Eva Air. I wondered how their service like?
To my surprise, I was given a Deluxe seat although my flight ticket was an economic class. This was my first time to get this kind of compliment after flying for several times. The person who sat next to me was an old mixed man who is headed to Washington. He shared loads of his experiences and stories with me along the way . Luckily, there's someone to talk to, or else, for sure I might bored to death! Here's the view of Kuala Lumpur, greenery view as usual. Bye bye, K.L.! Taiwan, I'm coming!
To spend your 4 and a half hours of flight wisely, besides watching TV or listening songs, another alternative is writing a letter or postcard. Hmm...not sure whether Ming and Koh will receive the letter/postcard or not.
Proven taken by me with the reflection from the window hehe ;p
Doing survey on Taiwan historical famous places.
Me at Boeing 747 ;>
1st day- It was late at night when I arrived in Tao Yuan, Taipei. Without wasting our time, we rushed to meet up our friends and had a reunion in Belly-Wash. Although it was quite packed, but I found the environment was relaxing enough to hangout.
The weather was cooling here and it was still acceptable by me. While busy exploring and sight-seeing, I found something hilarious on this van! Click enlarge to see what it written. (If you don't know chinese, don't hesitate to ask me k?)
Surprisingly, it appeared to be a quite small size of restaurant, said around 10 tables or lesser. But, its uniqueness of the combination toilet and bathroom as a restaurant with cheerful and colourful environment would attract new customers like us. Anyone wants to renovate their dining room to be like this?
Wanna try this?
My cute toilet bowl meal
Afterall, it was not as disgusting as we though at first.
Tatt was looking at his black edition of toilet bowl and can't wait to taste it!
Mee sua, the tastiest one so far.
You could easily find at Xi Men Ding for this rice-noodle.
The happening Xi Men Ding :) Love this place loads, shopping paradise and where all the hip and cool youngsters gather around.
I-forget-its-name :P It was a theatre if not mistaken.
Closer look of the postcard
Woops! I was too hungry!
Dear's favourite. I think what I eat the most in Taiwan is tofu-fah~
Red bean soup in a paper cup
Me at Jing Mei, was having my breakfast, still at very happy mood :)
Taiwan's Toto?
Angpau of Toto with best of luck
After having our breakfast, we departed from Jing Mei railway station to Dan Shui, which taken an hour ++ to reach the destination. Along the way, I've taken several pics of the journey. I found that most of the houses/buildings I've seen are old type, not as modern as in KL.
Finally, we reached Dan Shui, a place where Jay grown up :)
Me and the colourful hand-painted wall.
Once upon time... there's a fellow called Jay Chow used to visit this restaurant during his school days...
He loved to order 'wantan mee' and...
drumstick...which made this both meal called Jay Chow set meal today (^.^)
This was my 'sword', cost me RM1 only (damn cheap!Unfortunately, not tasty at all!Sigh)
My all-time favourite host, Hou Pei Chen used to come to this tiny little ice-cream stall with Yan-Zhi too.
Yummy fresh strawberries covered with sweet honey!~
Wish I could bring all these puppies back! So adorable!
Found this emergency button whenever I got into the MRT station washrooms, exclusively for ladies only. I just so envy the facilities provided coz' the government so well-cared the residents' needs.
Mister Donut, franchise from Japan
Wow! First time seeing these kind of donuts!
Tatt's green tea flavour donut
Mine choco flavour
Busy street at Dan Shui
Taiwan's biggest worm, have you seen before?
Here, it is!
Eww...no name creature *disgusting*
Trying to show off with my cigarattes ("p)
Me in front of Peter The Rabbit shop, originated in London, UK.
Love this cute little candy shop, bought several candies from here! You will find some unexpected surprises *wink*
It was merely sour plum drink (don't fool by the shop sign)
Henry's House--you could find any handcraft or handmade things of cats and quite unique though.
???What a good translation! hehe
Bye bye! We were heading to Yu Ren Ma Tou.Reached there by boat around half an hour.
I personally thoughtPutrajaya bridge was nicer ;p
I wondered how good one day I have my own private boat.
'Ah Gei' & homemade giant fishballs
Small little old shop which survived for 40 years, geng!
4th day-Tatt was busy finalizing his dissertation, left me alone exploring the rest of Taipei streets. I have no idea where to go so just simply dropped by and walking down the street.
Looks like it's going to rain, so I better go back to Jing Mei earlier, ended my dont-know-where-to-go journey.
The famous smelly tofu in Sheng Keng. Ironicly, people rather queue up for this famous tofu rather than the next stall which was also selling tofu just beside it. No people buy at all!
Ummm...looking good and mouth-watering~
The old tofu street
Look, what I've discovered. Keke :D
5th day-My breakfast (forgot its actual name), taste a bit like roti canai.Soya, my all time favourite.
Too bad, the underground train not yet arrived at the moment I took the pic...
5 star hotel?
So which way to start first?
:) Too bad they were having some renovations at that point.
Chiang & Soong, their married picture.
Expensive xiu loong bao, cost around RM30-RM40. Eventually, we wanted to eat the recommended's shop that we found somewhere in Taipei street. But again, the shop is flooded with a lots of people so we ended up in an ordinary restaurant.
Tan-tan mee, quite special to me as I never taste it before!
Besides books, you can purchase antiques at here too!
The election candidate was aware enough when I was snapping a picture of her, hehe, cute!
Hardly found a 'Malaysian-styled' cuisine =/
Mixed fruits ice. Rating: 6/10
So-called pepper biscuit. One thing I noticed that Taiwanese were really patient to queue up just to buy their local food. Tatt had a long queue just to get this 'biscuit', luckily the taste not bad though :)
Selina's university?-'Shi Da Xuan Yuan'
It was so cold at Taipei. Luckily we found one shabu shabu @ underground. Felt so warm to have them!
My fresh delicious salmon *yummy*
6th day-Taiwan chicken rice. I still found Malaysia's chicken rice the best and the cheapest. Err...I forgot who was the singer already but I love the background!
Frankly, Energy was not as popular and welcome as before.
Tatt and I :)
It's 2008! New year, new resolution!
And yeah, I'm 22 this year ;) 1st time celebrated birthday @ oversea with love one :>
7th day- 1st Jan, 2008: Gu Gong. A must go place when you came to Tawian! We were lucky enough to get free entrance, but Gu Gong was too huge to look around plus we were short of time.
Special perforamance by the clowns. Funny though!
Strawberry milk ice. Rating 10/10! Damn delicious I would say. Found this when we were in Shi Lin Night Market.
You can see all this fun fair in the night market. It's really different from our local one.You can have so much fun at there! But of course, your money will lost faster too.
I definitely think Shi Lin was the most happening night market after I went several ones in Taipei. The night market has divided into few sections included food & clothes, japan/korea culture clothings, funfair and pets. I saw a teddy dog, yup really called teddy dog in chinese, super duper cute like a teddy toy! It just costs you RM1.5K, which I feel cheap compare to Malaysia. Felt like bringing one back, but sigh, I didn't have enough money! And...and I was not allowed to take any pics of the teddy dogs, luckily still can show some goldfish pic.
It just reminded some farmiliar scene in HK series hehe
We just enjoying ourselves by seeing others playing the game ;P
Soong Chang Ting's cute version (candidate for Taiwan president election).
Several hot spots in Yang Ming
Look at the description. Tatt said it was so well written and even better than China's one! Impressed! But the fact is...
I looked stunned...because...
It's freezing cold!Only 5 degree celcius ~
View of Yang Ming Shan, enjoy!
I didn't go futher as I really can't stand the cold weather and I was scared of a few very active wild dogs, so Tatt went alone and here some pictures he took.
The path on top of hills
A pond?
Who knows, at the end I just realised the so-called wild dogs belonged to a man =.=""
Entered to Wen Hua University, it was amazingly beautiful. Wished my campus was like that! Fresh cooling air with lake view and surrounded by gigantic mountain, no more excuse for you to 'cut class'!
It looked more to a commercial building for me rather than a school.
OMG!You called that a study room?Wow! Seem like a very good comfortable place for us to do some revision *Wink wink*
Their computer rooms were so modern designed! Unlike us... =/ "palia"
I thought I entered to a shopping mall's foodcourt but in fact it was a student's canteen. Woah!
Cuttle fish custard, it's really delicious!
Ewww...I dare not try!
Yummy!*Saliva falling*
9th day- KAKAKAKA!*Evil laugh* Years ago, I saw TVBS introduced Jay's restaurant and thought that how good one day I dropped by to have a meal in his restaurant. After don't know how many years, my wish finally come true. Thanks to dear :*
I saw this shop sign from far. Tatt was amazed I've got a good eyesight. LOL. This only applicable to Jay's charm :P
The J menu--French Italian cuisine
Smile happily, felt like I was in a dream! heehee ^.<
Chicken soup
Tatt's steak *taste good*
Hero Jay :P
Fang Wen Shan -_-"
Yu Hao, Nan Quan Mama
Jay and ???
Surprisingly, saw Lena huge poster. Wow, seductive!
Cute artistic display
Saw the travel guide book recommended this taufu shop, let's see what they offered...
Strawberry taufu-fah! Have you eaten before?*Superb*
Gondola, way to Mao Kung ;)
Look at the small cute white gondolas
Beautiful scene @ Taipei
Tea leaves fried rice
No matter which restaurant you found in Mao Kung, you could easily see the magnificient view of Taipei :) A cool yumcha place indeed ;)
10 day- Hot spot-Jiu Fen (let the pictures say the rest)
Arrived at Jin Gua Shi, time to dig gold!
Inside the gold mind tunnel
There was some explaination regarding how the workers dig the gold during the old days.
Beautiful greenery view, made me felt mind-relaxing and carefree.
We walked till opposite from Jin Gua Shi. Looked at the mountain, the rocks, creation of God, amazingly, incredibly beautiful.
Here we go, heading to Jiu Fen.
Taken along the way we walked from Jin Gua Shi, quite far though. My legs were aching at the moment due to wearing heels =/ Anyway, Tatt took a courage move that we walked from Jin Gua Shi to Jiu Fen, initially there was bus to take us there, but he said we should experience the journey ourselves. Luckily and finally, we did not lost! hehe
View from Jiu Fen, greenery scene, fresh and crisp air, and a cooling place to stay indeed!
Street of commercialized. They were real good in promoting and selling their products etc. p.s. I looked like a panda.
Sounds like 'baka' in japanese*evil smile*
Bamboo feel restaurant, place for you to have some hot tea in this cold winter.
Mist, oh mist! How good if all this mist gone away so I can have a clearer capture of the view.Hmmm...
Colourful Yu Yuan
My meal when flying back to Msia...time past fast huh
2 comments:
hi!
i found your blog while i was searching for pictures of Jay Chou's restaurant (youre so lucky you got to visit the restaurant!! :P)
i was wondering if you remember where that taufu-fa (tofu pudding) shop is.. the one that the travel book guide recommended.
your picture with the strawberry tofu pudding looks SO good!!
please and thank you very much !!
Hey Sidney! Thanks for 'dropping by' in my blog :) Yeah, I've wanted to go to Jay's restaurant since I was young. Tofu pudding? You mean the one I have in the Tofu Street?If it is what you've meant, then is in 'Sheng Keng', absolutely superb taste, you should try it ;)
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