Back to Taipei today! Woke up rather late compared to other days (about 8 am) and found the rest of the fam snoring away. Well nonetheless they woke up in due time and we were down for breakfast at 9am!
Salad + black sesame bun(which was rather mehhs and tasteless) and a coffee milk tea drink :)
Sweet potato fillings with a LOT of side dishes (and a fried egg) Topped up my coffee with soya milk after this to make coffee soya milk which was actually pretty yummy :)
Headed back to the hotel and slacked around for 2 hours before heading downstairs at 11.30 am to be fetched to the train station in time for our 12.15 train ride back to Taipei!
It was a pretty long train ride and we were due to be back at Taipei at 2.20 pl so there was quite a fair bit of snacking involved!
Prawn crackerz bought the other day in Jiufen. Still crispy but were all broken up inside heh.
25 yuan onigiris bought from 7eleven! The bro managed to fold a perfect onigri!!!
This mung bean drink again. As good as ever.
And some wasabi fish strips!
Also had some kiam kiam. Did lots of sleeping and towards the end I REALLY felt like puking plus my ass hurt like hell from the prolonged hours of sitting. Uncomfortable, to say the least :C
We re-checked in to Cosmos hotel!! Boy was I glad to be off the train. #uglyshamelessselfie
//SHIT I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE REST OF THIS BLOGPOST WHICH I HAVE SO PAINSTAKINGLY TYPED DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT//After slacking a while more in the hotel, we set off to Taipei 101!
Taipei 101 train station
The tower itself as seen from the ground. It was drizzling slightly and horribly cloudy so we decided not to go up the tower as there will be nothing to see anyway (plus there were all the tour group people waiting for their turn urghhhhh)
The mall downstairs was full of posh shops and reminded me of ion orchard! So we stayed less than half an hour before heading off to the nearby Tonghua night market.
Night view! Nothing too impressive.
After 10 mins or so of walking in the rain, we reached the night market!!
One of the first few stalls I spotted was the 甜不辣 store (which was one of the Taiwanese food I'd been wanting to try)
There was a wide array of ingredients to choose from: fishballs and cakes. And vegetables of all shapes and sizes.
We got: pumpkin(loveeee), cabbage roll, beancurd roll, taukwa, cuttlefish, Taiwanese radish, some fishcakes thing (the criss cross shaped thing) and two bowls of noodles recommended by the stall owner!
Le spread. The ingredients came in a large bowl of soup (much like yongtaufoo) and the mandatory sweet sauce at the side instead of poured all over the ingredients like the regular tianbula. The soup was not too saltish and the ingredients complemented the sweet sauce SO WELL. The noodles were also damn good.
A kind of pancake known as 'wheel cake' which I've read in reviews so we got one to try!!!
It looks like the mr bean one but is nothing like it. The skin is so thin and crispy and the fillings were so generous!!! The red bean paste was obviously homemade as it was chunky from the whole beans and not too sweet. Thumbs up!!!
BBQ corn that costs S$3. Gasps. But it was awesome.....
Roasted sweet potato! Yayyyyy!!!
Saw this shop selling some sort of white kueh that looked like tutu kueh.....
So we bought a box of 8 to try! 4 black sesame and 4 peanut.
I expected it to be sweeter so this was just ok for me. The white portion is made up of some cut up glutinous rice and was chewy (and rather tasteless tbh) and the black sesame and peanut powder which filled the inside and were sprinkled over the top were unsweetened.
Dad finally found the guabao he's been wanting us to try!
We got the 瘦肉 one.
A white fluffy bao stuffed with braised thin pork and salted veggies and then sprinkled generously with peanut powder. The ingredients went so well together!!! Yumm :)
And then we tried this taro ball desser store strongly recommended by daddy!
Look at the array of ingredients you could choose for your dessert!!!
We got a hot and cold one, as usual. The cold one was AMAZING. It was chock full of mini tang yuan and there were huge chunks of taro and sweet potato glutinous rice balls. There was also sweetened red beans and chickpeas(!!!!) that went so well with the other ingredients and added much texture. I think I could've eaten another bowl of this.
The hot one was awesome as well. The broth was hot 仙草 and the ingredients were pretty much the same as the cold one. Hard to say which one I preferred. To me this is nicer than the supposedly more famous 九份 one!!!
Yay for pig's blood cake!!! (Spicy flavour) this one tasted more chewy but more or less authentic (still can't forget the taste of the damsui one though sigh. My first love)
Some white kueh thingy that was fluffy and good! (And came in a huge portion as well)
And to cap off the night: some aiyu jelly w basil seeds! Refreshing and lemony :)
Sigh last full day in Taipei tomorrow. may it be a great one!!!!
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