Another taiwan train experience (Hualien > Ruifang)

So fast our three night stay in hualien come to an end, its time to go to the other parts of taiwan. Our next stop is Jiufen. In order to go to Jiufen, we need to get to ruifang station first. This is the second time we are sitting on the long distance train in taiwan and yet, i fail to buy a bento (now still regret). Y do i hesitate to buy when i got the chance to buy.

南滨夜市 Nan Bin Night Market - Hualien

Tadah, we have arrived at Nan Bin Night Market. The Taxi driver do not really recommend this place as it is a smaller night market plus according to him, this place is for children as there are many games. To him, this place have nothing much to eat therefore not worth to visit. Apparently, his description are really true. There are really more games and little food stalls. Since there are more games in the night market, we of course have to try some of them.

The picture above, the two cute little statue in the top right. It is limited edition oh, only left two of them. 

It is quite expensive too. Too pretty to even want to buy them. Even you want to buy them, you have to preorder, if not you can get them either.

The above two stalls, there actually are two different fruit juice stalls, however, their decoration and the colour of the stalls are so similar that i thought that they are of the same stalls. Whenever anyone passes by their shop, they will definitely shout and this is the first time, we experience the "Wa wa sound" of taiwan young girls. It is really irritating to or ears and yet funny at the same time. I totally can get any words of what they are saying. Although soon, we finally get what they are saying but earlier on, i only heard "ya ya wan"

LOL 

This is the best sweet potato balls ever!!!! After eating one packet, we ordered another packet. It is really very nice. Other places don't have such nice taste as it is here. This is the only thing i think we won't regret coming to Nan bin night market. 

Hehe, Ever since we reached taiwan, we seems to must try all the papaya milk wherever we go. thanks to one of our member, stella, we are addicted to Papaya milk. Truthfully, Taiwan's milk really nice to drink.

The corn in the left side, was a bit not to our taste. It says QQ, but to us it is not QQ at all, but apparently taiwan ppl really loves to eat cos the queue was very long back then. i guess we are too used to the corn we ate in Malaysia where there are a lot of juice and it is being steam which is much softer. Next is our games section. 

When the owner show us their games, they could easily played the game very well but when it comes to our turn, it was not easy i tell u. For example the one left bottom corner, you will be out once your hand trembles a lot.

Innocent White Day Continuation

After where i left in the earlier post, here we are in Shin Kong Yao Feng Ranch.

Bright Sunny and Hot day almost turn off our interest in going into the ranch. However, We still went in eventually. So It is a place where u can see many many types of animal, there is also farm and playground for children. Nice view with nice people. Overall it was indeed a nice place for family gathering and educational for children. 

 In the above picture, on the left, It was the best MILK Pudding i have ever taste in TAIWAN, regretted didn't bought many. It was so milk and silky. Excellent taste! 

The ice cream however not a bit disappointing.

The bird on the left was seen in the lobby.

It can imitate voices of human. It can say words like " hallo, Ni hao ma, tao yan"

and it was fierce too according to one tourist. He say if he was annoyed, he will grab u with its beak. 

After resting well in the lobby and enjoyed the aircon, we headed out for the train ride, which gives a tour to the whole of the ranch. As it moves, you can stop at the place you want.

 After making decision in where to stop, we sat on the train for the second time and drop of at the little animal world. The following are the pictures below where we interacted with the animals there.

I sort of ignored the birds, cos i have visited KL bird park just before the taiwan trip so not very interested with the birdy there although they are worth to see too.

In the fruit farm, It was not the right timing for us to visit the farm, so the farm was close. However, we manage to interact with the farmer there and listen to how he grow the fruits and which seasons is the best to come to visit the farm. There are also free tomatoes to taste. It is quite sour to me, hehe, as i was those that loves tomatoes. but it was tasty too, i suppose according to my frens.

Next Stop: A private housing area

Another nice place to see beautiful view with pretty houses.

According to the taxi driver uncle, he say that although now people still come here to look at this nice view.  soon, this place will be prohibited area and people will be restricted to come into the housing area. This is because this is a housing area, it reduced the quality of stay if strangers come here often. There are even people bring their dogs come to exercise, since the area is indeed large. Later we are having dinner at another night market!

Hualien Day 2- Innocent White Day

Thank you again to Ah jie minsu for buying us delicious breakfast to us while we are still sleeping like a pig. It is hard to get up when our bed is so nice and fluffy and the pillow is very nice to lean on too!!! So as the title say, today we also have dress color code and today is WHITE. 

So today our first Stop is shown in the picture below, It is a place where Japanese build it a long time ago.

Next Stop is also a place that the taxi driver recommends, he told us the name in chinese, but i couldn't remember. hehe sorry.

It is a hill top where you can see nice view from here.

Next Stop is Liyu Lake

Another breathtaking view spot!

In here we rent two two sitter bikes and one bicycle. 

Actually we can take the bike to ride for the whole day, but it is very hot and tiring as the liyu lake is extremely big it is like a small island. We really enjoyed ourselves there and if was a bit cloudy it will be the best! In there we also found a place that pumps water out and we try to make a few photoshoot out of it. It looks great! thanks to Kahhou the photographer it did comes out great, however as for me i couldn't get his shot good, my bad.

Next Stop: Time to fill our tummy!

The fried rice was quite good.

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!