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Finally the truth about Bubble Milk Tea

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From the time I have stepped into Taiwan, whatever Bubble Milk Tea (pronounced Chunchu Naitha) I have consumed has been free. Yes, not a single penny spent. I know Vicky is probably burning if he happens to read this. And its the most expensive tea in the tea shops. They have tea shops all over Taiwan by the way. Its not the you can sit and kill hours kind of place, more like takeaway counters. So I have consumed liters of this tea.


Like I said in my earlier post, the Taiwanese love their bubble milk tea. But you offer it to any girl and you get "No! No! Too fatty". The tea has pieces of a black chewy substance , refer to image below. Vikas and me contemplated on what these yummy things were. 


Maybe sabudana,or maybe some exotic sea-thing, for all you know it could have been fish eggs. We asked people, we chewed and thought and chewed some more. Finally ladies and gentlemen I present to you the secret ingredient the "bubble/pearls" are made of and its potato starch! Yes, you read right. They love their potato starch and use it for a lot of meat dishes, wherein the meat is enveloped in a ball of potato starch and then fried and dumped in some exotic sauce. Supposed to be pretty delicious and that is the kind of stuff I will be missing out on. My school director has a theory about my queer eating habit, according to him I don't eat anything with legs! Interesting but partly true, because I tasted shrimp. And I am on a eat anything that you find in the sea spree right now. 

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First impressions

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Taipei Airport
Very fancy, modeled like a 5-star hotel. Pre-paid mobile phone cards available and so are foreign exchange transactions performed. Maps, museum brochures, tourist information and important numbers also available. Pay-phones all over are money-sucking machines. Express bus, U-bus, High Speed Railway bus all available at the air-port. Also a special counter for tourists. 
My reaction: I am so going to love Taiwan!


Enter Taichung 
Mango and me finally meet the AIESEC-ers! We get a warm welcome from them and part ways.


Food
Their eating habits are way different from mine. They start with dessert, then eat their main course and then soup! So, its just the opposite fashion of what I am used too. I was only too happy to eat dessert first! Also they eat their meals much earlier then us, I am guessing that is because the sun rises at almost 5a.m. here.
So they eat their lunch at 12.30p.m. and dinner around 6.30 p.m. The food on the whole is extremely healthy and very tasty. They hardly use any "masalas" but everything has a distinctive flavour and aroma. I have been eating whatever vegetable and sea food put on my plate. Bamboo, tofu, rice, soup, fish/sea-food, meat is the staple meal for the well to do. And almost every second person seems to be well-to-do. That explains their high crime rate.


They love their tea. Herb tea or bubble tea they are sipping on it all the time. Thats also a post dinner ritual for them, considering they eat so early! I finally tasted hēi zhēnzhū nǎichá  thanks to Vicky- translated as black pearl milk tea, it is so yummy and soo addictive and apparently very fattening. More on "bubble tea" here.


Lots of posts coming up. Stay tuned.

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