Monday, May 30, 2011
Harmful Substance, DEHP Found in Taiwan's Bubble Tea
Report says that FDA is currently monitoring high-risk products from Taiwan (sports drinks, fruit juices and soft drinks) to ensure that they are safe for customers. High doses of DEHP or to repeated exposure can lead to testicular defects, fertility problems and toxicity to kidneys.
Meantime, in Chatime Malaysia website, it also release a notice mentioning that they are taking precaution measures on the ingredients and they also have temporily delisted the Pasion Fruit drink series from their menu. The rest of the series are safe for consumption according to the website. You can view the notice from here http://http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=203484093028909&set=a.141454669231852.22597.141195309257788&type=1&ref=nf
This post serves a notice to all visitors that visits my blog. Hopefully this issue can be resolved soon. Will update the blog again if any latest news.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Taiwan Snacks - Yummy!
Anyway for this post, i would like to share some of the snacks that we tried at Taipei. It is just part of them. At times we are too eager to try the food till forgotten to snap any picture. =)
Monday, May 23, 2011
Gong Cha - Another Taiwanese Bubble Tea
The cafe enviroment was neat and table with seats are provided for Gong Cha customer to enjoy their drinks. We ordered the most basic drink at the counter, the Milk Tea with Pearl (RM 5.90). Like Chatime, we can choose the sugar level (regular, 50% sweetness, 30% little sugar and 0% no sugar). Additional toppings will be charged separately.
Compared to Chatime, Chatime has more varities in their menu and taste is almost the same except for their pearls. I prefer pearls from Chatime as they serve bigger size pearls.
Nevertheless, it is worth to give a try at Gong Cha after a tired shopping at The Gardens. They also have an outlets at SS15. For more details, you can visit their website at (http://www.gong-cha.com.my/)
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Chatime - Taiwan Bubble Tea
We came across Chatime for the first time when we are at Pavillion for movie. Chatime was just located opposite of the GSC cinema in Pavillion and is having a good business. Therefore, we decided to give it a try. Chatime is actually a franchise from Taiwan that have various franchise outlets around the world. Bubble tea at Chatime is different from the one that we normally see in our pasar malam. Every of it ingredients are directly import from Taiwan and serves an aunthentic taste of bubble tea (similar taste that we drank at Taipei).
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Taipei Top 5 Must Visit - National Palace Museum
It is said that National Palace Museum is one of the largest collection of ancient Chinese artifacts. The collection encompasses over 8,000 years of Chinese history from the Neolithic age to the late Qing Dynasty [Wikipedia]. Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's ancient emperors including the famous Emperor Qian Long.
We got to know that the Museum is open to public for FREE on every Saturday evening (5pm-8.30pm). Thus we grab this opportunity to visit the musuem before our visit to nearby Shilin Night Market (stay tuned for next post). There are many artifacts to see in the 3 floors museum and we couldn't manage to go through all the floors. Every items are very interesting and each with detailed descriptions. Vistors can opt to get an audio device from the counter that comes with pre-recorded explainations on each artifacts. The "must visit" artifact in the museum is the most famous 3 Tressure of the Museum.
According to Wikipedia, the 3 Tressures has been chosen by the public as the most important item in the museum's entire collection. Due to the photograpghy is prohibited in the museum, i uploaded the 2 Tressures images (got from web) that we managed to visit.
To get to National Palace Museum, take MRT to Shilin Station. From Shilin Station, take bus R30 (Red 30) / 255 / 304 to the museum.
For more information, feel free to visit their official website www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm
Saturday, May 7, 2011
KLM - Charity Tulip Sale 2011
KLM is flying in 3,000 freshly plucked tulips according to their official website and this year’s highlight will be 300 stalks of the unique Tulipa ‘Black Hero’. The tulips are sold at RM5 per stalk, while the price of the limited edition ‘Black Hero’ will be RM10 per stalk. The sale start at 11am onwards and we reached Sg. Wang about 11.15am. The queue was long when we reached and we waited for 1.5hours before our turn to get the tulips. There are various colors and different spesis of tulips available for sale today.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Taipei Top 5 Must Visit - Hello Kitty Cafe
Hello Kitty Cafe is one of the "must visit" place when you are in Taipei. This entire pink themed cafe was decorated with Hello Kitty icon. Once enter the cafe, you will amazed with the Hello Kitty dessert that was displayed at the dessert corner. We went there for lunch that day and we ordered the set lunch of the day which comprise a choice of salad, appetizer, soup & bun, main course, dessert & a drink. It is advisable to make a reservation for a table before dine in as we saw people queuing up for tables.
You can visit their website for more details (http://www.hellokittysweets.com.tw/). Opening hours:11.30am - 10.00pm. Price: Minimum spending of NT 300 for each person.
New Chapter
Out of sudden today, i thought of my blog which i have abandoned for quite some time. Suddenly i have the rush to update the blog. I just got back from Taipei trip and i shall update in my blog some of the delicacy that i have eaten during the trip and also interesting places that i have visited.
Stay tuned!