Taiwan - 16 - 17 Mar
I was supposed to blog on my trip to Taiwan on a daily basis but it just wasn't feasible after the first entry so I am making up for lost time by making this entry.
To recap, we arrived late evening on Saturday and stayed over at Alan's place after a karaoke session. We had delicious 'cold noodles', which was noodles with peanut sauce and all sorts of fried stuff. Alan also bought 'gong wan; song, which was actually huge meatball soup. There was also miso egg soup, that was quite tasty as well.
The next day, we rented a 9-seater and travelled to Jiufen, we ate lotsa nonsense along the old street. Ice cream & peanut candy shaving wrapped in poh piah skin, freshly fried potato chip, grilled mushroon, stinky toufu, 'or ee' (yam dumpling). We also bought this tea that was highly recommended by Jianhui, its call Jin Xuan tea. This tea, apparently, is tea that has a milky smell/taste.
After Jiufen, we made our way to Jeelung, although not to the Jeelung Miaokou Night Market that I was hoping to go. We went to this seafood centre where we bought fresh seafood and had the hawkers there cooked it for us. I especially enjoyed the crab claws! We were all lazy people so we only bought crab claws and it was just heavenly. We apparently got ripped off but as because the cost was split amongst 9 of us, it was actually quite ok.
Soon after dinner, we had no choice but to start on our one hour journey back to Taipei city as we had to return the rented car. We had wanted to go to Maokong but could not make it due to the time factor.
We just settle for some milk tea from this place call 'Qing Xing' (like Quickly, Happy Cup all these). I personally still like '50 Lan'. After that we headed back to the hotel to retire for the night.
The next day we actually had the luxury of waking up a little later. The plan was to go to Yang Ming Shan, so we took the MRT to Jian Tan station and changed to bus Red 5 which brings us all the way up to YMS.
There was a little episode that left us in stitches at YMS. We were waiting for a bus that will bring us ard YMS, to the Flower Clock & Calla Lily park but there was a long queue so we attempted to walk to the Visitors' Info Centre..The climb in Jasmine's term is a Level 3 of difficulty. We were huffing & puffing by the time we reached the visitor's centre and to our horror, the centre was closed!
We then had no choice but to hail a cab to bring us to the Calla Lily place. Thank goodness he was nice enough to take all 6 of us. We reached the Calla Lily place, its actually call 'Zhu Zi Hu' but Zhen was quite disappointed as it was not Call Lilies growly wild as she had imagined. I was not impressed either. We did a bit of walking ard and finally picked a restaurant called 'Jia Xiang' for lunch. We picked the cheapest set lunch consisting of 7 dishes, amounting to NT1500. It wasn't spectacular but it was alright.
We eventually set off from YMS and took a cab to Bei Tou station and made our way to Danshui, we had wanted to catch the sunset.. Sadly, the weather wasn't fantastic so we din really catch a proper sunset although we had out 'Zha Ji Pai' & warm milk tea. We also had a portrait done. The lady din do a good job for me although Jeff's drawing was quite life like.
After Danshui, we stole some time to walk the old street and bought some local products before meeting up with Alan & Jianhui at Alan's plc. You see, it was actually Don's birthday the next day so Jianhui drove from HsinChu to celebrate his Birthday together. We ended up at this place call 'Yi Yuan something'. We had dinner there as well. Jeff and I shared a tomato soup base mini hotpot. It was delicious..for NT190, i thought it was a steal.
We played cards till 2am before we made our way back to the hotel to rest. We needed to wake up really early the next day as we were taking the 7.30am train to Hua Lien.
I was supposed to blog on my trip to Taiwan on a daily basis but it just wasn't feasible after the first entry so I am making up for lost time by making this entry.
To recap, we arrived late evening on Saturday and stayed over at Alan's place after a karaoke session. We had delicious 'cold noodles', which was noodles with peanut sauce and all sorts of fried stuff. Alan also bought 'gong wan; song, which was actually huge meatball soup. There was also miso egg soup, that was quite tasty as well.
The next day, we rented a 9-seater and travelled to Jiufen, we ate lotsa nonsense along the old street. Ice cream & peanut candy shaving wrapped in poh piah skin, freshly fried potato chip, grilled mushroon, stinky toufu, 'or ee' (yam dumpling). We also bought this tea that was highly recommended by Jianhui, its call Jin Xuan tea. This tea, apparently, is tea that has a milky smell/taste.
After Jiufen, we made our way to Jeelung, although not to the Jeelung Miaokou Night Market that I was hoping to go. We went to this seafood centre where we bought fresh seafood and had the hawkers there cooked it for us. I especially enjoyed the crab claws! We were all lazy people so we only bought crab claws and it was just heavenly. We apparently got ripped off but as because the cost was split amongst 9 of us, it was actually quite ok.
Soon after dinner, we had no choice but to start on our one hour journey back to Taipei city as we had to return the rented car. We had wanted to go to Maokong but could not make it due to the time factor.
We just settle for some milk tea from this place call 'Qing Xing' (like Quickly, Happy Cup all these). I personally still like '50 Lan'. After that we headed back to the hotel to retire for the night.
The next day we actually had the luxury of waking up a little later. The plan was to go to Yang Ming Shan, so we took the MRT to Jian Tan station and changed to bus Red 5 which brings us all the way up to YMS.
There was a little episode that left us in stitches at YMS. We were waiting for a bus that will bring us ard YMS, to the Flower Clock & Calla Lily park but there was a long queue so we attempted to walk to the Visitors' Info Centre..The climb in Jasmine's term is a Level 3 of difficulty. We were huffing & puffing by the time we reached the visitor's centre and to our horror, the centre was closed!
We then had no choice but to hail a cab to bring us to the Calla Lily place. Thank goodness he was nice enough to take all 6 of us. We reached the Calla Lily place, its actually call 'Zhu Zi Hu' but Zhen was quite disappointed as it was not Call Lilies growly wild as she had imagined. I was not impressed either. We did a bit of walking ard and finally picked a restaurant called 'Jia Xiang' for lunch. We picked the cheapest set lunch consisting of 7 dishes, amounting to NT1500. It wasn't spectacular but it was alright.
We eventually set off from YMS and took a cab to Bei Tou station and made our way to Danshui, we had wanted to catch the sunset.. Sadly, the weather wasn't fantastic so we din really catch a proper sunset although we had out 'Zha Ji Pai' & warm milk tea. We also had a portrait done. The lady din do a good job for me although Jeff's drawing was quite life like.
After Danshui, we stole some time to walk the old street and bought some local products before meeting up with Alan & Jianhui at Alan's plc. You see, it was actually Don's birthday the next day so Jianhui drove from HsinChu to celebrate his Birthday together. We ended up at this place call 'Yi Yuan something'. We had dinner there as well. Jeff and I shared a tomato soup base mini hotpot. It was delicious..for NT190, i thought it was a steal.
We played cards till 2am before we made our way back to the hotel to rest. We needed to wake up really early the next day as we were taking the 7.30am train to Hua Lien.
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