Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Tainan - the street food paradise

Initially Tainan wasn’t part of our plan, but since everyone said Tainan has the most delicious street food, we decided to pay a one day trip there for the noms. It was rather late by the time we left the night market, so we spontaneously stayed for a night in Hsiang Kai’s place. Thank goodness I brought along my make up pouch that day XD

Upon reaching Tainan train station.

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Mr. Policeman.

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The food hunting began the moment Hsiang Kai picked us up from the train station. Someone suggested that we had to eat at least 20 types of food while we were there. Now to think about it, we had certainly exceeded 20 in those 2 days.

Steaming hot pau.

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With salty egg yolk and shitake mushroom, how can anyone not like the fillings?

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Later on, we went to this famous shop for porridge and loh mee.

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Apparently the porridge gets sold out really fast so we had to call to reserve in advance.

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The lady boss gave us a steam fish and a big bowl of soup for free after Michael told her that we are tourists from Malaysia. How nice of her :)

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A photo with the lady boss whose name I assume must be 阿娟.

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We proceeded to eat fish noodles near a temple.

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With minced pork, seaweed and lotsa sesame oil.

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Tomato with ginger sauce and herbs toppings.

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Papaya milk.

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Pudding is a must-have when you visit Taiwan!

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We dabao one for each of us.

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Amping Bean Jelly (touhua).

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They come in different flavours such as pearls, red bean, green bean, lime etc.

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Celebrities’ past visits.

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All of us, and the girls behind are Hsiang Kai’s ex school mates whom we bumped into coincidently.

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水煎包 only NTD10 each.

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We chilled at a park nearby to digest our food before consuming more.

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Monkey exercise.

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Idk how the picture turned out like this but I swear I didn’t have a pole biting fetish O.o

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Visited Amping Tree House. It was a real house built on a tree and there ued to be people who dwelled in the tree house, but now it’s opened for public exhibition.

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Some brief history of Tainan.

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I’m guessing the trees must be at least 30 years old.

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Meep.

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Thought it was a pretty decent location for an outdoor photoshoot.

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Tree house made of bricks and woods.

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There was even a lake behind the tree house!

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当心儿童.

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I can haz giant mushroom hat. Wtfreak.

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Tainan wax statues museum.

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Yummiest prawn rolls and oyster rolls for snacks.

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Winter melon tea.

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Shopping along the temple street. Wing is always fascinated with hand made stuff.Photobucket

Do not litter, for the eyes is watching you. Wtf?

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Fried quail eggs which could be found anywhere in Taiwan.

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An old shop that sells preserved fruits and stuff which are the only thing I don’t eat during CNY.

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状元粿, something that resembles 碗仔糕 over here.

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Group shot before leaving.

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Photos overload. I shall continue to write about Tainan on my next post! Stay put and read on ya! :)

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Tu Nian Kuai Le

Happy Chinese New Year people!

How was your first 2 days of CNY? For me it was pretty much mundane and perhaps less happening this year. And I have a feeling that the next few days aren’t gonna be any much better, since most of them will leave Muar soon, especially the MMU guys who are having their exam. Final exam on the fifth day of CNY?? FTL seriously.

Oh, I freaking lost like RM140 today itself. No more gambling for me or I might just gamble away someone’s valentine gift, not that I have anything in mind at the moment. I shall just stick to the mafia game which doesn’t require any capital.

Gotta sleep now and get ready for more house-visiting tomorrow! Good night peeps!

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New year outfits will be posted later! :)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Ximen Walker, Wufenpu & Yangmingshan

In Taipei, there was one night when we stayed up and played Mafia until daybreak. Our initial plan of going to 酒粪 九份 had to be postponed, or more precise, canceled since we didn’t get to visit that place after all. We slept for 2 hours, woke up for breakfast then went back to sleep again T.T

扶持样子超欠扁的老太公过马路。

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It was evening by the time we got ready to head off to 五分浦, a wholesale heaven where you can get clothes at dirt cheap prices!

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Dinner at 胡须张 where we get to taste the best 鲁肉饭 in Taiwan!

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The guys.

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And the girls. Kaka.

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Yummiest鲁肉饭 with such soft and juicy meat!

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Why don’t we have such tasty鲁肉饭 back here?? I would probably order it for lunch everyday till I’m sick of it! XD

卤猪脚。

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青菜。

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豆腐。

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If I could remember correctly, that meal costs only NTD60 per person. Damn cheap since some of them even ordered a double serving of rice!

And that is 五分浦! The one and only photo I took while I was there. I don’t need to further elaborate what we did there, do I?

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Towards the end of the night, there was this male shopkeeper who asked if we were selling clothes or we really did buy that much of stuff! That was something ought to be proud of, considering we managed to grab ourselves so many spring clothes even though 98% of the stuff selling there are winter wear. I could already picturing myself hauling back a new luggage if we were to go during spring or summer!

After all that shopping madness, we quickly rushed back to the hotel and got dressed to hit the club! It was rather cold outside so I couldn’t go out with my skimpy club wear, but I wanted to save the trouble of taking off my pants in the club, hence the trench coat without pants perverted flasher look! *ashamed*

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Met Bernard who travelled all the way from Kao Hsiung just to club with us, who then travelled all the way back there for work just a few hours after we left the club. Wtfreak. The bullet train (高铁) fares must have cost about NTD3000+?

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New leopard print dress (which made me look rather slutty) from 五分浦!

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The rest of the incidents occurred that night is for us to know and for you to imagine. Neh you don’t need to imagine that Stepf got drunk and puked in Michael’s new shoes cause I am already telling you this. HAHAHAHA oops that just slipped out, please don’t kill me, Stepf!

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Oh, I freaking paid NTD800 upon entry! Good thing the money spent was worthwhile since we had fun. The club and crowd was nothing too cina like I imagined. LOL.

Porridge the morning after noon after cause Stepf was still sick and her weak stomach could not tolerate anything oily.

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皮蛋瘦肉粥。

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I think she’s quite stupid for not realizing that 油条was extremely oily. When I told her she was like oops, never mind la; after which she continued eating her oily 油条! -.- FHL no wonder she never got well.

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Wandering around 西门町。

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Guess who was there? Wilber Pan 潘玮柏!!!

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At first I thought it was a small time unpopular singer having a promotional campaign since it was THAT crowded. If潘玮柏 were to come to Malaysia, I think the place would be so packed all you could see is young girls screaming while pulling each others’ hair. Tsk tsk.

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Meet my new boyfriend. Don’t we look compatible? Hiak hiak.

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We passed through Ximen Walker everyday when we were in Taipei. By the way, I was joking about the new boyfriend if you’re still scratching your head thinking why I’m dating a Taiwanese!

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I had a voucher for free cake from our last visit at Tamagoya, so we dropped by while waiting for Tung.

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Wing ended up ordering a giant toast thingy.

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Looked so perfectly beautiful.

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Still looked good after 2 cuts.

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But not until it became like this! I was already full just by the sight of it. And we imagine it being Stepfanie’s barf. Yikes!

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Wafer which looked so so much better.

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Ready to travel up to the mountain for hot spring! It was so stupid how we took the wrong bus which was going towards the opposite route! Had to get off and took the MRT to Taipei station to wait for another bus again. And that wasn’t all. When we got off from the bus, we had to walk a long distance up the mountain under the drizzles because apparently the bus doesn’t go to the top! Jeez.

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Finally reached 阳明山. Thank goodness for my scarf!

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来台湾一定要泡温泉噢!

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Weeeeeeeeeet sexay ladies in smoking hot tub!

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I know I looked like apunene bangali with that disgusting hairdo. Please pardon me cause I couldn’t find even one rubber hand from my bag :(

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Have to come up of the water every 5-10 minutes to prevent ourselves from fainting.

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My awesome camera made me look devilish in this photo.

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And angelic in the next! LOL. These two photos are non-edited. Wonder how the magic hot spring turned the photos that way. Could it be my good and bad conscience appearing one after another? Shocking.

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After the wonderful one hour spent in the 鸳鸯汤屋 (it felt more like 20 minutes O.o), it was time for some nice BBQ meat!

A restaurant called The Top!

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It must be opened by my husband! Hiak hiak.

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Beautiful night view from The Top. Because anything associated with Top is beautiful XD

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Couldn’t wait for our 烤肉!

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Yogurt salad.

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Mushroom and stuff which tasted so good after being barbequed.

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Some tuna liver-liked appetizer.

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This is so Korean style. Now I’m certain it was my husband’s restaurant. Kaka.

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They even served Bibimbab! Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I told you!

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BBQ beef is ze best!

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Seafood.

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Blogging about this makes me drool. We couldn’t have enough of the food that night.

There was no spoon so we scooped our soup with the scallop shell. *smart*

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Stepf and I looking all red and hot after the BBQ.

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Sweet tropical fruits.

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It was so cold and windy at the mountain top restaurant, we stayed indoor with the glass shut close at ALL time.

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The beautifully designed lavatory.

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If it weren’t the weather, I would have stayed longer to camho in the toilet.

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Last but not least, 围绕取暖炉集体尿尿!HAHA.

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Surprisingly that was the first, and probably the only public heater I saw throughout my stay in Taiwan. I kinda expected every restaurant to have it. But perhaps it’s not necessary, since most places there aren’t that cold after all.