Taipei to Seoul

End of the trip...

Some kind of pork noodle soup in the Taipei airport.

Airplane food on the flight back to Seoul.

That night we wandered over to Myeongdong, which is a pretty popular shopping district in Seoul which Sue had not seen yet.

We just chose a restaurant at random.

"Salad", which seems to often be cabbage based in Korea.

The main course. Some sort of *really* spicy meat (I think it was chicken) with rice, a few piece of tteok (glutenous rice cake) and two tater tots on the side (huh?).

We also stopped off for some ice cream. This was really weird as the "toppings" (or underings?) for this included fruit, beans, and tomatoes!!! (I guess they're technically fruits, but it tasted pretty odd with ice cream.)

And that's that! Except for the flight back to the US (airport food in Seoul and airplane food later), that concludes our Asian culinary adventure!

Taipei

Beef noodle soup for brunch.

Market in a narrow alley.

Ice cream one shaved ice with fruit.

Taipei

We didn't take as many food pictures during the rest of the trip...

Street food stands.

Dumplings.

Mr. Donut! This chain is probably my favorite after Krispy Kreme, but I have only seen them in Japan and now Taiwan.

Pearl milk tea.

HCMC to Taipei

We went out in search of pho again for breakfast, but went to a different place this time.

The pho.

We also checked out another market in Cholon (HCMC's Chinatown).

Produce.

Lotus root.

Unknown fruit. Somewhat like durian and jackfruit in shape, but an entirely different color.

???

Dried items.

For lunch, we went to another fancy restaurant.

Frozen edamame and green mango (with basil, small dried shrimps and fish sauce).

Shrimp chips and pork with shrimp, onions and some other veggies.

Clams.

A much stronger fish sauce. I think this one is actually made with dried brine shrimps or something like that. Not sure if this is the infamous "vietnamese tear gas."

Wild boar in curry and coconut milk.

The tea came with gigantic chunks of ice to keep things cool.

Grilled frogs.

The veggies for the "Thai" soup shown below.

The veggies included "sea spinach", coriander, banana tree trunk, morning glory, some unknown bitter vegetable, and some kind of celery-like item as well.

Tje kitchen area is open for viewing.

That afternoon, we took our flight to Taipei.

Airplane food. Can't tell you what all of that is...