round seven

1. coffee
2. fried red bean loaf
3. fruit  (i got some funny looks for eating the desert first, but it was worth it. taiwanese fruit is good)
        a. apples
        b. pears
4. soup
     a. mushrooms
     b. corn
     c. clams
     d. scallops
5. baked fatty sticky thin fish. maybe flounder?
6. Flying Fish Roe (i called it airplane fish eggs in mandarin because I can never remember the name       of flying fish) with radish, green garlic stem, and red pepper. Nothing compares to this food. It
    resembles slices of dried hotdogs rolled in crushed peanuts. The flavor is otherwordly, like how           different truffles taste from the rest of the universe. This was awesome.
7. ham hock. until this moment, i had never had pork so delicious and melty and exquisite and I am
    a place that is very proud of our bbq pork. but it was just a prelude to item 8.
8. The Bite. My life is now divided into Before the Bite and After the Bite. It was a plate of grilled
    fatty pepper pork, and the bite I took was entirely fat. it was crispy and black on the outside. It
    a transcendental bite.