T.G.I Friday's Gloria Outlets

Since not that much restaurants in Gloria Outlets. This is the best restaurant by far and its located at the  corner of ground floor. First impressions; As we entered the restaurant, we found the signature of this dining place. Wooden with red leather sofa, slogans and posters adorned the walls. The restaurant is very spacious, the decor was as usual, it is casual dining sophisticated modern touch and yet exceptionally well done. The divide between restaurant or the grill and bar works well. There is also a outdoor dining for someone who are smoking.

Moving on the menu; We decided to try their garlic and basil bruschetta a slightly a bit cold nevertheless it was delicious with the hint of caramelise balsamic vinegar.

We also try the tropical splash shrimp salad its simply refreshing.

Since Friday's are well know for various of drinks and cocktails. We choose a non alcoholic drinks; A strawberry lemonade crush without red bull, triple berry smoothie, and coke zero.

For the entree; We order the Bacon cheeseburger served with fries it was huge!

Net up is the Championship barbecue ribs with sauce at the top, compliment with additional sauce. I choose the rib eye steak with mushroom sauce, serves with grilled vegetables and mashed potato.The ribs was delicious and my steak was excellent; nice and season and flavorful.

When you order the grill menu. You can have the grilled lobster tail for additional NT$490. And this is my favorite part. The lobster was very fresh, sweet and tender, nice season as well.

And for the finale, we had the mocha mud pie pops. Our server was excellent her smiling feels comfortable talking at her. The dishes are decent size though and the prices are still high.

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T.G.I Friday's GLORIA OUTLETS 華泰名品城

No. 189, Chunde Rd, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Tel No: 03-287-0878

Website: http://www.tgifridays.com.tw/

Frank's Texas BBQ

Nestled on Taoyuan County, as everyone knows Frank's Texas BBQ holds a charming cowboy atmosphere. As you're driving along the road of Dasi Township, you could easily pass it by. The rustic wood structure with triangle roof-top on one end is where the indoor dining area is located, and serves a set meal authentic American Tex Mex cuisine.

After we went to Taoyuan Hsien Kou for tulip flower festival. My family and I happened to arrive in past 1:00 PM it was crowd and we waited for a few minutes to be seated. As you enter Frank's Texas Grill you'll notice right away that this place is too crowded and tight with young people. Right after the entrance, is the counter with American flag and wagon wheel chandeliers on display that has transformed into a peice of ranch style Texas. They also have a sound system and play American or classic country music which adds to the atmosphere.

We ordered their set meal combo serve with bread, salad with drinks of your choice: Claire had the 8.oz fillet mignon loaded with baked chili bean in tangy sauce, fries, mashed potato, coleslaw, corn and compliments with cheese cake for the dessert. The fillet mignon was a perfect medium rare. It tasted great and a nice texture to it.

My husband choose the 10.oz red wine pepper steak consisting beef with red wine cream sauce, serve with baked chili beans, coleslaw, mashed potato and corn. The beef had an awesome and impressive flavor, and proved to be incredibly tender and juicy. The creamy sauce, blended from meat juices was exquisite and was a fantastic tender meat. He also loved the fresh of their slaw! Since his not a big fun and not that impressive of American dinning. I was suprised when he told me that we will be back next time and we will try their other dishes.

Charles choose the wrangler rib eye 10.oz special with baked chili bean, coleslaw, mashed potato and corn. Like the other steak it was delicious!

And I had the grilled lake trout with Mexican rice. I really loved my fish, it was very fresh and cooked to perfection.

The Mexican rice, baked chili bean, and hot salsa sauce a great side dish for my grilled fish was a pretty health sized plate.

We ordered fish and chips loaded with fries for all of us to share. It was huge when it came, we expect it just a little. Below on the menu is on the level of snack age. This fish and chips can be consider as a main course also.

The fish and chips plate featured 3 fresh fillets I guess it was a cod that were flakey and perfectly fried. The battered not too heavy it was light and crispy and delightfully golden. And I loved the tartar sauce, based on mayo and chopped pickle relish. I'm just thinking there's a lot of oil or cholesterol to kick in.

And we were serve with this very simple fresh salad before our main course.

The meal came with complementary fresh bread. They were warm soft middle with butter filling, crispy crusty outside.

For my dessert, I choose the A&W root beer float in a nice big frosty mug with creamy vanilla ice cream on the side of root beer.

We also shared the hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream. It featured huge chunks of apple was good but comparing to the apple strudel it wasn't impressive to our linking.

The plain cheese cake is fluffy when you stick your fork. It just melts in a sweet cloud of goodness not too sweet, just right!

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All in all, just the right environment for great barbeque and definitely worth stopping for. The service was fast, the meal was very good, the dessert probably wasn’t needed.

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Frank's Texas BBQ-邊界驛站 (Taoyuan Branch)
桃園縣大溪鎮瑞安路二段249-1號
249-1, Ruian Road, Section 2, Dasi Township, Taoyuan County
Contact No: 03-3881559
Website:
Frank's Texas BBQ

Chinglin

The Chinglin Farm and Restaurant is another tourist spot, where guests can find a variety of blooming flowers. The garden is planted with all sorts of flower and plant species. A very vibrant colored flowers during cold seasons specially on spring time. I don't even know that there were many kinds of flowers here. I will be back on autumn or spring time.

Also consider going out and having a meal. Then, if you have the fun of doing something different. They provide a D.I.Y dried flower, you can design your own flower arrangements.

As I walked in at the counter it caught my eyes this nest filled with tiny dried corns hanging on the bar and think about the tamales next time.

And barely noticeable is the Chinglin restaurant with palms and lush subtropical foliage.

Of course our day is not complete without having afternoon break, as we enjoy the surroundings. We order of iced coffee's and desserts. This waffle with fruits and chocolate sauce was a light, zesty and not to dry thanks to the fruits involved at the sides.

Tiramisu

Chocolate cake

Iced coffee with coconut milk was mild in sugar and thirst quenching. After a whole day searching for a good lotus flower and sunflower in other area of Taoyuan County. Because of the weather sometimes is windy with heavy rain and it last for 2 weeks, we couldn't find one just like last year.

Iced cafe latte and cappuccino

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Chinglin
桃園縣觀音鄉大堀村大湖路二段131-1號
Taoyuan County
Contact No: 03-4987747
http://www.chinglin.com/

Taiwanese foods from Sansia

Minquan Old Street

Before we headed to Manyueyuan Forest Park the Dongman hiking trail , we took a lunch break and enjoying the Taiwanese foods Minquan old street in Sansia Taoyuan at  business street built during the Japanese rule, it is a very well preserved example of Chinese and with mixed Japanese colonial architecture of the time. The street features stores selling art, ceramics, and local specialty foods  and the most notably delicious "Bull Horn Croissants" it comes in many flavors, as well as with ice cream.

 Taiwanese foods

Taiwanese sticky rice

Thinly sliced of braised belly pork

Noodles with minced pork in bean sauce

Hot and sour fish soup

Taiwanese wanton noodle soup

Hakka style turnip cake