Jodie 的日記

“Food is one arena where Taipei — the world’s most underrated capital city, according to Monocle magazine — blows Beijing away. Its food incorporates more influences, spans street food to haute cuisine with greater aplomb and is out and out more delicious”, according to The New York Times.

Apart from joining our cooking class, here are some more ideas for activities to do in Taipei if you like nature, culture, and exploring.

1. Elephant mountain hiking trails

2. Dental services

3. Buying glasses

 聽說喝杯咖啡常會生起一種幸福的感覺，所以在不景氣的商業氛圍下，全球的咖啡市場依然熱絡，咖啡大賣，因為愈是低潮的人生愈是需要咖啡溫暖的加溫。

 這家義大利餐廳有最令人既羨慕又嫉妒的義大利精神，一天只營業五個小時，中午十二點才開門，營業二個小時後就關上大門休息了。晚上六點準時營業，如果您早個十分鐘到，老闆會請您在外面稍等，六點整會開門請您進來。晚間的品嚐時間也只有三小時，時間到了老闆要休息回家溜狗。

Stir-frying is a very efficient way of cooking. Compared to oven cooking, it only takes a few minutes to complete a dish.

Stir-frying food with a wok also looks cool! It looks like you're performing on a TV cooking show. Adding a little bit of this and that – we can all look like a cooking superstar.

But in fact, stir-frying can quickly turn into a cooking disaster. The high heat necessary for wok cooking can burn the ingredients very rapidly, and then we panic, add too much soy sauce, vinegar and so on. So, surprisingly, these dishes can turn out to be a mess.

A natural hair treatment

Black sesame seeds are the most common tonic herb in Chinese cooking. Chinese have used black sesame seeds as a natural hair treatment for thousands of years. People believe it helps to restore hair color, and grow thick, strong hair very efficiently.

我愛櫻花燦爛的象山
我愛杜鵑爭豔的象山
我愛桂花飄香的象山
我愛心花朵朵的象山

我愛微笑你好的象山
我愛步步汗水的象山
我愛遠眺群脈的象山
我愛渾身舒暢的象山

我愛細雨綿綿的象山
我愛烈日高照的象山
我愛颱風狂吹的象山
我愛迷霧仙境的象山 

面對遠道英倫的Sylvia
感謝她將情人帶來這世界

想起疏於連繫的媽媽
感謝她將自己帶來這世界

回憶主日唱詩的奶奶
感謝她將爸爸帶來這世界

夢見往生富貴的外婆
感謝她將母親帶來這世界

Ginger is very common in Chinese cooking. As the herb efficiently improves blood circulation, it has many different uses.

Do you want to have a warming and healthy natural ginger spa bath? There's no need to buy any luxury spa products, all you need is a chunk of ginger from your kitchen.

My former cookery class student, Jake, who works for the High Speed Railway (HSR), asked me if I have read The Science of Getting Rich. With a title like that, it sounded a little bit crazy. But anyway, I downloaded the book, and read it carefully and tried to find if there really is a science of getting rich.

This is an old book, written in around 1910 by an American, Wallace D. Wattles. The language is a bit wordy and sometimes odd. Jake said many people put it down after the first one or two chapters. But to find out how to get rich, I was prepared to be very patient.