Dear friends,
Last weekend, Joyce (my co-worker and friend from Ling Zhou Elementary School) took a couple friends and I go barbecuing at Sugar Park in the Nanzih District in northern Kaohsiung. We spent the day barbecuing lots of meats (pork, beef from Costco, and fish!), riding bikes, and playing frisbee.

Nicole and I love to eat the fish balls (picture to the left). You'll see in the picture below that Derek loves to play frisbee.

There is also a special type of barbecuing that takes place in Taiwan. In Taiwanese, it's called Kong Tou Ye. It's a style of barbecuing that takes one full day and the effort of the whole family. A few people use stones to build a little oven (see picture above). Meanwhile, other people use water, newspaper, and mud to wrap eggs, chicken, and other meats they want to bake.

When the stones get hot enough, you take the all the charcoal inside the oven out and put the things you want to bake inside. The Taiwanese call it "men." Then, you cover the entire thing with dirt. That is, you cover the entire oven with dirt so it bakes the entire stuff inside this little mound of dirt and stones. It's really cool. The picture to the right is a picture of all the foods you would want to bake wrapped in newspaper and mud.

You can check out more pictures here.

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