The Meals Part II

Peter's lovely bride, Tracy has a sibling, her brother, Victor, who happens to live in Boston. Victor is back in Taipei for Peter and Tracy's celebration, but also because he'll be getting married next week! His fiance is Joyce and she lives in Taipei (not for long). She and Victor met at a class in New York, of all places. Now that's the thing; everyone here seems to travel and live all over the world, with the US being a major player. As we were to discover, many of Tracy's relatives and friends flew in from all over the globe. 

Now, Joyce and Victor are a lovely couple. It happens that Joyce lives on the other side of Taipei, so she invited us to visit her neighborhood. Close to her home is the Maokong Gondola. So, we took a gondola ride to

Zhinan Temple,  on our way to the summit MaoKong station. This is not your average gondola ride. The trip is probably 3-4 miles long and the entire journey takes a half day. The summit has beautiful views and lots of great places to eat. We had a great lunch outside overlooking the city center in the distance with Joyce and Tracy each sharing the job of preparing the tea, which is quite interesting (and good).

Zhinan Temple

View from the temple

Joyce prepares the tea

The Tea!

...and it was good! Not much left of the soup, the chicken, the rice...

The Crew

Next up: yes, we had Peking Duck at Dragon Restaurant