taiwan part 2

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after the second day in taiwan where i got to see the recording of the show, everything else was just mehhh. okay la, still awesome but nothing can compare la please. this is joelle choong talking. the rest of the trip was still awesome for the family.

i get to watch 百分百on tv everyday i was there cause the hotel has all the local cable stations. it's so awesome getting to watch it on a big screen instead of on youtube all the time.

my baby who goes eerywhere with me.

the canggih bathroom with a tv inside so you can watch while you're pooping. haha

shared a room with the bro.

the first night we got there, i switched on the tv and saw this. hospitality level: asian.

this is the toilet control system. took me 10 minutes to find the FLUSH button. (cause i was looking around the side of the toilet where the flush is usually located -.-)

next morning's breakfast at 7-11. told you i could survive on convenient store food. this is economy rice. taste 100x better than any 'zhap fan'. costs 50TWD which is rm5

dry noodles from family mart.

meatball soup noodles also from family mart.

spare rib noodles.

BIG DICK PASTRY! HAHAHAHA this was from XiMenDing from the night before. didn't buy it cause i didn't want to look like i was... you know. just took a flyer to show you! apparently it's like kaya-ball texture.

after breakfast we headed to LongShan Temple.

ze outside of ze temple.

mommy inside ze temple.

smoke keeels my eyeees

went to taipei101 next. the weather was quite bad so we didn't go up the tower. instead we had lunch at the food court. look! COLD STONE :D

the guy was so nice he gave us a free cup of ice cream which cost 250TWD which is rm25! awesomest ice cream! better than ben and jerry's please!

oh, this was inside the shuttle bus to taipei101

tadahh! so hard to get this picture. had to wait for the mist to disperse.

boots from XiMenDing. red ones are 390TWD and black ones are 200TWD. sibeh cheap!

bro trying to be superman

*cue superman theme song*

RAOHE NIGHT MARKET! hello there show lo! (i lost count)

had dinner at the night market. this is herbal chicken mee sua. i didnt like it cause it had this very strong ginger taste.

this is called 'BA WAN' or 'rou wan' which literally means meatball. its kinda like a meatball wrapped in a dumpling skin. something like that? haha tastes very... interesting.

bubble milk tea from raohe night market! see the cup even longer than my face. cost only 30TWD. this one not so nice, got nicer one. wait ah.

next morning felt abit sick due to all the nonsense i ate at the night market.

saw hudie jiejie.

<3

NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM! it's not for young people la, unless you're interested in chinese history. the father insisted on going there. waste of time i would say. ended up sitting in the palace's restaurant.

THIS! BEST BUBBLE TEA IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD! found inside the palace museum! they only serve it there, no dapao. pearls were there right texture and the tea! omg! i dono how to describe it to you. chatime and gongcha is nothing compared to this :)

TAUGE POPIAH. seriously, inside only got beansprouts. eeeer.

char siew pao :D char siew paos taste the same everywhere if you ask me.

the outside of the palace.

mommy with the umbrella. it was drizzling every single day we were there.

hello red boots!

another poser shot.

touristy photo.

ni hao.

finally we found our way to SHILIN NIGHT MARKET!

apparently they only shifted to this new location recently so many stores weren't open yet.

this is how they sell fruits in taiwan. in cups! and one cup cost 100TWD. these strawberries were so delicious! the person who were selling them insisted we pour some condensed milk over them. abit weird la but nice :)

saw these people sitting outside taipei 101 meditating.... uh....

still very misty...

apparently it's some meditating organization of something??

weird block building.

bro with weird block building.

spotted this from far away. i've seen many photos of people taking pictures with this LOVE sculpture so i must take also :D

this. is a tree.

had a japanese dinner at XinGuangSanYue. the whole place is kinda like Digital Mall. sells all the computer stuff and phones and whatnot.

hello again :)

bro insist must take picture with KE ZHEN DONG.

stuff i bought so far. hello kitty plush bag, camera bag, hello kitty mouse, show lo and alien huang cds :) oh, the beats are not mine, the bros.

last day in taiwan. our flight was at 11.45pm so we still had one full day to walk around. went back to taipei101 to try our luck. weather seemed better to we were going up to the top of the tower!

check out the gilababi hair!

this is a translation device. you go to a certain spot and press a certain number then listen to it like how you do a phone. i got the english translation because i was too lazy to read all the descriptions on the walls.

view from taipei101. it was really misty, couldn't see much.

some of the exhibition items at taipei101.

me and the taipei101 damper baby.

big tom ice cream at the top of the taipei101 tower.

this ice cream was in 海派甜心！haha fangirl obsession. sorry.

damper baby!

okay the damper baby is the mascot for the wind damper inside taipei 101. it's that big yell ball thing behind. it's very heavy and keeps the tower from swaying.

went back to XiMenDing to look for food, because i couldn't find Ah Zhong Mee Sua on the first 2 times we went there. did research before going to taiwan and everyone said you must try this mee sua. so disappointed i couldn't find it. there were alot of people there that day, some celebrity was having a meet and greet session. didn't know who it was so didn't bother. went to scout for my mee sua!

hi leng chai!

parent got tired of walking so they went to starbucks. me and bro walk around abit and went to STAGE again. then suddenly we saw alot of people lining up for something. then tadahhh! found it!! mee sua!

like i said, when in doubt, follow the crowd! HAHA didn't know why i could't find the shop before! this mee sua doesn't have oysters but pig intestines instead. really lives up to its name! best mee sua!

back to the hotel to pack up :(

vain pictures of me showing you what i was wearing.

heee :)

baby and chocolate.

had dinner at the airport before flying off.

found this cute thing in 7-11.

it's an EGG! suction packed in this little plactic.

taste not bad seriously! haha but i don't know why people would buy a air-packed egg from 7-11.

saw this hello kitty phone booth on the way to the terminal!!

so many hello kitty thing!

im in heaven! haha!

bye taipei :( i'll be back!!!

also went to WuFenPu which is a wholesale place for people to buy clothes in bulk. bought a few sweaters there. still think shopping in XiMenDing is cheaper. no pictures of the place though. was busy looking for cheap clothes :) also very few pictures of Shilin Night Market cause we were too busy eating.

definitely a place to go back to one day. next time i wanna travel the whole taiwan and not just the city.

sooooon :)

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