10 Course Meal

“Courses” in this case really means dishes. So there are 10 dishes total that come out one-by-one in roughly 10min intervals. Here’ s the menu:

Menu: Outside

Menu: Inside

The first dish was snow peas and squid. Not bad. The snow peas were especially crisp and well-seasoned.

Dish 1: Snow Peas and Squid

The second dish was a platter with shrimp coquettes, marinated chicken, imitation crab, and Chinese sausages (not pictured). The coquettes were really tasty, full of pieces of shrimp and veggies and stuff.

Dish 2: Coquettes, chicken, crab, sausage

Next was fried shrimp and pineapple. I think the shrimps were fried with cheese, too. Look at the decoration! The carrot phoenix rises again! The shrimp wasn’t bad, not much of a cheese taste, but that’s probably a good thing.

Dish 3: Fried Shrimp and Pineapple

After that was a shark fin soup. It was pretty tasty, probably because it tasted like money. It was fairly interesting, too, since they added the kinds of vegetables that you find in hot and sour soup, like bean sprouts and mushrooms.

Dish 4: Shark fin soup

The fifth dish was… some kind of fish. Not bad, but it wasn’t fully descaled. And grandpa got to the cheek meat (best part of a fish, btw) before I did.   (T_TT )

Dish 5: Fish

Sixth was lamb chops. These were delicious. All tender and moist, with this great Chinese-style sauce.

Dish 6: Lamb Chops

Next was a dish with scallops, vegetables, and these yellow nuts whose name escapes me at the moment. I was getting pretty full at this point, but I’m always down for scallops.

Dish 7: Scallops, vegetables, and nuts

The eighth dish was gluttonous rice and fried eel. I’m a huge fan of eel, so this was great… at first. After you let it sit for a bit it gets the texture of rubbery chicken, but if you eat it quickly, it’s amazing.

Dish 8: Fried eel and glutinous rice

After that was a seafood curry stone pot. A whole bunch of seafood (even crab!) in a curry soup. I only had a bit, but curry crab is a surprisingly good combination. Then again, I love curry, so I might be biased.

Dish 9: Seafood curry stone pot

Dessert was a sweet soup with white mushrooms. The mushrooms apparently are usually used for medicinal reasons… and dessert. I’m not really a fan of mushrooms, but these were actually pretty good. Texture similar to… the really soft cartilage you sometimes get from stewed meat, or something like that.

Dish 10: Sweet soup with white mushrooms

But wait! There’s more! Guava in Taiwan is some good stuff. Even after eating 10 courses, I still can eat a few pieces of guava… but only a few.

Extra Dish: Fruit