Day 5 Taiwan - Exotic

Back to the 80s

Here we are Jiu Fen(九分), Tohua(豆花).

No seriously we at Jiu fen Old Street(九分久道). This place also known as Nine Ruifang District. This place was one of the old time Taiwan nine development program, hence this place is historical.

This somewhat is similar to our Malaysia's Petaling Street. The moment we step in, whole area is filled with history, old shops, old people, traditional food.

Like I said in the previous post, the weather is cold, and is been raining for 9 days non-stop! Quickly grab a bowl of fish cake soup to warm out bodies.

Handmade fish cake with fish ball soup. Located just beside the entrance, packed.

Day 5 Taiwan - Gold digger

Raining of Au everywhere

So is day 5, fatigue in every parts of the body, whole 4 days of trip to mountain to lake to Taipei, I think is the whole year exercise quota we did, ouch. Is K! Lets fuel up with some delicious breakfast.

The legendary salted soya bean soup(咸豆浆)

This... Roti Canai + You tiao(油条)

Egg pancake with chicken floss

The salty soy bean soup is delicious, at first I was being sceptical because, who drinks savoury soy bean anyway? Is like having a salty chocolate, it should taste awful right? The soup is heavenly delicious, topped with sesame oil, chives, salty vegetable, and chill oil will wake you up full with energy!

Today is the last day tour by Mr.Wang - and what a great weather to start

Today's trip is to jiu fen(九分), one of the most rained city/state in Taiwan. When we reached the Yeh Liu Geopark, our natures pop, talk to the locals. One shocking factor is, they told us here has been raining for 9 days. 9 DAYS!!! *faint*

Day 4 Taiwan - Unique

What is this magic?

On the same day itself, after our god damn healthy lunch(me want meat!), we went to the Sun Moon Lake to have a boat tour on the lake!

WTF is wrong with this fog!?

Okay, this fog is seriously getting on my nerves, by spoiling 2 great visiting spot/activities. Argh! Well, since we are here, then we decided to talk a look around the lake see what hidden treasure lies within.

Quiet street, might be due to off season or the fog

Some traditional scarf in Taiwan

Hate the fog

Day 4 Taiwan - History and Animals

Chicken and Egg, Human come first?

It is day 4 of our trip, and we don't feel like it. Largely is because of the environment being so relax, we lost track of time.

Was wondering, is it the winter season causes the cloud more dense? which make such awesome sunlight on cloud

As usual, more food. This is the simplest breakfast we had throughout of our trip.

Really, the table is so empty. It is so not wolf team

Porridge with fermented tofu

Then we pack up get ready to leave Tai Chung after our schedule and we will be staying in Taipei for the rest of the trip.
Our tour guide bring us a surprise trip to the casting scene of  賽德克·巴萊(Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale). He told us some history of the event, show us around, and we did some exploring ourself. I did watch the movie, it is really good.

Day 3 Taiwan - Back to Nature

Harvest Moon?

After we climbed the mountain, well basically we just relax our butt on the cab and let the machine do all the work but you get it. Just 20 mins driving, we arrived the famous Qing Jing Farm(清境农场).

That blue sky

 As usual, we are lucky that the weather is awesome that day. We were told that it should be raining frequently since is winter, some luck we got.
The nature just overwhelm us. Fresh air that we hardly get in KL, warming sun gently touched your skin and the animals! WE CAN TOUCH THEM!  

Fearless sheep, ate in front of us. We can freely touch them too

Cute little sign warning us do not ride or chase the sheep.

Spending some quality time with the sheep, we marched to another area to see more sheep!

Sheep is so cute!

 Then we headed down as the directory show us, guess what more sheep!

Day 3 Taiwan - Up to the mountain!

From the ground to the top, and back to natures.

We are forced to wake as early as 5.30am. Not because we have a pack schedule, but look... 

This is 5.30am

The sun is as bright as... I have no metaphor :)
Rolling bed for about 30 mins more then quickly morning wash up, we head to the street and look for some local breakfast.

The sky is nice and weather is good, I always hate walking in Malaysia but this temperature is perfect!

This is the famous rice ball(饭团). Similar to Onigiri from Japan, but we get to select the fillings we want. It uses the black rice which is high in fibre. We choose the variety flavour(综合) which has little bit of everything, which is recommended by the owner.

There's many local people come bungkus(take out)

I forgot to take the picture of the food, but what I remember is the texture is Q and crispy on the inside. A bit spicy, a bit savoury, a bit sweet, just exploded with flavours. Its very cheap and very filling too.

Let's Cafe - Can be found everywhere in Family Mart

Coffee by press in convenient store, that's just plain awesome for coffee lover like me. Taste ain't as good as those branded CBTL or any, but still worth the price and hang out inside/outside is just very enjoying. The cool breeze, the warm sun and a cup of hot coffee.

Day 2 Taiwan - Feng Jia Night Market

I wish I'm a cow, 4 stomach

After some rest, time is approaching the night. Night Market here we come! The best is that it is weekend, which will be crowded with people and stalls!

Waling to the night market

 Night market, which start at 5pm, and this photo is taken around 530pm. Is winter season, night come sooner than usual.

Crowded

Prepare for some delicious food porn!

Jackie Chan Fried Chicken?

A fluffy steamed bun filled with tender roast duck with gravy, worth the que.

Day 2 Taiwan - TaoYuan to TaiChung

Speed of bullet penetrate our taste bud of the beef noodles, blood stain on our tongue.

The next we wake up at as early as 7 am(yup we slept at 2am). Then we just had a simple buffet breakfast provided by the hotel. Yum~

Not much choice, but majority is vege. Diet on first day?

Not sure what's the reason but we took 1 hour to have our breakfast. Too sleepy? Decided to take a walk at the neighbourhood and took some photo on the way.

Local properties agent

After some exploring around the area and get our sim card working, we found a aunty selling Betel Nut(槟榔). Not those Betel Nut girls(槟榔西施) who wears sexy sexy or didn't wear anything at al, we opt for pure and traditional betel nut.

The Legendary Betel Nut

I didn't try it because I've research earlier that it contain drugs. Betel Nuts was traditionally used to keep ones awake, something like caffeine and it can causes cancer if over consume. Yup call me a pussy. More details on here.

Day 1 Taiwan - Arrival, Taipei - TaoYuan

Bird of steel flies to the country of love

Taiwan - The land of Human Interest(人情味), the wolf packs is having huge production value for going overseas to hunt food. This time is Taiwan instead of local Malaysia.

We were talking about this trip since 2012 January where I(X3Cola) suggested that we should go Taiwan for vacation. But due to time difference of our schedule, Lim la la having exam schedule, Reaberz Chew is working, LCW... not sure what he was doing at that time, and I'm studying. Till November of 2012, where suddenly on early January 2013, everyone is free. Book ticket, plan, bam, January 2013. We basically used one month to plan our trip where we are busy with exam. 

Ok enough with the history of this trip, lets start blogging about it.

Having a bit of trouble reaching the LCCT(Non of us want to become the hero and park the car there), so we took the LCCT bus @OneUtama. 

The botak is LCW where the guy who addicted to social networking is ME(X3Cola). Photo took by cameraman(Lim lala)

The fact is that we have not decide how are we going to be back to Kepong when we're back. Our genius protocol is... That day only decide. Oh well, up up we go!!

Air Asia X Wing Logo Shot, awesome shot for a beginner like me.

V sign by LCW, Not sure what I'm doing with the jacket on my head. *too shy*

 The flight we booked was 4pm to 1030pm. We are so sleepy!!

Rejoice of the blog

Pretty much I've leave the blog scene since year 2011 and shifted to Facebook for my daily updates.

Recent changes of the Facebook just not that efficient as it used to be, so I'm trying blogspot back as my main blog.

Hope to see you soon!!!