Weekend Warriors

I've decided that Taipei is for the hard core. Those with longevity that extends beyond what John and I have to offer. We are now day drinkers. We like to get an early start (preferably before
dinner that way we only need to hit one more spot after dinner and we can head home. But Taipei is a city of weekend warriors. Hard working weeks leads to the much needed release on the weekends and therefore our weekends have been jammed packed with activities, heavy consumption (both food and drinks) and late late nights.
For someone who currently does not hold a job, I've developed many large bags under my eyes.

So let me tell you about the last weekend we had in Taipei. It started off with an amazing meal. Our friend has a cooking show on TLC Asia and John and I were asked to be guests on his show.
This week happened to be Goose Fat (much like bacon but with a gamier taste) So he roasted a goose, baked some potatoes and carrots in goose fat and then steamed some broccoli in goose drippings. It was delicious. Here is John anxiously anticipating some goose fat.

We taped in this beautiful show kitchen provided by Sub-Zero & Wolf and it was a super fun experience. Immediately following taping we met other friends at Carnegie A place where the Stella's flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano...well not so much the beautiful women but the Stella's did flow like wine.
After many-a Stella's John and I headed to China Pa for dinner and a show...or at least that was what we were told. When we showed up we realized it was a "show." We ate our delicious dinner to the tunes of Jay-Z, Bryan Adams, and Pink all performed by these two lovely folks at China Pa.

They danced, they sang and they even got behind glass cages to us their moves. It was hilarious. I would say that we were thoroughly entertained.



From China Pa, we signed our bill with a large feathered boa and headed out to Stream. By now it is definitely 12:30 (2 1/2 hours past John and I's normal bed time). At Stream we met up with even more friends and that was when the Tequila shots and bourbon started happening.

It happened fast and it was painful. We stayed at Stream until about 2:30 and then just when you thought the two of us couldn't actually handle ANY MORE...we hit up on last spot. There are no photos or evidence of the final spot in Taipei because by that time I think I'd actually forgotten what my iStella was capable of.

All in all when we left Primo at 4:45 am we did not feel like rockstars. We felt sore, hammered, and beaten with a wooden paddle.


It was not pretty. The next morning we woke up at 2:00 pm (not proud at all) and to make things just a little worse John turns to me and sheepishly says, "I feel like Chili's" Nothing cures
a hangover like a large burger. All in all it was a super fun night and an even funner weekend but at the end of it all we realized that we are not weekend warriors. We are not even Monthly Warriors. What we have is a case of 3 Times a Year Warriors. For a day during Thanksgiving, New Years, Christmas and maybe the every other Saint Patrick's Day we may put on our armor, work out our liver and pull a 4:30 am'er, but beyond that the most hard core weekend warrior we'll be pulling is a large cup of coffee and maybe a glass of wine.