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Taiwan Trip 2009 Part 5

This is the final part of my Taiwan trip. It has been a month since the visit to Taiwan. I can’t wait to see my pre-wedding photo already, but I gotto be patient as Jess (my coordinator at Julia Wedding News) told me the photos are not ready yet.

Anyway, let’s continue with my trip. I actually plan to revisit some places in my itinerary for this coming few days. Therefore, the days were quite relax and no rushing.

We had our brunch at the Japanese Restaurant, Dah Che Luen Restaurant nearby the hotel.

One of the waitress suddenly came and ask where are we from. After we told her we are from Malaysia, she came back to us by bringing 2 flags, Malaysia and Taiwan Flag. The flags were then placed at our table. I saw Japan flag at other table also. Interesting la, but no special treatment or so. :p

After the brunch, we go to Guang Hua Market. It’s place selling all computer stuff. Like Lowyat/ Sim Lim. I am surprise to see every shop selling ink cartridge, its like people in Taiwan are heavily printing papers.

Well, we just browse thru the shopping centre to see what is interesting. I managed to buy a cute Pooh Bear Thumbdrive for myself. :)

Spot this at all the MRT station. I think Singaporean should really practice this. :)

We then make our way to the Hot Spring. One of the must-go when visiting Taiwan during this cold season.

Out of so many hot spring, we chose to go to Spring City Resort at Xin Bei Tou.

The surrounding of the resort was quite nice. There a lot of hot spring available at most of the resorts at Xin Bei Tou. Basically you can randomly make the price comparison before you decide which one to go.

For me, I just randomly choose this Spring City resort as I read some good comments about this from forum. They have private room for couple like us. Off coz it will be pricey a bit compare to the public hot spring. Check it out if you wanna know more about the package available.

The room is not big. Just nice for a bathtub and desk to put the toiletries, towel, hairdryer, etc.

There are 3 pipes that control the water output. Hot spring water, cold water and warm water. We mixed everything as HK did not like it too hot.

Since it’s private room, we take off everything. :) I am not sure what you should wear when you wanna soak at public hot spring. Probably just a towel.

We only book for 1 hour. It’s actually quite enough.

We actually feel very good after soaking in hot spring. Feel very refreshing!

Then we decided to go back Xi Men Ting for early dinner. To Modern Toilet restaurant.

Interesting chairs and tables. We sit on toilet bowl.

Food is served on a toilet bowl cap.

Serve drinks in Chamber pot. :p After drink, we brought this back. Probably can use it in future. HAHA.

My food is served in TOILET bowl. Haha

Chicken wings are better, its in bathtub.

A list of the ice-cream with disgusting names in the menu. If you cant read chinese, I give you one example, “Baby Shit” - ice cream made from Vanila + Kiwi.

This ice cream is in the set menu that we ordered.

After the dinner, we head to one of the famous spot where a lot of Taiwanese Drama took place at, Miramar Entertainment Park.

It is beautiful.

I went before Eye on Malaysia (in 2007) and also Singapore Flyer (In 2008). Now I am at Miramar Ferris Wheel (In 2009). I wonder which eye next year! Haha.

Hongkiat actually a bit afraid of height. He was not afraid the last time we went for Singapore flyer before the gondola was so big and stable. This one was like small and swing a bit if we make big movements.

Sceneries outside were not really interesting. No skycrappers. Therefore we camwhore a lot in the gondola.

He was so relief when we were almost finish the round. :p Oh yea, we paid NT150 to go just 1 round. It took about 20 minutes.

It’s easy to go to Miramar. Just take a free shuttle bus from JianTan Mrt Station (where the famous ShiLin Night Market was located). The interval is about 15mins. You don’t have to wait very long for the bus. :)

Let’s fast forward to the next day. Another relaxing and slow day.

Actually I still left quite a lot of NT dollars, which I desperately wanted to use for shopping. So we decided to go shopping with only one intention - spend money.

We went to Zhong Xiao again.

Saw this at all MRT station.

But end up buying some sourvenirs and nothing for myself or Hongkiat. Depress lo!

Was resting at a park outside a starbucks cafe. Saw this bunch of kids playing. Very cute of them.

Then went to Sogo for lunch. Had a simple lunch at one unknown restaurant in one of the SOGO. Let me remind you again, there are 3 Sogo at Zhong Xiao. :)

We also went to the Famous bookstore - Eslite Bookstore. It opens 24 hours a day. We bought quite some books from there. Hehe.

After hours of browsing at Eslite, we met up with my friend (who is studying at Taiwan) for dinner.

Dinnering FeiTian Restaurant (飞天麻辣火锅) near our hotel. But they timed us, limit to 2 hours of dining only.

The soups were delicious. We ordered the super spicy soup, clear soup and herbal soup. All were good.

Free flow of meats! Beef, lamb, pork.

My handsome friend - Kar Loon.

One of the service that I really need to give my compliement to them was they provide a cover for their customers to cover up the jacket/sweater/bags whenever they are seated. You can imagine the kind of smells developed in the restaurant. It was very thoughtful of them.

After 2 hours of steamboat dinner, saying bye to the handsome, we are back to Xi Men Ding. You know, for the very last time of walking around XMD. To catch whatever we missed, to buy whatever we think it’s interesting.

The famous Red House Theather at Xi men Ding. Very near to our hotel. Just right behind the street.

Unfortunately, we still ended up walking and buying nothing. Although there were a lot of interesting stuff like little accessories, but it’s too kiddo. :p I won’t need them.

7 days has passed. I enjoyed my trip. I always enjoy traveling with Hongkiat. Needless to say.

We left Taiwan on day 8. Did a very last minute shopping on skin care products. Taiwanese are really crazy about skin care. They have all sorts of products on skin care.

Saw this interesting figure at Taiwan Airport.

We had our very last meal at Taiwan. But we ran out of NT dollar. I have to pay the meal by creadit card. Hehe.

Ru Rou Fan! Yummy-licious!

Guess what, my biggest spending in the entire trip. :) Shall reveal it in a seperate post.

Bye Taiwan.

The next trip should be a country in Asia too. :) Looking forward to it.

p/s: I did not gain weight after the trip. Muahahah!