Name: Wallace
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
Taipei (26 Jul 07 - 30 Jul 07) - Day 1
I'm back from my Taipei trip, got no time to do the updating. Since today is a weekend, I shall do a bit of update. Wake up at 5am and left for bus at about 5.30am. We intend to take a bus, cos we thought so early there will not have much crowd. To our surprise the bus is damn packed. The bus travel very slowly and stop at almost every bus stop. Lucky we set off early, if not we will be late for our flight at 8.35am.  Our luggages took up 2 seats, we are so paisay as the bus was packed with people. The bus ended at Terminal 2, just nice for us to board our flight. Actually we planned to shop at the Duty Free, but due to the slow bus journey, we are left with little time. If you have done your the online check-in, there is no need for you to join the queue to process the normal check-in. There is a special check-in counter for you to check-in your luggages and the process is much faster. Paying few hundred more and you will get this - the flight entertainment. This really help killed time in the boring plane. There are music, movie and game, but their game is as old as 10 years. Beside having those entertainment, you will get more leg space, cushion, blanket, newspapers, etc... The flight meal looks good, but in my opinion they don't taste nice. Anyway its better than nothing. There is free flow of any drink they have, from juices to cocktail. After took off a few mins later, we were in the blue blue with white white beautiful clouds around us. After about 4 hours, we finally can see land. From the picture, you can see a lot farm and plantation. So happy to see land, meaning we will be landing soon. Landed in Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. The flag is so big, scare people cannot see meh. Haha... After collected our luggages, we went straight to the FreeGo counter to get coach ticket. Each ticket cost us NT$140, which is about SGD$7.00. The coach took us straight to our hotel door steps. The journey took us about 45mins. On the coach, waiting for the rest of the passenger to fill up the empty seats. Each coach can only take about 20+ passenger. This hotel cost us NT$1680 per (promotion rate), which is about SGD$80.00 per. In my opinion, this hotel still not a bad choice. The staff are friendly and helpful, for example we ask them to help us check which terminal we suppose to go for our flight back to Singapore, they called the airport without hesitate. Although the room might be a bit small, but it still good enough for me. After settle down and took a rest, we went to the nearest Metro station (Ximen) to get the EasyCard. Their EasyCard is the same as our EZ link. The card cost NT$500 with NT$100 deposit, meaning the card only contain NT$400 value. The NT100 deposit will be refund upon returning the card.  We took Metro to Zhongxiao Dunhua and find our way to DunHua N. Road to look for the Taiwan online spree shop. No disappointment, we manage to find it. It disappointment to her as she can't find thing to buy. Went to this 24 hours book store, nothing special just like Kinokoniya book store in Singapore. They are selling Harry Potter latest book at a cheaper price than Singapore. We didn't spend much time there. When the night arrive, we headed to Shilin night market. If you are going there by metro, never alight at Shilin station. The market is nearer to Jiantan station. After coming out of the station, you will be able to see the area which sell foods. For clothing and others, you have to cross the road. The picture show the famous "Hao Da Da Chicken Cutlet". True enough it is very big, one can never finish it. Another snack we tried is the "Da Bin Bao Xiao Bin", it refer to a very flexible kind of flour wrapper which is used to wrap a small deep fried crispy cakes to make a larger cake. After they have been wrapped up, the seller will crushes the cakes inside with his or her hand. These cakes come in sweet and savory varieties. The sweet cakes contain peanuts, red bean, taro, coconut and lotus nuts. While the savory cakes contain curry, spicy filling and sesame paste. In my opinion, its not really that nice. Look at this giant Octopus Balls, they are real big. We didn't try it cos we wanna keep our stomach for some other foods. In the market, there are many store selling fried oyster. We don't know which is the famous one, so we just pick one. We ordered their 3 signature dishes, the "Fried Oyster with Egg", Deep Fried Tempura" and the last one can't remember the name. It a must to try the fried oyster with egg and the deep fried tempura, the other one can give a miss as we find it taste funny. Haha... Ramdon picture: the lady should be cooking the fried oyster. The other picture show the crowd in the market. There is this store selling customise key chain and handphone stripe. He will use colourful wire to form names and shape you choose. She bought a few, I didn't buy a single one. Whahaha... It quite expensive also, it depend on how many alphabet you wan him to do.Labels: Oversea Trip
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