Debut Cafe, Shimen 石門德佈咖啡廳

Designed by ceramics artist Zhang Geming (章格銘), this looks like a great place to spend several hours. Most of the light comes through the windows, it's spacious and it's clean. Not sure how comfortable the student chairs will be after a while, but I'd like to give it a try sometime, perhaps on our next tombsweeping trip to Jinshan.

If you're a fan (like me), you can maybe take a peek and see what Mr Zhang is working on on the bottom floor of the school. If he's there. Maybe. Pity he doesn't sell any of his work here (yet).

http://youtu.be/KZn2PPdcQ1c

Debut Café (Shimen branch)
#47-2 Alilao, Shimen, Xinbei City
former auxiliary campus Qianhua Elementary School

+886 2 2638 2578

德佈咖啡 (石門店)
新北市石門區阿里荖47-2號
原乾華國小分部

Thanks, P-chan!

Cafe Batavia, Jakarta

Cafe Batavia is a restored 19th century (during Dutch rule) building in the old town area in northern Jakarta. I would love to come back here another dozen times.

info from:

http://www.expat.or.id/restaurants/cafebatavia.html

Café Batavia
Taman Fatahillah
(across the square from the Fatahillah Museum)
Kota, Jakarta, Indonesia
Tel +62 21 691-5531

Open 0800 to 0200 Monday-Friday
Weekends 24 hours

Cafe de France, Faust Pizza 明月光披薩

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tqtNbtWJmw

Cafe de France
台北市仁愛路四段502號
502 Renai Rd, Taipei
+886 2 27298860
每天營業
open every day

老闆娘人很好
空間（室內/戶外）很舒適
點心和餐點都OK
價錢也合理
加上可以把隔壁的pizza帶來吃
真是一個好地方呀

The owner is nice, setting is comfortable (both inside and out), food is not bad, price is acceptable and on top of that, I can bring over pizza from next door. A pretty good combination!

Mom, Dad and I have have been here quite a few times. The pizza's really good and the cafe is a great place where we can sit in comfort and order side dishes, drinks and desserts to complement the pizza.

However, I just couldn't figure out why the pizza place owner was so adamant about us not showing any little bit of his pizza on TV. When he declined over the phone to let us film his cooks making pizza, I told him that I understand and in this case, I will not shoot the pizza making process nor introduce his pies, and that the story is not about them or their product. Then he had one of his guys come out and say to me, in the middle of filming next door, "we will sell you pizza if it is for yourself to eat. But we will not sell it to you if it is for filming. Do not let any part of our pizza appear on TV." Although I was uncomfortable with being dictated what to do with something I'm paying for (yes, I paid the regular price of TWD180 for the margherita), I decided to do what he said anyway. I censored the pizza. What we normally censor are logos, store names, the face of abused children or gory bloody body parts. But pizza from Faust on Renai Road is now on the list too. By the way, I wonder what they tell people who eat there. "Leave your cameras and cell phones at the door, please?" Sheez. Well, for kicks (and maybe revenge) here are the Google results of blogs/articles on Faust Pizza 明月光, in English and in Chinese. I  didn't know what I wanted more - to laugh or to go and argue with the guy.

Lucky for us, there were plenty of tables at the cafe who bought and brought over their pizza. Today, filming was more fun than tasting. The margherita is sitting in my refrigerator, still whole, untouched. Breakfast tomorrow, maybe.

Taiwanese version of the story below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P71k1H0o-jg

Panini!

I love warm food, including warm sandwiches.

During an interview with food critic Hu Tienlan exactly one month ago, she told me about Rainbow Cafe's paninis. That was where I made a straight shot for after leaving the studio. I ordered the vegetable pesto panini, and I loved it. Will definitely go back there again. Though the couch I was sitting on was a little broken and uncomfortable, overall it was a nice space to be in for lunch. 謝謝胡老師的推薦！

Rainbow Cafe
台北市忠孝東路四段170巷6弄5號
1F, No.5, Lane 6, Sec. 4,
Chung-Hsiao E. Rd, Taipei, Taiwan
+886 2 2772 6603
Mon-Sun 12:00~24:00