Taipei National Museum 2

 

Aren’t you hungry looking at that piece of meat? It looks like a ‘Tung Po’ meat.. yummy and mouth watering!! What is a meat doing in the glass showcase? Its another of their greatest treasure, the Meat Shaped Stone. Its made from banded jasper. It is said, the naturally occurring stones that accumulates in layers over the years. With different impurities results in the production of various colors and hues to the layers. That’s is how it looks like layers of fat. Man!! Its so real, you gotta see it yourself. Sorry No Photography allowed inside the museum.

Well can’t leave the place without any souvenir. Bought the plastic jadeite cabbage magnet, Meat Shaped Stone Sticker & magnet Vase.

What else is in a museum? Well, all kinds of artifacts from metal bronze, treasures, books etc. Look Post box at the entrance of the museum. Need to send anything off? Postcard?

Taipei National Museum 1

Silks Palace, sounds like some huge place? This restaurant located at the National Museum of Taiwan. The environment is really cozy with dim lights. Imperial Dish from Tang Dynasty. Prawn dumpling (Har Kao), ‘Sui Long Pao’ aka meat dumpling with half a spoon full soup inside. How do you eat this? Bite a tiny hole at the corner of the dumpling skin, then sip the soup out slowly, close your eyes and enjoy the sweetness of the soup. Don’t gobble it down as the soup is hot and it will burn you.

Taiwan’s most famous cabbage trademark. It was said, Jadeite Cabbage has been called the "most famous masterpiece". It was first displayed in the Forbidden City's Yonghe Palace. The sculpture is considered an allegory of female virtue with the white stalk symbolizing purity, the leaves denoting fertility and abundance and locust and katydid representing children.

Guess what? It’s on my table now, slide on a spoon and I am going to eat this. Kidding! Mine is the human grown cabbage made in this restaurant Silk Palace. It taste…. Just like a cabbage.

You could read further at the below link.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadeite_Cabbage

Taipei Street Food 1

Somewhere in Taipei... Salted prawns with curry leaves. This was at a stall along some streets, Golden Coast Prawn, It was awesome! It’s a must try dish! yumyum!! Eat with your bare hands. It’s really finger licking good. Remember to bring your own napkins/ tissue as no utensils are provided. One more thing, they don’t sell drinks, you should buy a fruit juice along the way before you reached the stall.

Mr Tall ice cream with a cone made by croissant bread, need I say more… just lick it up.

Another stall literally its translated as ‘onion oil biscuit’. I bought one, its egg with onion, really oily but it was good, I won’t mind having another but I was already far from the stall.

Another Pink drink, strawberry yogurt drink, brand name ‘tor tor’ (means many many). Nothing special, somesort like vitagen.