Mary Porsa 2

Merry Porsa 2 is a coffee shop and restaurant in Kaohsiung City (near the Cultural Center) with a variety of foods, both Western and Chinese style. It is owed by a MAK student's family (see photo above, family on right).

Inside the restaurant

 Directions to Mary Porsa 2:
This restaurant is easiest to find via the MRT. To get there, take the MRT to the Cultural Center stop, and exit at President's department store. Keep walking straight out of the exit (along JhongJeng, towards the freeway) until you reach this sign:

 Turn left and walk about two blocks. The restaurant is on the corner, as pictured at the top. Parking is moderate along the alley and is available for a fee at the President's Department Store.

Two desserts and a cup of blueberry tea.

Pizza at Mary Porsa 2

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The "small" and "Greek" restaurant in Dashe

The design of this restaurant is quite curious and fun. The food is moderately good and the atmosphere is fun (such as in the "small" room shown below). However, the food is, strangely enough, not Greek. They have coffees, hot pots, pasta, and fancy drinks. 

The pasta dishes come with a yummy soup and salad on the side (plus a sweet tea, too). The other two dishes below are a hot pot and pesto-sauce spaghetti with shrimp. The partial menu posted at the bottom has these two items marked in red (with the pork hotpot at the top and the spaghetti at the bottom).

 

Directions from MAK: This restaurant is right next to the 814 grocery store in Dashe. Go down the main road (JhongShan) until you see the 814 grocery store (nearly all the way down the road in Dashe). There's parking right outside of the restaurant (and potentially at 814). 

九逗窩: That "Cute little European-style restaurant" in Yanchao

In the mood for pasta or hotpot close to home? Want a set meal or curry? Hungry after hiking the reservoir in Yanchao? Then try out this cute little restaurant. Look for this sign above their restaurant and the front of their restaurant that looks like this:

Here are a few dishes you might want to try:
Spicy Thai coconut sauce on rice with an egg (泰式椰香辣...tài shì yé xiāng là...)

Baked chicken in a creamy sauce (with noodles or rice under the cheese): 奶油醬焗雞 nǎi yóu jiàng jú jī

A set meal  套餐 tào cān

Northern Thai spicy claypot rice 泰北辣瓦煲饭 tài běi là wǎ bào fàn

 

Spaghetti (義大利麵 yì dà lì miàn)

 

Here is the menu (click for a larger view):

Directions from MAK: When turning on to the "main" road (that runs under the freeway), turn right (towards E-Da Hospital). When the road T's into the next major road, turn left at the light. Turn right at the first light (as if you're going to part of E-Da Hospital). Follow this road straight for several kilometers to the town of Yenchao/Yanchao. Once in the city, look for the the hamburger/chicken sandwich shop with the pelican symbol (Dan Dan Hambow). The restaurant is just past that intersection, on the right-hand side. 

Parking: Moderate

Costs: Moderate.