You can smell tobacco when you push the door because their restaurant in 1F and lounge bar in basement. Their decoration looks like a pub but the menu is a FUSION of several different styles of food. We ordered salad with sirloin, spaghetti with clams and chicken, and dessert.
That dessert is an impressive combination which is hot dark chocolate muffin with vanilla ice cream. When ice cream melt in the bitter muffin, it tasted like hot chocolate milk. Black and white, bitter and sweet no matter color or flavor are very lovely.
It's 2nd class historical site in 1865 and first western style building in Taiwan. The style of this building belongs to late Renaissance era and the series of semicircular arches perform proportion and rhythm in this building.
With more and more city travel promotions for some other Asia countries by Kaohsiung government, we found only Chinese, Japanese, English directions but Korean. (안녕하새요/ an niung ha se yo/ 你好啊: )
Did you guess right? The answer is "Door Blocker" to avoid the door unexpected close by wind.
Interesting huh? 145 years ago, they already had such wonderful idea and wisdom in architecture.
Let's listen to "Top 10 Beatles Songs" to recall our memories. Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday...
My notes & thoughts： He keeps a good shape so it seems like that riding bike is a good exercise. As his experiences, he recommends Holland (Rotterdam), German and Denmark are the top 3 best countries for safety biking.
His own bike way that is, brings a poet book and harmonica, then eats some yummy meatballs (肉圓) or drinks fine wine as he rode along. He encourages that everyone could find his or her way to bike.
FIN (FR: the end), he played a song "如果沒有你" for us. Wow...that song was quite popular in my mom's young age...encore, encore... It's really a wonderful Saturday afternoon.
In general, we eat "meat rice tamales" to celebrate Taiwan Dragon Boat Festival (5/5 lunar month).
What is Tamales?
It's a Mexican food. Tamales begin with a dough made from corn, called masa, and are wrapped in corn husks. In Taiwan, we use sticky rice to instead of masa and are wrapped in bamboo leaves. And then typically steamed them until firm.
Tamales are a favorite comfort food in Taiwan. Street vendors can serve tamales not only in Dragon boat festival but everyday. Usually, they serve 2 flavors, one is with meat, salty egg yolk, and mushrooms and the other one is with peanuts for vegetarians.
ADD: 高雄市鹽埕區北斗街19號 Biz hour: AM7:00-PM11:00 TEL: (07)551-2747 Website: http://www.kuo.mymailer.com.tw/index.htm Recommended: 粽子(Zongzi), 碗稞(Salty rice pudding), 四神湯(Four herbs soup with pig's intestine)-->After you drink it up, you can take bowl to the front table adding more hot soup.
BTW!! It's worth a visit because you can see many historical movie posters, telephone, lamp, signboard and etc. My foreign friends very like to be there coz they can know the past Taiwan from those exhibitions.
