Journey to taipei I

One of the most meaningful things I have made in my summer holiday is----I manage to bring my parents to taipei, Taiwan. ( Oh, this doesn't mean I didn't spend the rest of my summer holiday wisely ok!) SO, how did we spend our 5 days 4 nights trip in Taipei le?

First day-

I don't know why china airlines like to fly from 2 something in the afternoon and it takes 5 hours to reach there, since your fingers are enough to count this simple maths, it's about 7 something that we reached Taipei. So, nothing much, check in-dinner-walk around in Ximending-sleep.

Second day-

first destination--->Chiang Kai Sek Memorial Hall ( where my dad enjoyed the most) Aiyo~~they start gasping!Ask you all exercise don't want. Now see~~I move faster than you guys!@! I still young ma:P
After you gone through the long stairs successfully!( not really long actually) You will see "copper" version of Chiang Kai Sek.It's quite a huge one!

An overview of Chiang Kai Sek Memorial Hall. But don't think you can see it la!

Chiang Kai Sek and His wife (Song Mei Ling??I am not sure:P)

There is display for public to see how was Chiang Kai Sek's office look like with "WAX" version of him sitting there. It looks quite real actually. (If you know Hokkien, my parents keep saying "jin shxiang o!)

Okla, enough for Chiang Kai Sei Memorial hall because i lazy upload pic la!

---After that, we took 45mins of MRT to TamShui. There are a lot of attractions, but guess where is the only place i went ..Long Shan Shi. There are two Long Shan Shi(temple) in Taipei, however this is not the most famous temple that i went. If you want to go to the most famous Long Shan shi you can take MRT and get down from Long Shan Station.

Due to tireness that everyone can't avoid, we go back to MRT station and take another 40mins to JianTan Station.

Have you heard of Shilin Night Market before?JianTan Station is the station we need to get off to go to the food court where you get to taste all famous foods in Taiwan. In fact, I don't find the food there are really nice but i think 'they' are all interesting because "their" names are really funny. For example, da chang bao xiao chang (direct translate: Big sausage wrap small sausage) . Oh wait, go back to the topic, SHilin night market is located opposite of shilin food court, you just need to cross the road. ( I were so exciting about going to this night market, who knows after finish eating, my dad and bro give me very big reaction! HUH??? Need to walk somemore? Go back Hotel la!!!.....under this kind of situation, i can only follow them back hotel with my yi yi bu she de mood...hmm...i didn't get to go...)

Third Day-

Today everyone learnt our lessons, we rented a car upon request of my family members. And, of course there is driver to drive us around, we paid 4000 taiwan dollar which equal to RM400 for renting the car and hire the driver for 8 hours.

1st destination-Jiu fen. There is a story about the origin of its name-Jiu fen (9 portions). This Jiu fen is located on mountain and there were 9 family staying there.But whenever the residents on this mountain going down to get their groceries, they need to spend one day to come back and forth. SO, they have this idea that they take turn to get things for every family, since there are 9 famillies there, so everytime they need to get 9 portions for everything they buy. SO after long while when they send down their representative, people will shout "jiu fen lai le, jiu fen lai le" (9 portions come d!).....That's what tour guide told me.

This is old street of Jiufen. Although is OLD but is full of people, you can find lots of interesting stuff here.
Look at the chinese words on your left hand side. ( Peanut roll with ice-cream) I know it sounds normal and simple but it tastes really good! Look at the brown thing with rectangular shape, that is where uncle get the peanut powder from.

Here is how the " Peanut roll with ice-cream" looks like. I know it still doesn't look any attractive, but after i finish one, I really feel like eating second roll.

to be continued but don't have to stay tune. :P