Settling in

I've made a map of my area of Tainan and I'm surveying all of the resturants in the area and I planned to visit a couple new ones each day. For breakfast, I have already found a favorite as the food is laid out and I just have to point to what looks good. The servers are very friendly about my limited Chinese so that's a big selling point too. Below is a simple breakfast that costs 32NT which is $1. The six guotie(pronounced go-tee-ay) are usually called "potstickers" or dumplings in the US. Dumpling seems totally the wrong word. The breakfast also had a bowl of dou jiang which is the sweetened soy bean milk. I never like it in the US but here in Tainan it's very refreshing.Below is a picture of my favorite dinner, it's call Pai Gu Fan. It's a breaded pork cutlet fried on white rice with sides. In this case the sides are sauteed cabbage, layered scrambled egg and a stew of mushrooms, raw peanuts and potatoes. It also came with a bowl of tomato soup made with pork neck bones(I think). I did such a good job finishing my plate that the server brought me an extra bowl of soup on the house. Cost 60NT.

The Taiwanese are very resourceful. Below is a solution to the high cost of color print cartridges. Basicly the tray for the cartridges is adapted to a small pump from resevoirs of the various colors. There are versions for all the major printers and the reservoires can be filled with liquid when you see the level is low.