dinner on wednesday

Here is where I bought my dinner tonight.

Outdoor vendors are really popular in Taiwan.  Not just at nightmarkets, but everywhere.  This man (on the right) sells fried chicken, tofu, green beans, sweet potatoes, cabbage, peppers, and MORE--about a 1 minute walk from my apartment complex's door!! 

The people on the left are choosing what they want by selecting from the available foods and putting them in a little plastic basket.  Then they will hand it to the vendor who will fry and season the foods for them. 

Below is a sample of what you can get to eat from a vendor like this:

Comments

[Deb]

I love it when you do posts like this! How amazing that you just ate dinner at this place, and I'm seeing the actual guy who cooked it on my computer screen! Isn't that unheard of! I can almost feel like I'm in Taiwan right now. (I'm assuming you trust the food there or either your system has gotten used to it and it doesn't make your stomach upset.) :)

[Leann]

YUMMO!!! You are making me hungry... :)

[mom]

Sounds/looks kinda like mongolian bar-b-que...yum-yum! w/in 1 min of your apartment??...that's a lot different than a 20 min commute to the nearest store, here in Cedar Creek!

[amanda p. wu]

Not really mongolian bbq--although we do have something similar here. It is literally called "iron plate" cooking. This here is well--think deep fried. :) Chinese style chicken and sweet potato fries.

OH YEAH! So, different than the 20 minute commute back home. Within a 5 minute walk to my house is 2 7-11s, 2 Circle Ks, 2 small indoor markets, 1 outdoor market, a multitude of vendors and small mom-and-pop resturants, 3-4 dentist offices, several western medicine doctors and several Chinese medicine doctors, a couple of temples, the school where I teach, a post office, 2 glasses stores, a bookstore, a stationary store, 2 flower stores, many, many housing units, and LOTS more squeezed inbetween!!

TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!

[amanda p. wu]

Hey Deb. What I was thinking was crazy, is that here I was going to post about eating Wednesday's dinner right about the time most of you will be eating Wednesday's breakfast. Time change is crazy.

I do trust the food here. Whenever I came on short trips I would bring lots of Pepto and Immodium kind of meds with them. In fact, when I was told to eat one chewable Pepto a day to keep away tummy troubles.

But, I have found that it is not really a problem here--at least for me. I have acclimated to it I guess. God is good. He provides for little stuff like that!!

[joyce]

i miss the food in Taiwan! except this last time i was in Taiwan (back in january), i got stomach flu (3rd time's not the charm, i guess since the first 2 times in Taiwan, i ate anything i wanted to eat and could stuff down and was just fine) really badly and ended up not eating much at all.

but OH I MISS TAIWAN'S FOOD!!!

[amanda p. wu]

That's too bad! I would be so upset if I caught a stomach bug when I go home to the States. That would be such a sad, sad day!!