2:31 AM
Taiwan Day 8 - Jiufen
We had our breakfast at my favourite stall! This is just a straight road behind the police station at Ximending. I had breakfast from this shop almost everyday last year at Taiwan :D
Peanut Butter Toast that Jasmine had. Not bad ^^
Yuxuan and Szeli's breakfast set!
My usual 蛋饼 :D
We headed on to the S.Y.S. Memorial Station (come out of exit 3 or 5 and you'll see DBS in front) so that I could go DBS to withdraw money. Ended up I did not know I had to activate overseas withdrawal first, so I couldn't withdraw money and even ended up having my card disabled for trying too much =.= Panicked and used my phone to call back DBS in Singapore.. Forgot that I could ask the staff to lend me their phone to contact headquarters back in Singapore :( At least I had my card activated again! :) Made them wait damn long for me though :/
Moved on to Zhongxiao Fuxing Station exit 1 to take the Jinguashih-bound bus over to Jiufen. I forgot what the bus number was, 2062 or something! It was a very fast ride though, not like what online stated. All the taxi uncles there lied to us about how slow the bus would take to reach Jiufen! D: Thank god we decided not to listen to them :D
We had our lunch at 张记 which is famous for their various fish/meat balls. I think the braised meat rice 卤肉饭 at Formosa Chang is still better though!
My favourite ice cream and peanut wrapped with popiah skin that I couldn't live without everyday at Ximending!
Scenic spot there, but we needed "production crew" to help and hold the lanterns away for the shot haha!
We were feeling adventurous so we climbed up the steep stairs here. But the visibility was almost 0 sometimes because there isn't any light at all inside! And so I found out my phobia - climbing down steep stairs. I get this feeling I'm going to fall and stumble down the stairs all the time while climbing down.
Took photos up there and then we left!
Our last food at Jiufen: 九份賴阿婆芋圓, or Taro balls. It was refreshing heh. Tried the one sold in Singapore and it tasted artificial though :(
We also had the famous 九份紅糟肉圓 (Red Wine Meat Ball with Glutinous Rice Skin) but it didn't taste as nice as we expected :(
We headed back to Shi Da Night Market that night for food and shopping! Pretty much overrated to me though, there wasn't anything much nice there for us :(
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11:25 PM
RETAILING AT ASOS FOR SGD$160 NOW D: I don't want my ice cream maker already!! Get me this for my birthday? :) Size UK 7 hehe.
1:59 AM
But at least.. I reconfirmed my passion for design somehow.
12:11 AM
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2:47 AM
Taiwan Day 7 - Dan Shui
Had our breakfast at the 早餐店 that is straight away on the right of our hostel. All of us had 蛋饼 (egg crepes) since it's recommended by my friend haha. I had the egg crepes at another stall last year, I think that was better! It's called JLS I think. But this one's pretty good too :D
Egg Crepes with Ham :D
We wanted to go to Xin Bei Tou for our hot spring la mian (walk all the way up from the second road from the right when at the traffic junction), but it turned out to be closed on a Monday T_T We kind of made the trip for nothing, but at least it was on the way to Dan Shui! It was raining the whole day so we were kind of drenched, until we decided to buy pretty umbrellas at the MRT at Dan Shui haha.
There's this small river kind of thing along our road, and the water's warm! Well it's a hot spring place after all. I went back another day alone and I saw a lot of people bathing their legs inside haha.
Off to Dan Shui Lao Jie 淡水老街, and we went to the street that was on the right facing the ocean. There's this really cheap stall selling handmade wooden decorations! The cheapest is 50NT, and the most expensive one I don't think exceeds 200NT. I bought this animal carousel for 100NT, and it can turn in the middle :D Can't wait to start and paint it, but I haven't been getting around doing it though, I'm such a lazy bum :/ There's a lot other models, like houses, cars, motorcycles, jetplanes etc etc.
Entered a random shop called 曾记 and we ate the famous 阿给, which is also glass noodles inside a beancurd skin. It's pretty filling though x.x Both the 阿给 and glutinous rice are pretty good, but I didn't try the fishballs though.
We moved on to the street behind, which is also next to the ocean. Most of the stalls were closed sadly :( Don't know is it because it's a Monday since I heard Mondays there's wholesaler market at Wu Fen Pu and I don't know where else, or because it was raining. We actually entered the random shops and we found a lot of treasures to buy inside! Pretty leather wristbands for just 40NT!! Felt cheated because I previously bought them at a shop at the main street for 90NT :( And there were a lot of nice pouches etc which I bought as gifts heh.
Saw a yoghurt shop selling at $2SGD per 100 grams or something, cheaper than $1 in Singapore heh. It was the exact same shop that I patronised last year. I remember last year we took the ferry to another island for fun and took some pictures before heading back to Dan Shui, but this time everything was closed :(
Favourite buy from Taiwan at a shop called ABC Mart! Crochet details on an oxford shoe ^^ It costed me $60SGD though :'(
Shi Lin was on our way back, so we actually stopped by for more shopping hahaha. I spent half an hour begging the shopkeeper to let Yuxuan have his watch for 3400NT (I forgot which brand) instead of 3500NT. We even played the guessing game, so if I won they'd give me the discount, and if they won we'd pay the price they stated for us. Yuxuan even recorded down the gaming process hahaha oh my god. I actually used all the Taiwanese feminine accents to try and get the 100NT discount hahaha.
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