The Roving Reporter

Food, Taiwanese food...

Posted by: Amy Reiter

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:40 AM

Today Tom, a wonderful Rotarian, gave Ngozi and me a cooking lesson at the wedding banquet hall he co-owns. The hall seats up to 1,000 guests at a time and so the many chefs we saw worked fast and furiously preparing for an event tonight.

But -- so nicely! -- the master chef, Win Shong Wu, took an hour to teach us some awesome dishes -- hung sao tofu fried rice and smoked snowfish. I won't say too much because I'm going to write a cooking article about the whole experience, complete with recipes, but it was easy to make, fantastic to look at -- and really tasty. I'll let you all know when it's published. Ngozi took awesome pictures of the whole thing, so it should look as appealing as it was.

We also toured a huge water purification factory called Seventh Branch Taiwan Water Corp. The facility bordered a gorgeous reservoir, Cheng Ching Lake, which had water pumped into it by a giant underground pipe linking it to a river about 10 kilometers (7ish miles) away. The water from this lake went through a heavy filtration process, being churned and filtered and other water stuff that Paminder, the water resource engineer on our trip, understands way better than I do.

Anyway, the water that goes to this plant supplies about a third of the city of Kaohsiung -- that's about half a million people every day! However, though it leaves the plant clean enough to drink, people don't drink the water straight from the tap because once it leaves the reservoir, the holding tanks keeping water available for all the housing in the city are owned by individual houses, and their tanks are not necessarily clean.

Here's some pictures of people and places, and the word of the day.

yige yue = a month (the amount of time our Rotary Group Study Exchange is visiting southern Taiwan)

Here are pictures of 1) Maggie, a Rotarian in the fashion industry, and me at KTV, which is karaoke in a private room 2) A happy meal with Rotarians from the Fengshan West and Fengshan Chungshan clubs -- really cool people and really good (and plentiful) food and 3) the water purification factory.

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