餃子餡做法

Visited 誠品書局東湖店 this afternoon. Took bus 284, the path instruction advise to get off at 明湖國小 but after getting off and walked around I discovered that the 康寧路三段 stop is right in front of the bookstore, oh well, next time. Found a book about preparing all kinds of 餡, but the one that is more fundamental and crucial to all 餡 is the basic 餡 preparation - you can say it's the mother of all 餡, I was going to buy the book but after flipping through it I decided I on;y need the first few pages so I attempted memorizing them as much as possible, this is what I remembered:


1. All 餡 has 絞豬肉, usually 600克(~1.2 pound)
2. Chop 絞豬肉 a few more times
3. Add some water, sesame oil, cooking oil(amount is inverse proportion to the fat content of the 絞豬肉), salt, white pepper, soy sauce.
4. Put the above ingredients in a bowl and circularly stir them until pasty
5. Leave it in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

<白菜, 韭菜, 韭黃>
1. Cut to small pieces
2. Sprinkle salt and mix them in a bowl
3. Let it sit for one hour
4. Squeeze and remove water
5. Let it sit for one hour in the refrigerator


<高麗菜>
1. Cut to mid size
2. Broil water
3. 燙高麗菜至半熟
4. Soak in cold water
5. Let dry
6. Chop to small pieces
7. Squeeze to remove water

<雞肉餡>
1. Fine chop 600克(~1.2 pound) 雞肉
2. Add some water, sesame oil, cooking oil(amount is inverse proportion to the fat content of the 雞肉), salt, white pepper, soy sauce.
3. Put the above ingredients in a bowl and circularly stir them until pasty
4. Leave it in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

<蝦肉餡> needs editing
1. Prepare peeled shrimp - ????????
1. Cut 16 mid-size 蝦 each to 4 or 5 pieces
2. Add some water, sesame oil, cooking oil(amount is inverse proportion to the fat content of the 雞肉), salt, white pepper, soy sauce.
3. Put the above ingredients in a bowl and circularly stir them until pasty
4. Leave it in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

First local health care visit

Got up at 6:00 this morning, didn't sleep much through the night though - possibly the thought of going to have my heart examined kept me awake :-)

Got on Bus 617 - this one is supposed to go into 三總 campus and stop at the door, or at least I had this impression that it would - it reached 三總 outer station after about 11 stops, but before it turned into its campus, it moved on and left the area, I hurriedly got off at the next stop(Neihu District Administration Building) and , it took me a while to figure out which bus(across the street) to take me back to the previous stop, by then it was 7:45(15 minutes later), and my registration number had ran up to 96(it would have been below 50 if made it the first time), but luckily I was able to line up for the morning session although my turn (#57) appeared to be close to the end of the session. the session won't start until 9:00 am so I went back home to have a light breakfast, in order not to miss my turn, I went back to the hospital around 9:30. I checked the number that is currently being serviced and decided to take a walk (in fact, I took at least half dozen such walk later on) to kill some time. To my surprise, the hospital was full of people/patients no matter which section of the hospital I strolled by, maybe this is normal in Taiwan but the easiness for people to see a doctor may not be a good thing because people would stop taking care of themselves seriously thinking doctors/hospitals are readily available whenever needed/or not. Seeing so many people on crutches, walking canes, walkers, and wheelchairs made me think about my own fate - I'd rather live a short but healthy life than long and miserable one.
The morning session doctor had 80 patients registered, he has to finish all within 3 hours (maybe 30 extension), you can see the amount of attention he can provide to each patient is very limited.
I went to a electrocardiogram before seeing the doctor, I told the doctor about my irregular heartbeat and rapid heartbeat encounters but he brushed it off and saying it is not abnormal and he couldn't do anything for me - no prescription, no additional tests,... and simply let me go, well it is for better and for worse - I can simply stop worrying about problems with my heart but still need to take care of it by myself. This will likely be my last stop here.

National Health Insurance Application

After nearly 10 days of agonizing, I finally got my Health Insurance IC card - I can see a doctor without paying full price now. Here are the stuff I went through:

- Arriving Taiwan at 10:00 pm 5/8/2009
- Went to Neihu District Administration office to submit health insurance addition application. It on;y took 2 minutes wait for bus(630) and 5 minutes ride to get to Neihu administration building, was called right after I got the number. getting a copy of the household registration paper took a while but the process completed in 10 minute, but they said because they are in "停檔" period from 5/12 to 5/20, my information won't be entered into the system until the 20th, meaning I am not officially qualified to see a doctor under the National Health Insurance policy - I need to personally go to the Health Insurance Bureau on the 20th to get the IC card to be qualified,.. sigh.....
- Called the Administration office to confirm that the Health Insurance Bureau have my information. Took the 630 bus and got off at 仁愛中山路口 and walked 10 minutes to National Health Insurance Bureau Taipei office, took only 2 minutes to process the application, but took 15 minutes to get the IC card - but it is well worth the waiting - time was 10:30 am. Walked to 228 Memorial Park, found out that the National Taiwan Museum is open free to the public the whole month of May, on exhibition were "Deep Sea Wonders", "Native Taiwainese tribes", and a few regulars. Spent one and half hour there - could have been loger but the air conditioning was too cold for me, had to get out before I cought a cold. Walked around the blocks for a while and had lunch at Burger Kings - Warper meal as usual, cost NT $139. Browsed at "天龍 bookstore" but didn't buy anything. Took MRT at "臺大醫院站" and got off at "圓山站", took Bus 21 instead of Bus Red 2 to come back - 21 appeared to be faster probably due to fewer customers - the driver had to asked me where I was getting off because I was the only person left after driving into Neihu.