Sunday, July 22, 2012

自強夜市 Zhi Qiang Night Market (Hualien)


Zhi Qiang Night Market

During our second in Taiwan, we decide to have dinner in Zhiqiang night market. As you all know, taiwan have the most night market and famous of night market, so we must eat in night market aren't we?
So this is our first night market.
It is quite similar to Malaysia night market but of course the stalls always open every night.
The following are the food we ate in the street. The first one was not bad. Quite juicy. Like it. The bubble tea there was nice too. I didnit really like the big sausage wrap the small sausage. At first i was tot it is really real sausage wrap small sausage. However, actually it is sticky rice and the small sausage wrap together. It was hard to swallow. We ate quite a lot didn't we? For five person, we ate like dunno how many types. I think each of us spend around RM15 in that night market. Bloated Stomach with smiley faces! After a long day, we are heading back to our minsu to rest!





Seng Yen's Convo and Sg trip

Sengyen's convo ( alot of ppl)

 So I have visited Stella and Sengyen's new house. Isn't it big for a living room, i felt a bit space wasted since there is a lot space didn't use in the living room. Overall it was quite good, just that it is very expensive for individuals. Since there are a lot of built ins by the previous owner, there are a bit rigid with the arrangement. So Susan have a look bah, i took pictures for u to see le.
Leave ur comment after u see the pictures ah! Sorry i forgot to take picture of the cooking area and laundry area.
Kitchen.


Thank you stella and family for the hotel's breakfast. 

Happy 10th Anniversary to SLSTV! So in SG, LSV celebrated our anniversary in Fig & Olive and Jidechi!

Friday, July 20, 2012

The Red Hot Day Part 3


Next Stop: Chimu Bridge


Does the rock in the left picture above look like a rock?
Its called the Frog rock because it looked like a frog wearing a crowd. 


Next Stop: 


We were playing press the wood description, there will be one person ( this case is always kahhou, since he very high in this) read out the description in the wood shown in the right in the picture above. Then is posing with the nice environment of taroko! ( this is quite standard huh?) Yup it is our daily activity we called it formation one, although got a lot of formation. 


Next Stop: Ending of the taroko gourge



It seems that i have dimple in the picture right? awesome.

Next Stop: Seven Star lake



Actually we didn't even went down to the lake, just see from this spot. Grab a coconut to drink and sat down on the "fake" and POKEY grass and start our usual routine phototaking session. The reason we didn't went down is that, we are tired plus it is similar to the earlier one qing shui cliff where the beach is not full of sands but rocks.



Next is Dinner Time!!!!!


The Red Hot Day Part 2

After the bridge and qing shui cliff, we went to taroko visitor center. From there, we were being told that only one trail is allowed for us to look at and that is shakadang trail. This is a bit unfortunate, because we were thinking of spending a whole day in there, but due to the "not so well" weather in the past few days, there are no other safe trails that we can access to. it is quite disappointing that we could not see any of the trails in taroko gourge. I guess our energy level is not that good either to look at all the trails, although i am quite curious how the other trails look like. I suppose it will be beautiful landscape and more mountain, rocks and waterfall.


So we took a few pictures in taroko visitor center and enjoy the aircon inside the building. As you can see in the little picture above, the temperature is 29 degree celcius, i doesn't match with outside view at all, because outside is very scorching hot. Maybe we haven't use to the temperature of the summer taiwan. hehe. After resting, we went off to the shakadang trail. Let the picture below explain to you all what we do there. Of course is enjoying the view and take as many pictures as we can since it is the only trail!





After that, Lunch here we come!


Review on the food: erm, it looks pretty and well presented but taste wise okay okay only. The ice cream that we bought from the convenience store beside them was not nice either. but this is the first time we eat taiwan rice, very pearly. u can really count them one by one, taste not bad le. The tidbits, i think is the best out of all!

Next Stop: Yue Fei Pavilion






Did you notice the dirty water? it is different from the one we saw in Shakadang trail. The one in Shakadang trail is very blue, green and clean. This is because the source is different for both trail, this one i think there is landslide on the top of the mountains since the weather condition is slightly bad in taiwan.


Nothing much to say nor describe, just Five of us Making Fun out of a bridge!


Thursday, July 19, 2012

Hualien Day 1 - The Red Hot Day!

Good Morning Hualien Taiwan! So in my last post, i said that there is a window tinted mirror thing right. When you slide the door, It will look something like this! A balcony, where the view is excellent and soothing and calm. There are also two chairs for you to sit down and enjoy the view. The time we reached Hualien is late night, so we didn't know how it look like exactly. So this morning, we are enjoying the view relaxingly and getting ready for our trip. This is a start to our taiwan trip!!! Excited! By the way, the mirror i talk about you can't look thru it but you still can see mirror from outside. Good Weather too! =)


This is the lovely breakfast that is prepared by Ah jie Min su. Very nice to eat. It is similar to Xiao Long bao cause it got juice within them and very meaty but larger in size and more bread. I think it is called jian pao zi. They also have sauce to dip in before you put in your mouth. I think i swallowed about 6 of them and regretted after that, cause we are going to hills and almost puke due to fullness from the pao we ate. haha. It was delicious but it is a bit soggy on the bottom, i think its because it was bought early by ah jie. The drink we had is Milk tea. Very nice too, because it was prepared by ah jie themself, unlike the one i drank from packaging, which is very tea no milk. After eating our delicious breakfast, we set off with our taxi that waited for us outside ah jie's house. Let's now go and explore hualien's rocks, and mountain!

 First stop is the bridge which is at the taroko entrance! It is nice to see mountains and greenery around you once in a while. Although you do see them in Malaysia, but it is not as many as Hualien i suppose. The road there is very deep into the Mountain. I think used to be a place for those yuan zhu min people to stay, but for tourism, they have to let go of their place to allow tourists to have a look, but they still take charge of this place. The taxi driver also told us that those people who lives in the mountain mostly uses water to generate power for them. So cool!
 When we are in the bridge we saw train passing by us. Thanks to kahhou's camera, we can see so clearly of the train, if for my own camera, it will be small, like a toy train as it is quite far from the bridge. i think this is the train is the same as the train we took in the night before. So before we leave this place, we took a group picture below! Thanks to Our taxi driver as the photographer. He was doing a good job, he was trying to put all the mountain and the bridge into the picture. By the way, didn't you notice that we are all wearing red? Its because our queen! haha its her decision to pick red!

 Next Stop, Qing shui cliff. this is the place where everyone clears their mind with, the beach! Hearing the sound of the waves and the beautiful view really relaxes ur mind. However, it was hot and it is not sand there but rocks, so half the enjoyment, but we still enjoy it there. Taking pictures and searching for the rocks that have small little gold on them. It is not easy to find the gold lor, as it was very very small. The taxi driver, was very keen of finding the rocks with gold. As for us, we are taking pictures like no body business.
 PICTURE! is the Word of the day! Just say the magic word, all camera will face you and will shoot you beautifully. So fun, However it lasts only in the cliff. After that we don't really use the word again. LOL. So here we are taking pictures along the trails. At first i thought was quite short, but it was long, especially when you come back up. Plus i ate the bao so much that i felt suffocated a bit when climbing my way up. regretted that i ate too much, but it will be pity, if i didn't eat it cause i don't get to eat those kind in Malaysia, sad =(



This is on our back when we saw this creature!