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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Taipei day 2

Amazing morning in Taipei, Thanks Lord :)
Alley view from our guest house, so clean !
First mission : To have a authentic taiwanese breakfast - "Jia xiang diam xin dai wang" at jing hua street
Direction: Jing Mei MRT, 2nd exist. Turn left to Wang long. The shop is located at 1st junction of jing hua street.

Yummy !
We had a very simple breakfast here- soya bean and yau cha koay egg roll. Cheap, big and nice. Suit those chinese, especially Penangite. Cheap & Big is the fundamental criteria to Penang consumers. Anyway, the soya really thick and the egg roll quite crunchy. Ho Chiak!
书店街
There are around 40+ book shops along 书店街 which located at  重慶南路一段. Frankly speaking, there are nothing much about the street if you are not a book lover. Most of the books here are in mandarin. The only book shop which I will visit again is Elite book store. It a book complex, where you can find all sort of books here. Besides, this book store do have a cafe where reader can enjoy a cup of coffee while reading. 


Taipei 101
It just a walking distance from elite bookstore to Taipei 101 tower. The tallest skyscraper in the world at the moment. Well, something like KLCC, nothing much.


The tower as slim as me..hoho..shiok sendiri
 From there we walk to NewYork New York, so called youngster shopping mall. In deed this is a youngster shopping mall, suitable for those who think they are young enough. Here you can see many 'leng zai" "Leng Lui" here. Good for your eye? haha
On the way to NewYork x2
Zhao ji Ma lak Nui rou mian ( Super spicy beef noodle)
Tell you what? That is not spicy to a Malaysian. We even drink the soup like drinking water. And the aunty were amazed..


Wu fen pu (Wholesale market place)
Wu fen Pu ( Wholesale Market Place) is a must to tourist where you can get cheap fashion here. Operating hour is from 3pm t0 12 midnight. Try not to go on Monday as Monday is reserved for wholesaler. Frankly speaking, we are not the type who love to shop, hence this place is not really attractive to both of us. We prefer food :P  We went there because we need to get some t-shirts for rest of the days in Taipei. 


Raohe Street Night Market
Okay, tonight we went Raohe Night Market for our dinner as this night market quite near to wufenpu. We try almost every snacks, like duck blood with chao tao fu. chao tao fu soup etc. 


After dinner, we lost as we could'nt find the direction to MRT. Thank God for sending us an angle. She was so nice and she even walk us to MRT station. 
our supper
Day shall be more perfect with all kinds of snacks as supper :)

Monday, September 6, 2010

Taipei day 1

" OH NO! Yen, wake up, we were late ! " Flight at 10am, but we have to check in 2 hours before flight. From puchong to KL sentral and from there to LCCT..hmm..we need to leave puchong at 5.30am ! Anyway, we were so willing to sacrify our sleeping time..haha..

Really thank God that we were manage to check in on time and...we got window seat ! hee.. It was a 4hours 30 minutes flight..kinda boring in fact..
Finally...after so many years, our dream came true ! How come the grass here is greener than Malaysia? haha...oh shit, everyone speak mandarin..really no used with it, but still we love it so much..okok ! the first thing we need to do is to get our digital buddy handphone. We make the registration two weeks before we went taiwan.

After we bought bus tickets, then only i remember something..My initial plan is to take bullet train to taipei. but maybe too tired, i've forgot about it. Aiya..end up we took "feigou" bus instead bullet train to taipei main station..From Taipei main station, we took MRT to JingMei, where we have booked a room there.
What a cozy room
okay, no bad ! This is our room. It is only 2minutes walk from JingMei MRT 2nd exist. Nearby here do have 7-11 and 24hours Ding Hao Convenience shop ! Indeed, it is really convenience ! The first shop we visited was 7-11, because as we know Taiwan 7-11 is so much advanced than Malaysia..Man, this is no a legend !

At about 6.30pm, we went to Shida Night Market..It might not thr biggest night market in Taipei, but I love it so much because it is just nice for both of us to explore and food here are damn nice !
MUST EAT "Liang Mian"(cold noodles)
This is the most delicious "Liang Mian" as far for me. The boss won a few gold medal in a few competition. The price is reasonable and people here are so friendly ! After taking our dinner, we did try a few taiwanese snacks.
Their "ke lit bin" are damn big ! Maybe too full, both of us cant even finish one ke lit bin ! haha.. but there are so many nice food wor..hmm..then we dabao some foods for supper lar.
After a few hours walk, we decided to take MRT back to JingMei. Maybe too excited, we went JingMei night market as well. It is also a few minutes walking distance from our guest house. JingMei night market no so happening if compared to Shida, but the "lu Wei' here is quite nice.
From JingMei MRT 2nd exit to our guest house