Good Food and Stupid Medicine

YESTERDAY

Last night, Heidi and I met up with fellow Fil-Chi's Keryl and Wayne for dinner. They have been living around the 師大 campus since February this year so they know which places offer good food.

I was a bit late in meeting up with them because I got distracted by a giant Oreo. I did a double-take and had to go back and take pictures of the monster. I wasn't aware that Heidi, Keryl and Wayne already saw me and was watching me gleefully take pictures of the Oreo monster. Hahaha!

We ate at a Korean BBQ restaurant which is famous around the place. I wasn't able to take any pictures of the place because I was already hungry, and the talk was non-stop. :-D


TODAY

I ran out of Vitamin C yesterday so I bought some new ones locally. This morning was my first day to try out the new vitamins, and I think that I almost choked to death! Hahaha!

So the new vitamins are LARGE - not like the ones in the Philippines. See Domo-kun's demonstration below where the new vitamin tablet (big yellow round one) is so much larger than the regular-sized ones (orange capsule) we have in the Philippines.


Anyway, I drank it like how we drink capsules and tablets in the Philippines - place it at the back of my tongue and drank a mouthful of water. It got stuck in my thoat!

The initial reaction of my body was to spit out the stuff but the tablet was already wedged deep in my throat so it won't come out. I tried jumping around, drinking hot water, eating stuff, and massaging my neck to make the tablet go down but none of them worked. I did those things for around 30 minutes, and I was ready to cry and go to the school infirmary. I was already so tired and my throat already hurt so much; I was also so full of food and water because I been trying to push the tablet down. (Haha!)

Anyway, I finally gave up trying to get the tablet down and just sat down to rest for a while when I suddenly felt the tablet slide slowly down to my stomach. (The next step is the stomach, right?) I gave a loud "HAH!", got my backpack, and finally went to school for class.

Later that day, I told my experience to Jen and Wayne only to find out that those tablets are chewables. *STUPID ME!* Wayne made me feel better when he told me that the same thing happened to him the first time he ate local vitamins. I swear, there wasn't any "chewable" word on the bottle - I looked a billion times! And anyway, aren't chewables supposed to look cute like those Flintstone ones we ate when we were kids?

Anyway, for lunch and dinner, I ate at this 便當 place that Keryl and Wayne showed us. It's similar to the Philippines' turo-turo where you have a lot of dishes to choose from but you get your own viands into your own plate (unlike in turo-turo where the canteen peeps get it for you). After getting your viands, you show your plate to the counter; and the guy there "guestimates" how much to charge you.

I paid NT$65 for my lunch and NT$39 for dinner. Hahahaha! Maybe I'll just eat there for my whole stay in Taiwan!