Breakfast at A2B Veg Restaurant

We've had breakfast at A2B Veg Restaurant a few times. This wasn't the first. Ordered a few "usuals".

Like vadai.

And their mouth watering ghee pongal which appears to have gotten its form back.

I wanted another go with their carrot uttapam today. To convince myself that what I had previously was how it is and will be. But, the coriander wasn't in the uttapam today. The sweetness from the carrots also didn't taste as apparent. Why?!

Our first ragi idly. Never noticed them in the menu previously. These are made with millet flour. Texture was a little more supple and there seemed to be a faint nuttiness together with the fermentation sour.

Re-visiting Khin Kee Handmade Fishball Kway Teow

I was surprised to see Khin Kee open in the late evening. I always had the impression that they do breakfast and lunch. Maybe dinner but not late evenings. The old uncle wasn't there. It was some Chinese lady running the shop. She's managed to nail the bowl of noodles right down to the lack of awesome flavours just like how the uncle does them.

My consolation was the extra portion of fried fish cake.

Yujia Fried Pork Century Egg Dumpling Noodles, Boon Tiong Road

This stall is located in the same coffeeshop as Shiok Hokkien Mee. The noodles were similar to those from the defunct Sandankan Food and Ah Yen Traditional Fried Pork - Sandakan styled noodles from Sabah with fried pork that's been marinated with fermented bean curd. 

What differentiated Yujia from the other two stalls were their century egg dumplings. Kinda tiny and forgettable if you asked me. The sliver of century egg was puny. Not feeling for it. Pork's freshly fried and pretty good tasting. Flavour from the noodles were kinda pedestrian until I doused the chilli sauce in it.

Note to self: Noodles rock with the chilli sauce. Don't get those century egg dumpling from them.

Jiakali has shifted to a new spot in Chinatown's Food Centre

Jiakali closed their old shop and shifted to a new unit (Red Zone, #02-095 Chinatown Complex Market and Food Centre, 335 Smith Street). The menu has changed a little and they've also upgraded from plastic utensils!

This was their pork trotter curry. Unusual to say the least to have pork trotters in curry. Meat from the trotter was tender with jiggly bits of skin and fat. Nice.

You can top the rice with a fried egg.

This was the only bone from the entire portion of pork trotter.

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.

Dubu House Korea, Gloria Outlets, Taipei

Korean lunch at the Gloria branch of Dubu House Korea (3rd Floor, No. 189, Chunde Road, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

Banchan has nice kimchi, nice (albeit sweetish) potato salad, bland bean sprouts and the wood ear fungus has ginger. Variety is kinda limited. One item not featured in the picture was nori which we got multiple refills of which was good eating with the kimchi (which we got multiple refills of as well) and the potato salad.

A pretty decent sparkling rose Americano to start. Surprisingly drinkable coffee.

This truffle cheese omelette had loads of truffle paste inside. Nice with the nori too.

Gyeran jjim with cheese and tobiko. And also baby corn. Not bad. Cheese added a needed saltiness which made it delicious.

This was their thick haemul pajeon. Seafood pancake. Nice. 👍🏼 Loads of seafood in it. It felt like eating a seafood quiche.

Pretty surprised to find lamb as a protein option in their kimchi sundubu. Not bad. I liked that the flavour of the meat was infused in the broth.

This was supposed to be their oyster seaweed sundubu. Never even noticed that there wasn't any seaweed in it. Anyways, I loaded it with a lot of nori because it was kinda bland.

I don't know if it's customary for them to serve dessert after meals. We didn't order but got some sweet bean curd.