back from Taiwan! like 3 days ago.. haha..
been lazy to update about the trip
just all in all, I Love Taiwan! =)
for its food, people, shopping, scenic, and etc...

so Day 1 was pretty much just liddat
reached Taoyuan Airport and bus-ed to our Future Star Hotel located at Ximending
honestly, our hotel pretty much sucks.
but for the price we paid, cant complain much.
it's not really a hotel i would say, just on the 7th 8th 9th floor of a building
we believe it's like Hotel 81 for people to ya ya ya.
cause we happened to chance upon a porn channel. lol =P
the only good thing is it's located just 1 min walk from the train station
and the management is very friendly =)
so first up was lunch at the famous 阿宗面线
quite cool, everybody just sits or stands by the roadside to eat
i pretty much like the mee sua but the rest didnt really like it cause of some spice in it
then off to Long Shan Temple to bai bai and walked around the nearby area
and then we ended our tiring first day with our familiar Watami dinner
home sweet home after that =)

at Taoyuan Airport

on the bus to hotel

my favourite mee sua

Long Shan Temple

Day 2 was shopping day

im not really a shopaholic, but the things there are really cheap!
went to the underground malls at Taipei Main Station in the day,

and spent hours there when we were supposed to go to Taipei 101 that day

so ended up postponing Taipei 101. lol..

too many things to carry and so we went back hotel to put our stuff first before

we head for shopping at Wu Fen Pu again

Wu Fen Pu is like Bugis Street, but many many times bigger

2 3 hours is not even enough to cover half the place

and yes the things there also mega cheap

love it man! =)

bought some things but not alot, cause i bought a converse shoe on the first day,

and thought GG liao, first day jiu spent so much money,

so cut down on my expenses for the next few days

but at the end of the trip, i actually atill have quite abit of money left -_-!!

alright then off to our first nightmarket for our trip which is Raohe Nightmarket

ranked 3rd by the Taiwanese

signboard of the underground malls at Taipei Train Station

super big the place

everyone was busy shopping, nobody bothered to take any photo of the place haha

Raohe Nightmarket

very popular 胡椒包. very long queue..

Day 3 was probably one of the most tiring day

we went to Yilan

we 包 a cab for the whole day, which will bring us there and back,

and also to a few scenic places in Yilan

the cab driver offered us this deal actually

so we went to 五峰旗 waterfall, dont know what musuem of Yilan,

and lunched at a restaurant famous for its chicken,

(actually we think it was so so only haha)

and then to another Nightmarket which i forgot it's name =X

ok here comes the cool thing, but think it might not sound cool to you at all

there was a heavy jam back home, like really heavy jam

so the cab driver decided to take another route - risky route

the 北宜公路。

i went to google it, and it says this:

"北宜公路一直是台北通往宜蘭的重要管道，全长 82.5 公里，有九弯十八拐之险，造成多起意外事故。

ok nvm the main point is 九弯十八拐

watched jay chou Initial D right?

seriously machiam like that kinda road up the hill.

no straight road for more than 10m, just sharp turns everywhere

omg i swear i was practically staring at the front screen for the whole 1hr plus

while the cab driver turned left and right up and down the hill

somemore it was night time, there's no street lambs at all,

all you can depend on is your car's headlight

and the road's super narrow, super scared when a car from the opposite direction passed us

no wonder the car park attendant gave "the look" when he knows we're gonna take that route

BUT despite that, the scenic on top of the mountain is so beautiful!!

you can practically see the whole dont know Taipei or Yilan from the top of the mountain

haiya too bad photo's not nicely taken..

alright thats probably the most exciting and scariest car ride i've ever taken thus far..

our cab driver cum tour guide for that day

very nice uncle =) he's 62 btw..

our lunch..

at the musuem

exterior of the strangely shaped musuem

the supposedly very nice view from the hill

OH! and guess who we saw at the Nightmarket?!?!

Bryan Wong, Quan Yifeng, Zhong Qing and Dasmond Koh!!

funny thing is i see none of any Taiwan celebrities, yet bumped into them..

wanted to take photos with them but they looked dao. so..... =X

alright Day 4 was off to another musuem - the National Palace Musuem

luckily we had free tickets

felt so bored.... so sorry

then off to more shopping cause it was raining and luckily the rain stopped after awhile

and it was Taipei 101!!

ah so worth the ticket money

and i got a sourvenir. a Taipei 101 model =)

ok thats all for today..

pretty much lazy to describe the trip lol..

shall let pictures do most of the talking in future