Local Taiwanese street food brand with 16 takeaway booths opens 1st dine-in eatery
Customers can expect the usual crowd-favourite snacks such as Enoki Mushroom (S$4.60) and Taiwan Seafood Tempura (S$5.30). There are also soups like Golden Clam Chicken Soup (S$8.90) and Soul-full Pickled Chilli Chicken Soup (S$8.90) — perfect for warming you up.
With a comfortable seating area to enjoy I Love Taimei's offerings for a change, is there anything fresh on the menu? You bet!
Start off with light appetisers like the new Braised Beancurd Cubes of Wisdom (S$2.90), Refreshing Pickled Cucumber (S$2.90), Spicy Black Fungus Salad (S$2.90), and Peanut You Can't Resist (S$2.90).
Credit – I Love Taimei
There are also new Taimei signatures like the Drunken-Free Three Cup Chicken (S$7.90), Boss-Level Garlic Scallion Ginger Chicken (S$7.90), and Numbing Hot Peppercorn Chicken (S$7.90).
Currently, I Love Taimei Story has a Set Meal Deal which includes a main, one choice of staple and one appetiser.
With the Taimei Stars Set (S$10.90, U.P. S$12.70), enjoy either the Taiwan Popcorn Chicken or the scrumptious Original Chicken (with one free flavour), paired with your choice of staple: Just Rice, Scallion Oil Fragrant Rice, or 'Power Lah' Braised Chicken Noodles (+S$0.90).
The set also includes a starter — choose from Slow Braised Golden Egg, Taiwanese Pickled Cabbage, or Silky Century Egg Tofu (add S$0.90).
Wow! It looks like the food offerings at West Mall are gradually expanding with the ongoing renovations and new eateries like Gochiya popping up. I can't wait to see what else is in store.
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We really feel the differences in our backgrounds when we're writing lyrics. Due to each of our upbringings, the emotions and thoughts we put into our lyrics are different as well. When we first started working on 'GO!', we wrote our parts separately and tried combining everything later. But when our opinions kept on clashing, we decided to sit down together and write line by line. Even though we had some disagreements, the lyrics ended up better than before. Now, that's pretty much our go-to way of working. We may come from different backgrounds, but we truly feel like one team. Although our styles are all unique, when we work together, everything just flows naturally—it's almost like we're just having fun, and you can really feel that we're on the same wavelength. Seonghyeon:At first, we tried writing lyrics separately and combining them together later. However, since everyone has different opinions on what works and what doesn't, it was pretty tough to find a middle ground. 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'I told him what a huge fan of White Lotus I was, what utter genius it was, and 'how the richness of the characters,' and all the other things I picked up from the reviews I'd read because I'd never seen a frame of it,' Isaacs recalled to Collider. 'I watched all of them in like a day and a half,' he told People magazine. 'I basically sat and stewed in my own filth, watched it, and realized why people had made such a fuss. And then I was a fan.' Sadie Sink exaggerated her roller-skating skills when asked about her background for another challenging sport. Before earning the role of Max in Netflix's Stranger Things, Sadie claimed she was a confident rollerblader, to make up for the fact that she didn't know how to skateboard. "They wanted a girl that had skateboard experience," Sadie told Coveteur. "And I didn't have skateboarding experience at all. They asked me, 'Oh, do you have any rollerblading experience?' I was like, 'Uh sure I do,' which was technically not a lie because I have rollerbladed before. In reality, I probably haven't [roller]skated for a year.' She recalled panicking after seeing a pair of skates in the corner of the audition room, but it turns out she didn't end up needing to use them. Paul Mescal's agent didn't want him to lose out on the role of Connell in Normal People, so he told a little lie about the status of Paul's driver's license. "My agent was like, 'We are not losing this job over you not being able to drive," Paul told Entertainment Weekly. "'So, I'll tell production that you can, and in the meantime, you go off and rattle through as many lessons as you can.'" And if you're a fan of the show, then you probably remember seeing Paul behind the wheel quite frequently, so it looks like the lessons paid off. Lastly, Phoebe Dynevor showed immense enthusiasm for riding horses while preparing to star as Daphne Bridgerton in the hit Netflix historical drama, despite being scared of them. "And I've always said — I don't know why — that I didn't like horses and was scared of them," Phoebe told Glamour in 2021. "But in the audition, when they asked me, 'Have you ridden a horse before?' I was like, 'Yeah, I'm amazing. I've ridden so many horses. I'd be perfect for this role!'" But after a few lessons, she learned to love it more than she anticipated: "I actually loved horseback riding by the end of it and would love to get back on a horse as soon as possible, so that was fun. I felt very much ready to enter the marriage market by the time I finished with everything."
