Ali, Niki, and I went to Taoyuan to get some ingredients for buritto diner and we went to this restaurant called Tonkatsu which served, you guessed it, Tonkatsu! For those who are not familiar with japanese food, tonkatsu is breaded and fried pork with an asian bbq sauce on top.
Ali and Niki ordered the original, and I ordered a tonkatsu that had cheese inside. It was a pretty good deal. The meals were around $6.25 but the portions were large. It came with unlimited rice, miso soup, 2 side dishes (we had soft tofu in sesame sauce and some bamboo shoot thing I think), a cabbage salad, and a drink. The actual tonkatsu comes without sauce, and at each table there is a sweet or spicy sauce you can choose to put on top. Good value and tasty lunch!
After lunch we made our way through the busy Carrefour grocery store. Because of the moon festival there was a lot of marinated bbq meat on display to buy. We managed to buy most of food we needed for the buritto except they did not have salsa so we had to go to a different store later.
In the middle of picking up the salsa at the second store we decided that we'd go to Ali's parents house and I'd cook burrito's for them for diner. I was a bit nervous but I was glad to do something for them considering they have done SOOO much for me and I was happy that I was able to give back in my tiny buritto way.
What then proceeded was a very nice evening of cooking, stories, english lessons, and chinese lessons! I even learned how to "kill" a palmelo.
Also embarassingly I was learning the word "lao ban" which means store owner, but I said "lao bao" by accident which I found out means "pimp" :P
Thank you my chinese masters for the wonderful evening!
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