Angus beef burger with bacon and peanut butter from Burger King in Taipei

I mentioned previously about peanut butter in burgers being a Taiwanese thing. Here's another. This from Burger King. Apparently, KFC has a peanut butter chicken burger thingy here too.

Tasted like how I imagined it would. I actually kinda like the creamy sweet saltiness.

Chubby Burger (恰彼漢堡), Keelung Road @ Xinyi District, Taipei

Chubby Burger (No. 165, Section 1, Keelung Road, Xinyi District, Taipei, tel : +886 2 2768 6060) came by way of recommendation. It's all smash burgers on the menu with a variety of toppings. Burger's kinda similar to what one can get from Shake Shack or BurgerLabo. Wouldn't mind coming back if I had the chance.

PBB Chubby with two smashed beef patties, cheddar, bacon, grilled onions and peanut butter. Not bad. Seems like peanut butter in burgers is a Taiwanese thing. Will not be the first time I'm seeing them.

Chubby Staff Special with smashed beef patty, hash brown, Swiss cheese, Chubby cheese dip, ham, pickles and aioli. This was good. Savoury and cheesy.

Fries were kinda like those from McD's.

Cinnamon apple fried pie. Not like McD's. Drier fillings but has a good cinnamon flavour.

Pretty decent banana chocolate milkshake.

Selfish Burger (自私漢堡), Zhuangjing Road @ Xinyi District, Taipei

Selfish Burger (No. 180 Zhuangjing Road, Xinyi District, Taipei, tel : +886 2 2345 0825) is in the game for burgers that are fun. Aside from one classic burger on their menu, most of the rest are more...progressive/experimentative and flavour forward. Not so much for purists. But what do I know.

There's a Smoky Cocoa burger for their fall/winter. Beef patty, bacon, caramelized onions, caramelized bananas, cocoa spread of sorts and rockets. Chocolate's assertive with this one, countered by a fruitiness from the caramelised onions. And then bananas, bacon and beef. Rockets fell by the wayside. I think it's not bad, interesting even.

Blue cheese burger. Blue cheese sauce, rockets and balsamic vinegar. I don't know if the intention was to keep the blue cheese intensity moderated. I mean, it's there but I personally feel more presence would be nice. 

Fried chicken with cream cheese and crushed honeycomb. That and a horizontal cut slice of apple beneath. The flavour combination worked. I liked this. I could come back for this. That fried chicken was outstanding.

There're options to upgrade burgers into a combo meals that comes with a side and a drink. 有點饿 (a little hungry) includes fries while 超級饿 (super hungry) tops those fries with onion rings and a fried chicken wing.

Fish sticks were much nicer than the name suggested. Those are real fingers of real fish meat, some with skin on still.

Their brown sugar whiskey milk shake was nicer than appearances suggest.

早安美芝城 Good Morning, Yitong Street @ Zhongshan District, Taipei

Came across 早安美芝城 (No. 5, Lane 66, Yitong Street, Zhongshan District, Taipei) by chance.

Picked up one of their sandwiches which seemed to be running out fast in the morning. This had egg mayo, ham and seaweed. Liked it. The seaweed added more umami to the standard egg and ham combination. 

One could upgrade it to a set that came with soup and drink. We picked their seasonal sweet corn soup and warm 豆漿.

The staff recommended their 3 Cups udon which they claim to be popular and also featured by Youtubers. Got it 大辣. Sweet and savoury and a healthy hit of heat from the chillis. Tasted like pad thai with basil. Those tender pork strips appear to be a standard ingredient for a number of their dishes.

Alaskan cod burger according to the menu. Ok-ish fish burger.

Breakfast plate with garlic bread, scrambled eggs and those sweet pork that were also featured in their 3 Cups udon. Garlic bread's not bad. Also slightly sweet. A number of things which I expect to be savoury appear to be slightly sweet in Taiwan.

Radish cake with eggs and pork strip - same pork as the ones from the breakfast plate and udon. Cubing the radish cake introduces more surface area ration to crisp into the crusty exterior...so that's nice.

A couple of days later......

Radish cake with eggs. No pork unlike the one above. Also wondering why this one wasn't cubed like the one with pork.

Cheese dan bing with mozzarella. This one was good. Saltiness from the regular sliced cheese and stretchy milkiness from the mozzarella. Actually one of the more memorable dan bing I've had this week.

Mega Sausage McMuffin with egg from Taiwan's McD

I got one of these because pork sausages.

金花吐司專賣 (Golden Flower), Hanzhong Street @ Wanhua District, Taipei

Breakfast at Golden Flower (195 Hanzhong Street, Wanhua District, Taipei). This shop is kinda known for their toasts/sandwiches which are a couple of steps up from those at the traditional breakfast spots. Some of their sandwiches sounded interesting.

Like this one with tuna, lemon curd, cheese and egg. Like the Koreans, there seem to be a sweet element to their savoury food. That's icing sugar on top of the sandwich if you didn't notice. Couldn't taste the lemon curd but it was a nice tuna sandwich.

Their lava cheese with pork and peanut butter tasted like the ingredient described.

There's another one with taro, meat floss and condensed milk. The taro paste was chilled. Sweetness came through from icing sugar and condensed milk. That being said, it wasn't as sweet as it sounded/appeared.

Taro milk as an alternative to the usual tea/coffee because the usual tea/coffee around appear to be weak and diluted. This was not bad.

What's also cool about this shop was that they provided plastic gloves to navigate the mess their sandwiches tend to make. 👍🏼

巨林美而美, Yitong Street @ Zhongshan District, Taipei

Breakfasts at 巨林美而美 (No. 127, 1 Yitong Street, Zhongshan District, Taipei). 'Breakfasts' because we came here more than once.

We had sandwiches with 3 meats. Custom order not from their menu.

Dan bing with onion. This sorta reminded me of prata.

Radish cake. Not bad tasting. Liked the crusty surface.

Bacon, cheese and chocolate sandwich. Not bad tasting. Also obviously not on their menu.

Peanut butter, egg and bacon sandwich. Another custom order. Peanut butter's a little thin.

Coffee's from a machine. Not the old school kind I thought this stall would have. A little thin for my blood for morning coffee.

Tea was likewise thin. Don't think they use milk here as well. Maybe creamer.

A few days later......

Tuna, bacon and egg sandwich. Custom order. The tuna seemed to be a little sweet but otherwise tasted like how I imagined it.

Radish cake with chilli. That chilli packed a bit of punch from the both heat and garlic. This combination with a molten yolk fried egg rocked.

Another time......

Ham, cheese, fried egg and strawberry jam. I could barely taste the ham or cheese.