There is a lot of food here

It seems food is its own event in Taiwan. Every meal we have enjoyed has been a big affair - multiple course (or perhaps one 3 hour course with multiple dishes served along the way.







Last night we ended up at a Japenese Restaurent with all the top brass of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. We were at a round table for 20 people around a huge lazy-susan and for about 3 hours the round-about went round about with different exotics flashing by while we endeavoured to snag some morsels to our plate using only chopsticks - we should have been warned that this was a chopstickes only trip. The things we could identify were lobster, beef, ginger, 7 different species of fish, crab, abalone, prawns the size of a telephone handset. Much more that we don't really want to know what it was.







Anne and I sat with the General Secretary of the PCT so we had to be on our best behaviour and try everything. Beside him was the moderator and next to the moderator was the Chief Administrator of the Tainan hospital. He was the host for this event so he kept going around the ring keeping everybody's beer glass full. The advantage of a small juice glass of beer is lost when it is refilled six times. As well as our table of 20 there were four other tables of about 15 people each consisting of various church officials and hospital officials.

We have met and gotten to like the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, a young minister from Vienna Austria, the General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of NE India and various other church folks. At the opening ceremonies today we sat with Rev. Dr. Ted Siverns and his wife from the PCC. He is teaching at the seminary in Tainan.

Posted by Scott