What I ate in Taiwan

Sweet Potato Balls

Sweet and crisp. Similar experience to eating a donut.

Nathan eating a sweet potato ball.

Black Pepper Bun

Got these at Rahoe Night Market. This was the fastest food purchasing experience I ever had; I paid for and received it in less than five seconds.

Lil Pancakes

Scallion Pancake

Fried Chicken

This is just a piece, but Rahoe sells the Fried Chicken in XXL portions.

Fried Chicken

Dumplings

Beef Noodle Soup

This is from the Michelin starred Lao Shandong. Love getting such great food for like five bucks.

Beef Noodle Soup

Mochi Balls

Hainanese Chicken

One of my favorite comfort meals.

Seafood Medley

Seafood Medley

Seafood Medley (with whole squid)

Fried Fish

Tiramsu and Ice Cream Latte Float

This is from Simple Kaffa in the Taipei 101 Tower on the 88th floor.

Coffee

Boba from 50嵐

More Fried Chicken

This is from Nanjichang Night Market. The texture was incredible.

BBQ Corn

Stinky Tofu

First time trying stinky tofu - and I gotta say I am a fan. This one was particularly spicy.

Ice Cream Burrito

Can’t remember the name of this dish, but it was ice cream on a bed of peanuts with cilantro within a wrap.

Europe 2019

My mom and brother and I did a little Euro trip in 2019. This was right about when COVID was born, but we didn’t know about it yet. Started things off in Paris.

Let’s start off with a compilation of all the tour guides we interacted with.

Best part of the Paris portion of the trip was the food tour.

This guy asked me to take a picture of him in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

This is Varenna, where we stayed, one of three main towns around Lake Como.

We were the only guests on the first boat we took in the morning.

Clouds started to part.

Views from the back section of Villa Balbianello

At the end of this night I broke the key by jamming it too hard into the lock. Jordan and mom were not amused. Luckily the Airbnb host came within ten minutes to get us back in.

Didn’t bring gloves.

Group of local kids on a field trip at the Ufizi Gallery

Best food we had in Florence was in this unassuming spot.

This photo was taken by the waiter at a restaurant called Auditore (named after Ezio Auditore, the protagonist of Assassins Creed II which takes place in Florence). The waiter remarked that it was “so American” that my mom wanted a picture of us sitting at the table.

Some scenes from a Chianti wine tour.

In Rome, we stayed in Trastevere.

Not sure why but there were a lot more heavily armed Italian soldiers than I was expecting.

Local man using one of Rome’s public water fountains.