Alright, I better finish this before my Bintan trip. HAHAHA
It's our last day in Ximending and also our last day in Taiwan. I'm getting a little lazy to blog about it.. haha i guess it's too many days, too many stuff.. So look at the pictures with the captions.
damn, i hate the shitty pain.. i screamed like hell.
After massage, we took a train to Taipei 101, the famous Taipei skyscraper. Didn't enter it tho.. Sucks, now i so regret.
Returned to Ximending and went for midnight ktv session. The ktv there is damn cool, there are various level of ktv and there's even buffet. I.e. Unlimited fries, buns, desserts and DRINKS! (Kbox sells like $8 per drink k?)
Sang till late night and the next morning we packed all our stuff and headed to the airport. We're coming back home! Look at the amount of stuff we have!
Time really flies, we thought it's gonna be really long (11 days), but it just went by so fast. Sucks. I wanna go there again. Ok but first go elsewhere to tour first. :D
Haircut Skipped breakfast, cut my hair with 2 other girls. Went to Crazy Cut and their service was like Jean Yip but only 2/3 of the price. The salon has got 4 stories and we were separated to different stories... The hairstylist was very gentle to my hair, unlike the Malaysians in Jean Yip. no offence, but it's a fact. Modern Toilet Restaurant So after our haircut, we went for our brunch at the Modern Toilet Restaurant as seen on TV! I was still hoping that I could dine in the scary ghostly restaurant with the service staffs all dressed up as all sorts of ghosts and vampires to scare and serve people. I saw it on TV, but I have no idea where it is located (ok i don't even rmb if it is in Taiwan :/). If there's ever such a chance, I wanna dine there! haha
Back to the Modern Toilet Restaurant. Joan was discovered shitting at the entrance of the restaurant. Sam was happily squatting on the toilet bowl sit, posing for the cam, and even took 2 shits to pose as his protruding chests.. :/
I had Chicken Cordon Bleu. I love Chicken Cordon Bleu! It's chicken with cheese and ham stuffed in it. yummmy~
Even the desserts look like shit.
When I went to the toilet, I was very confused...Caught a tall beautiful tree.
We spent almost 2 hours travelling to a place to purchase their local delicacy (pineapple biscuits and stuff) and found out that our hotel has an order form that includes delivery :/
Shilin Night Market. again. Soon, the sky turned dark. We didn't do much that day. Shilin Night Market is very big and we wanted to shop there again... So we returned and had fried oysters. people who know me should know that I am anti-seafood-consumption, so i only ate the flour and egg, but it was good enough to tell you that it is good! There are many stalls that sell fried oysters, just try your luck if you ever go there. Joan and I returned to Ximending first after shopping and my stomach just wanted me to eat donuts again.. haaha
It is yet another day in Taiwan and the time is flying really fast. It's the 8th day!!!!
Breakfast at Ximending I skipped the breakfast this time, needed to get more sleep - The problem with spending too many days in another country, you just want to sleep more and it feels as though you live there already. So the only thing I wanted for breakfast - Mister Donut. I ate the Cinnamon Roll and it really looks like Cinnamoroll's tail.
Why is Cinnamoroll called Cinnamoroll? Because "his tail was plump and curled up just like a cinnamon roll, she decided to call him Cinnamoroll". Read the full story here. Cinnamoroll even has got a movie now. OMG I MUST WATCH IT SOMEHOW! HAHHA
I don't know how the hell DBSK can get related to Cinnamoroll. :/ ok i'm going out of topic. Breakfast = Donut + Ah Zong Mian Xian (oyster mee sua) YUMMY!
Long Shan Si Then the 7 of us travelled to Long Shan Si by MRT. Only XN, Joan and I prayed in the temple, the rest just waited for us. I've heard that the temple is very famous and stuff, so we went to visit and got some amulets for some close friends and family :) Wu Fen Pu Next, we took a train to Yong Chun station where there's Wu Fen Pu - A place where they sell wholesale clothes. Before we shopped, we went to eat this palatable 鲁肉饭. It is one of Taiwan's delicacy :D As I've mentioned, Wu Fen Pu is a place where they sell wholesale clothes, i.e. the more you purchase, the cheaper they sell you. By right it should be cheaper than other places (or that's what I thought), but it seems that they are still rather costly, but it might be due to the fact that I don't buy in bulk. Most of the sellers do not let you try on the clothes, and they don't really entertain bargaining as compared to other places. In other places you can bargain until like shit.
The guys were bored and returned or went elsewhere. Leaving the 4 girls there to shop. The shops there are similar to Bugis Village, but so many times larger than it. We've been shopping for so many days at so many places already, and we're getting a little tired, sick of seeing all the similar items and walking around. So we wanted to return to the hotel already.
Then came a downpour. Nobody except XN has an umbrella :/
After we returned to the hotel, I packed my stuff in the BIG PLASTIC BAG I bought in Taiwan as seen above (Cinnamoroll!!).
We moved from Danshui, the cool beach, to the city - Ximending
Carrying all our luggages again, this time with more things (look at Joan, she's got an extra Meiji bag and Xiang Ni's got her additional bag). So we carried all the bulky and heavy stuff and hopped onto a bus and then a train to Ximending. The train was crowded, please. Everyone was looking at us.
Rainbow Hotel We arrived at our final hotel which is in Ximending. It was rather spacious, I would say. The 4 girls shared a room while the 3 boys had to share a King/Queen-sized bed. Yong Min ended up sleeping with sleeping bag on the floor :/
In the meanwhile, look at the 2 pictures below and you will see what kept us laughing. They've done their best.
The slipper will slide.
Yeah, so after much laughter, we went out to hunt for fooooood in Ximending.
and then, directly opposite the shop...
Shilin Night Market After our satisfying lunch, we headed to Shilin Night Market. It doesn't just open at night, just that when it's in the night, the illegal stalls will be set up on the stretch of road in Shilin Night Market. And the illegal I am talking about is not the sale of pirated Cds, VCDs or what shit, but that the stalls have no license to run their stalls there. But the things they sell are really cheap and nice. The places there are big and different people wants to shop for different things, hence we usually split into 2 groups - Guys and Girls. So this is how we communicate...
Sometimes the guys just suddenly speak into it and the people in the shop will look at us. Sometimes I don't hear any replies and I'll sing into it. Sometimes we're just too far apart and there's no reception. Sometimes the battery runs low :/
This is when the illegal stalls are set up in the road between the shops, then they suddenly disappear cause the police comes. So the police appears and disappears and the illegal stalls hides in a place and then they appear again and again and again and..... haha it's rather funny to see the scene.
It's not only about shopping in the night market, it's about fooood too! Shilin is famous for its HUGE fried chicken, it really is HUGE, uncut and with bones as compared to what Singapore's Shilin shop is selling.
Then they have the HUGE and delicious sausage too! Of course they don't sell the WHOLE sausage to the customers, they cut a portion of it and sell. Shop, eat and what else? Pets for sale!!! They have a lotta pet shops in a corner of the night market. The baby huskies look so cute :D There's even an arcade and a bowling alley in Shilin.
spooky corner~ (it's just an empty space for rent)
Look what we've got...
It's 11+ and we're catching the last train back to Ximending to have a good night's sleep zzzzzZZzzz
The last time I blogged about Taiwan was like in April. HAHA it's so long overdue. If you remember, I was talking about putting our own fireworks at the Beach and nearly kena caught. Such embarrasing yet exciting moment none of us can ever forget.
Ok let's go to day 6, our last day staying at Danshui (Beach)
We left Danshui for Ximending!!! YAY It's a Sunday and of course, it is crowded almost everywhere, not to say the hotspots like Ximending and Danshui. Families will gather at Danshui to cycle and relax, then the trendy youngsters will be hanging out at Ximending. I'm not trying to say that we're trendy, as compared to them, we just look foreign to them even though we share the same colour skin.
After shopping at Ximending for almost the whole day, I must say that the price of stuff here (except for the shoes) are more expensive than the rest of the places such as Danshui and Taichung and Shilin (I haven't been to Shilin at this part of my trip yet), nevertheless they are still cheaper than those in Singapore. Even the food in the restaurants are mostly cheaper than those in Singapore.
My friends and I wanted to try the famous 阿宗面线, but the queue was very very long, it stretched to at least 3-shops-long, so we decided to try another day when we move to Ximending. So we tried the food from Curryworld. Yummmmmy!
Don't forget, we went to Taiwan during their presidential election. The people in Ximending gave their support to Ma Ying-Jeou (Hey, I support him too!) So, we got to see an Ah Pek all dressed up as a person in the ancient times, holding a banner to express his support and his calls for support for Ma Ying-Jeou. He's there almost everyday, even on rainy days.
Handsome ok?
It soon turned dark, at around 6pm it's dark already. So we travelled back to Danshui, our beloved Kenneth played the game, trying to win a soft toy for Xiang Ni.
Awwwww, where's my yh?
It's ok, Joan and I got ourselves the 阿嬷古早冰(say it in hokkien). Very delicious ok? Hidden in a corner behind the Danshui Old Street. Considering the cold weather there, we were already freezing by the time we finished the whole cuppa ice cream :/
Remember we nearly got caught on the day before for playing fireworks near a lighthouse and ships? We played the fireworks again, on our very last day at Danshui. We cycled and cycled, but just couldn't find the beach (the only place allowed to play fireworks). So, we settled ourselves by the road, and released the fireworks. This time, it's many many more! :D
Look at the picture below, doesn't it look like an explosion? :O
The street was so empty I could lie on the pathway! And Kenneth was the Fireworks-man of the night, with Laura helping once.. haaha
After the fireworks, we cycled to the Fishermen's Wharf. such a dead place on a Sunday night. It was very lively on Saturday night, but we missed it :( Then we found a small arcade still opened like at midnight. Everone has a soft toy caught/won by a guy, but I don't have. How can? Yh, at this time, where are u?? hahaha ok nvm, Ken was trying to catch the little ducky from the UFO Catcher, den it got stucked at the edge, it nearly dropped!!! So I, saw that there was nobody else around who saw us, shook the machine hard and the little duck dropped! HAHAHAHA, So it's mine.
Cos poor me no toy :,( But now me got toy :D
The bridge u see above is the Lover Bridge. No idea why they came up with this name, perhaps a lot of lovers gather at this bridge on Valentine's Day :)
