After blogging about my Korea and Hiroshima trips, I guess I'm going to continue blogging about my Taiwan trip...which occured half a year ago. Wtf, my blog is starting to look like a travel blog. Anyway, here's day 4 of the Taiwan trip.
Meals in Taiwan are just like the ones you have during weddings back here. 10 people to one table filled with dishes of fish, meat and vegetables. Oh, and not forgetting rice too. All I remember about the food of Taiwan was that I didn't really like eating them.
As lunch wasn't that wonderful, my sister and I stopped eating after a few mouthfuls and went to a nearby shop to look around. By the way, we were at Fo Guang Shan Temple so the shops there sold mostly religion-related stuff.
Sis bought the salty ice-cream, Babao(Eight Treasures...wtf is this anyway?) flavour. It must have had been sucky because she threw it away after less than 5 licks.
Ventured into the temple and at the place that there was a wishing well, everyone stopped and starting throwing money inside...except me. I couldn't squeeze my way through to do so and anyway, didn't really want to do it also. The temple was really pretty with all the gold/bronze statues in it.
Model of the temple. Wasn't supposed to take photos inside this place but since there's a picture, I guess that whoever took this photo did not follow the rules~Lalala
Why does this picture look so obscene to me?!
Next, we went to this wholesale place to buy all those Taiwan mochi and jelly. The place was packed and it was so not fun trying to squeeze your way in and out of that place. Damn tiring. After purchasing, we went to the Spring and Autumn Pavillions for sight-seeing.
GAH~. (I don't know how dragons sound like so I just wrote "gah" for convenience's sakes.)
Hsuan Tien Shangti temple.
Went to Love River next. Seriously, I didn't feel the love. The river was smelly and there was nothing to see! Okay, maybe the scenery's prettier at night but since I went in the afternoon, it pretty much sucked. In short, the ride was a total waste of time.
The lady who was explaining to us how to put on the lifejackets. Nobody listened to her and she was kind of pissed of by it. I heard hear complaining to the boatman that nobody was paying attention to her in an angry tone. Paiseh lor~ Everyone was damn sleepy already and somemore the boatride wasn't fantastic, can't exactly blame them for ignoring you.
Had lobster for dinner...or rather, around two miserable 3cm slices of lobster.
It was Winter Solstice that day so we also had tang yuan for dessert.
Went to the Liu He Night Market at erm...night? All the night markets in Taiwan look the same to me and they sell about the same thing so it was getting kind of boring to keep visiting night markets. Dirty somemore lor! Anyway, so instead of shopping, I got my fortune told! Whee~ Apparently I will be rich in the future and my future husband will be someone who's a little pudgy~That means...no Domoto Koichi? =( Go put on some weight lar, Koichi!
After the fortune telling session, we walked around shopping centres where I managed to find Kinokuniya and bought a few Japanese books =D wtf, buy Japanese books in Taiwan...-__- Anyway, although it was winter in Taiwan, Kaohsiung was freaking hot! Even hotter than Singapore somemore and I was amazed to see that the Kaohsiung girls were actually wearing winter jackets and high boots. I know it's fashionable and winter' the only period for them to show off these stuff but still, not hot meh?!
Decided to go sing karaoke in the night but firstly, we had to find a karaoke place. We stumbled upon this ktv and the waitress was apologetic because they had no "xiao jie(hostess)" to serve us. We then realised that this wasn't the karaoke place we had in mind so we took a taxi to a nearby Partyworld instead. Sang till 4am and by the time I got back to the hotel, showered, dried my hair...it was almost time to assemble for the next day's tour le. -____-
End of Taiwan Day 4. More pictures here: http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=112
Meals in Taiwan are just like the ones you have during weddings back here. 10 people to one table filled with dishes of fish, meat and vegetables. Oh, and not forgetting rice too. All I remember about the food of Taiwan was that I didn't really like eating them.
As lunch wasn't that wonderful, my sister and I stopped eating after a few mouthfuls and went to a nearby shop to look around. By the way, we were at Fo Guang Shan Temple so the shops there sold mostly religion-related stuff.
Sis bought the salty ice-cream, Babao(Eight Treasures...wtf is this anyway?) flavour. It must have had been sucky because she threw it away after less than 5 licks.
Ventured into the temple and at the place that there was a wishing well, everyone stopped and starting throwing money inside...except me. I couldn't squeeze my way through to do so and anyway, didn't really want to do it also. The temple was really pretty with all the gold/bronze statues in it.
Model of the temple. Wasn't supposed to take photos inside this place but since there's a picture, I guess that whoever took this photo did not follow the rules~Lalala
Why does this picture look so obscene to me?!
Next, we went to this wholesale place to buy all those Taiwan mochi and jelly. The place was packed and it was so not fun trying to squeeze your way in and out of that place. Damn tiring. After purchasing, we went to the Spring and Autumn Pavillions for sight-seeing.
GAH~. (I don't know how dragons sound like so I just wrote "gah" for convenience's sakes.)
Hsuan Tien Shangti temple.
Went to Love River next. Seriously, I didn't feel the love. The river was smelly and there was nothing to see! Okay, maybe the scenery's prettier at night but since I went in the afternoon, it pretty much sucked. In short, the ride was a total waste of time.
The lady who was explaining to us how to put on the lifejackets. Nobody listened to her and she was kind of pissed of by it. I heard hear complaining to the boatman that nobody was paying attention to her in an angry tone. Paiseh lor~ Everyone was damn sleepy already and somemore the boatride wasn't fantastic, can't exactly blame them for ignoring you.
Had lobster for dinner...or rather, around two miserable 3cm slices of lobster.
It was Winter Solstice that day so we also had tang yuan for dessert.
Went to the Liu He Night Market at erm...night? All the night markets in Taiwan look the same to me and they sell about the same thing so it was getting kind of boring to keep visiting night markets. Dirty somemore lor! Anyway, so instead of shopping, I got my fortune told! Whee~ Apparently I will be rich in the future and my future husband will be someone who's a little pudgy~That means...no Domoto Koichi? =( Go put on some weight lar, Koichi!
After the fortune telling session, we walked around shopping centres where I managed to find Kinokuniya and bought a few Japanese books =D wtf, buy Japanese books in Taiwan...-__- Anyway, although it was winter in Taiwan, Kaohsiung was freaking hot! Even hotter than Singapore somemore and I was amazed to see that the Kaohsiung girls were actually wearing winter jackets and high boots. I know it's fashionable and winter' the only period for them to show off these stuff but still, not hot meh?!
Decided to go sing karaoke in the night but firstly, we had to find a karaoke place. We stumbled upon this ktv and the waitress was apologetic because they had no "xiao jie(hostess)" to serve us. We then realised that this wasn't the karaoke place we had in mind so we took a taxi to a nearby Partyworld instead. Sang till 4am and by the time I got back to the hotel, showered, dried my hair...it was almost time to assemble for the next day's tour le. -____-
End of Taiwan Day 4. More pictures here: http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=112
