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So guess who is in town? Joanne Peng!! Very exciting to see a familiar Toronto face here in Taipei. She invited me out to lunch and was like:

J: "What kind of food do you like?"

L: "I will eat most things, but not really pork...or chicken on bones...or dark meat... Maybe somewhere with vegetarian options is good."

J: "Really?? Vegetarian?? You're vegetarian?"

L: "Well no, but I'm a bit picky. I eat vegetables and seafood!"

J: "Ok...."

L: "Anywhere is fine, I will try anything :) "

Anyways, luckily we stuck to the place Joanne originally had in mind, and it was soooooooo good! She said it's Dim Sum style, which I don't think I've ever had before!

The restaurant is at the top of Sogo, a huge department store here. In fact, there are two Sogos, and they are across the street from each other! We went to the newer green Sogo.

The view from the top was pretty!

Us about to eat our feast!

Joanne took care of the ordering, because the menu was all in Chinese!

I've completely forgotten the name of this, but it's FAMOUS (the word famous is very commonly used here and could usually be replaced with 'popular' but in this case they apparently are famous in Taiwan)

Joanne taught me the proper way to eat this. On your mini spoon you put some ginger and vinegar, then you dip the dumpling in the mix and take a small bite. The reason you take a small bite is that inside there is a soup-like liquid, and if eaten too soon out of the steamer basket, you can burn yourself. Once you've taken the first bite, you blow on it "hoo hoo" and then pop the rest in your mouth. It was really good! Glad I decided to eat pork that day!