Whenever we travel to the Orient, I get so many questions about the food. It is much different from what we’re used to in the U.S. and Taipei’s food choices did not disappoint.

Here are some photos from our breakfast buffet.

What is the cook thinking? Corn and fish jello!!! Eeeks! And is that meat jello? I think I’m going to faint. No, we didn’t partake - in case you were wondering.

The bread looks beautiful and scrumptious, right? Oh boy, looks can be deceiving. The one on the upper right gave me a gurgly stomach for 2 days just on whiff alone. I’m so glad I smelled it first…

This fruit I learned the name of and immediately forgot. I do remember the name had 3 syllables. We tried it, it tastes kind of like leaves, sweet leaves. And the seeds kind of pop when you bite down on them with your teeth.

We went in this store in the airport. Wow, the food offerings were diverse. The packaging design was very cool. It had a vintage-retro 80’s design flair. Here’s a sampling.

What would you like to buy? Perhaps a yummy box of dried Shark Fin Soup? It shouldn’t be too difficult to reconstitute, no? Mmmmmm….

These must be some kind of sweets.

Delicious. I’m guessing. Is it just me, or does everything seem to be orange and yellow?

Maybe these wouldn’t be so bad?

Look, a whole meal in a box. Just like an MRE. Yum! It must be good, it looks like it won some kind of award.

They just don’t make stuff like this around here.