm!
Orange
slices. Another traditional meal-ender, orange
slices are used a bit like an after dinner mint in
Chinese meals.
Obviously, this is just a sample of the food you can
expect to find at Wakin's Kitchen. Many times
since we have returned home from Taiwan, I have found
myself wishing we could go back and take our family
there to eat. It is not hard to understand why
Cantonese cooking is so highly praised by gourmands and
ordinary diners the world over. Nor is it hard to
see why Wakin's Kitchen has recently opened its fifth
location in Taipei! So, if you find yourself in
Taipei, Taiwan in the near or distant future, be sure
and include in your dinner plans a visit to Wakin's
Kitchen. In fact, take my advice, and go there
early in your vacation. So that when you want to
go back again before you leave, you have time for a
second visit.
For
more information about Wakin's Kitchen, email:
wakins.kitchen@msa.hinet.net
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