Saturday, July 05, 2008

My Trip To Taipei - Day 2

Finally blogging about Taipei day 2 hahaha...



Well we had breakfast at the JSP!! This popular breakfast place...(closes by 1pm or so)



They provide a wide variety for customers to choose from! (click on the picture to check the menu out!)



We ordered 蛋饼, it's something like roti prata with egg...except the egg is very evenly spreaded...or like a thinner pancake.



I had the ham one! See the sauce! it is super duper nice can!!!! not too watery and salty!



My sister and my mum had the black pepper pork chop one!



My very very "pang" cup of milk tea!!!

My sister...indulging in the super nice breakfast!

Later we made our way to Eslite Bookstore! The biggest bookstore in Taipei!

My mum and i headed to the cookbook section right away! She always wanted to buy the series of cookbook by this woman from Taiwan, and because they can't be found in Singapore so my mum was really looking forward to visiting Eslite.

Check out the decor!

JAMIE OLIVER~~~~~~the best! (andy would've gone happy crazy...ok they have these in Singapore too, but not as much)



My mum found the cookbooksss she wanted and bought them!!! hahaha



Music scores section!!! They have movie scores, oldies (album scores man!), anime scores, tv series scores etc etc etc!!!



See! they even have the "cao ji xing guang bang" scores!



Jay Chou's "secret"!



They got ONE PIECE scores!!! (andy would've gone mad the second time)



Saw this at the "best seller" section! When i saw it i could actually hear andy saying "this bookstore got good taste! One piece rocks" hahahaha...so andy, i took a picture of it for you! hahahaa



Comics section!!! Look whose on the wall again!! Slam Dunk and One Piece!!!



Closer picture of One Piece (dedicated to andy). One Piece stuff are just too rare in Singapore!
PS. Sanji rocks!



Turns out, i bought quite a lot of things from the bookstore too!
1) The Jamie Oliver DVD for andy (think this one is not in Singapore yet)
2) Forbidden Love scores
3) Secret scores
4) Queen magazine



After shopping we went to this food court within the building. And that is what i ate for lunch...it's a set. Not super nice...soup is sticky, and the mince meat thingy is sweet.



My mum's set! The "or jian" is not very nice too~~gluey and sweet! (the one at shilin is much nicer)



Da jie's set! the most normal...and probably the nicest!



After eating i went to the washroom and they have the seat warmer system for the toilet bowls!!! i have heard a lot about them, but it's the first time seeing and using one for me! damn comfortable can!!! and if there's one thing i can bring back i wanna take those seat covers home! so i can lay them on the Singapore public toilet seats!!!



Anyway after that we went to the Japanese supermarket! and i saw this...it's the "hi-chew" brand thingy right?! so huge and melon flavour!



Hello Kitty macaroni!



Loads of tiny can drinks!



Remember these soda bottles!!! This drink (Ramune) was once really popular in Singapore when i was in primary school. Most people drank the fake Ramune...that comes in a green plastic bottle with a cartoon dragon outside!

And because it's not the authentic Ramune, it malfunctioned and children choked and swallowed the marble that is suppose to stay in the bottle. Remember remember? hahaha Anway, i saw it la, the long time no see real one! (i remember buying the real one from the Japanese convenient store near Novel Learning Centre - tuition place years ago)

Can find out more about it here!



Look! GREEN TEA RAMUNE!!! (couldn't resist bought 3 and carried them all the way back to Singapore)



Haha...took this at home, see them and my vodka! safe at home! (haven't drank them yet)



Me and moi goods! waiting for the train to take us back to Ximen so we can leave the bags in the hotel!



After a shot rest, we were out again! We visited Taiwan Storyland! (can't take a nice picture, people kept walking across)

Taiwan Storyland portrays the older Taiwan including its people and their lifestyle!

Me and the puppets!

Wanna buy?

A really old-fashioned classroom!

Wrote my name on the board :)

Check out this really tiny piano set!

Eh look, my da jie made me clean her slippers!!! jk jk...haha

Then i became part time police for awhile.

This wanted list is pretty real man~~

Ride away~~~~hahaha

Photo studio then.

Hair salon then.

Medical hall then...hmm, actually some of the medical hall these days are also like this!

Saw this label "if you love me, don't ride on me"

On this really old and lonely bicycle...

I tried to walk with those wooden "stunt sticks"? dunno the exact name...i thought it'll be easy like how i walk on 2 hockey sticks (when coach is not looking)! but really....not easy at all! hahaha

Da jie and moi hahaha

Da jie stamping on our "passport"!



The stamps!

We were each given a "passport" each and at some points there will be stamps, free for stamping hahaha! To show that you've visited the place...



Then we went to Shilin Market!!!!



And began queuing again...



This time for the famous super huge chicken cutlet!!!

Fresh from the fryer!

K i look weird and blurry here...but just look at the chicken man!!!!! HUGE!!!!

We also ate BBQ mushroom...and meat!

The guy preparing our order!

And this store is quite famous! Can see the same lady in the previous picture "peng kan-ing"!

Then we sat down for some dessert!! my yam ice cream...with real yam and "or ni"! DELICIOUS!!!!!! like crazy!!!!

Mango shaved ice (they call it chuang bing...something like that) with real mangoes! ALSO SUPER NICE!!!

And of course...how can we not eat "or jian" in Shilin!!!

Our "or jian" this is nicer than the one my mum ate at eslite...but i still think the Singapore "or jian" is nicer...the one in Taipei is pretty gluey...

Smelly tofu!!!! not very smelly when you are eating it...but smells like the rubbish chute when you walk pass the stall...serious!

Going back to Ximen...this is Shilin from the MRT platform.

We da bao Ay Chung to eat again!

Ta dah~~first time taste nicer...cannot eat this too many times!

Yup, so that's all for day 2...like finally!!!!! will blog about day 3 soon :)

JAN scribbles at 1:57 AM