La Petite Cuisine Brasserie by JQ at the Evergreen Laurel Hotel, 63 Songjiang Road, Taipei City (台北市松江路63) has rolled out a home and corporate catering service.
The brainchild of Justin Quek (郭文秀), a member of
the Confrerie de la Chaine
des Rotisseurs who runs
French restaurants in
Shanghai, Taipei and his native Singapore, La Petite has
garnered rave reviews.
His Just In Bistro & Wine Bar on Zhongxiao East Road offers French comfort food with a few upscale twists.
The new service is available in the Taipei area for parties of six or more. Two weeks to one month advance notice is required, depending on the scale of the event. A range of seasonal set menus, desserts and buffets are available. A typical set lunch menu costs NT$2,000 per person, for a minimum of six guests, and for dinner, it’s NT$2,500 per person. For further information, call (02) 2509-0332.
Starbucks is going local. Well, ever so slightly. Taiwanese teas have debuted on the coffee empire’s menu here.
Oriental Beauty Tea (東方美人茶), an oolong variety unique to Taiwan that relies on green leaf cicadas which suck the plant’s sap before it is picked and fermented to impart the dried product with honey notes, Bi Luo Chun (碧螺春), a naturally sweet green tea, and Fancy Black Tea (蜜香紅茶), are available by the cup (NT$105), or in a packet of a dozen tea bags (NT$280).
March 24 to March 30 When Yang Bing-yi (楊秉彝) needed a name for his new cooking oil shop in 1958, he first thought of honoring his previous employer, Heng Tai Fung (恆泰豐). The owner, Wang Yi-fu (王伊夫), had taken care of him over the previous 10 years, shortly after the native of Shanxi Province arrived in Taiwan in 1948 as a penniless 21 year old. His oil supplier was called Din Mei (鼎美), so he simply combined the names. Over the next decade, Yang and his wife Lai Pen-mei (賴盆妹) built up a booming business delivering oil to shops and
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For the past century, Changhua has existed in Taichung’s shadow. These days, Changhua City has a population of 223,000, compared to well over two million for the urban core of Taichung. For most of the 1684-1895 period, when Taiwan belonged to the Qing Empire, the position was reversed. Changhua County covered much of what’s now Taichung and even part of modern-day Miaoli County. This prominence is why the county seat has one of Taiwan’s most impressive Confucius temples (founded in 1726) and appeals strongly to history enthusiasts. This article looks at a trio of shrines in Changhua City that few sightseers visit.
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