Love & Travel - Taiwan Touch Our Heart- The End

The Rest of the Days

--------Taipei.Danshui.Xinbeitou.YehLiu.Jiu Fen--------

台北.淡水.新北投.野柳.九份

Day 3. 

Our first stop in Taipei was the City of Foodies and goodies-Ximending!

One of the Must Try foods in Ximending- Ah Chong Noodle (阿宗面线). See the crowd there? The seats are limited, so you might need to stand and eat at somewhere.

 Besides than Ximending, they also have branched at Shih Lin Night Market

 Next, Chou Taufu!

Very Delicious!!=)

 Piggy Blood Ice Cream..EeuuuwwwwKkkSS! 

 But he said it's very nice. Alien~

 Arh!! This is also very Famous in Taiwan! 滷味! (Marinaded meat) I'm ok with the 滷味..but not the Duck tongue 滷味.OMG...Geli!

 I like this too! the Onion pancake! It taste like our Roti Canai but with Daun Bawang and some Inti inside.

 Well, people said Taiwanese a lot of weird Idea. Indeed! See how the bun looks like?

Day 4

Today we gonna visit Yeh Liu Geopark. It is famous for its sea erosion landscape & sea products. 

Catch a bus from Taipei Main Station to catch a bus to YehLiu Geo Park. 

 How I wish I can get this from the 7-Eleven in Malaysia. 

It took around 1hours to reach to Yeh Liu from Taipei. Just in case you don't know where to stop, just let the driver know and he will let you know once arrived. The bus will stopped somewhere near the convenience store. From there, you might need to walk around 15mins to arrive at the Geopark. However, if you are lazy to walk, Don't Worry, there are a lot of cabs waiting at the junction that have offer various of tour package from Yeh Liu to Jiu Fen, Jing Gua Shi and so on. Anyway, in order to save our budget, we decided not to take cab but to walk by ourself.

You will found....

 The fisherman Wharf at Yeh Liu 

 Sea products & Sea Food restaurant

 A Temple in the middle of shop houses.

 The Waterfront

A store renting diving equipments

And Finally, we are here!

 The Entrance

NT 50 Each

 Saw the Wedding photo shooting. Well, i must said, it's really a very beautiful places for the wedding photo shoot!

 List of the Rocks that you can found inside the GeoPark. We didn't manage to find all, but we do found some. =)

 The Mushroom

Lady Head

The Fairy Shoes

 The Famous Queen Head

 The Ice Cream

 Toufu

 Dragon Head

 Whale

Elephant

A must try buy foods at Yeh Liu!! It's damn cheap weih~

After took a quick lunch, we proceed to Jiu Fen (九份)

 This is the place were the Spirited Away （千里千寻-the animated film by Miyazaki get its inspiration for the design of the village inside the film from.

The Famous at Jiu Fen are

 The Mochi

 The Handmade Fishball

 Er..I duno what this call. But it is a wrapped ice cream.

 This is how its looks like.

 Ah ha~ Not to be missed. The Local Highland Tea. Damn, 1 box cost NT 150. But worth it. It's good for health and smell good.

 The Rice Flour ball dessert

 With variety flavor

 Again, the marinaded foods

 hmmm...Didn't try. Don;t know how it taste

 and Handmade Souvenir. All the souvenir inside the shop are designed by the Ladyboss herself. 

 The Meatball Soup

 and the Guava or Pala（芭乐)

 also forget what is this already...

 While waiting for the sunset

 Beautiful isn't it?

Exhausted. Stand for almost 1 hour in the bus as no more seats available during the way back to Taipei.

and the bus dropped us somewhere near SOGO so from there, we gonna catch another bus back to Taipei HSR main station.

Day 5

The sunrise at Taipei was more earlier than at Sarawak. When we wake up at 6am and ready to shoot for the Sunrise in Taipei City, we found that outside its already looks like 8am in the morning.

Today we are going to the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (国立中正纪念堂)

and see the Guard Marching 

Really solute for their professionalism. They wont moved no matter what. Look at him. He was actually running nose during that time and i guess he has a fever too during that time as his body keeps on shaking. But yet, he very responsive to his duty. He don't even moved or get off from that place. but of course la...the officer on duty will help him to lap it. According to my boss who has studied at Taiwan before, those who are selected to be on duty as a front liner Guard are those who has the best achievement and discipline during their army service. 

The guard Marching  occur once per hour.

 Went to XinBeitou after that for Hot Spring!!!Yipiieee! It's gonna be my first Hot Spring Experience. 

 The Hot Spring Museum

 Public Open Air Hot Spring NT 30 Each and free Ice cream.

 The Hot Spring Drain! XD

 Lot of Auntie Uncle soaking their leg inside the "Hot Spring Drain"

 The Thermal Valley and it could reach 100c! Very Very Hot!

 See the stem and you can imagine how hot is it!

 and we thought to try out the private Hot Spring...

 and we thought by walking more far, the price will be cheaper. Well, the fact proved that we are an idiot! In fact, this hotel offer NT2,800 per room. (If I'm not mistaken la...hehe) But the environment is very nice. Up on the hill, so you can see the whole town's view from your room. Anyway, we didn't try for it as it is exceeding our budget.

Ended up, we went to

 and try for this 1! This is good enough for me. With NT600 per hour, you could have your own bathroom, own hot spring tab, own living room with TV and 2 mineral water for free. =) The most important is, you no need to walk very far as it is just located at the left hand side of the Thermal Valley Entrance.

 and visited a museum when we are on the way back to the MRT station.

From the  Xinbeitou, we proceed to the last station- Danshuei

 Danshuei are also famous with its food stalls and sea products. Our initial plan is to visit the Lover's bridge, Fisherman Wharf,  but once arrived there, it's dark already and quite windy during that time. Furthermore, we are tired like a hell, so we give up on it =( Only Manage to walk and eat around.

 What are they looking for?

 quail Egg, Hot Dog! Yummy!

 Guess what is this? it's a type of candy- Fruits wrapped with sugar, like the one you always see in the old time drama =)

 Ya, this is very nice- aiyubing 爱玉冰 

 Dorayaki

 See how many people are queuing for it?

 Another must try food at Dan Shuei

 The Night Street

Yea, this is the well known Shih Lin Night Market! It's huge and again, we don't manage to cover all because i'm worried that we might need to admitted in E&E if we do so.

 Deep Fried Chicken Chop! Cheap weih~ NT 50 each!

 Erm...this is something like a Pau kena fried but by water..Something like that la..

 As we already eat a lot at Danshuei, so only bought Onion pancake, Fried Oyster, Noodle, Hot Dog, The Steam Fried Pau, Chicken Chop and drinks. But guess how much is all of these? It's less than NT 300 weih~~Cheapnye~

 Too big. Can't finish by us.

 This is nice also. But make sure you eat it while it is still hot!

Day 6

 Have Pork Sausage Muffin with Egg at McDonald as our breakfast.

 and after that, take a MRT to Taipei Zoo

 But we are not going to Taipei Zoo...

In fact, we are there to go for the So called longest Gondola Rail in Taiwan. Overall, it tooks around 30mins to arrive at MaoKong.

 Waiting to on board.

 So here we go! You can see the Taipei City from there

 Arrived MaoKong

 The small town with very fresh air and good environment.

 Fresh Tea Leaf

 As usual, It's a makan makan time again!

 This time, I'm thinking to order for Ma Lat Mian -Hot& Spicy Noodle. 

 But ended up, give it to Dear to try it as they did put the piggy blood inside that,,EuuuuwwwKs!

 The gondola Station

 Oh, did i mention in earlier on that there are 2 types of Cabin available at here? and the famous 1 is the Crystal Gondola! First, I thought i was scary but actually it's not. You can see the Taipei Zoo is just under your Foot! =)

Heading to visit the most famous landmark in Taiwan- The Taipei 101!

Nothing much different with KLCC- selling all the branded stuff.

As I read from the internet earlier on, from Taipei 101, there are free shuttle to Mr.J French Restaurant but we didn't manage to find it. Ended up, take a bus and dropped off at the Taiwan Medical university. It's really so hard to find this restaurant as the shop-lot's number were very tricky. It could be jumping very far from each other. And damn the young boy selling shoes at there, we asked if he know where is the Jay Chou's restaurant located and how dare he said he don;t even know there is a Jay Chou restaurant at there. Wtf~ but luckily, we met a lady and she told us try to search inside the University compound.
And finally, we found it!It's hided inside the university and beside the 7-Eleven. ow i wish i could be the student at there a...

The price is consider as "Standard" lo...but the dishes is so so only. Sorry to say, Nothing Special.
 This is the Piano that appeared in his Movie last time.

Trying to imitate the pose of the Hero & Heroin in that film. XD

Have you ever see this appear in his most recent concerts?

Although didn't manage to meet Jay Chou, but yet, still feel very happy and satisfied, at least i have been there and touched his guitar and sit on the same chair that he used to used when casting in the film and touched the same piano that he used to play inside the film too! XD

It's dinner time and we are heading to Ximending for the Steamboat buffet Dinner.

NT 450 each (If im not mistaken)

Seafoods

Meats

The best accompanion for steamboat- The local beer

Fruits

Teas

Soft Drinks

Variety of Cakes, cheesecakes, Tiramisu...oh~

and free flow of Haagen Daz Ice Cream!

The Last Day...

Time flies very fast, It's our last day in Taiwan. Wake up very early as we need to rush to the airport . Before leaving, take the very last pic from our room.

and guess, what time is it? It's 530am in the morning! But its looks like 7am isn't it?

Finally, I'm done with Taiwan's post! PheWwww~~
Thanks boss for sending me to out station, so that i have my time to blog all this out within 3 days!!haha... Anyway, I miss Taiwan very much! I miss the friendly Taiwanese very much! I miss the Delicious Taiwan foods very much! and I hope, I could bring my parents here again next time! 
Miss ya Taiwan!