Day 77 + 5: Taipei

Lunch
Today was another day in Taiwan based solely around food.  We started out going to lunch with Charlotte's mother and had lamb cooked in just about every possible way, lamb noodles, lamb with vegetables, lamb chops, lamb grilled on a stick and lamb stew.  The special thing with the lamb stew is that it comes with meat still on large pieces of bone and a straw.  You use the straw to suck out the bone marrow from the bone in the stew.

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Lamb stew

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Charlotte sucking the bone marrow out

Dinner
For dinner we met Charlotte's friend Eugene and went for some of the biggest meatballs we have ever had.  The dinner, like just about every meal I have had in Taiwan, had many dishes that all tasted great, but the meatballs were the real star of the meal

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Meatballs

Late Dinner/Drinks
We later met up with another one of Charlotte's friends from Seattle, Fujen.  We met up at a bar at the Taiwan alcohol and tobacco company.  Both Taiwan beer and the tobacco are government run businesses and this was a bar that was located at the brewing location.  Of course we had to get some more lamb, squid and shrimp to go along with the beer.

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Fresh Taiwan beer

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Charlotte got some sort of beer/bloody mary cocktail

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Lamb on a stick

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Squid balls

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Charlotte with a large beer