Trader Gav’s Footstep

Taiwan : Chapter 11 Jiu Fen

Jiu Fen (9 shares? 9 portions? 9 parts?) , It was a gold mine decades ago. Now it is a tourist attraction after a taiwanese movie “Bei Qing Cheng Shi”. Great scenery, cooling weather, and great food. (I tried the drunken chicken here, OISHI!!!) And, guys, you are going there, do go to a shop called “Ah Shin’s shop”, a sweet sweet sweet lady is there…oh….

why did I took photo of a temple? Man, look carefully, the whole temple is covered by a layer of GOLD. Real GOLD.

Taiwan :Chapter 10 Grand Hotel

Though I stayed in the cheap and old hotel in Ximending, I paid a visit to the luxury hotel , Grand hotel, which was built according to the late Mrs President (Jiang).

According to the day tour guide, the original building was a Japanese temple during Japanese colony. A golden dragon in the hotel is still prayed by Japanese visitors now.

Taiwan: Chapter 9 Taipei city

Oh ah…Taipei!! Taipei!! Taipei!!…one more time, Taipei!! Taipei! Taipei!!…(if you are singaporean, I bet you will say this word –”SIAO”).

Ok, I went to Taipei 101, the building which is claimed to be the highest in the world. Arno….I thought my Petronas twin towers are the highest? No good, you made our Dr.M losing face , he was darn proud of our Twin towers.

Ok, enough of bullshit (but this is my blog, happy?) , I tried to take a couple of photos from the top of  the tower. Man, they charged me NT350 bucks in order to access to the top floor. Ok, never mind, since I love taipei, I…..pay…..never mind…

Ok, here are some shots.

oi? Ngee An City found in Taipei also?

Chapter 8: Fishermen’s wharf

Ah…romantic. really? I found a little bit fishy here and there. haha… This is Dan shui area, the famous Yu Ren Ma Tou (Fishermen Wharf). Well, I paid NT100 bucks for ferry to send me to the other side of island. Pretty cool.

Ok, let me try…uhm…it is romantic….but , still smell fishy….sorry.

Taiwan :Chapter 7 Where the youngsters are

Ok, this is the place I stayed. Ximending. Let me count, goosh, there are around 5 cinemas in this area. I was staying in a 3-star hotel. Cheap? ok, it is an old hotel. But with great service and location, who cares? Traders look at best buy.

Taiwan :Chapter 6 The search of Aborigine

Ah, here we come to Aboriginal village. Wu lai. Great scenary, lots of hotspring hotels, great Water fall, and nice Aboriginal dishes. I am going back again.

Taiwan :Chapter 5 Nature Creatures

Trust me, sex is not only for human. From these two photos, tell me, what do you see? Don’t be shy, tell me. These photos are taken from North coast of Taiwan, called Ye liu.

Photos uploaded

While I am still preparing this blog, you may want to view some photos here

Taiwan :Chapter 4 Food

Here is the list of food I love. And these are the ‘must-eat’ when you travel to Taiwan. I try my best to get the English translation, you know, it is tough to give a english name for chinese food.
Ah Cong Mi Sua 阿宗�线 (vermicelli)

Oyster vermicelli 蚵仔�线

Fried oyster with egg 蚵仔煎

Rice with Pork lat 滷味饭

阿给

Fish ball 鱼丸汤

Drunken chicken (from jiufen area) 醉鸡 (�份)

Stink beancurb臭豆�

红油抄手

Red beancurb (well, this is nothing but pig blood) 红豆�

宋江牛肉馅饼

龙凤腿

永和豆浆

I will add more when I recall, you know, there are just too much great food in Taiwan. Basically , during the 7-day trip, I was having 5 to 6 meals a day on average.

Taiwan: Chapter 3 Problem

Well, I guess the only problem I can find when traveling to Taiwan is language. I can hardly find a english speaking person. I don’t have any problem with chinese speaking, since I am chinese educated. My friend was having some difficulties. And, mind you, most of sign boards, brochures are written in Mandarin, and maybe in Japanese as well.
MRT system is fine. Announcements come with several languages, including English.