Taiwan Discovery

I am always fascinated of what Taiwan has to offer when it comes to food such as the infamous snacks (小吃). However, little that I know that it offers splendid premium Japanese food on top of the great variety of snacks and Chinese restaurants. Guess it is closely related to the fact that Taiwanese are pretty pro Japanese. I was introduced to this wonderful creative Japanese cuisine by my best friend from Hong Kong - Sarah. Sarah has exquisite taste in F&B, traveling, shopping and fashion. She is someone you would love to travel with since she knows all the nice places to dine in and shop all around the world. 

The restaurant has got no menu. (I will update the name and address once I get hold of it from Sarah) Basically you just make reservation about a week in advance, give them a budget and tell them if there is anything that you don't eat. Then, just find the restaurant, sit back, relax and be fascinated dish after dish. Once you try this restaurant, you will tend to have very high standard with Japanese food. Of course I believe you can still manage to get premium Japanese food if you are willing to pay a fortune. But with HKD750 with about 17 top notch dishes, it is really very difficult to match.  

Sea whelk

Unknown fish.

Sea Urchin with cucumber noodle.

Unknown fish simmered in light soya sauce. The unknown flower (stem not to be eaten) adds interesting fragrant flavor to the fish.

Lightly grilled scallop covered in seaweed.

Chef preparing "real" wasabi.

Sweet shrimp with snapper.

Tofu in soya sauce with crunchy big prawn.

Rare wild salmon that spawns in sea instead of fresh water. Tasted extraordinary sweet with firm texture.

Fish liver cooked in zesty tangerine soya sauce. A pleasant surprise.

Pan fried unknown fish.

Nicely done light grilled fish.

Baby fish simmered in special sauce.

Oyster in special sauce with lemon flavor. This is delicious!

Another lightly grilled fish that taste fantastically rich in fish oil and flavor.

This gotta be my personal favourite with abundance of salmon roe, sea urchin, raw fish, fish liver, squid. These exquisite ingredients leave a wonderful after taste that lingers on.

Some deep fried 山藥 root with sea weed.

山藥dipped in soya sauce.

More sea urchin.

Assorted tempura.

Grilled snapper.

Beef roll that tasted pretty good but then we already had more than 15 dishes before. So it didn't leave a very strong impression with me.

Mussels cooked in sake.

Finish off with fruits with egg custard. I passed on this as even my spare tank has no room for this.