A Tale of Two Family Meals

Lin Family - Aunt Heidi and Uncle Lin gave us shelter throughout the whole trip!  And food of course!  Most of the time, Uncle Lin whips up his signature hot pot.  I know we've had many different hot pots during our visit in Taiwan, but this one you can taste "love".  We love our hot pot dinner with some "fried foods" and Taiwan beer while uncle sips on his "Johnny Walker"... Good times!

Taiwanese loves fried food... My wife is from Kentucky and she said, "Taiwanese must've been frying food long before Colonel Sanders!"  Well, why? I think it's the Taiwanese popcorn chicken... maybe its the fried sweet potatoes!  

To make a really good spicy hot pot soup base... you need pork intestines and duck blood!

More photos in this slideshow!

Yeh Family - Aunt Anita and Uncle Yeh love me! what can I say... I am a lovable person!  Well, they knew that Beth and I are in town... so they invited us over for a home cooked lunch!  Uncle Yeh is a great cook, he can cook seafood like no other.  We ate so much we could barely walk... 

The family of crabs :)

I can go for one of these now... mmmm sooo good!  Uncle Yeh's seafood porridge has shrimp, crab meat, oysters, fish, and clams

More photos from Yeh Family in the slideshow below

I miss my Taiwan family already... :(

快炒 street quick stir-fry

快炒 street quick stir-fry is a type of street restaurant you can find anywhere here in Taiwan. The layout of the restaurant is very simple, white walls, small tables and stools. Once you order your food they start cooking for you... stir-fry style! This type of restaurant is really cheap and fast! So if you don't feel like cooking at home or you are on our way home from work... you can easily swing by one of these quick stir-fry restaurants for a quick bite!



So, what do they have on the menu? ... everything. Seafood, red meat, white meat, vegetables, rice, noodles and more seafood! If you want, have a bottle or two of Taiwan Beer while yer at it!



I love fried pigs' intestine!