(Friday / 03:16)
Time check: 6.02am Woke up early because I am disturbed by the amount of light coming through the window. And curtain. I have not been getting solid sleep ever since last Saturday my body feel so screwed right now but I am enjoying myself in Taipei!
Flight from Changi Airport to Taoyuan Airport was so smooth! Not much turbulence; totally worthed my $128 heh I bought the promo ticket at only $68, excluding the tax and all. However we forgot to call the service center regarding checking in of luggage so Felicia and I ended up paying an additional fee of $40 0.0!! First setback of the trip and it hurt a little because I know we were paying too much for something when we could had it done with half of the price. It's a good lesson there.
Flight was less than 5 hours but we were so hungry even before reaching Taoyuan. Know why? We had Mac breakfast at the Budget Terminal in SIN and the portion was so small. The bread size was almost equivalent to the size of my first. How to be full this way?! Was it because we were in the budget building even Macdonalds is budget? /Judging you.
Anyway, we took the Freego bus from the airport to the hostel while eating 饭团 and I caught some sleep in the bus. The bus seats were better than Tiger's hehe Then the bus driver just told us to get off the bus somewhere in Xi Men Ding and we were lost. Thank god we did not take too long to find the hostel and we got our room~ We arrived at TPE at about 1.30pm but we arrived at the hostel only at about 5pm. Unpack a little bit and left for our dinner at Shinyeh Japanese Buffet~
It costs 1100NT for each of us but it was worth it! The chefs were not stingy with the sashimi when we asked if we could have more each time we return hehe Same goes to the roasted beef! There was a lot of varieties, even the drink and desert session.
My favourite was the matcha pudding &; something with sesame!
28th
Found 阿宗面线 accidentally while looking for a breakfast place in Ximending hehe It was still early then so there no queue and plenty of seats was available for us. After that we hunt for a place to do our hair. Also met Bern who was also in Taiwan for a short chat ^^
While deciding what color I would want to do for my hair I totally forgot that I wanted to cut it! Dyed the brightest colour next to white and now people say I look like 台妹 while some people mistaken me as a westerner. Pretty fun.
Went to 五分铺 and it was boring! Maybe because I had to limit myself so I did not really feel like even looking at it. After a few rounds we went to 饶河夜市. Despite the rain I had so much fun eating all the snacks on the street! ^^
Went back to 西门町 and bought more street food to eat hehehe All the calories lost in the walking and sweating had came backkkk
29th
The Fai sisters recommended us to eat the sandwich sold at the store next to 阿宗. While we were there yesterday I took notice of the shop because consistently there were Taiwanese ordering their food from them. Means it should be good right?
It did not fail us. There was many varieties of sandwiches, burgers, drinks and we ordered three different items and it was good! The next time you go to 西门町 you should go try okay! It is easy to spot especially if you know where 阿宗 is.
After that we went to the zoo. I was in jeans D: Only weird people go to the zoo in jeans in the summer. But at least this time I did not only see the panda's butt. I saw their back!!!!! Maybe if I ever go there again they will finally show their face to me. And I returned to their home after being at the souvenir shop and one of them changed its position. Means I missed the chance to see a panda move! Damn.
Took the cable car in the evening and we got the crystal cable car which is transparent on the bottom! Got a little dizzy but there was nothing much to see at the bottom actually. Instead I spent most of the time laughing secretly at the two guys that took the same car as us because they were afraid hehe
Had dinner on the top of the mountain but sadly there was no wind although its pretty high up. Dinner was good though. I tried duck blood and it was nothing like the block of pig blood I had. In fact, I think I like it a lot although it stink.
Ride down the mountain was even better than going up because of the buildings' light from afar. Too bad none of us had the skill to capture the amazing view. HOWEVER! I learnt what is bulb mode for DSLR! :D
Went back to the hostel and ate cup noodles by myself. Tried to tempt Xianli and Felicia but I failed. It's okay I am going to try again I don't believe I would not succeed. hehe
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Shall continue the next time, hopefully with pictures. Internet is really slow right now and I want to sleeeeep! I cannot be bothered to even reread and edit the grammars right now. Praying for another good day with good weather! :D
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