It used to be that if I liked a restaurant it would inevitably close down. But now it's something new. It's restaurants I like, ceasing to offer the dishes I like. On the one hand this is better as it means the restaurant is still there, but on the other hand it feels even worse when you get in, sit down, and then look on the menu and the object of your desire is gone.
This happened to me not once, but twice for my thanksgiving day. For lunch I planned on going to a restaurant which has horrible food except for the one dish, the lasagna. I think I wrote a post before about how it's the only good lasagna in all of Taiwan, despite how hard other restaurants try. But when I arrived today and sat down, it was no where on the menu and the waiter said it had been taken off the menu.
That prompted me to get up and go someplace else. I eventually settled on a breakfast chain shop that has a variety of sandwiches. However, I then saw that all of the sandwiches are gone, the only they sell now are their hamburgers (hamburgers are a breakfast food in taiwan).
It was quite a blow to my thanksgiving. With the small comfort being that on the weekend i had some good meals at some favorite places so that was really my thanksgiving, since I knew i would be busy on actual thanksgiving day. But I'm still worried that this trend will continue and that places I like will stop having the dishes i go there for.
Pictured above is one of the many tgi friday's that they have in taipei. I took a picture on my walk trying to decide what to eat, and I laughed that no matter how sad I was, i wouldn't go so low as to eat at Friday's. But I also took a picture because I am not sure if i ever mentioned that Friday's here used to be decent enough, but about six years ago they changed their cooking style and/or ingredients and the food there just became horrible. This even led a friend to quit working there. This is a good example of yet another food bad news, places I like which change their cooking style or ingredients and I no longer like them.
I really should just stop eating food and get on an all oxygen diet.
