The restaurant is named “688 Beef Bowl”, and is located at Taipei’s busy Zhongxiao Road. The restaurant has been operating for 18 years and most of their beef noodles are priced around NT$150-300… the expensive noodles are only sold on limited basis and need to be pre-ordered.
I am not sure why the beef noodle cost so much; it seems like it’s not using special ingredients… the high cost was probably attributed by the quality of the beef. The restaurant owner has spent 5 years to search for the high quality beef to make this beef noodle… and a nice piece of beef could be really costly, obviously.
Japanese variety show “TV Champion 2″ held an origami competition last week with Chuya Miyamoto challenging Satoshi Kamiya. Below are three video clips which showed their amazing origami skills… [Hat tip to Japanprobe]
The origami artists’ creation with a restaurant receipt… Miyamoto created a restaurant employee with the restaurant logo featuring at the centre of the apron; Kamiya created a cow with its calf
The 2nd Asian Film Awards (AFA) were presented on March 17 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in conjunction with the 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Korean movie “Secret Sunshine” (밀양; Milyang) is the biggest winner with 3 major awards (complete list). Below are some pics from the event…
Hong Kong actor Tony Leung (best actor) and Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon (best actress)
Olive9 Entertainment, talent agency for Korean star Choi Ji-woo, is in war of words with Hong Kong media, claiming that the HK press is maliciously trying to bring down Choi’s image.
Olive9 is responding to reports which claimed that the Korean actress was drunk and behaved inappropriately in the LVMH party last Friday (Mar 14, 2008). Choi and her reps strongly denied the reports and stated that she didn’t drink at all.
Choi Ji-woo at the LVMH party; the guy is Hong Kong star Chow Yun Fat
At first glance, Choi does seem like tipsy from the photos; but then, photos could be deceiving sometimes… we’ll have to choose what we want to believe.
Point is, it’s a party, people do get drunk. As long as they are not too misbehaved (thrown up or taking off their cloths etc) and have friends around to take care of them when needed… we should just let it be ain’t so? If normal people could get drunk and gone wild occasionally, why are celebrities forbidden to do so?
Korean pop star BoA has revealed the ’secret to her beautiful voice’ in a recent Japanese radio show… apparently all she needs is a bowl of noodles and a happy stomach.
Korean pop star BoA… someone give her a ramyeon please…
“I like noodles. I frequently go to restaurants and eat ramyeon (noodles). I can’t sing well if I’m hungry. People don’t recognize me when I’m in a restaurant,” BoA shared. [Krnloop]
I bet the Koreans and Japanese noodles-maker are working on their accounts now to get BoA as their spokesperson.
Korean stars Kwon Sang-woo and Song Seung-hun met the press on Mar 17 (2008) in Seoul for a special media screening of their latest movie, “Destiny” (“Sookmyeong” or “Fate”).
Director Kim Hae-gon, co-stars Kim In-kwon and Park Han-byul were also at the event.
Song Seung-hun and Kwon Sang-woo at the special press screening
