Time/CNN
Jul. 29, 2010
By John Krich Thursday,
Dishing it up Craving real Italian in Taichung? To K2 and J-Ping with you courtesy of K2 Cucina Read more: http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,2007280,00.html#ixzz0v6xVRy1k
In their mid-30s, some executives suddenly get religion. J. Ping got Italy. Thanks to this former marketer for Nike, and his longtime girlfriend Julia Lin, a onetime China Airlines stewardess, the booming Taiwan city of Taichung is now home to two of the island’s most authentic showcases of Italian cuisine.
The bespectacled chef said he found his true calling the moment his hands started to make dough for ciabatta — still one of the best products available daily at his cheery K2 Cucina, tel: (886-4) 2326 9091. He and Lin also make their own sausage and pancetta, and they serve only three-year-aged Parmesan as well as the best lemon cake this side of Palermo. more …
