Additional Resources.

Dragonfly

http://dragonflysushi.com/

Bento Cafe

http://www.bentocafesushi.com/

Chopstix

http://www.chopstixcafe.com/

buddhabelly

http://www.buddhabelly.us/

Matsuritime

http://www.matsuritime.com/

The Deep Web

About the topic of this post, I chose a Japanese grill and sushi restaurant to evaluate its website. The following is the restaurant’s link:

http://www.shootingstarrestaurant.com/Shooting_Star/Welcome.html

From the point of view of URL, it definitely corresponds to the name of the restaurant and shows its aspiration to welcome customers. This website is operated by the restaurant, but unfortunately, it did not show any background, biography, or philosophy. Since the restaurant is an official organization, it should show the accountability and responsibility, but the website does not include an e-mail address which can let viewers write e-mails to ask additional questions or make a reservation for future events. In addition, this website, is not like New York Times, it does not provide other related links, blogs, or articles. This will decrease the desire that people want to search about it.

This website is not vivid and interactive enough, it should put more photos about the menu or food to attract viewers to keep searching. This website is very simple and not many other web pages link to this website. Only the main search engine such as Google can link this website easily, and there is also no blogs make a link to this restaurant’s website.

This website does not provide enough information or data to support credibility. It just lists the specials and basic information such as open time and address. It should give viewers more facts to show their features and competitiveness. The web is an open space that everyone can see it, if viewers see so little information and they can not get the message they want, the restaurant’s image will be negative. The website is a good tool for image building and thus increases the profit of the organization. People rely on Internet very much nowadays, website is sometimes more important than published information. Consequently, the owner of this restaurant should pay more attention to operate this website.

The Dragon Boat Festival!

This post I want to introduce one traditional Chinese festival- the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is officially on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and most Chinese people celebrate it because it is a very important festival in China or Taiwan. Chinese people commemorate a very famous poet - Qu Yuan. Due to he fell into despair and threw himself into the Milou River, and he was so loved by the people, fishermen rushed out in long boats, beating drums to scare the fish away, and throwing zong zi – a pyramid-shaped mass of glutinous rice wrapped in leaves, into the water to feed fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Therefore, people celebrate Qu Yuan’s death anniversaries by eating zong zi and row the dragon boat every year. That’s origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.

We TWSA (Taiwanese Students Association) hold activities for the Dragon Boat Festival every year. This year is no exception. We will invite all Taiwan people at UF to Lake Wauberg on Saturday, June 12 to eat zong zi together. After eating zong zi, people can go to lake to row the boat and have race. This is a good opportunity to let Taiwanese people get together and keep good relationships.

Zong zi is a traditional Chinese food - the main ingredient of zong zi is the glutinous rice. It is wrapped with the bamboo or reed leaves and makes Zong Zi different from other types of Chinese dumplings. In addition, you can add anything you like into rice such as egg, meat, or chestnuts. Zong zi is a very special Chinese food and it tastes great. Therefore, I hope readers can love it!

Google Sites!

Dear readers,

This post is part of my assignment in one of my courses. My personal schedule and my documents are post in my Google Sites!

Welcome to Exploration of Asian food in Gainesville!

Hi, dear readers

This blog is an open forum that every body can share his or her opinions about Asian food here. I will provide as much as information about Asian food in Gainesville in future posts. Hope readers would enjoy them!!

I am an international studenent who pursuing master dgree at University of Florida. My favorite habit is eatting delicious food especially Asian style cuisine. I always try different Asian style restaurants during the weekends and share my opinions with my friends. Therefore, I am running this blog for inviting more people to enjoy more Asian food. I hope more people can know about Asian food in Gainesville after I post my blog.

My blog will be post by food notes style. I will write some notes or reaction about the restaurant I visited. I will provide food photos and describe how does the food taste like and Where is the restaurant.

Gainesville is a college town. This town mixes multicultures. We can always find out what any town looks like starting with what restaurants in the town. As an Asian student at UF, I am looking for any different type of Asian food in Gainesville. Get excited?? It is just a start!!!

I searched some restaurant reviews on line.