Valerie's Milestone: Jiufen 九份

Ruifang Station

Out the Train Station we go, there is a ramp beside the staircase for our luggage!

Once we reached Ruifang station, we decided to put most of our luggage to place at the luggage stop. We bring along one set of clothes and our important stuff to jiufen. Since jiufen have a lot of stairs, we are not that smart thinking that we could bring all of it to our accommodation. After that, we headed to the bus stop in front of the Ruifang Train station, going to Jiufen! This is also our opening ceremony of our Easycard. This card can be used in Taipei and Taichung and of course Jiufen as well. It works like touch n go! It is to use and there is no need for u to bring loose cash around if you have this, but have to remember the credit. We got this for free given by the taiwan visitor association in Malaysia. What you need to do is to exchange it with a valid airticket and you will get this card for free plus a NT 50 value inside. =)

Posing with our Easycard (Can use in Taipei & Taichung)

Exciting Bus ride!

Reached Jiu Fen

Jiufen street looks like this shown in the pictures. It is quite a small street and only one road in and along the path there are many many shops and there is a lot of staircases, because this small town is on the hilltop. For you to reach here takes awhile since it is going up up up. The scene in the bus ride was awesome if u like those hill with a lot of houses view, at night will be more nicer as all the lights will be lit on.

Jiufen streets!

There are many shops in the jiufen street but mainly food and souvenir shops. For souvenir shop, they almost have the same product along the streets, plus the price do not varies that much, so i guess its fine which shop you went in to get your souvenirs.

As for the food stalls, there are some common one as well as not so common, but mostly you have to know which one to eat. you may try them all but you only have one stomach so choose wisely. The trick is go to the shop that have extremely a lot of people. It won't go wrong!

Jiufen Stalls

Hello, to our jiufen accomodation.

i would say it is a bit overrated in the internet. The design was not bad, but we were expecting more from it. Plus it have XIAO QIANG. It could be due to the earlier customer really made the place dirty or the food of jiufen attracts this small insects. but anyway it was ewww to see them in person plus i have to kill both of them, very not pleasant to do so once u enter the place right?

Our Accommodation in Jiufen~

After leaving our luggage,we will begin the exploration in Jiufen

Different angle of our little accommodation

Another view of our accommodation

Jiufen view

I am helping him to take different shot, did i do well?

We started off, playing i am the reporter and kahhou is the celebrity. He wanted me to take candid shots of him. How did i do? Okay bah. It was hard as i was squeezed in between people and i was behind him, the front shots was even harder, cause very hard to stabilize the camera especially you go against the flow of human river traffic.

A stall selling raw materials for a dish.

Makan time AKA Eating time. Of course you must eat sausages in every part of taiwan. It is nice to taste them all. This stall one was quite yummy, we also tried the bun, not bad too!

If you like the things that is supper QQ, you should try this. It is nice if you like the texture, apparently they love to put starch into everything. It was very bouncy.

This the fish balls which have a lot of people in it. Was quite nice.

They have varieties of balls. Just order as per your liking. The shop's wall, is full of pictures of the owner of the shop. It was quite creepy eating fish balls inside this kind of shop. but just ignore them and focus on the balls in your hand, or you could just tapao!

This jelly shop, i quite like the jelly. but it was expensive for jelly. So we ended up eating their tester to find out which flavour is the best and keep on taking it into our mouth. We did bought one in the end to taste in our little space later. hehe