Last Friday Night - March 9, 2012

It is quite common to see this kind of setting in front of stores and/or restaurants here in Taiwan.
This employee is setting these foods (whole roasted chicken, rice crackers, Coke, etc.) as offering along with the fire.
This is in front of a really good dumpling place.

Pictured here (from left to right) is Prescott Yuri, Alfred Fritz, and Kevin Mesebeluu.
They are inside a local joint that we like to go to for pork braised in some sort of soy sauce mix and somen noodles.
The two smaller pictures below are of the front of the restaurant. Yes, they cook the food at the front (by the street) and the seating area is behind.
We met up after work/school on Friday for dinner.

This is a typical night in the smaller streets of Taiwan. There's fruit stands, small markets, 7-11 or some other convenient store at almost every corner.

For dessert we decided to walk about 6 blocks to digest our pork dinner only to get some ice cream from Haagen Dazs.
Pictured here is the Haagen Dazs Royal Monte Carlo - deliciousness is what it should be called. I gotta say though that I got tired of chewing on the variety of nuts after a while.

This is Melanch who joined us for dinner after her class. We are on the outside patio of Haagen Dazs on a nice chilly spring night awaiting our desserts.

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