For more than a few years, my best mate the Big Boy has been living and establishing a business in Taipei. It's a long way to visit from Australia, but just a short flight from Hong Kong, so I've been able to get across to visit a few times. As usual, when visiting any country, I try hit up the better restaurants, so I can check out the local dining scene. During my first visit, earlier in the year, we tried to get into Taipei's hottest restaurant RAW; but to no avail. That place was hard to get into!
I decided there had to be another way, so for my most recent visit to Taipei, I did a little more research and realised that their might be another way. RAW is Andre Chiang's first foray into his native homeland after establishing himself as one of Asia's top restaurant, Andre in Singapore (ranked #5 in Asia's top 50). As luck would have it, I became mates with a guy who was a little bit connected in the Singaporean food scene and was well acquainted with Chef Andre. Before too long, I'd secured a table on a Saturday night! (Thanks EB!)
I was pretty excited to be honest, Taipei has a burgeoning food scene, largely being driven by the likes of Andre Chiang, and RAW was said to be the pick of the new breed of Taiwanese cuisine.
