Grandparents came to visit and baby girl rode in the stroller for the first time...
Loved it!!
We went exploring and walked around downtown and stumbled onto the Miss Grape competition...
Quite amusing!
Then we left the kids and grandparents so we could go out on our first "real" date night in a long while.
We went back to the fancy mall we had visited on Mother's Day and dined in the nicest restaurant I've been to in recent memory - L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon
What an incredible treat! It was FANTASTIC!!!
Dev's cauliflower and lobster soup
My fancy veggie stack
SO excited to be out without the kids!!!!
Fish dish of some kind
Life-changing pumpkin risotto
At first I was skeptical of the set up - bar style, watching the kitchen... I prefer to look at the person I'm eating with!! But it was pretty cool to watch them work. The kitchen was spotless and run like a well-oiled machine. There weren't many people there that night, and the chefs worked efficiently and mostly silently. Very impressive.
This was my fish course and the least tasty of the meal...
Dev had a pork dish which smelled amazing
and both of us were given these shells filled with delectable mash - yum!
Dessert was my favorite.
Some kind of magical passion fruit dessert, with a granita on the bottom and an amazing foamy meringue-like thing on the top, with a passion fruit custard in the middle and a cookie straw thing that melted in your mouth, complete with edible butterfly.
(they should have me re-write their menus, don't you think? ;)
It was a PERFECT, gorgeous evening and we found a roof-top bar to have an after-dinner drink.
Fab views including Taipei 101
Really feel as if Taipei is an undiscovered travel destination. It is such an amazing city!!
Quickly vaulting to my top 5 places in the world...
As we were walking home we came across this bizarre display - possibly collecting money for an animal shelter or something...??
And though it was after 10pm, there were a ton of kids everywhere (including a little girl at the bar with mom and dad)
Yes, we are lame and our special date night complete with "late night" drinks ended shortly after 10. We are parents now, life is different, and I missed my baby!
Apparently, next time I should just bring them with....
Random street performers we passed by.
I wanted to stop and watch a couple doing Carpenters songs, but Dev vetoed me...
And finally some snaps of unknown produce (which is something I encounter every time I go shopping!). The above look like pears, but they are massively huge and are some kind of vegetable.
The below look like quite warty, I was put off even to touch them.
Anyone able to identify these?
Looks like fun! You saw the golden retriever guy! We've talked to him before (he's out at 101 often) and if I remember correctly he rescues the dogs and trains them. He offered us one of them, but a huge golden retriever in our apartment? Not gonna happen (as much as I love them). :)
ReplyDeleteThat's exciting that your parents have been able to come for a visit. Enjoy!
And I agree--Taipei is really an undiscovered gem. Just wait until you see the rest of the island too. :)