Place: Taipei, Hong Kan Cantonese Dim Sum & Banquet Restaurant
Travel note snippet: Also within the last few days of 2008, one evening I suddenly received an invitation from Senior Zongxian (MFT), asking if I wanted to have dinner together. Having nothing else to do, I took the MRT from Kunyang Station to Ximen Station, where one of Hong Kan Cantonese Dim Sum's three Taipei branches is located. Attendees were mostly university department seniors working at Asus or Pegatron, including Senior Zongxian, Senior Xiangyao, Senior Chuanhuang, Senior Ade, Senior Qingwen who recently moved from Pegatron to Trend Micro, plus Afu, Xiangqin who is now studying piano in Paris, and me, Morgan—eight people in total. Since I had been to Guangzhou on business and for travel before, I had eaten at Cantonese restaurants or dim sum quite often, so I still miss the varied dishes and small bites. We ordered a whole table of items, including fried rice, crispy noodles, cheung fun, char siu bao, shumai, har gow, beef balls, etc. After the meal, using Senior Zongxian's discount coupon, each person spent less than 400 NTD. For typical Cantonese dim sum prices, that's acceptable. However, my impression a…