Location: Taipei, The Landis Taipei, Paris 1930 French Restaurant
Travel Note: The Landis Taipei, Paris 1930 French Restaurant - 20oz 28-day dry-aged ribeye steak ($8,200+10%). Boss Liang just returned to Taiwan this afternoon and invited Morgan for dinner tonight, so we came here. The set menu at Paris 1930 includes two appetizers, a seafood dish, and a dessert besides the main course. I ordered Gillardeau oysters, caramel chocolate foie gras, nori-wasabi tuna, and coconut chocolate yogurt snowball. Each dish showcases the chef's creativity, full of delightful surprises—no wonder people say cooking is an art. Boss Liang has a wide network; tonight, we ran into his old friend Mike, CFO at UBS Hong Kong, and his fiancée, also dining here. Boss Liang opened an extra bottle of French Chateau de Sales 2005 red wine and had the waiter send it over to them. Chatting away, Boss Liang mentioned their recent high school reunion, where he discovered that the son of an old classmate living in the U.S. is actually one of the founders of YouTube (if I'm not mistaken, that should be Steve Chen). Taiwan is still such a small place :P. Paris 1930 underwent a NT$30 million renovation at the end of …
