ABC Wednesday: N is for a Nice Day

Last Sunday, Grace left for an oversea trip for two weeks.  Before she left, on Saturday, we decided to go to a nice restaurant called 掌上明珠 (A Shinning Pearl in the Palm, usually refers to the favorite daughter) for lunch at Yilan, east of Taipei by the coast.  We arrived at the restaurant a bit early.  It sits in the middle of a rice field.  There were hundreds of small butterflies flying around in the field.

The owner has many very colorful Japanese chickens in its garden.  Grace took a picture of this cock in action.

The restaurant has a very interesting decoration, a blend of local Taiwanese and traditional Chinese.

Here is the menu, it was a nine-course meal.  You may count it to 11.  The other two were red wine and a light vingar.  Cost 50 US$ per person, expansive for Taiwan.

I mentioned to Grace that we can use a "Nice Day" for the ABC Wednesday of this week.  She started to take pictures for ever course.  I was afraid to be kicked out from the restaurant.  Here was a plate of grilled local fish.  On the side was the rice cresp still on its stem.

Here was the desert.  The plum was almost fresh just lightly marinated.  The pumpkin and Chinese Yam was cooked in a sweat rice water.

The meal was accompanied by a nice pot of hot tea.

After the meal, we went to a coffee factory store near by.  Mr. Brown coffee is famous in Chinese community worldwide.  The canned sweatened latte, can be found in almost every Chinese supermarket.

Another business of Mr. Brown is orchid.  It is a big export business and his store is decorated with all kinds of orchids.

By late afternoon, we saw several egrets in the rice field.  The little egret is a local bird.  The great egret will soon fly back to the north.

Well, overall, it was a very Nice Day.  For more entries of ABC Wednesday click here.