宋廚北京烤鴨 + Playing

好心的同事在一月初就訂了今晚的宋廚，所以當然不能缺席。

因為同事訂的時間是19:30，所以我決定在晚餐前的時間硬是擠進西門加州行（還差點不能成行，真驚險，哈哈）。結束加州行，衝入西門捷運站時，已經19:40左右了，出了市政府捷運站，又找了老半天，終於在八點前進入鼎鼎大名的宋廚。

這時他們才剛開始切烤鴨，嗯，還好沒錯過最重要的一道菜。雖然他們的烤鴨是全台冠軍，但是我平常幾乎沒在吃烤鴨，所以真的沒辦法分辨…這樣講會不會辜負了同事的苦心呢，哈。到場的幾個外國同事都說好吃，可是就是不願多吃，反而一直喝啤酒。

宋廚就只有烤鴨好吃，其他菜就普通。總共好像十八個人出席，一人440元。

九點多結束後，少數幾個同事決定去找地方續攤，可是因為明天還要上班，所以也不能太晚。原本說好要去春水堂，結果走路走一走，居然臨時變成去 Playing，不抽煙的我在那裡一直猛聞他們的煙味...覺得好難過，不過聊天內容倒挺有料，也挺八卦的，而且我整個晚上還一直被同事猛虧我晚餐遲到的原因…

我今天才知道，有個外國同事居然是東區某VIP酒吧的股東之一啊，好多藝人經常去那裡光顧呢。他說如果我想加入會員的話，可以算我半價，可是我連 gay bar 都沒在去了，straight bar 應該吸引不了我吧，再說會員幾乎都是藝人的酒吧，會費應該超貴的吧。

嗯…律師都不律師了...哈

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巴黎味 / Le Goût de Paris

今天到台北東區216巷某條小弄裡的巴黎味餐廳吃晚餐，慶祝DJ的生日。

這間餐廳是我同事推薦的法國料理，他說是比較平價一點的正統法國料理，而且廚師還是米其林三星大廚呢。到現場後發現廚師是白人，我想應該是法國人吧。

我雖然沒有拍照，也不知道怎麼形容食物，不過我非常喜歡他們的料理，每道菜都很小（典型的法國料理），味道都很好，非常可口。

一份套餐約一千元出頭，比橄欖樹小館（Le Bistro de l'Olivier）還便宜一些。另外，巴黎味餐廳裡面的感覺比較寬敞，橄欖樹感覺就小了一點，沒什麼餐廳的感覺，倒比較像是某人家裏的飯廳，不過都很好吃就是了。

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Paul - une boulangerie française ( a french bakery)

When I was in Paris few years ago, I went to a bakery called Paul several times to buy something to eat (I guess it tasted good, but I really don't remember now...)

Few weeks ago, I saw a big "PAUL" sign by Ren-ai Roundabout. It immediately reminded me of that French bakery. And it really is.

I went there yesterday to check out the store and found out that it was more than a bakery. It's a restaurant/cafe too, and there were people in line waiting for seats. Well, since I wasn't there to have lunch, I just lined up by the bakery side (you see, another lineup!). I didn't really do any research before going there so I just bought whatever I felt like trying. Two apple pies, one chocolate bread and one heart-shaped cookie(or bread?) cost over NTD300.

There are still other desserts and pastries that I haven't tried there, and I also want to try the restaurant too. I will go there again some time. Well... but maybe not so soon. haha

Moon Festival Day

Well... today is Moon Festival Day, and a typhoon day, too so it was raining all day today.

California Fitness was closed all day today so I couldn't go work out, or attend the Body Combat class taught by the cute and hot instructor. I even found out the time and location of his three classes on Sunday.

I went to the food court at the Xinyi Eslite Bookstore to have lunch. This is a picture of my half-eaten Eelfish on Rice. It's kind of small and not so nutritious, but I don't really care. I had to eat by myself again. That's what I don't like...

After lunch I went to the bookstore (actually I was at the bookstore for some time before lunch already). I picked up PS. I Love You and read a few pages.

Although I had seen the movie and knew the story, I still felt sad from the first few pages. It made me feel like crying, especially the part where they were fighting who should go turn off the bedroom light before bed, and somebody's feet were too cold. I even feel sad as I am writing about this.

I bought the book even though I hadn't finished The History of Love, just so that I can read it later on. Maybe there's more about the story than what the movie can present. Well... I was also thinking about buying the DVD, too, but I didn't. Maybe I will some day.

I didn't have any barbecue for Moon Festival Day, not even a barbecue restaurant for the occasion. Well, I went to a nice sukiyaki restaurant (Momo Paradise) 2 days ago with two college friends. It was very good. Let's just treat it as a tribute to the moon even though the sky had been moody for days. At least I got to have lots of nice beef at the sukiyaki restaurant.

Lean Beef Meal Set Exposed

So I decided to try the Lean Beef Set in California tonight since I wanted to buy some taro cakes and red bean moichi, which is sold in a bakery further north, not on my way home. Even though the name of the set is "lean" beef, I still spotted several fat when they brought the food to me. So much for the lean beef.

Meals at California Fitness

Even though I have been working out at California for a few months, I had never tried their food until yesterday. After finishing jogging and working out my abs around 12:00 yesterday, I decided to venture into this unexplored area. I ordered chicked breat with brown rice. It was quite delicious but I don't think the vegetable was enough. Anyway, today when I finished my second working out around 18:30, I decided to try their salmon. The salmon set was more expensive than the chicken breast set. It tasted not bad too. Well the salade was the same for both sets. They should be more creative.

Japanese Noodles (Ramen)

Today I decided to use the 10-dollar coupon for my and DJ's favorite Japanese noodles close to our place. It was miso-based soup with pork. So yummy. DJ would love to have one on such a cold day.

Beef Roll

Originally, I wanted to eat Japanese noodles, ramen, but I didn't want to wait so long before I had dinner after working out so I just stopped at Mother Ho restaurant close to the gym. I like their beef noodles and beef rolls. I had beef roll today, the kind with the roll made with veggie. That's why it looks green. The first phot is the whole beef roll while the second one is when I already ate one slice, in which you can see the meat inside the roll. so yummy!

Sunday Shopping

I went to Eslite bookstore after working out for lunch. I had some sushi and a veggie tofu hot pot at the food court. The food was quite usual, nothing special or amazing.

After lunch, I stayed in the bookstore, reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods in Chinese translation. I was hesitant about buying it, but I eventually bought it, along with the latest TIME magazine, because it's still faster to finish a book in Chinese as long as the translation is good. I sat at a Starbucks, reading the magazine and the fiction for like an hour and half. Before I went home, I stopped at a 3C store, and then I bought some food to eat for dinner. Since I had a late lunch, I felt full very quickly. I still finished eating what I had bought for dinner: a chinese-style hamburger (made with Chinese bun, pork, veggie, sesame powder, etc.) and a soup noodles and boiled vegetables at the noodle stand that DJ likes.

Saturday Meals

I had lunch at the food court in Pacific Sogo Department Store. I ate some sort of Korean-style rice mixed with vegetagles and meat. Well...it didn't taste as good as I had expected. The same type of food would actually taste better in Taoban House, Yuanshao, or even other food courts. You need to mix the vegetables and meat with the rice in a hot stone bowl, and the rice would get a little burnt. Then the flavor will come out nice and good. Yet the rice in this restaurantjust got too blackendly burnt, or not burnt at all, and the other ingredients were not properly mixed with the rice either.

For dinner, I ate at a place I went once in a while close to my place. It's Japanese oolong noodles with some vegetables and small foodstuff stewed in soup, named Guandongzhu. Dj loves this kind of food too. I had to eat alone today though. :( and I felt so full because I picked too much food from the big container. The two small plastic sauces at the bottom of the photo are sauces, one spicy and the other sweet and spicy.

Dinner at the Zhongxiao Dunhua Underground Mall

After working out this evening, I had dinner at a food stand at the underground mall by Zhongxiao Dunhua MRT station. I had some sort of glutinous rice cake with fish ball soup. I know DJ likes them. They are very yummy.

Happy Birthday DJ !!!

Today is my DJ's birthday. I am wishing him a happy birthday with two photos of cake.

They are cakes from Rivon and they all look delicious. The left one is caramel macchiato, and the right one is coffee. YUM !!!

Beef Noodles

After I finished working out this evening, I really felt like eating the tomato beef noodles that I hadn't had for a long time. So I decided to walk all the way back from the gym to the night market by my place to enjoy this delicacy. Since it was a long way to walk, I also bought a sesame baozi to eat at a baozi store that I had been wanting to try since I started working out in that neighborhood. Unfortunately I swallowed the baozi immediately I bought it so there is no photo here.

The menu in the beef noodles store looks like this: