Taiwan: Jingtong Station

Back to my Taiwan post - JingTong Station

We tried another version of  'bian dang' from a new station. Should be the main station if I didnt remember wrongly. Perfect for the budget trip hehe.

Jingtonng station is located right at the end of the map. Which is honestly a pain to get there, but deffo too expensive to cab there! Maybe because we're just unlucky that we never ever gotten a seat on the train.

The whole place is pretty much filled with stores selling bamboos.
Tourist go all the way there to write their wishes on it. 

I'm assuming they prolly clear them our on a yearly basis??

we've also purchased and sent out a wooden post card to Cheemun in Singapore. 

Selecting our bamboo to share, about a dollar each. 

iphone is incredible aint it, translating my wishes to chinese before i write them down in case the Gods in Taiwan cant understand them!

Then to what we pretty much came here for:

KongMing Ding

once again sharing 4 ways hehe

Sara was very serious with writing her wishes!
Took a really long time as well.

and now we know why...

The heat was killing us and very considerate FY went off to get some ice shavings to feed us.

So this is like the very end of the train track (last station on the map remember?)

We had to hold on to all 4 corners while the lady lit up the kongmingdeng from underneath.  

towards the part where it's almost fully inflated, the lantern was seriously too hot to hold on to.

Up we go! I feel so sorry for Fangyi as we captured his 'Awesome love life and SEX!' on camera and it's shared on facebook with all our other photos from the trip.  

Time for tourist shots

Dude is telling me to do some cheesy connecting heart-shape handsign. 

Obviously not gonna do it!

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This photo is hilarious! I'm so sorry sara, but i really wana document this moment

hahahahahaha!

Yea yea...blame the track for trippin you.

Favourite photo of the day!

Taiwan: Raohe Nightmarket

First night market we visited: Raohe Nightmarket.

Extremely humid, sweaty and crowded!

Good to have it as ur 'last location of the day' on ur itinerary.

I would like to revisit nightmarkets in Taiwan during their winter season, i'll probably enjoy it a lot more.

This was right in front of the entrance, 'pepper puff'.
i love all peppery food so needless to say i love this!
Gladly replace this with our local old chang kee puff.

Sara & Ernie seemed to like the next 2 item very much,
 but no love from me cuz it's too blend for my tastebuds.

We found an empty 'stand n eat station' with a tiny fan

 to munch on our purchases, away from the crowd.

Fangyi said this is recommended, so we ordered the

  'Thai chilli' flavor for our chicken.

So pretty much just chicken with sweet thai chilli sauce.

But the chicken was juicy!

I'll  love to try the teriyaki flavor and 2 other flavors on my next trip.

Sausages with different salty seasonings!

3 for 100NT
Worth the $,worth a try!

'Shaved ice' was our lifesaver, i swear i was melting along with the ice.

 Or i was close to passing out.

Didnt get a photo cuz those stupid boys ate half of it
before we got there with the camera!

The jelly was bouncy and chewy, definitely better than SG's!

Ending our night with BBQ Scallop! Slurp!

Took us about 40-60mins to do a U-turn out the the main entrance!


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Watch out for stalls selling unique hp accesories!
They are, however, not cheap =(
Post them next time!

Next: Jiu Fen (MY FAVOURITE PLACE IN TW!! =D)

Taiwan: Taipei 101, Patisserie Sadaharu AOKI Paris, Bellavita

I must say there's no better gift than getting a free holiday.

I'll never complain if i get to celebrate whatever future anniversaries with holiday trips, no need for Chanels and Pradas!

On my 21st, Fy and Ernie drew me this to HongKong, 

but i've been there and ee-mian + baked rice isnt something i'll like to eat. 



So i convinced them to agree to TAIWAN!

FOOD PARADISEEEE~

We touched down early morning in Taipei and we cant check-in till 12 in the afternoon. Therefore we dropped our luggages at the hotel lobby and head out to the iconic Taipei 101.

We didnt know there's shuttle bus from the Train Station 

so we ended up walking for a long time (30 mins?) under the hot sun. 

HORRIBLE.

I was a lil' grumpy by then + plus it's bright daylight + surrounding doesnt seem to be of any magnificent view  at 9.30am, we decided to skip the ride up 101, shall put S$20 to better use.  

Somewhere round the corner there's a couple of huge malls.

I love this mall: Bellavita

Very luxurious, reminds me of  our local Paragon

Lot of expensive, cozy looking restaurants and boutiques.

 On our last day we came back to Ballavita for Sara's recommended pastry shop 

 Patisserie Sadaharu AOKI Paris

Pricey (our order cost about 1000plus NT), nevermind if Sara and Ernie loved it! 

 Fy and I havent got a sweet-tooth so i only enjoyed a couple. 

All four of us gave thumbs-up for the multi-layer cake.

Really good, must-try! 

I ordered the Dome shape dessert, it's pretty much jelly and tasteless but it's fine for me, the rest of them didnt think was good so i got to enjoy most of it. 

Macarons, i'm still going for Laduree Paris, 

every other macarons in this world is just too sweet for me hehe

Quiche, mild tasting, sara liked it.

Meanwhile i like my quiche much saltier.

Overall, was a great experience n environment!

Haha, this photo is funny.

Fy wasnt allowed to dig into the desserts 

because Sara wants to get good shots of everything.

 Lighting was really good, got pretty pictures of everyone.

My current facebook dp, i like my chubby cheeks here.

There's a mall (Shin Kong Mitsukoshi), connected to Bellavita.

FY was looking for these custard egg with good reviews, hmm.. they relocated to basement level and no staff there seem to be sure of its exact store location. Took as a long time to find it, but it was so-so. Quite disappointed here. On the bright side, it looks really cute with it packaging and all. 

I'm gonna post the Taiwan trip in parts...so next post will be on the hotel tt we stayed in...