Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A Wedneday Night Dinner

The best thing about living in Taipei is that we have the sort of lifestyle here that allows us to eat out several nights a week - something that time and money never allowed us to do back in the States. Here's a dinner we had last Wednesday:
(clockwise from top: deep fried soft shell crab, spicy tuna,
eel, shrimp and avocado roll, sirloin beef with mushrooms)

This fine Wednesday night dinner was at A-Plus Sake Bar, right by the Eslite bookstore on Dunhua. Good food; prices not bad considering you're eating sushi.

And if you finish eating before 8:00, head over to Ginjer, just a short walk away. Here you find an assortment of cupcakes (50NT each; buy 5 get one free), with flavors like chocolate chocolate, pear, and carrot cake. This was the first time I've had cupcakes in almost a year, I think, and after biting into the chocolate chocolate I remembered how much I like cupcakes, especially ones that are moist and oh-so-chocolate-y.

(We bought several different flavors to try,
but the clear winner was definitely the chocolate chocolate.)

So that was our Wednesday night dinner. Not too shabby for Hump Day.

A-Plus Dining Sake Bar
AnHe Road, Section 1, No. 33
(02) 2731-9266

Ginjer
http://www.ginjer.com/
Dunhua South Road, Section 1, Lane 223, No. 20
(02) 8773-3061

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i don't think i've had ginjer's chocolate chocolate yet.. i could tell from the pics of the spicy tuna and rolls that it was a-plus! hahaha.. that shows how rare it is to find elsewhere in taipei!

Emily said...

Yes, definitely try the chocolate chocolate!

Wow, is A-Plus really the only place you've found spicy tuna in Taipei? Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen it anywhere else either...

joanh said...

yeah last year i was really craving spicy tuna and found it niko niko rolls. but their rolls were pretty awful and the spicy tuna was TOO spicy. it's prob more an american thing, like rolls.