In our Chinese class, we recently learned to say, "There are a lot of delicious foods in Taiwan." Though Geneva disagrees, we've tried a lot of tasty foods and fruits here and I wanted to share them with you.
To pronounce the above phrase, I'll provide a phonetic pronunciation (not be confused with
pinyin!):
"Taiwan yo hen dwo how chi de dong chi"
We have eaten tons of pineapple here, especially a pale, less acidic variety called milk pineapple. It's awesome. Mangoes are out of season right now (bummer) but my favorite two new fruit discoveries so far have been the custard apple (top) and the dragon fruit (bottom).
(thanks,
sir, for the custard apple picture)
The custard apple is a truly bizarre fruit that reminds me less of an apple, but a little bit of a banana and a pear. It's starchy, has big black seeds, and you scoop out the pulp and spit out the seeds. It's AWESOME. The dragon fruit reminds me a little bit of a kiwi, is not fuzzy, and is really refreshing when eaten cold. The flavor is somewhat mild, but hello, isn't it gorgeous?
In addition to many delicious foods in Taiwan, there are many mysterious items that are oddly labeled in the stores that use English labels. I really dig shopping at a store called Wellcome, specifically for that purpose (because I can read the shelf labels and actually KNOW what I am buying). Behold, this strange packaged item:
And what is it, you might ask? Well, let's look at the shelf label.
That settles that, I suppose. Seriously, I have no idea what they meant, but it made me well up with tears of inappropriate laughter. Taiwanderful.
