T2014 Zhu Ji

 3 plates of ready prepared dishes called 小菜(literal translation: 小 small 菜vegetable).  These dishes were placed on the counter and customers would just take whichever dish that they fancy to their own table. Here is the full list of the 小菜 that are available. Most of the 小菜 are cold dishes (not ice cold but just cool enough to be called cold). Many restaurants and small eateries would have a few dishes of 小菜for their customers to select.

In the above photo, we have selected:
干絲(素) - Strips of dried tofu (cold) - TWD40 (2014 price) about MYR5  This is one of our favourite dishes so we would often choose this.
花椰菜 -  Broccoli (cold) - TWD40
醬燜苦瓜(素) - White Bitter Gourd Braised in a special sauce - TWD60 about MYR7.50

This is a small bowl of millet porridge (小米粥) - TWD25 (MYR3). I think some would say this bowl of millet porridge is tasteless or bland because it is just plain millet porridge without any seasoning because one is supposed to eat this porridge with the 小菜dishes. I have not seen this millet porridge being served here, not even in Taiwanese restaurants in KL.

 牛肉捲餅 (Niú ròu juàn bǐng) - beef wrap - TWD120 (about MYR15). I like to eat this beef wrap but in some eateries, the wrap skin is too tough for me to chew properly.

Beef slices and cucumber are the fillings in this beef wrap.

 花素蒸餃(非素) - steamed vegetable dumplings but is not a vegetarian dish. - TWD120

 It is not a vegetarian dish because it has bits of eggs and garlic in it along with glass noodles and vegetables.

 Zhu Ji (朱記餡餅粥店 - Zhū jì xiàn bǐng zhōu diàn) has many branches. We went to the branch located within a food court in a departmental store opposite our inn in Ximending, Taipei. Their website is  http://www.zhuji.com.tw/

Please click on the above photo for a larger view of our order chit. There are la mian (noodle), soup, chinese style pork chop and fried rice in the order form too which we did not order because what we have ordered above is enough for the 3 of us.