4-9-2011`Taiwan 2011

Alfresto Gusto Italian, a new hideout place found by courtesy of Shixing. He knows good food, beer, wine, ambiance and service. The pizza came in my favorite thin curst on a chopping board! The boding among our wolfpack has grown stronger with our new recruits. Having that said, I hope we hadn't scare them off!

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The Taiwan trip has been great. We made it back in one piece despite the rampaging typhoon. Things weren't that bad actually, in Taipei, strong gusts of wind and accompanied bolts of rain. It was the news we watched which scare us nuts with all the footages of provinces flooding and netizens emergency evacuation.

We went to Keelung for seafood and that has to be the area most significantly affected by the typhoon in our trip, given its geographical location along the coastal shore. We were at a bus shelter with a mum and 2 young kids. 1 of the elder boy, about 6 years old, kept asking his mum, 'Is this typhoon rain?', and his younger brother, 3 years old, busy waving his hands to be his wiper, trying to stimulate the car screen wiper. We were amused rather than being terrified in our first encounter of natural disasters at works in a foreign country.

Flying Cow Ranch is another new experience. The traveling time of 2.5 hrs per trip has been whats keeping me back from visiting. As this trip is incredibly short, we have to be prudent in time management. I'm glad we made the trip down though because the sense of connection to nature is unparalleled to any amount of shopping in the urban. Urban kids ought to see, know, feel the animals which estranged from us since decades ago when kampongs went into history. The tamed animals wouldn't feel threatened but instead, hovers around where the crowd is because they relate humans to food source.

Calvin loved the food there, in contrary of hard acceptance as I would expect. The best food I had has to be Braised Pork rice and Mee Sua. Awesome!

I'm in the process of sorting out the pictures. Its gonna take awhile though ;)