Fishy Fish's Sketches: Taipei Trip Report

DAY 1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

@ Changi Airport preparing to check-in

Absolut BLACK lo... took tis to show Karen, her fav!

On Jetstar

Here we are, Sheraton Taipei! V nice lobby!

We had a connecting room.. V convenient!

Nice toilet w bath tub and standing shower

Mini Bar

Ximending

Taipei KFC sell v nice portuguese egg tart! Pix w Fang... will upload soon...heehee

How can we miss Ah Zhong Mien Xian.. V shoik, stand outside the store eat this bowl of hot mee sua in such cooling weather! Should be abt 15 degrees for our first nite.. We of cos tried KFC egg tart and "Prata w cheese and spring onion" along ximending. i vote it e best food i eat thru out the trip!

Bought Yang Zhong Wei's album @ Rose Records Ximending

Crossing over to Partyworld KTV for a surprise bday celebration for VON!

Wah say! Whole building is KTV man!

Dont be mistaken, tis is not hotel lobby, its PartyWorld Lobby!

Our package come w 3choices of food and a pot of drinks... we chose dim sum to some deep fried stuffs, food was good! And its difinately cheaper than Kbox man! 4hours plus food plus drinks, we only pay abt S$18!

Personal toilet in individual room!

Different from Kbox, tis is the"Song Machine", bad point is have to sit infront of it and browse kinda troublesome..

We ordered a Bday Cake fr the counter, their service reali good, Cake is delivered fr a 24hours cake shop. Wow, even cake shop also 24hours! Oh ya, did i mention the KTV is open 24hours??

Ang Bao Presentation!! Happy Birthday Von!

We didnt sing till 3am as given, we left at abt 2am, too tired to continue!!!

DAY 2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well well, we overslept! Morning me and fang went to nearby hotel bank to change some old notes as its no more acceptable there. The rest of the ppl settled our credit card issue over at hotel & von went for a short site inspection w Cynthia (her colleague over @ taipei Sheraton)... by the time its alr afternoon when we leave hotel. Thus did some changes to our planned itinerary...

Outside Sheraton

View from our room

Grab some rice ball and bread for breakfast

Our first stop @ Long Shan Temple

Tried tis Almond and Peanut Drink to be dip w You Tiao... Hmm.. Their You Tiao not nice at all!!!

We proceed to Sogo @ ZhongXiao FuXing to get my Garcia Bag and RMK for myself, cyn & ros.. Bought tis blusher for myself and ros.. Ying also got herself one...

Taipei 101 during the nite.... Didnt manage to take good photos here as the weather is too cold!

Super cold today! 12 Degrees! Had some donuts and hot tea @ Mister Donut. Yummy!!

We ta bao back all the foodie fr Shilin Night Market for our Dinner cum Supper.. We had Oyster Egg, Salt Water Chicken, Lu Rou Rice, Deep Fried Chicken Cutlet, Coffin Bread, Herbal Pork Ribs, Fried Bee Hoon and Eel Soup.

Found my Domokun at Shilin!! Decided to bring him back w me!

DAY 3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Had breakfast @ nearby hotel breakfast stall..

We order 3 sets to share...

Set 1: Carrot Cake, Pork Chop, Egg and Sausage

Set 2: Egg Crepe, Pork Chop and Sausage

Set 3: Egg, Ham and Bread

Took train to Jiufen

Mux eat Yam & Sweet Potato Balls w Red bean or Ginger soup... Super nice!

Sotong Ball and Gong Wan is the best!

Potato Chip!

Bought Tai Yang Bing and some other snacks, rest @ tis v nice cafe for a cuppa!

We took a cab back from Jiufen to hotel, lucky the cab driver willing to take 5 of us in one cab. As we bought too much stuffs to take a bus back! Mit Cynthia @ sheraton, she brought us to tis restaurant which serve a wide variety of food like "Zhu Chao" in SIN, each dish cost only abt S$5! So cheap! We ordered a table of dishes and had the famous Taiwan Beer.. v nice, light and a little bit sweet...

All the dishes were reali GOOD! Especially the Salt & Pepper Deep Fried Prawn, Black Pepper Pig Liver, Salted Egg Bittergourd and Fried Oyster!

Cynthia brought us to a nite market which mostly locals patronize.. Reali diff from Shilin Night Market, not so commercialize..

A wide variety of stuffs to choose from for the "Ice Kachang"! Simply scoop watever u like till the bowl cant fill up anymore!

Top w Black Sugar Syrup.. Oiishi!

V nice "Lu Wei", choose fr the variety and they will weigh and we pay! Hao Chi dao!

The fruits there were so fresh! Cant resist and bought a few packs back to hotel to eat!

Wu Zun is everywher inside 7-11! Even drinks also can see his face!

V nice Papaya Milk fr 7-11!

Bought some v Kawaii Necklace & fake lashes from the night market

DAY 4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Went back to Taipei 101 for a better view of it!

Danshui is our next stop...

Alot of students there..dunno y... tis stall selling Quil Egg...v crowded so nv try..

Fried Sotong Ball

Super windy and cold @ Fisherman's Whaft, Lover's Bridge

Eh..... U all shoot MTV ah???

Ke Ai de Bei Ying!!!!!

Went to Yangmingshan for Onsen Hot spring and after that to Tianmu, PS Bu Bu Car theme for dinner....

We ordered Set Meal, Choice of a Main Course w Soup, Salad & Dessert. Food there was great, 70 out of 100... ;)

Misson accomplisheed! Took MRT back to Ximending for last min shopping.. Was a hectic day for us as we realli stick to our itinerary cos we wouldnt want to miss anymore places. Ying the time keeper nag us for the whole day! She so happy tat we mit our timeline finally! Places we miss are Jay Chou Restaurant, Miramar Ferris Wheel, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall... Well, i tink i need a third time to taipei to finish off all these places again! Heehee...

Some skincare n mascara fr Watsons which SIN dont have... Bought a St Clare White Head Remover Mask, Kose Facial Wash, Shiseido Makeup remover cum facial wash and Famous Majorca Mascaras...

DAY 5>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Went to CKS Memorial Hall for some photo taking

Hmm....?? Xing Guang Da Dao? The competition?? Haha... its actually a name of a newly build condo i guess... Heeheee...

Bought tis cereal n share half of it w Ying.. Quaker had alot of products there! Cereals alr 4-5 diff taste! Wooo.. so we decided to give it a try...