Taiwan Black Pepper Shrimp!

Fat Yu love Taiwan food!  Not just the food in Taiwan, but Taiwan-style food too!  Many great seafoods, just like in Shanghai!  But taste is very different!

Fat Yu's Taiwan friend take him to a small Taiwan restaurant that only Taiwan people go to!  Fat Yu had never heard of before!

This restaurant have special dish!  Taiwan Black Pepper Shrimp!  They have many tanks full of different shrimp!  We order medium size!

They use special cooking technique!  They call dry roasting!  They use big metal pot!  Get very hot!

Come to the table, smell very good!

Shrimp is very fresh and is cooked perfect!  Firm and springy!  And black pepper taste is very delicious!

But Fat Yu must be honesty!  He like shrimp when is peeled already!  Spitting out shell take too long!  Peeled shrimp can eat much faster!

Why need to eat faster?

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Dunhuang Food!

People don't know - China very big!  Has many climate!  And big part of China is desert in the west!  Like Dunhuang in Gansu Province!

But western China very dangerous!  They see Shanghai people and want to rob us, because we have much style and money!  Aiya!  Fat Yu must spend his money on food before get robbed!

We have cold bean-flour noodles!  This dish famous in Xian - but Xian style bean noodles most vinegar and coriander!  Dunhuang style has very much chili oil!  Very delicious!

Of course, cannot come to western China and not have lamb!  So we order cumin lamb with Uyghur-style breads!  Eh, this one not so good; lamb is dry and bread is not so fresh!

But doesn't matter!  Any food tastes good when you have drinking Dunhuang strong wine!  Taste is very terrible!  But is very strong, and make Fat Yu very hungry!

Eh, Fat Yu must admit, food in Dunhuang not so great!  Is like worse version of Xian food!  Life very hard in deserts of western China - Fat Yu is glad he live in Shanghai where food is delicious!

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Mid-Autumn Festival!

Mid-Autumn festival coming soon!  Fat Yu very excited!  Not only because many days not work, but because of moon cake!

Already, many of Fat Yu business friend send moon cake!  Is very nice gift!

Moon cakes are very beautiful, and filled with lotus seed paste and egg yolk!  Is very delicious, but is also very heavy!  Can only eat small slice!

Egg yolk look like moon inside!

Chinese people know - must eat with lots of tea!  Mooncakes so oily, so heavy, must drink lots of tea to cut the cakes!

Most people eat 1/8 of cake, but Fat Yu eat twice that much!  Why?!


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Big big mango!

Wah, summer time mean lot of delicious fruit!  They send beautiful mango from Taiwan to Shanghai!

But look how big!  Fat Yu never see mango so big!

Sometimes when fruit very big, not taste good!  But this big big mango taste very sweet and delicious!  

But is big big mango too big for one person?!

Ridiculous...

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Zhejiang Cuisine - Hangzhou Style Lunch!

Many people know that Shanghai style food is part of Zhejiang cuisine!  Zhejiang cuisine one of 8 traditions of Chinese food! And is best one!  But Zhejiang cuisine have many style - Shanghai food just one!  Most famous of Zhejiang cuisine is Hangzhou style!

So Fat Yu and wife go to Hangzhou and eat lunch at very beautiful restaurant!  Is right on the famous West Lake!  And when Fat Yu say is on West Lake, he mean on West Lake: is many small buildings on stilt walkway!  Many lily pads and beautiful lily flowers!  Is perfect spot for the lunch!

We order classic Hangzhou style foods!  We start of course with the cold dish!  Sweet lotus root stuffed with sticky rice!  Also very popular in Shanghai!  But here they serve with lychee and...eh?!  Look like Pocky?!

Of course, cannot go to Hangzhou and not have bamboo!  Hangzhou famous for longjing tea and bamboo!  So we drink longjing tea and eat bamboo!

And must have fatty pork!  Hangzhou is best place for red cooked fatty pork - they name dish after famous Chinese poet Su Dong Po!  Usually look square, like bundle of book!  But this restaurant they make it like tower in Egypt!  Is very beautiful!

Even make look vegetables look like little fish!  Swimming around tower!

Speak of fish, must have West Lake vinegar fish!  Cannot eat on West Lake and not have West Lake fish!  Fish taste very fresh!  Is very delicious!  Has sour, has sweet!

So much food!  But we take long walk around West Lake, so have big appetite!  We take boat trip too! But we don't row the boat ourselves, we have someone row for us!

Why row for us? 

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Dongbei Dinner!

Of course, Fat Yu in Shanghai person, so my favorite food is from Shanghai!  But must admit, I also very like food from Dongbei!  Sometimes Shanghai food too sweet!  Dongbei food salty, and very heart!  Fill up big appetite like Fat Yu!

Fat Yu and wife have favorite Dongbei restaurant very close to house!  Restaurant is clean, food is good and on top of that, is cheap!  We eat here many times!  Have many favorite dishes!  Here are some!

Cold black mushrooms!

Glass noodles with sesame sauce!

Cabbage stir-fried with chili and black vinegar!

Tofu balls!  (Best part of the tofu!)

And last we have house specialty!  Braised pork knuckle!  They serve with plastic glove so Fat Yu can pick up pork knuckle and eat without getting hands dirty!  Also serve with straw, so Fat Yu can get the nice fat inside the bone!

Restaurant have many other good dishes!  Fat Yu will have to post another time!




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Macau: Egg Tart!

Egg tart very popular all over China!  Can get egg tart everywhere in China!  Cantonese dim sum, Hong Kong bakery, Taiwan even have special egg tart shop!  But many people not know - best egg tart in the world is in Macau!  Is because egg tart is originally Portuguese food!

Macau have many famous bakery!  But Margaret's Cafe e Nata is very close to Fat Yu hotel!  And is suppose to have very good egg tart!  So Fat Yu go to try!

But Fat Yu kind of confuse!  I sit down at table but all waitress ignore me!  Then someone tell him he need to order inside!  So he go inside, but no egg tart!  Where to find?!  Of course egg tart very popular, so they cook all the time!  Fat Yu order and they bring fresh egg tart!

Wah - is best egg tart Fat Yu ever has!  And Fat Yu eat many egg tarts!  The pastry is flaky and delicate, but also chewy and just a little bit salty!  Inside is like sweet custard - not too loose, but soft and velvet!  Is very good!  Live to hype!



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