Rice Paper Butterfly

When I was looking for some idea to put in the interns blog, and I found something interesting in butterfly farm. I am so scared of worm but this is so cute! 

How cute the caterpillar with colorful body!

Wu-Lao-Keng Mountain Stream

Time flies like an arrow and i am leaving in 5 weeks time.

Kumquat Jam Making Day!

Yesterday i was allocated to help making kumquat jam in DIY section. My colleagues told me that kumquat can manufacturing into plenty types of product such as kumquat vinegar, kumquat juice and kumquat jam, and we were making kumquat jam. The way of making kumquat jam is very simple, what we need is just kumquats, malt sugars, and a blender.

Keelung City Trip

Yesterday i was followed my colleagues to Keelung. Keelung is famous for the MiaoKou Night Market. Keelung is the biggest city on the northern coast. The night market offers various types of dishes and most of the foods are my favorite too!

Sky Lantern and Pizza

Just in case the next intern student have to participate in teaching Sky Lantern and translator, here is some of my sharing with you to make your work easier.

Sheng Yang Aquatic Plants Farm + Yilan night market

3 days ago I was accompany my colleague to Sheng Yang Aquatic Plants Farm to attend a talk. This was the second time i come to Sheng Yang.

 They are making some experiments to test the water plants living in different conditions. 

 My favorite water plant! Marimo a.k.a moss ball

Look at the aquarium, how green and lush it is!  

 Wonder what plant it is? It have a pearl on top of the grass.

 It look like a uninhabited island under the water.

 Water plant cuisine, black tea jelly serve with water plants sauce. 

On the way back to Yilan train station, we went for dinner in the night market. The night market is just opposite the train station.   

16 oz of steak! it really big! The staff recommended medium cook and it taste good! 

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My friends took me to Luo Dong yesterday to extend my Visa. Since we were in Luo Dong, my friends suggested that we should to try the famous meat soup in Luo Dong, Lin Chang meat soup (Rou Geng 肉羹). Rou Geng is a Taiwanese common snack dish consisting mainly of boiled pork and fish paste which is shaped by hand, Chinese white cabbage and bamboo sprouts. Geng (羹) refers to a range of thick soup, usually containing starch which makes the soup translucent and smooth.

                                                

 Taiwanese Lin Chang meat soup (林場肉羹), it is so delicious! If u are greedy like me, one bowl is definitely not enough for us! One more please boss!

We went to The Cottage Village (山寨村) to visit one of our ex-colleague after get my extended Visa. The Cottage Village is a monster legend theme restaurant (Red Giant [赤魁]). with bakery inside. 

Garlic and Herb Potato Wedges

Sunshin spring onion pizza

 Tiramisu from R.Den Bakery, it just located next to The cottage Village.

Dinner time! Single portion of steamboat! It just cost NT100! 

Simple kitchen, simple cuisine

Baking time! We were using the left over ingredients to make some nice dishes such as this pizza with cheesy edge and chocolate pie! The chocolate paste is made by cocoa powder, icing sugar and mix with water. Paste it on the pie and bake approximately 15 minutes. It just so simple and tasty together with a cup of tea! 

Kitchen time!

Yesterday i was helping my colleague to make pizza and some desserts. It remind me of during my university time because we do have kitchen class on every Tuesday and Thursday, and my duty was in charge with roasted chicken and deep fried fillet. And this time, i have learnt something new here, which is the puff pastry and a new dish and i named it Golden Ocean (Sweet potatoes as the first layer and tuna fish with pineapple as the base). The puff pastry can bake into a variety of flavor depends on individual. We were making into kumquat flavor since our farm are abounding in kumquat, but the taste is not ideally because the puff pastry is salted taste and it doesn't match with the sour kumquat. For the Golden Ocean, we are using tuna, sweet potatoes, pineapple and ketchup (according to personal flavor), and it is so tasty and I love it! Pizza is the easiest food to make because the dough recipe can get it from internet and all just taste the same, and the ingredients is just customize by ourselves. I'm so glad that coming back to kitchen after a long time especially to making dessert.

Taipei International Travel Fair 2013

Few days ago i was assigned to work in travel fair again. This travel fair is more larger compare to Taichung travel fair because it is Asia's most important travel fair and Taiwan's largest consolidated display and sales travel expo. 

Every booths are still setting up their own decoration. 

 The Taipei World Trade Center is just next to Taipei 101 Tower and ATT shopping complex. 

And this is our booth.

Surprisingly I saw Grand Hyatt and Grand Millennium in Taipei because i was looking for their internship course during my college time, and they did offered oversea internship in Taiwan! But why they told me the oversea internship is unavailable when i was in Malaysia and it become available once i join TLF? grr....