What are the odds that you went to a place out of serendipity and only to find later someone actually made a film about that place? What's more, the film later surpasses everyone's expectation and becomes best selling film for Taiwan? But hold on -- even trickier is the fact that the single one restaurant you dined at when you're in that place is named the same to the movie!
In plain English, I went to Monga when I was in Monga neighborhood at the time that Monga was showing in Taiwan.
But before I get time trickled fast like sand in timer and aimlessly dramatic further -- and most importantly, you fell asleep, I want to tell you that Monga is the antiquated name for the Wanhua District, a place widely known for its night markets (and the one and only Snake Alley in Taipei where you can go and devour, you know, snake). See, how things are coming together?
We went to Monga, a daipaidong-styled restaurant same as manly as the movie, to try out its famous jiang mu ya hotpot (薑母鴨煲). Jiang for aged gingers and mu ya for equally aged ducks (edit note: mu in this context doesn't annotates gender; its a Taiwanese dialect that means old).
