Taiwan I

Right, here it is…the beginning of my ten-intensive-day-trip. We arrived home at around 7.30pm on Friday and we headed straight to the steam-pot restaurant near by since both of us were soooo hungry that we literally ordered everything on the menu and washed them down with bottles of icy cold plum juice (yum!) We were also really greedy that we kept ordering while we were eating and there was a point that we thought we would have lots of leftovers. But then it rarely happens when T and I are present and not to forget that mum was there and she is also a steam-pot lover, so we actually finished most of the food on the table! It was amazing! The shocking thing was that the total bill came to around NT$2,500 which was equivalent of £40. It might not sound a lot but NT$2,500 for steam pot for three people is considered dear, even in Taipei. However, we truly enjoyed the meal and went to bed with satisfied tummy as well as happy taste buds.

We woke up early on Saturday morning to get ready for the two days excursion organised by Benson and Chasel. T had a ‘Taiwanese’ burger with soya milk for breakfast before jumping into C’s car. We then picked up Ming in Hsin-Chu and headed to Nan-Tou. We had our lunch (street foods) there and T had various things including the famous ‘little sausage in big sausage’ as shown above, a grilled sweet corn, oyster vermicelli, stinky tofu, ice-cream, and some sweet bean curd soup with red beans (YES, all in one go!)

This is an interesting photo, not the three of us looking rather indolent after all the food but the temple behind! The way it collapsed due to the infamous 921 earthquake back in 1999! It is now one of the tourist places to see there!

okay, I am having a few issues with uploading photos here and hence I thought I'd publish this short post first and follow up later on....with more pics and hopefully will figure out a way to do it.