We had an "every day is an adventure" kind of lunch today. We've biked by a sweet looking cafe numerous times and decided today to finally stop. It's right on the bike path, overlooking the Love River, about five minutes from our apartment. I refer to it as the cafe in a glass. This morning was very rainy so the effect of being in all that glass with the rain washing down the walls was like being in some kind of weird inverted fish bowl.

When we walked in the waiter wanted very much to help us but his English was no better than my Chinese. The menu was all in Chinese, which is not uncommon, so we did what we often do in that case and just chose by price. Lunch for NT$260 sounds delicious. There aren't many foods that Lee and I won't try and we figure the worst that can happen is we leave the table a bit hungry. I could tell the waiter was uncomfortable with our just randomly making a choice. I guess there were options with the choices we made - what flavor "sauce," coffee or tea, did we want mushrooms with the eggs?

We finally got all of the selections made and waited eagerly for our mystery food to arrive. While we waited, I got out my phone and tried to get Google translate to interpret our bill.

What did we order? "Full division 7 thermal, "fresh vegetable sticks big lesson," and "fresh whole Maishi division II." This is what finally came to our table.

T

The food was delicious and the coffee was excellent. I was, however, a bit disappointed with Google.