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Thanksgiving In Taiwan

For starters I'll say, beware! This post might make you a little hungry just as it is making my hungry as I sit here typing it. For this thanksgiving we went to a little foreigner district in Taichung, Taiwan known as 'Little Europe'. We've gone there a few times now. Two of the bars/restaurants were serving thanksgiving style food. One was an all-you-can-eat buffet and the other was just plates of thanksgiving style food. We opted for the the single plate as it was significantly cheaper and we weren't starving-hungry.

The little alley way is all of 'Little Europe'. It really isn't much, just a few bars and restaurants run by Canadians & Americans. The place we went to for a mini-thanksgiving feast is called PJ's cafe. The cafe is aptly named after the owner-PJ. Normally it has a healthy mix of tex-mex style food. Good stuff. One thanksgiving plate like in the picture above was NT$195, which is about USD$6. Pretty cheap (actually expensive by Taiwanese standards), but not much food.

So, our appetites weren't quite filled by the plate of traditional thanksgiving food, so we went over to Fubar (a bar just down the ways in Little Europe) and got chicken wings, chicken salad & 3 plates of nachos to finish filling out stomachs. Nachos are so good. Fubar is co-owned by one of our classmates so he always makes double sure we are well taken care of. It's pretty cool to know the owner of a bar!