As with so many foreign foods finding good pizza in Taiwan isn't easy, just like it isn't easy to find good Asian food in, say, Switzerland. (If you live in Switzerland and are thinking that your local Chinese restaurant isn't that bad, chances are it doesn't qualify as good real Chinese food. :-)

Fortunately there are always (plenty of) exceptions to the rule, and Bon Appétit in 竹北 (Zhu bei, Jubei, Chubei, insert your favorite spelling here) is one of them. Here's what their pizza looks like:

Pizza Vegetarina:

Pizza Giardinera:

And yes, they are as good as they look!

Of course, pizza makes hungry for dessert, and what better after pizza than chocolate? So, we went on a little shopping spree in Carrefour and bought as much stuff as we could possibly fit on the scooter. A selection of our items:

The 1.6 kg of chocolate don't quite compare with our visit of the Lindt factory store in Switzerland last summer, which looked something like this:

If you're wondering where all these calories go stay tuned for the next blog post about one of our favorite weekend activities: hiking.