Day 7- taipei

 *back dated entry*

today is the last day in taiwan before flying to hk.... we wanted to go for strawberry picking but most of the farms are not open on monday.... & after we returned to sg, my friend told me that the weather wasnt cold enough, so the harvest for strawberry was pretty poor in dec... heng ar that we didnt go down....

anyway, after slacking the morning, we went to 中正纪念堂 cause my friend recommend this ba kua place = 快车... apparently is pretty famous there.... so we went down to buy some souvenir back....

outside the shop

they have the usual thick cut ba kua, some thinner cut and the famous paper thin ba kua... each type of ba kua has different flavour and i think the best is sakura shrimp... really tasty..... if i didnt remember wrongly the price was 100NT/50g.... average price but really nice.... after that we had some random brunch at the area...

cai fan style

beef slices were nice... but too oily

my bf's lunch

after which we went to taipei main station to buy more souvenir and that was a wrong move... that place sell more of japanese souvenir than local food... i also could not find those famous 太阳饼, nor pineapple tarts.... apparently souvenir should go to taipei 101 area... mitsukoshi has almost everything that you want get.... lesson learn... next time must go back to mitsukoshi..... BUT at least we managed to get cheap ice cream from cold stone... so during winter especially during cold days, the price for second cup of ice cream will be the temperature for that day... so we had a 10NT cold stone!!!! yeah!!!

i didnt know weather was 10 degree wor

ice cream!!! yummy

after buying so many stuff... we went back to the apartment to put down the stuff before our night activity.... as we could not book the same apartment due to peak season, today we shifted to another apartment at ximengding area.... the place is own by the same owner so he kindly helped us deliver our luggage to the new location.... yeah....

the room

it is more spacious than yesterday apartment but it doesnt have a balcony to air our clothes... so we had to hang our laundries on whatever limited space we can find... so it was like a little jungle.... the location was pretty good too.... the owner said is located at the famous beef noodle street... approximately 8-10min walk from the station

after resting awhile, we went to take bus to 基隆 and my god.... took us a long time to find the right place to get the bus ticket... apparently there are 2 bus stations at the taipei main station.... to get to 基隆,  you need to go to bus terminal A which isnt together with the train station but actually opposite mitsukoshi...

bus berth

bus ticket

so just buy the bus ticket from the counter and queue up to board the bus... bus ride was 45-60min... took slightly longer due to the peak hour jam.... & the reason why we go there was the 黄色小鸭... personally i have no interest in the rubber duck... but my friend like dying to see it then ok lo... since bus ticket only 50NT... just go there see see...

the duck

close up

area map

after that we went to the 基隆/庙口夜市.... the place is quite crowded wor... quite a lot of people... as 基隆 is a port (i think), seafood or crab is actually THE food at the night market... almost every other store will be selling some crab products....

庙口夜市 entrance

there is a temple there so i guess that correspond to the name

takoyaki...

the bubble tea

wasabi takoyaki... so so lo

supposedly famous butter crab

literally butter + crab... no butter taste at all.. such small portion cost 200NT lo.... DONT try...

some crab soup with glutinous rice... average lo

the crab soup store

fried crab + shrimp... yummy but slightly too salty

冰糖胡卢.. inside is some crunchy fruit.,, slightly sour but bring out the sweetness of the sugar even more

fried chicken again....

i think this night market is still ok.... quite interesting food but really too much focus on crab.... i believed there are other interesting places in the area but our main goal was just the rubber duck so we didnt explore too much and had to go back to pack luggage for tomorrow flight...................