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 The end o October marks the beginningo the white true season — the time o 

the year when these rare mushrooms, whichsigniy luxury, are showered tableside ondishes.

From now until Nov. 6, Shangri-La’s FarEastern Plaza Hotel, Taipei (香格里拉台北遠東國際大飯店) is eaturing such exclusive de-lights at the Marco Polo Restaurant with thehelp o Guest Che Antonio Guida rom Mi-chelin Two-Star Restaurant Il Pellicano.

The dinner eatures fve courses, namelybee oxtail consommé served with duck liver,ravioli and white true, ravioli flled withgoat cheese and white true sauce, and nat-ural bee tenderloin served with Acetosellasauce, green beans and white true.

Described as the “perect match” withwhite trues, the che has put bee at thecenter o this menu that is paired with fve

dierent Banf wines, including theRosso di Montalcino, Castello Banf2009, rom Tuscany, Italy. To gowith the main course is Brunellodi Montalcino, Poggio alle Mura,Castello Banf 2004; a wine thatharmonizes well with red meat,thanks to its aromas like cher-ries and raspberries, as well aschocolate and vanilla.

  Without a doubt,the wine selection goeswell together with Che Guida’s signature dish r a v i o l iflled with goat cheese a n dwhite true sauce. The r a v i -oli is flled with even- l ymixed goat cheese, ricot-ta cheese, mascarponecheese and Parmesancheese, and then garnishedwith white true.

Such creative dish thatsuccessully combines theavors o the various ingre-

dients is a result o his approach to cuisine,according to Guida. The che also attributeshis experience o working with FrenchChe Pierre Gagnaire in his creations andphilosophy.

Che Antonio Guida is the head tothe kitchen o Il Pellicano restaurant

in Tuscany. The restaurant received twoMichelin stars in 2010, ater maintaining

the Michelin one-star recognition orseveral consecutive years.

Prior to his current post, Che Guida worked alongside well-respected ches o amous Mi-chelin three-star restaurantssuch Enoteca Pinchiorri inFlorence and Don Alonso inSant’Agata. ■

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To help you decide what to do for Halloween, Primetime compiled a list ofsome of the more interesting activities taking place this weekend

Italian Guest Chef Antonio Guida shares white truffle dishes from Michelin Two-Star Res-

taurant Il Pellicano located on the Tuscan coast 

T here will be no shortage o “spook-tacular” un around Taipei thisweekend as party organizers aregoing to some very extreme lengths

to entertain those o all ages. Here is a brie roundup o some o the best creepy crawlyun around town.

Nightmare 2011 Halloween Party

The biggest Halloween party this week-end, “Nightmare 2011 Halloween Party”(萬聖節變裝派對) will be held on the campuso National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學). A consortium o students in the north-ern area, ranging rom the host school toNational Chengchi University (國立政治大學), are coming together to dress up the oldgymnasium into a house o horrors. Therewill also be dancing, un games, and evensome ortune telling.

Tickets are a modest NT$300 and includeood, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinksand the chance to view some very excitingperormances. This is the irst time such alarge Halloween party will be held by localuniversity students, so expect a big crowdboth in and around the area o NTU’s oldgymnasium.

‘NTU Nightmare 2011 Halloween Party’ (萬聖節變裝派對 ) ► 6:30 p.m. Oct.29 (Sat.) / 

Old Gymnasium, National Taiwan UniversityCampus (台大舊體育館 ) / No 1 Sec. 4 Roo-

sevelt Rd., Taipei (羅斯福路四段1號 ) / NT$300 / For more info, visit the website http://www.

accupass.com/go/nightmare

Resurrection II

For those looking or late-night un, “Frogin a Sock” (青蛙在襪子) will be hosting theirsecond Resurrection Halloween Party at theRed House Theater. The event eatures livebands, DJs, and a very sexy costume com-petition around midnight.

Planning or the event began back inthe summer and the hard work is payingo with strong pre-sales or the party as a

crowd o 1,000 are expected. This is dei-nitely the late-night Halloween party as themusic won’t stop till 6 a.m.

Keeping the crowd grooving all night is adiverse crew o DJs including Luxy regular,DJ Noodles, the only emale DMC inalistwho will perorm rom 3 to 5 a.m. and willollowed by Taichung’s Colour Wol whois known or wearing very little when heplays and partying with his crew much likethat other amous DJ, Steve Aoki, who isplaying across town that same night. Ando course, there is also everyone’s avorite,Marcus Aurelius, who will stand-out, espe-cially in his MC Hammer suit.

“Resurrection II”► From 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Oct29 (Sat.) / Riverside Live House at Red Theater

 / No 177 Xining S. Rd., Taipei / NT$700 presale,NT$900 at the door

Kids Halloween Party

For the little ones, a special monster’s

matinee will be held on Sunday at popularItalian eatery Carnegie in downtown Tai-pei, eaturing lots o ghouls and goblins,sticky spider webs, ace painting, a hor-rible hanging piñata, a ancy dress parade,and other un and games.

The annual party has been going on orthree years, and is the result o Carnegie’sGM, Kevin Skelly, looking or some unactivities or his two children. Skelly said:“there is not a lot going on, and nothingdowntown or these kids.” The inauguralevent was better than expected, and lastyear’s crowd brimmed to more than 112children.

Entertainment will take the orm o clowns, a special “three sided object” thatis being rumored to be under constructionas this article goes to press, and a peskypiñata that has a knack or withstandingthe whacks o both kids and parents. Itwas ultimately a quick stab to the midsec-tion that led to an outpouring o candy andtreats.

  All children receive a git bag that in-cludes both candies and toys purchased inthe UK. Also, there is a special kid’s snackvoucher, and the rare chance or these chil-dren to dance atop the bar.

  As o press time, all table reservationsare already ully booked, but as Skellypoints out, most parents will have little op-portunity to sit at a table, with most parentsbusily scurrying ater their little ones. ■

Carnegie’s Kids Halloween (卡內基 ) ► 3 p.m.Oct 30 (Sun.) / Carnegie’s / No 100 Sec.2

 Anhe Rd., Taipei (台北市安和路二段100號1樓 ) / NT$450 per child / www.carnegies.com.tw

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B y Sean Scanlan 

Special to The China Post

Expo enters final countdown 

 A ghostly guide to Halloween

 T he 2011 International Design AllianceCongress, the largest design orumever organized in Taiwan, concluded

yesterday. Meanwhile, the Taipei World De-sign Expo (臺北國際設計大展) — a colossalpageant o design objects spanning threevenues as well as a symposium among le-

gions o designers — is coming to a close.

The Expo

Reporting on this conglomerate o designphenomena over the course o nine storieswarmed me up to the whole scene. Judg-ing rom the massive public turnout, theExpo has succeeded in raising awarenessabout many aspects o design, including itsvariety and potential, the accomplishmento Taiwanese design industries, and the

high caliber set by international classics. Itshowed all those present, rom teenagers tothe elderly, what good design can be.

The younger generation o Taiwaneseseems particularly attuned to well-designedobjects and spaces. Sometimes, though, Iwonder i this ascination is a orm o col-lective escapism rom the unsatisactoryurban environment at large.

Perhaps one day Taiwan will boast me-tropolises like Copenhagen, which, as key-note speaker Peter Bishop mentioned at

the Congress, was transormed rom a car-dominated city to a pedestrian-oriented cityover 40 years, under Jan Gehl’s planning.

I hope the Design Expo will leave peopleempowered with the understanding thatdesign is about dancing with materiality tobring about better lives.

The Congress

More than anything, the Congress re-minded me o the potential or language to

elucidate, defne, inspire, control, and inu-ence, or better and or worse.

The Congress eatures many momentso inspiration, but could have been bettermoderated overall. The multidisciplinarypanel discussions sparked wonderul sur-prises, but panelists could have been as-sembled with a closer awareness o theoverlap among their interests to generatemore synergy.

The Congress also at times elt discon-nected rom its context o being hosted

in Taiwan; while oreign attendees wereduly outspoken, Taiwanese attendees wererelatively reticent despite the presence o language interpreters.

Unquestionably, the organizers providedsuperb hospitality during the Congress. Butat the same time, I wish they brought morecritical thinking to the table. Only i wescrutinize our surroundings with uninch-ing honesty can our deliberations and ac-tions — our design — point us in a betterdirection. ■

Taipei World Design Expo

B y lin y uting

The China Post

The IDA Congress and the Taipei World Design Expo will leave food for thought 

Members of the public relax in the Baroque courtyard garden at Songhsan

Cultural & Creative Park (松山文創園區), one of the Design Expo’s three

venues. Beautiful civic spaces need to be designed. CourtesyofEdyYang

 The 2011 Taiwan LGBT (Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, Transgender) Pride will take

place tomorrow aternoon in Taipei, start-ing and ending at the Ketagalan Boulevard(凱達格蘭大道), a boulevard between thePresidential Ofce and the East Gate (東門). The actual procession, scheduled rom2 p.m. to approximately 5 p.m., splits intotwo routes and reunites at Ketagalan, ol-lowed rallies and perormances.

More than 100 ocus groups are march-ing this year, under the theme “LGBTFight Back! Discrimination Get Out!” (彩虹征戰，歧視滾蛋!). The theme, symbol-ized by a multicolored lion, is decidedly amore militant turn, in light o legislativestagnation on relevant issues and severalhighly publicized homophobic campaignsover the past year. “Unlike the kind o blatant persecution o the past, discrimina-

tion has continued beneath the semblanceo open-mindedness and tolerance,” statesthe Pride organizer.

The frst LGBT Pride Parade in Taiwantook place in 2003. Last year, more than30,000 gathered to the theme “Out and

  Vote,” demanding legal entrenchment o LGBT rights. Taiwan Pride is the largestevent o its kind in Asia. “OUT＆out,” Kaoh-siung’s (高雄) second-ever LGBT Pride, alsotook place last month. ■

Pride timeThis year’s Taiwan LGBT Pride will feature more than 100 focus groups,

under the theme ‘LGBT Fight Back! Discrimination Get Out!’

Social Movement

B y lin y uting

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Photos: Courtesy of Sean Scanlan

White truffle delights

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