My parents, Sugi, & Cayden in front of Gu Zao Mian!

The gu zao noodle soup with bean sprouts, green onion, celery, and fried onion!


Delicious chilled goose meat garnished with Chinese basil!


Chilled pig's ear slow-cooked in soy sauce served with green onion and sesame oil.


Chilled smoked shark meat with thick soy sauce and wasabi for dipping.


Pan-fried pig's liver with ginger and Chinese basil.


Pan-fried goose intestine with leek, green onion, and bean sprouts.


Chilled fen (pink and soft) liver.  Cooked liver is usually dark and very firm because of the blood content.  There is a Taiwanese cooking technique that involves soaking and overfilling the liver with fresh water to get the blood out, then either overfill it with soy sauce and cook it or cook it then soak it in soy sauce overnight to create this pink and soft liver.


Flash-boiled leek drizzled with thick soy sauce topped with katsuobushi shavings.


Taiwanese pork ball soup!!!

Start off with some amuse bush.

Followed by some salad.


Some cold cuts.


Closer view of the Taiwanese cold cuts selections including my favorite, free-range chicken.


Sugi with her first plate of food.


Many sushi selections.


Pretty good sashimi for a buffet!


Gigantor oysters!


They also have many made-to-order pan-fried Taiwanese dishes, noodle soups, and hot-pots!


They had some western food like corn chowder.


Cuts of steaks and peking duck.


Chawamushi (Japanese steamed egg custard) and tea pot soup.


Japanese oden (winter dish consisting of different ingredients such as fish cake stewed in a light, soy-flavored broth)!


Japanese tempura and grilled seafood.


They also offer made-to-order pasta.


Also some made-to-order steak and chops.


All-you-care-to-drink fresh juices, glass-bottled Orange Fanta, Sprite, and Coca-Cola + Taiwan, Carlsberg, and Asahi beers!!!


Great selection of fresh fruits.


Haagen-Dazs ice creams.


Many little pastries and cakes.


Different types of jelly including a beer jelly on the bottom right!


Fondue is offered as well.


A sea of marshmellows!


Sugi with her spicy hot-pot and Taiwan beer!


Taiwan, Carlsberg, and Asahi beers!!!


EaTogether Buffet!

     After having a great Taiwanese breakfast with my parents, we set off to the hospital to visit my brand new nephew, Dylan Lin.  He was born six weeks premature on November 4th.  Thankfully he was very healthy and left NICU a few days before Sugi and I arrived.  We also visited his mom at a luxurious postpartum care center, Babymoon, before we had dim sum at Parents Restaurant (yes, that is the name of the place).

So tiny!

Dylan looks just like his big brother!


Babymoon, Chanté's postpartum care center.


Pretty spacious room!


Parents Restaurant.  They have many different Chinese cuisines but are more known for their dim sum.


Pu-erh and chrysanthemum tea, really popular with dim sum.


Braised tofu and vegetable in soy sauce.


Spicy braised pig intestine and duck's blood jelly in clay pot (NOT Sugi's favorite, the rest of us loved it though!).


Fried taro spring roll.


Steamed clams and loofah.


Rice noodle roll with beef.


Steamed leek and shrimp dumplings.


My favorite, crab and glass noodles in clay pot lined with pork belly and ginger.  Little trivia here, glass noodles are made from green beans.


Taiwanese style pan-fried rice noodles.


Fried bean curd stuffed with shrimp.


Pan-fried shrimp and crab pancake (Sugi ordered this one).