Tuesday, July 07, 2009

karen's birthday 2009


early last month was karen's birthday and to celebrate we decided to go for dinner at yuanshao grill restaurant.

karen's birthday dinner
waiting for our table. very tempting display of sake in the back!

karen's birthday dinner

karen's birthday dinner

karen's birthday dinner
either the food was really good or olivia was really hungry!

karen's birthday dinner
it was some good stuff!

karen's birthday dinner
a lot of stuff! since it was all you can eat too, the staff kept on coming along with the stuff!

karen's birthday dinner
here's one of the waitresses making some fried rice on the spot in a heated stone bowl.

karen's birthday dinner
the end product.

karen's birthday dinner
roasting some marshmallows and chocolate fudge.

karen's birthday dinner
olivia's first time eating roasted marshmallows.....

karen's birthday dinner
and she didn't like it! after one bite, she put it down. i don't blame her. i tried it and tasted funny.

karen's birthday dinneri did like my dessert tho'. baked mochi with red bean soup. doesn't sound too appetizing, but it was good.

karen's birthday dinner
since it was karen's birthday, it only made sense that she got the best dessert. this ice cream was really good.

overall, it was a nice family dinner. with a kid now, there's really not much we can do nor can we go too crazy with these celebrations like we used to. but, it's all more rewarding and worthwhile now, not to mention less painful the morning after!

6 comments:

Ashish said...

Lol. 2006 Morning after photos are truly inspirational :D Belated happy birthday to Karen

MJ Klein said...

thanks for the photos! i want to go there next time we're in the area!

Stefan said...

Thanks for this Andre.

Our daughter is about a year younger than yours. It's always very interesting to read about your experiences - this way we'll see what's in store for us. :-)

And we get lots of interesting ideas for our next visit in Taiwan, too.

andre said...

ashish... yeah! that 2006 summer was one of the craziest summers we've ever had! we knew there was a possibility that we were going to have a child in that coming year, so we just partied like there was no tomorrow.
karen says "THANK YOU!".

andre said...

mj... for sure! it's near the panchiao train station, so it's fairly convenient to get there. altho', better to get reservations ahead of time. the walk-in line-up and wait is usually really long.

andre said...

stefan... if you ever need any help or have any questions about taiwan, do not hesitate to let me know.