Ramen Champion at Iluma

NICI Beaver is at Ramen Champion at Iluma today.

Ramen Champion consolidates 6 popular ramen stalls from Japan.

Once you step in Ramen Champion at Iluma, you can see all 6 ramen stalls.

Ramen Champion is like a food court of ramen.

All you have to do is to queue at your chosen ramen stall at Ramen Champion.

Once you order your ramen, you will get a UFO looking device and a payment card and you can proceed to go back to your seats.

The device will ring when your ramen order is ready and you go back to the ramen stall to collect your ramen.

Ramen Champion's Black Shoyu Ramen from Menya Iroha

Ramen Champion's Jiro Ramen from Bario. This is similar to the Shinjiro Ramen at Menya Shinchan which we visited previously. But the portion is not as humongous as the Shinjiro Ramen.

Ramen Champion's tonkotsu ramen from Hakata Ikkousha.

We ordered an additional chicken karaage.

Out of the 3 ramen we tried at Ramen Champion, the ramen from Hakata Ikkousha is the best. The tonkotsu (pork bone soup) edges out the other two ramen which has pretty much tasteless broth.

Ramen Champion at Iluma is definitely not worth the visit. Santouka Ramen anyday!

NICI Loulou

NICI Loulou is NICI Valentine's 2012 offering.

NICI Loulou is a beautiful enchanting lady dog.

NICI Loulou has many admirers and she gets lots of love letters.

NICI Loulou merchandise are full of love.

A pair of matching love!

NICI Candy Love Hippo and NICI Loulou both share a cute love on their left foot.

NICI Loulou reminds us of our Maltese dog..

She's lots of fun and steals your heart instantly with her amicable smile =)

White Dog Cafe at Vivo City

Today NICI Beaver will be introducing White Dog Cafe at Vivo City!

White Dog Cafe is a western food restaurant but we are not here for the food.

NICI beaver is at White Dog Cafe for the BEER!

Specifically, we came to White Dog Cafe for the Erdinger beer! $6.50 per pint (500ml).

White Dog Cafes Erdinger dunkel beer per pint at $6.50

Erdinger lager at $6.50 all day long at White Dog Cafe. No extra or hidden charges

The potato wedges at White Dog Cafe is highly recommend to go with the Erdinger beer. $4.90 per plate with mayonnaise and chilli sauce.

There are sofa seats at White Dog Cafe where you can relax and drink the Erdinger beer.

White Dog Cafe is probably the cheapest place to enjoy a pint of Erdinger beer after a long tiring shopping day at Vivocity. Do note that the Erdinger is from the bottle, not draft.

NICI Tiger Dragon

The latest NICI Dragons are here!! *REWIND*

Wait..something's fishy about the dragons..

NICI Dragon eyes checked.

NICI Dragon paws checked.

NICI Tiger head?...

They are NICI Tiger Dragons! Specially made for the asian market for Chinese New Year 2012. This year is the dragon year, hence the idea to combine the nici tiger and dragon.

NICI Tiger Dragons and our Hugo Wolf have one thing in common..

Their hood can be removed to reveal the true Tiger/Wolf within

NICI Tiger Dragons come in 3 sizes. 25cm 35cm and 50cm. The 50cm NICI Tiger Dragon is huge!

Taipei Tamsui part 2

For those who missed us on the previous episode of Taipei Tamsui Old Street, click on the link for part 1. Hugo Wolf spotted on the train from Taipei Main Station to Tamsui Station.

Welcome to part 2 of Tamsui old street. It was Saturday evening with a massive crowd here at Tamsui.

Another stall selling Tamsui fish balls and ah gei.

Fishing!

This Tamsui fish ball stalls was mentioned in the Taipei travel book but our filled up stomach did not allow us to go for more fish balls.

A cute Piggy sign, but it wasn't selling pork.

The street is getting dark.

It is only 5:30pm and the sky is already as dark as nightfall! Let's see what other local Tamsui delicacies we can find!

Another quail egg stall at Tamsui.

We spot a temple at Tamsui old street

Have no idea what fruit is that.

Walking back to where we started.

The crowd at Tamsui never rest!

Fruit stall at Tamsui selling pink guava! We have never seen pink guava before! Have you? Taiwan's pink guava is very sweet, juicy and crunchy!

Hello Hugo!

A curious onlooker sets his eyes on Hugo Wolf, as usual, getting attention everywhere.

It says German pork knuckle! Wow

And another interesting stall - Deep fried durian!

Shida Night Market, Ximending, Jiu Fen, Keelung coming up soon. Stay tuned! (^_^)