Today is dedicated to gluttony. Ambassador Hotel has excellent breakfast. They have their own bakery, so it goes without saying that their breakfast pastries were excellent. Which made me want to try more bread and pastries in Taiwan so we headed out to "Breeze" shopping center on Fu-Shin North Road. A very high end shopping mall (think Prada, Gucci, Loewe) and a high end bakery that complements. Can't remember the name (sorry!) but their Cookie-Croissant was just wow wow wow. Imagine your favorite fluffy airy buttery croissant, topped with a thin layer of crisp sweet cookie, baked together such that in every bite, you get a perfect harmony of cookie and croissant together. Match made in heaven -- an interesting mix of two distinctive types of crunchiness, the airy croissant and crispy cookie, not competing, but
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