Dinner

Torben napped for a while after all the afternoon excitement of Yu Kids Islands and then Tim called to see if we wanted to go to dinner. Yunche and Tim picked Torben and me up and we went to an awesome Japanese restaurant. We got our own little room while was great because Torben could run around and (sort of) let us eat. He is a real hassle to take to dinner because he just will not sit still. The dinner was a set meal type thing and they start out with a little mushroom appetizer and then sashimi and then a little fried shrimp roll thing then a tempura shrimp, then soup, then...I can’t remember all of it. It was excellent.

Some people have asked me what the language situation is like, basically very few people speak English. The cab drivers speak no English and worst off they can’t read English or what is called Pinyan – which is the pronunciations equivalent to Chinese – unfortunately everyone has different spelling of Pinyun so a street would be Dasyue (University Ave) or Das Huey or god I don’t know, I’ve seen about six different spellings of that road. So unless you have the road written down in Chinese characters-forget it. That is why my little book is so important. The same goes with food. We went to ‘Tainan A Hue Fried Eel” which is right near our apartment and we had to just point at a couple of things on the menu and hope for the best, in that case we got two squid noodle dishes and one eel dish, all three were great but then we also got noodles with liver, ummm yuck. We felt pretty fortunate that we got 3 out of 4.