Oh hell no. If I wanted any of that, I’ll go to a proper night market stand, not Costco.
I tried the Braised Pork Rice and I got Diarrhea within 2 hours.
Tasted fine, but it pretty clearly made me sick (only other things I had: plain Costco Hotdog, and cup of coffee)
So you’d say about seven out of ten then, for Taiwanese food? Eight?
It’s a Costco 5/10 - same level as the hotdogs (hotdogs don’t give me water diarrhea, but they are unremarkable).
I wish Costco would put Chickenbakes on the menu!
Anyone been through the scanners yet? I see lot’s of discussion on local FB about privacy concerns on the apparently “compulsory” required photo taking that’s not actually legal and can be disputed with staff. No doubt lengthy queues develop behind the disputers…
I was at the Neihu branch and the scanner was in place. I have the Costco app so I just scanned my barcode - no problem. I was hoping that it would thin out the looky-loos, but it turns out there are plenty of card carrying tasters to fill the space. Some lines had 20 people waiting for a sample at 7pm.
That’s probably my daughter and me.. better than shopping with my wife!
Well, my photo is so old the cashier did not recognize me!
Food court updates:
All hail the return of the large cheese pizza! (or at least me, and at the Zhonghe location as of at least today.)
I spotted this as I was checking out and laughed out loud, so much that the woman checking out in front of me wondered what I was laughing about. It had been so long I could hardly believe it.
My old protocol was to enter the food court first, order a pizza, then pick it up and deposit it in my basket to cool while shopping. Then after checkout transfer it to plastic storage bags so I can fit it in my shopping bag as I drive a scooter and can’t transport the big box. But today I didn’t bother even checking before entering. While checking out I just glanced up to confirm the usual disappointment but there it was on the menu, and still at the old price! Who knows what causes these interruptions but this time I had almost given up and glad to see its return. I immediately lined up and bought one.
There was also a new braised pork rice offering at about NT$90 and something I think was Japanese Oden at about the same price.
Btw, this was my first time entering with the new check-in with member card and it went smoothly. There are still personnel to see that it is goes ok but I think they will be eliminated in cost cutting efforts in the future.
So I witnessed some onion weirdness firsthand. I walked by a lady who was seated and eating a slice of pizza. It was seafood pizza, and it was LOADED with onions on top. She couldn’t pick it up without making a mess so she folded the slice in half and jabbed it with a fork to keep her onion-pizza sandwich intact. I was at a stand-up table in the food court and glanced at her now and then. She finished the sandwich and even placed fallen pieces of onion in her mouth at the end.
There’s no way that tasted good. But I guess she just could not pass up all you can eat free food.
Hmm raw onion on pizza, I’ll have to try it. I mean, I put it on tacos and hotdogs, so why not pizza. As much as I love alliums, sometimes in Taiwan they go to far with it for things like sausages and popcorn chicken. Big raw chunks of onion.
It seems to be a thing, any time I go through I see a few people with their onion loaded pizza, has to taste like crap. There are still the outright onion thieves about too, local FB regularly has photo’s up. I wish they’d bring back the sauce dispensers too, those little packets are a PITA.
Taiwan is lucky to have the onions at all. They’re unobtainium at my local Costco in the US, where you got your ketchup and you got your mustard. That’s it.
Fortunately I like mine with mustard only and with nothing at all … but I miss Taiwan’s fresh onion grinders.
It probably helped Costco “seafood pizza”
At least the crunch should help mitigate the texture of rubbery, overcooked squid.
I have learned two vocabulary words and a slang acronym in this thread this morning: alliums, unobtainium and PITA. Thanks all you erudite Forumosans.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to find tahini in Costco?
I don’t remember seeing it there, nor does it appear when I search www.costco.com.tw.
I think it was Trinity where I saw a bunch of jars of tahini the other day? It’s certainly around. But to many palates, the readily available sesame paste (芝麻醬) is fine as a substitute.
They take photos of customers at checkout?!?! Or just for the membership card at signup?
Compulsory mask time.