Travelogue to Taiwan Part 2
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Day 2 (Taichung)
03/09/2015
Places visited: Sun Moon Lake 日月谭 ｜Feng Chia Night Market 逢甲夜市
Food:
Started our day having breakfast at the hotel cafe which wasn't fantastic. Took bus 106 opposite Macdonald (near our hotel @ Feng Chia night market) to HSR Taichung station to purchase the tickets to Sun Moon Lake. From there, you can take the Nantou bus.
At Xuanguang Temple, nothing much over here except there's a famous tea flavoured egg 茶叶蛋. Personally don't find it amazing. Good tourist location.
Off to Ita Thao Pier where there were more food here.
Salmon Ikura Don which cause less than 10 dollars.
Yummy yummy clams that you can find in the night market! Choose Garlic! :D
Day 3 (Taichung, Taipei)
04/09/2015
Places visited: Taipei 101 | Ximending
Food: Lai Lai Soyabean Milk Shop 来来豆浆 | Dazzling Cafe (Sunshine)
Good Morning!
Took a bus to Lai Lai Soyabean Milk Shop 来来豆浆 to have breakfast!
Assorted breakfast in Taichung.
Salty bean curd which I was not use to it. Definitely an acquired taste. The food was good but the ironic was the soya milk was crap. There was a burnt smell which ruin the whole taste.
03/09/2015
Places visited: Sun Moon Lake 日月谭 ｜Feng Chia Night Market 逢甲夜市
Food:
Started our day having breakfast at the hotel cafe which wasn't fantastic. Took bus 106 opposite Macdonald (near our hotel @ Feng Chia night market) to HSR Taichung station to purchase the tickets to Sun Moon Lake. From there, you can take the Nantou bus.
We purchased the 990 TWD because I wanted to sit cable car. Haha This ticket includes the bus to and from Taichung HSR, unlimited boat rides, unlimited bus rides and of course the cable car tickets.
At Xuanguang Temple, nothing much over here except there's a famous tea flavoured egg 茶叶蛋. Personally don't find it amazing. Good tourist location.
Off to Ita Thao Pier where there were more food here.
This yummy boneless chicken stuffed with fragrant glutinous rice and the chilli and spring onions add another punch to it.
This deep fried mushroom was terrible :( my sis was eating and spilt out many pieces of plastic. Ahhh! There was a kid who ordered it too. I hope he knows how to differentiate and don't swallow it.
Take 106 back to feng chia night market from Taichung HSR.
Salmon Ikura Don which cause less than 10 dollars.
Dine at this store as we were craving for Japanese food. Food was normal but good pricing.
A better view of the Jap eatery at Feng Chia Night Market. Ended the night with lots of good food at the night market!
Yummy yummy clams that you can find in the night market! Choose Garlic! :D
Day 3 (Taichung, Taipei)
04/09/2015
Places visited: Taipei 101 | Ximending
Food: Lai Lai Soyabean Milk Shop 来来豆浆 | Dazzling Cafe (Sunshine)
Good Morning!
Took a bus to Lai Lai Soyabean Milk Shop 来来豆浆 to have breakfast!
Assorted breakfast in Taichung.
Salty bean curd which I was not use to it. Definitely an acquired taste. The food was good but the ironic was the soya milk was crap. There was a burnt smell which ruin the whole taste.
Lai Lai Soyabean Milk Shop 来来豆浆
No 91-2 Section 3, Wenxin Road, Taichung
台中市四屯区文心路3段91-2号
Reason to return: Try other stuffs!
Took a bus to Taipei after checking out. We checked in to our Airbnb apartment upon reaching Ximending which both of us wasn't happy about it. How the apartment can totally ruin your holiday.
Travelled to Taipei 101, did some shopping before proceeding to Dazzling cafe.
Was very excited to try because of the hype in Singapore. You can totally skip this. The toast was so hard and dry. The taste wasn't flavourful. Nothing nice at all. I don't know if it is the same kind of standard in Singapore because I haven't tried yet and I doubt so after this experience in Taiwan. After you dessert from Thailand is at least 10 times better than this.
Dazzling Cafe (Sunshine)
No 11, Alley 7, Lane 205, Section 4, Zhongxiao E Road, Da'an District, Taipei City 106
台北市信義区松壽路11号
Reason to return: Noooo.
Ended our dinner with a comfort beef don located at the basement level of Dazzling cafe. Dread going back to our apartment. Sigh!
Had a long discussion with my sister whether to move out but we decide to stay because host's friend was really nice and he was trying his very best to make us feel good about the apartment and of course strictly no refund. I will share more about it next time.
Labels: free&easy, holidays, taichung, taipei, taiwan, travelogue
Travelogue to Taiwan Part 1
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Booked a promotion ticket for $250 all in per pax including excess baggage via Jetstar. Hehe :D
Though it wasn't the first time for me to fly to Taiwan, I was actually quite excited because I would be travelling with my sister.
Day 1 (Taichung)
02/09/2015
Places visited: 一福堂老店 | Miyahara Ophthalmology Department 宫原眼科 |Gaomei Wetlands 高美湿地
Food: Chun Shui Tang 春水堂 | The Forth Credit Cooperation 台中第四信用合作社 | Elixir Health Pot 无老锅
Flight was midnight and we reached Taoyuan airport early in the morning. Great thing about Taiwan is the unlimited free data at affordable price and they do everything for you (change sim card, activation).
My sis opted for bus to Taichung instead of High Speed Rail which I planned. The bus seat was really comfortable and spacious.
Upon reaching Taichung Main Station, we placed our luggages at the baggage services before exploring places near the station.
First stop in Taichung - Chun Shui Tang 春水堂
We have to visit this store because it's where the first bubble milk tea originated. Haha Head to the pioneer outlet at Siwei street.
The store wasn't crowded and there wasn't much choice of food because we went during breakfast time.
We ordered some light snacks to share Siew Mai, 甜不辣 (Fish Paste), carrot cake. Personally love the carrot cake but others were mediocre. Of course not to miss the pearl milk tea which consist of too many pearls!
Though it wasn't the first time for me to fly to Taiwan, I was actually quite excited because I would be travelling with my sister.
Day 1 (Taichung)
02/09/2015
Places visited: 一福堂老店 | Miyahara Ophthalmology Department 宫原眼科 |
Food: Chun Shui Tang 春水堂 | The Forth Credit Cooperation 台中第四信用合作社 | Elixir Health Pot 无老锅
Flight was midnight and we reached Taoyuan airport early in the morning. Great thing about Taiwan is the unlimited free data at affordable price and they do everything for you (change sim card, activation).
My sis opted for bus to Taichung instead of High Speed Rail which I planned. The bus seat was really comfortable and spacious.
Upon reaching Taichung Main Station, we placed our luggages at the baggage services before exploring places near the station.
First stop in Taichung - Chun Shui Tang 春水堂
We have to visit this store because it's where the first bubble milk tea originated. Haha Head to the pioneer outlet at Siwei street.
The store wasn't crowded and there wasn't much choice of food because we went during breakfast time.
We ordered some light snacks to share Siew Mai, 甜不辣 (Fish Paste), carrot cake. Personally love the carrot cake but others were mediocre. Of course not to miss the pearl milk tea which consist of too many pearls!
Chun Shui Tang 春水堂
No 30 Siwei Street, West District, Taichung City 403
四维街30号
0800 - 2200
Reason to return: try the lunch/ dinner menu!
What you cannot miss in taichung if you love pastries is sun biscuits 太阳饼! We went to the famous 阿明师老店太阳堂 which many blogs recommended. I find the 太阳饼 too sweet for my liking so we didn't purchase any.
Walked along the streets and we found other pastries stores.
We bought all our sun biscuit from 一福堂老店. It's so far the best we can find along the street. Haha the 太阳饼 aren't too sweet and moist inside. Thumbs up! The lemon tart looks tempting but we didn't get any because there wasn't sample to try.
Walked along the streets and we found other pastries stores.
一福堂老店
No 67 Zhongshan Road, Zhong District, Taichung City 400
台中市中区中山路67号
0900 - 2200
We bought over 40 pieces of sun biscuits but was decline when we requested for 3 small boxes (just hard cupboard type) to repack it at first. I don't know but I feel that the service staff or maybe the boss is too stingy? Just 3 hard cupboard box and it seem like the boxes cost a lot? Hmmm. Anyway we managed to get 3 boxes after some "teng-ing" -.-
Nice interior design in Miyahara Ophthalmology Department which sells pastries. This store as the name suggests was an ophthalmology clinic in the past. The store started out selling cheese cakes to many different pastries now! They also sell ice cream and tea now.
We walked 10 minutes to the sister branch of Miyahara which is call The Forth Credit Cooperation 台中第四信用合作社
There were so many ice cream flavours to choose but no tasting allow. Hence we just went with the recommended flavours shown on the menu. The dessert is photo worthy but the ice creams taste like crap! The ice creams weren't creamy. The only yummy toppings were the cheesecake and butterfly! 好看不好吃 Definitely not going back for dessert next time. Maybe can consider buying the box of butterfly biscuits.
Miyahara Ophthalmology Department 宫原眼科
No 20 Zhongshan Road, Zhong District, Taichung City 400
台中市中区中山路20号
1000 - 2200
We walked 10 minutes to the sister branch of Miyahara which is call The Forth Credit Cooperation 台中第四信用合作社
There were so many ice cream flavours to choose but no tasting allow. Hence we just went with the recommended flavours shown on the menu. The dessert is photo worthy but the ice creams taste like crap! The ice creams weren't creamy. The only yummy toppings were the cheesecake and butterfly! 好看不好吃 Definitely not going back for dessert next time. Maybe can consider buying the box of butterfly biscuits.
The Forth Credit Cooperation 台中第四信用合作社
No 72 Zhongshan Road, Zhong District, Taichung City 400
台中市中区中山路72号
1000 - 2200
Reasons to return: Nope. you can totally skip this.
We went back to Taichung Main Station to take our luggage before taking public bus to our hotel. We stayed near Feng Chia Night Market (remember to purchase a you you card if you are planning to use their public transports)
The moment we reached Le Parker Hotel, we bathe and dozed off. Hahaha totally cancel our plan to Gaomei Wetland. Maybe next time? :(
Woke up in the evening and decided to shop around at Feng Chia before heading to our dinner place. The road to our dinner place was extremely tiring! From Goggle map, it showed 10 minutes walk to destination but ended up walking 1 hour and 45 mins to our dinner place. Hahahaha! Got nagged by my sister and guess what happened?
Our table full of food and this was only one side of our table. My sister said YES to everything the waitress recommended. I made her walked too much.
Everything was delicious on the table. This steamboat place call 无老锅 is a must try! We ordered the beauty pot soup as we were afraid that the mala 麻辣 would be too spicy for us to handle. They serve free flow of duck blood and bean curd skin. You can omit the duck blood if you aren't a fan of it. Personally feel that it's better than Hai Di Lao!
You will like it if you love the collagen beauty pot in Plaza Singapura. The soup base at 无老锅 isn't as thick as the collagen beauty pot which wouldn't make you feel jelat drinking it.
Elixir Health Pot 无老锅
No 74, Section 2, Gongyi Road, Nantun District, Taichung City 408
台中市南屯区公益路二段74号
1130 - 0400
Anyway remember to make a reservation if you don't want to feel disappointed. There wasn't much people when I went during dinner time at 8pm. So good luck!
Labels: free&easy, taichung, taiwan, travelogue
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