Well, I spent 24 hours in bed yesterday, very ill, and unable to eat anything. I just drank lots of water. Today, I'm quite a bit better, but while my system is recovering, but I'm staying off food for another day. However, I'm at that stage where I can think about food, and in fact I can dream happily about it. When I dream about food, a likely place to feature is Taiwan, where I was on my walkabout, as described earlier. One of the things I love about the place is the remarkable variety of high quality and delicious food which is available everywhere, and at a wide range of times of the day. I'll focus on smaller places for now.... street food and small places selling noodles and dumplings. A typical street-food scene is something like this: