Taiwan Day 1

Woohoo... finally. after quite sometimes, This is it. the time for me to travel somewhere further. Yeap, Taiwan Here i come. :)

 I fly with SQ A330-300 from SIN-TPE. quite a small and packed during that morning flight. Just a quick flash back history, After quite a long time since Singapore Airline remove Medan from one of their destination, i hardly fly with SIA since then. Because numbers of Budget flight is around us. However, for quite a long haul destination, i will definitely not a budget type of person. so, during NATAS 2012, i got quite a good package from Dynasty Travel, Taipei Free n easy is SGD $965 include Air Ticket by SIA, airport taxes, 5 days hotel, and 1 full day city tour. And i think that is quite a good deal.

So back to my journey, the brunch menu from SQ flight is rather interesting. i decided to choose Oriental menu for that day. After arrived at TaoYuan Int'l Airport, the excitement feeling is getting stronger, as that is my first time visiting Taiwan. Someone is picking me up from Airport to Hotel. I stayed at ECFA hotel in Xi Men Ting area. surprisingly, ECFA Hotel is just the same like Hotel 81 singapore. Well, don't care about the place i stay because it is just purely shower and sleep. other than that, i will definitely be outside hotel. So, first thing i did after i reached hotel is to find a good Lunch around XiMen Ting area. Good weather on that day 22 degree so i can walk around without perspiring. difficult to find a good food, i just enter McDonald's to eat. and i can tell you that do not ever try McDonald's in Taipei. it taste horrible and the fries is sucks. Brrrr......

Well after late lunch, i straight away went to Tamshui for their famous local food, A-gei (阿給, āgěi), which are deep fried tofu that have been stuffed with crystal noodles and sealed with fish paste and drizzled with spicy sauce on the outside. Tamsui fish ball (魚丸, yúwán), because Tamsui is near the ocean, therefore, it is a good place to try their fish balls, which are balls of fish paste stuffed with meat and garlic cooked in light broth, in which 3 dish of that (in picture) cost me around NTD120. MRT journey from XinMen Ting to TamShui is around 30 minutes, which is just NTD40 (SGD1.20) for the coin.

The famous TamShui Old Street and Night Market is just a 2minutes walking distance from the MRT station. Alot of cheap food, snacks and drinks for you to taste there. They have alot of free food and drinks for you to try. so, just take it. it's free and taste nice. i also did a caricature picture of myself by local artist for only NTD250 (SGD12 dollar). :)

 

During sunset time, i took bus ride to Danshui Fisherman's Wharf 淡水漁人碼頭 to look at a famous bridge called Lover's Bridge. As that place is famous for pre-wedding photo for local and also some of celebrities held their concert there as well. Not so amazing, but there have A LOT of yacht around. Rich place huh. :)

Do enjoy the rest of the photo and the journey "To be continued..." for day 2 tomorrow.