Intermission from Taiwan recaps (with Baby and Dog and cake!)
I’m sure my friends are bored to death with my Taiwan ramblings, so here’s a quick post with some pictures of some recent happenings:
We dropped by Keni’s place the first weekend we got back to give them Taiwanese goodies. Since they have a baby and a dog, we always seem to get interesting pictures there.
Naomi got a little too excited showing me her princess book. Kelvin took this picture right when she smacked her dad in the face.
Naomi’s not the only princess in the house.
For Naomi’s Taiwanese souvenir, I bought an uber-cheap fishing game (you know, the one we ALL had as kids) from some random Taiwan toy store. (Hopefully, there’s no lead :P) As a kid, I loved pretending to catch fresh fish and cooking it, so I taught Naomi to do the same. The toy pretty much lived up to its unnegotiated 150NT (<$5) price. The box said 2-in-1, but had pictures of fish, crabs, and octopi… but there were no octopi. The makers couldn’t be bothered with blue plastic, so the water part is green. When we stuck fresh batteries in, the thing went so fast, it was impossible to catch any fish! And the obnoxious song in the background was really high-pitched! Keni found some half-dead batteries, so now it rotates at a reasonable speed, but the song in the background makes the toy sound like it’s dying.
“Stupid crabs!”
The next weekend, we celebrated Kelvin’s birthday. I was planning to surprise him with cake, but he went out and bought his own stupid cake! I was pieved my plans got foiled, so I bought the cake I wanted to get for him anyway. He bought his at Aki’s Bakery, and I bought mine at La Patisserie, but they were the exact same cake. (I apparently know Kelvin as well as I ought to.) So we had two “dream cakes“, which is a 3-layered chocolate cake filled and iced with a light, whipped cream and covered in chocolate shavings. Kelvin’s cake didn’t handle the trip back too well.
My cake we had at Kelvin’s family’s post-Christmas Christmas party (which they held because we missed Christmas).
I don’t usually eat chocolate cakes since I find them heavy, but these two bakeries make wonderfully light cakes. Though, I must say that La Patisserie is better at chocolate (half their cake selection is chocolate). Their chocolate cake is richer without being heavier. They both taste good though, and we had half of each cake leftover. I think I’ve gotten some junk in the trunk from eating cake all week.
New thing I learned today: La Patisserie is French for “the pastry shop“.
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