We spent 3 days in the south area of Taiwan with a friend of Chen-yu’s. Her friend, husband, and two cute little girls opened up their apartment to us. It was very snug. Sven and I got the girls room, the husband (Win) took the floor in the den, and all the women slept in the main bedroom.
The first night that we were there, we were invited to dinner at a friend of Win’s. It was a very nice restaurant that served european food as well as taiwanese. He came out after we ordered to say hi. He was very friendly and smiled alot. He said that he had alot of dishes to prepare so he quickly left. So, just to let you know, this restaurant was a 5-6 course dinner event.
Minutes later, our appitizers showed up, a salad and soup. Then 4 extra plates of food showed up, all of Sven, Chen-yu, and me. Well, Sven being vegetarian couldn’t eat any of them, and Chen-yu being on good behavior was only nibbling (faker), so being the polite guest that I am, I ate them all. Squid ink spagetti, sea food noodles, a fish plate, and baked pig nuckles. Then my main course showed up, shank of lamb. I ate that too of course, but now feeling the pain of too much, and at this moment, more started showing up. I was then informed by Sven and Chen-yu that if a person eats all of their food in Taiwan it means that you are still hungry and you want more. Me being raised to finish my plate because there are starving children in Africa, thought that I was just being polite, now understood. After the next plate of food, which I only ate half of, dessert and after dinner drinks showed up. It was really the best food that I had eaten in a long time and I told the Chef that the german pig knuckles and sour craut was better than in germany, and it was. He was very pleased and said that if he could take the time off, he would take us all in his boat the next day. It never happened but never the less, dinner kicked ass.
So, for the next few days, all that I can remember is eating, and ….eating. Oh ya, we did drive around and see some of the local sights, a trading post and small temple/castle thing. We were told by Chen-yu that the local government was trying to improve their english signs through out the city and that they were paying 1000 euen for every sign that had miss spellings and gramatical mistakes. Thats about 35 dollars. So Sven and I spent the whole day at these sights not really enjoying the sights but taking pictures of the signs that were wrong. Well, after about every sign, more than 100, I just gave up and we decided that I just needed to come live there for a few months, earn lots of money and help them write in complete sentences, add a verb when needed, and pretty much redo most of the really funny, strange way they have basterdized the english language.
