Sunday, December 18, 2011

China Trip


A last minute decision to go for a short trip. Guess which part of China I intended to visit. :) Answer will be in 2012 when I returned.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Taiwan Trip Day 7 - Final Day in Taiwan - Bye Bye Taiwan

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Time to say bye bye to Taiwan. I fall in love with Taiwan, so much to see and not enough time. Will visit those places I missed if I come back to visit Taiwan again. :)

After checking out of our hotel, we made our way to the bus station just diagonally opposite Casear Park Hotel about less than 5 or 10 minutes from our hotel (depending how fast your walk). There are two bus stations near Taipei Main Station so got to make sure you head to the right bus station for your bus to the airport. The bus station that heading to the airport is known as Taipei West Bus Station while the other bus station above Q Square shopping centre heads to other towns in Taiwan.

Inside the Taipei West Bus Station, we headed to bus route 1819 to board the bus. We bought our return bus ticket on Day 1, but there are ticket counters in this station which also sell tickets for the bus.

There are also other buses to other parts of Taiwan from this bus station.

Finally after one hour journey, we reached Terminal 2 of Taoyuan Airport to board our SQ flight.

Priority given to passengers who check in via the internet earlier.



SQ food tasted so good - the oriental version that consists of rice, chicken and vegetables. I used to hate airline food but times has changed airline food have definitely improved a lot.

Western version - Baked fish with roasted potatoes and vegetables

Dessert - pineapple tarts (so yummy) and Haagen Daz Ice Cream

The gift coupon that I collected from Taiwan Tourism Association in Singapore before I flew to Taiwan, I got to exchange some Taiwanese Snacks and chocolates.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Taiwan Trip Day 7 - Final Day in Taiwan - Peace Garden

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Surprised to see a beautiful park near our hotel. Later I learnt that the park was named 228 Peace Memorial Park. It has a long history and the park contains a number of memorials to victims of the 228 Incident of 1947, including the Taipei 228 Memorial that stands at the center of the park. The National Taiwan Museum stands at the park's north entrance. The park also features a bandshell and exercise areas. You can read more from wikipedia.

Nice to see a famous statue at the park. The statue was that of a great man, Confucius.






Saw lots of beautiful pavilions in the park.

Lots of locals using the park to do morning exercises.

The park is really beautiful with lots of nature and birds


From the end of the street where our hotel was, we could spot the museum in the park.

The museum contains history of the park.

Saw this peepul tree in the park. I think it is also known as bodhi tree.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Taiwan Trip Day 7 - Final Day in Taiwan - Breakfast

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Our last day in Taiwan, had a really good breakfast at the cafe below our hotel. As usual we bought the breakfast voucher from our hotel at only NT100 (about S$4). I had the taiwanese porridge with some scrambled eggs, pork floss, broccoli and vegetarian. The porridge was really very hot. Very good breakfast. :)

After breakfast, we still have some time before heading to the airport, we decided to walk around the streets near our hotel.

There were lot of stores selling breakfast but was a buy and go type means no dine in. As there's lots of office buildings around here, most office workers would buy their breakfast and bring it back to their office.



Saw a vendor selling breakfast, looked very interesting and good.

Poor doggie.


Sunday, November 20, 2011

Taiwan - Seven Eleven Minimart

There are so many seven eleven and family minimarts around Taipei. Every night, we would get ourselves some hot drinks and snacks and glued ourselves to the many channels of taiwanese programs. :) Love their variety shows the best.

Inside seven eleven and family minimarts, there were many taiwanese local food and snacks.

It is so convenient with the minimarts around, one will never goes hungry in the middle of the night.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Taiwan Trip Day 6 - Huaxi Night Market

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Day 6 night, our last night in Taiwan, we decided to take a train to Huaxi Night Market. We alighted at Longshan Temple MRT Station. There were a lot of cheap stuff on sale in here.


Some exoctic animals for sale in a restaurant. Yikes I spotted some pythons. I am not very adventurous with exoctic food.



Lots of stalls selling pig's trotters - I never like pig's trotters, the fats and skin around it are already very unhealthy.




Lots of cheap VCDs on sale here not sure if they are genuine or imitation.

Longshan Temple directly opposite the Longshan Temple MRT Station.

Could not find any suitable food at Huaxi Street, we ended up going back to our hotel for late dinner lol. We were too fussy with food.

The cafe at our hotel served very good food. Hubby had beef steak and tempura prawns.

I had grilled chicken thigh with tempura prawns and lots of vegetables.

Each dish costs us less than NT400

Friday, November 18, 2011

Taiwan Trip Day 6 - Jiufen - Lunch at Teahouse

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We had our lunch at one of the teahouse at the hill top. The scenery from the teahouse is superb and with beautiful music too. We really enjoyed our lunch.

I had three cups chicken with vegetables. Three cups chicken is a Taiwanese chinese dish. The name “three cup chicken” comes from the three main ingredients: sesame oil, Chinese rice wine, and soy sauce.

Hubby had black pepper beef and vegetables.


Our lunch comes with free fruits and tea.