Taiwan

Swensens American Restaurant Taipei

25 May 2011
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The first time I visited Taipei I went to a number of restaurants and night markets but one of the highlights was Swensens. Swensens is located at 106 Taiwan Taipei City Daan District Section 4, RénÀi Road 109號 and serves really fantastic American style food 24 hours a day. From what I was told Daan [...]

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Taipei and Taipei Food

23 May 2011
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The first time I visited Taipei I really wanted to take loads of portfolio type photos including many panoramics. This time around I originally intended to take another load of panoramics but when we arrived in Taipei I decided to take a total rest. I love taking photos but I spend so much time lugging [...]

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Modern Toilet Restaurant Taipei

20 May 2011
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One of the things I was really desperate to go to when I went to Taiwan for the second time was a restaurant called Modern Toilet. This restaurant opened not long before I visited Taiwan for the first time but we didn’t know about it nor is it obviously easy to find. Modern Toilet has [...]

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Flying to Taipei

22 March 2011
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So it’s holiday time again! Liv and I both work absolutely crazy hours, something like 130-140 hours a week easily so we’ve both been desperately in need of a break. Liv has also been pining to go back home to see her family, to do some shopping but just as importantly to see her relatives. [...]

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Taiwanese cook book preview

21 February 2011
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Over the last I guess year or so Liv and I have been working on a cookbook that contains recipes from her website and much more. We lost a little bit of momentum with the book from July until recently partly due to work schedules but also because of the long winter nights. Liv works [...]

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Food photos January

1 February 2011
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I was really expecting January to be a quit month photography-wise but it turned out a really busy month. I had my first wedding of the year on the 24th with the lovely Kirstin and Keith, then I finished off the interior and graveyard work for St Johns. I’m also finally building a website for [...]

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Chinese Cooking Class Edinburgh UK

6 August 2010
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On Wednesday 4th August we had the great pleasure of welcoming Scottish MSP Robin Harper and his wife Jenny into our home for a cooking class. Robin has just turned 70 and the class was a complete surprise to him. He’s the only member of the Green party to have been elected to Scottish Parliament [...]

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Taipei 101 panoramic and inside

10 March 2009
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One of the main things I wanted to see in Taipei was the 101 tower which at the time of visiting Taipei was the tallest operating building in the world. I won’t babble about the construction or design of the 101, this has been done elsewhere much better than I can do, but suffice to [...]

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Ci You Temple 慈祐宮

5 March 2009
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Today we visited Ci You Temple (慈祐宮 in Chinese) which was built in the mid 18th-century in the Songshan District of Taipei. While I’m entirely unreligious I do appreciate the architecture of both temples and churches and it fascinates me how ornate some of the decorations on temples can be. Both sadly and fortunately Chinese [...]

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Sandiman Aboriginal Village Taiwan

28 February 2009
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On the same day we went to Kaohsiung we spent a day at Sandiman Aboriginal Village in Southern Taiwan. This was a really great experience as we saw local and historical aboriginal sculpting as well as the local aboriginals create crafts in the main tourist centre. There was also an incredible view of the valley [...]

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