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  • A Local’s Guide to 椰庭 Seafood Restaurant in Tainan (Dec2024)

    A Local’s Guide to 椰庭 Seafood Restaurant in Tainan (Dec2024)

    Outside table was the best if the weather permits
    too cute

    The restaurant of Tainan’s sea area Annan安南 called 椰庭 which means “coconuts garden”. it was a very cozy restaurant which offers local fresh seafood. According to Miss Ou, she is not good at cooking but she loves to eat as well as most of Taiwanese (and Chinese and Japanese).So that I believe her sense of the restaurant discovery. I booked two nights at her Tainan city center’s vacation house in September 2024 because her ex-husband who owns another vacation house in Ali-mountain introduced her and her place when I asked the place to stay in Tainan. It was a great stay she did a whole day guide + we could fully enjoyed my birthday wine together at her place. Then I decided to stay 3 nights there again during my winter holiday.

    Fish skin + DIY fermented loofa +ginger soup
    roasted fish ( the name of the fish was forgotten)
    oyster noodle

    I found the fact that fish skin could be the main material for the soup ,after coming back to Japan I tried several times. And it matches quite well with something sour like this soup, fermented loofa. From last December I started to DIY 酸菜= fermented Chinese cabbage and it matches with fish skin very correctly.

    QQ or mochi-mochi texture

    椰庭

    https://www.facebook.com/y2840988/

    No. 261號, Sicao Blvd, Annan District, Tainan City, Taiwan 709

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  • Experiencing C-Pop Nostalgia at Tainan’s Sunset Platform (Dec2024)

    I worked in Bei Jing from 2007-2013 as an expat, at that time enjoyed C-pop well, going to the lives or Karaoke with friends or by myself. Especially Taiwanese and HK popstars were for everybody. Anyone can sing the top star’s any popular songs.

    The owner of our Tainan(this is the 2nd time I stay her place) accommodation brought us to the 安平金城sunset platform, the timing was the best the season was nice. It was an evening of January, temperature was above 20 Degree! Around the platform there are several Oden （=fish cake stew) stalls, it reminds me Korean street. They matched well with winter cold but it seems the moderate temperature is also suitable to enjoy it.

    Highlight for me and Miss Ou ( the owner ,who was born in 1974 ,1year older than me) was a young street musician’s singing golden hits of our C-POP golden times. The first song was Chang Chen-yue – Wikipedia’s 愛我別走Bing Videos…WOW. Definitely for me that song was of Jay Chow ,then later know the original version .Too nostalgic. She sang ,visitors there sang ,I sang. That feeling was so special .I sang Taiwanese song in Taiwan together with Taiwanese and the sunset time. Happy, happy about the fact I could have common feeling with them around.

    Sunset platform of Tainan An Ping

    Sunset Platform(觀夕平台) | Tainan Travel

    Information

    TEL +886-6-2951915

    Address Anping Dist., Tainan City Taiwán, R.O.C

    Category Natural View、Culture

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