Statue

Quiz: Why does Taiwan likes to have big cute statue at their museum / restaurants?
Answer: Because silly tourist like myself like to take photo with it.

Instant Coffee

We shall have a little competition coming up. Three instant coffee in the mix. Mirror mirror on the wall. Who is the best coffee of them all?

Display Shelf

Question: How do you make a shelf with 50 adorable little display items look better?
Answer: Remove 20 of them.

Colouring

First ever colouring by all four members of the family. (Very first for HX)
Can you tell who colour which part?

Cute Merchandise

Merchandise / souvenirs are much more adorable if it is based on real items or landmark. I particularly like the following two items.

Real vs Fake- Part 2

Can you tell which is real and which is fake? Jade Bai Cai versus Replicate Bai Cai.

Halloween

Knock knock, trick or treat? Who are you?

I'm a Cowboy (and I'm a Fairy)

Round 2
Knock knock, trick or treat? Who are you?

I'm a handyman (and I'm a ghost)

Round 3
Knock knock, trick or treat? Who are you?

We're dooodolls!

Round 4
Knock knock, trick or treat? Who are you?

Zombies!!!! Grrrrr !!!!!
RUN !!!

Real vs Fake- Part 1

Can you tell which is real and which is fake? The Queen’s head versus Queen’s head version 2.

Que in Taiwan

Rules in Taiwan. Everybody will que for something that is good but not something that is nearly as good, even if the que is crazy. To buy delicious food for example, (refer to previous journal) the que for [2], [3], [4], [7], [8] and [10] are just ridiculously long. Having said that, it makes it very easy for a novice traveler to look for delicious food.

Taiwan Food

Top 10 Taiwan food:

[10] Soya Milk – The soya milk is good. The You Tiao and Cong Yu Bing that comes with it are rather ordinary.
[9] Fried Chicken Steak – The sweet type is special, the salty type is similar to Malaysia.
[8] Xiao Long Bao & Kuo Tie- Its good although Malaysia's are not that bad either.

[7] Mee Sua- That’s one particularly tasty at XiMenDing. You have to stand though, no seat provided.

[6] Peanut Wrap Ice Cream- Its too good to share.

[5] Fried Deep Sea Squid – Big, juicy and simply delicious.

[4] Sponge cake – Wow. I mean Wow. Oh, did I mentioned wow?

[3] Beef noodles- Whether it is the meat, noodles or soup, its simply better than Malaysia. We tried in 3 separate occasions. Same result.

[2] Fried Rou Bing – Yummy yummy!! So delicious I had two.

[1] Sausage –The Black pork is so tasty, it is simply irresistible. The most amazing thing is that no matter where or which stall you buy from, they are all super tasty.

Other food that I like during the trip but does not make the cut includes Rou Bing, Mini Cheese Pizza, Taiwan Gold Brand Beer & milk tea.

Other food that Sacha likes but not quite my cup of tea: Yu Yuan. Smelly Tou Fu.

Fire

I feel bad every time I drive pass the road where the furniture shop was burnt down. After all we have visited the place no less than five times and its still technically the closest furniture street to my house. Insurance company claims that every few years there will be accident in furniture shops in which out-of-fashion furniture will get burnt. Is the world really as dark as it seems on TV?