Monday, April 28, 2008

Taipei ~~ 2nd day

Yawn..........

Where am I???? It was soooo darn comfy!!!

Oh....

It was my 2nd day in Taipei leh!!! YEAH!!! I finally in TAIPEI!!! Tot I was dreaming... Heehehe.... (See? I am really that easily satisfied and THAT easily excited de lor!)

Okay...

This is 2nd day.... (I know I know... So WHAT's UP????)

Well, today, we will be going to Ye-liu (which the tour-guide, Leo said was the seaside) and Jiu-fen. (which I heard was on a hill and quite cold too!)

WHAT????!!! It was drizzling and the weather was f*cking cold (like 8degree? with strong wind) and we ARE GOING TO SEASIDE and the cold hill?????

Are we that CRAZY??? Suddenly got a feeling of regret.... (Why did I take up this package leh????)

Well, we tried to tell Leo that we are not keen to follow the tour package de and since there were no other group members, maybe we can change the itinerary hor???

But then he mentioned that his company was quite strict on sticking to the schedule becos they have incidents whereby the tourists complained that the tour-guide skipped on the schedule. Thus, it was very impt for him to intro to us these "beautifully and must-go" places (even if it was raining heavily or under cold freezing weather lor! DUH!!!)

Well, anyway, I must say that I did not really regret coming to Yeliu... It was really a beautiful place (if it wasn't raining and the weather wasn't such f* cold lor)....



See, it was nice right?





And if you are sharp enough.... You should have noticed that we have actually the whole place to ourselves!!! There wasn't a single soul in sight lor!

If you think we booked the whole place to ourselves, think again u moron!

It was raining heavily, with f*cking cold wind and it was CNY season (and it was 930am in the darn morning!) of course no one in the right mind would be coming to this place de lor!!!!!!!

Well, actually.... WE WERE THE MORONS... Hahahaha!! I felt so damn stupid there.... The ticketing counter gal must be LAUGHING at these 2 morons who planned to visit this place at such a condition!!! Hahahha!!! This might be her joke of the week!

Anyway, after quickly and swiftly took a few photos (just to show that we have been enjoying our trip to Yeliu), we made our way to Jiu-fen... which was another COLD COLD place!!! Hahhaha!!!

Anyway, to give a glimpse on how really really cold Jiu-fen was... See below pix... It was so cold that there was so much fog and mist around.. The ground was wet and u can see that I was shivering....
Don't be mistaken that it was my camera lens problem okay! It was really misty and foggy...

Anyway, this place was quite commercialised into a tourist spot le... There were many shops selling the usual souvenirs and snacks for tourists to bring back home.. Of cos, we bought a few local products like muah-chee, and some tai-yang bing and tarts...

We started to walk the narrow streets, and it was going up and up and up!!! I was sooo scared that I might slipped and be ma-lued!!! Hahahah!

There were many shops and of cos, we must try the FAMOUS.... Chou-Tofu! Or better known as "Fried Smelly beancurd"!

See? The hawkers here are soo used to tourists taking pictures that he gladly allowed us to take a photo of him... So nice!!! It was quite cheap, only NT20 bucks.... Which was equivalent to abt our 90 cents...


Well, of course I DON'T dare to eat lor... It was sooo SMELLY mah!!!

Anyway, since he had already had his food... Now it will be my turn to eat!!!

We reached the end of the street, which was the tip of the hill... If it wasn't so foggy, actually the scenery shld be pretty good de... Cos it was high up and thus I supposed the scenery shld be breathtaking bah....

There was a nice coffee place cum teahouse, so we decided to rest a bit before making our way downhill.....

This place was very nice and cosy... The whole decor mock those old teahouse whereby everywhere was wood and plants...

Well, of cos I ordered my favourite food, which were Chao-siu bao and coffee! Although they seemed to be just some simple dimsum, but when we were so cold, these hot food looked damn delicious lor!!!!




See, it was so foggy and misty!!!



The teahouse has 2-storey.. Since there was no customers at this moment, we decided to just wander around the place and take some photos before we moved on....


(What am I doing???? Maybe "high" from too much coffee!!)



Ok, I had my fill... So its time to make our way down hill to where we started... Leo was waiting for us to have lunch.. Lunch was part of the package too... He showed us the famous shop which according to him, sold the most traditional and delicious meal....
And the cost was not expensive too... Anyway, Leo had ordered those local "must-try" food for us le... The lunch include the famous "lu-rou-fan", "Tanghoon", "Cold Chicken" and "fishball soup".Of cos I only dare to eat the tanghoon...



He really enjoyed the food lor!!!


Well, me too bah....

After lunch, we left Jiu-fen and since it was abt 1pm, Leo brought us to a place to watch the guard-shift-change ceremony (Cannot remember the name of the place.. Think it was called "Martyl Shrine" or something like dat.) This was a place to commemorate those soldiers or people who was killed in some uprising events bah....












After witnessing the procession, we made our way to Wu-fen-pu, which is the "pasamalam" of Taipei... Or rather, it was well-known as the wholesale market....





Well, I am not very into shopping at Wholesale market de cos most of the shops do not allow "trying" and thus, I am not very keen to shop here lor... So we stopped to buy my favourite Bubble tea!!!!
Well, we did not take any photos of Wu-fen-pu anyway, cos it is just really another wholesale market lah...
Anyway, there's a night market just besides Wu-fen-pu, which is the "Rao-he night market". So we went there to walk walk.... But nothing much lah... We were actually more looking forward to go Shilin night market cos that was more famous mah....
So, our final stop.... SHILIN NIGHT MARKET!!!!

It was really getting dark le... So... That means....
We shld go for DINNER!!!! YEAH!!!
There were alot of people lor...
We walked around and saw quite a lot of stalls selling "Guanchai-ban", literally means "Coffin wood". What kind of food is this????
So we had to try to find out, right????
We found a stall and ordered the food....
This cuisine originated from Tainan, which is the village area. It consists of thick toast, with its inside filled with ingredients like meat, prawns, pineapple, etc...

See the ingredients inside? We ordered the "Combo", so that we can taste all the available ingredients....

Well, I like the crispy bread lah... Hahahah!!!
Next, we bought some "you-fan" (which to us, it is the Sticky-rice") and the crab soup. These were some of the traditional food found at Shilin night market.


And after a while, I missed coffee again and we found a nice coffee house to rest....

Of course, I ordered my favourite chicky nuggets to go with my coffee!!!!
And our final stop.... Of cos MUST go buy the popular BIG BIG Ji-pai (Chicky cutlet)!!!!


The queue was damn long de lor... But since we are already ready to go back Hotel le, we might as well round the night with my favourite ji-pai....

See how I enjoy the ji-pai!!!
And this is the end of our eventful 2nd day in Taipei!!!!