A Day Trip to JB

17th Oct 2022, Monday

Woohooo!!! Finally decided to go JB with my friends with KTM train today. We bought the train tickets a month ago to avoid not getting the date we wanted. We all woke up around 5:30 am to get ourselves prepared and met up in Woodlands Interchange. We had took Bus 911 to go to Woodlands Checkpoint but the bus was going round and round and round within woodlands. It eventually went back to Woodlands Interchange again and it went another BIGGGGGG round before it actually reached Woodlands Checkpoint. It took us about more than an hr to reach the checkpoint in the end.

When we went up to the checkpoint, there was already a queue waiting for the customs to open for departure. Apparently, the customs will only be opened 1 hour before the train's departure time. And it actually took about a hour to clear both Singapore and Malaysia Customs before boarding the train. Luckily, it wasn't really very very crowded in the two customs but there were still a large number of Singaporeans travelling to JB today. There was still a 5 or 10 mins wait before the door was opened for boarding. The train carriages were having seats facing in opposite directions, so you may be facing backwards. We were lucky to get seats, there were people standing at the train doors cos they don't want to seat separately or not able to get the seats they wanted. 

KTM Shuttle Train

The train left the station slightly later than the actual departure time and it just took 5 minutes or so to reach JB train station. By then, it was already 10 am and everyone was just dashing out to start their day in JB. We too figured to exit out and walked to our first stop - Restoran Hua Mui in Jalan Trus area. The walking journey took us about 15 minutes to reach the place and we could see a long queue outside. So we decided to give up eating there and we went to Flowers in the Window cafe nearby. Their signboard is so small and we can't make out the cafe name on their signboard. And, their menu was quite limited and decided to go for The Replacement cafe opposite the street as it had more choices (Slightly expensive than Flowers in the Window). It wasn't crowded and the customers were the ones who got the same train as us.

Flowers in a Window Cafe (Quite creepy, right? >_<)

We decided to share the food and go over to  Restoran Hua Mui to try their Hainanese Chicken Chop after that. So we ordered a big breakfast and a French toast with hot chocolate, latte and coffee for each of us. The food arrived quite fast and we took our own sweet time to finish the food while chatting. The food was quite tasty. After that, we decided to walk Salahuddin Bakery which we thought there was a distance to digest our bunch. But it was just like 50 or 100 metres away from the cafe. ^_^. It was a old looking shop owned by an Indian, selling breads, cakes and curry puffs. Ended up not buying anything. After that, we walked around the area and walked past Hiap Joo Bakery which was famous for their banana cakes. We decided to skip buying too as the queue was crazily long and had to stand under the big sun. 

Hot Chocolate

French Toast

Big Breakfast

So we decided to go back to Restoran Hua Mui and there was no longer any queue but the place was still crowded with people. We sat a table near the window and discussed what we should order there. We initially wanted to order 2 plates of their "famous" Hainanese Chicken Chop as we saw a lot of the customers ordered and it was recommended by other bloggers online. But we ordered 1 plate of the chicken chop and a plate of Otak Nasi Lemak. By look, the nasi lemak wasn't appetizing and the otak was quite small. Whereas, the chicken chop was big and it came with potato wedges and colesaw. It turned the batter of the chicken chop was not crispy enough and it doesn't taste good to what we were expecting. And the potato wedges were all cold. It was quite disappointing for us and it felt like it was over rating for the chop. We found the nasi lemak is much better than the chicken chop. However, these were just our own personal preferences on the chicken chop. 

Otak Nasi Lemak & Chix Chop

After that, we took a grab car and headed to KSL shopping mall. The grab driver took some time to reach our waiting point and there was a long queue of cars on the road we were waiting. The driver told us it was his first day driving grab and keep apologizing that he was being slow in the driving. We walked around and did some shopping in the mall when we arrived. After walking around, we crossed the road outside the mall to Avery Day Convenience Concept Store which was just opposite the mall. It was another disappointment to go to the store where it was just selling some normal tibits and the prices were not so much cheaper too. There were some food carts at the last basement of the mall too. There wasn't anything interesting there, so we took a grab car back to City Square mall after buying Auntie Annie's. 

 Avery Day Convenience Concept Store (Opposite KSL Mall)

When we reached City Square mall, we walked around and i was glad my favourite BBQ shop (Kimdo BBQ) had not closed down. So i just went ahead and bought 3 chicken wings to satisfy my cravings. After which, we went to buy some breads from Lavender and there was a queue of customers buying the cookies and breads. I went over to another bakery shop named Seasons and bought two red beans breads and a croissant which cost around $8 plus ringgits. After buying the breads, we went up to the last level and rested at Miyakori Coffee. There, we ordered some drinks and rested our feet from the walking. 

Kimdo BBQ

Hot Chocolate...Again!!

We rested till around 4 pm, then we headed around the mall to get to Meng Meng Roasted Duck restro for our dinner. It was located very far inside of the mall and there were only 2 or 3 shops remained open. We wanted to order some dim sum but to our disappointment, the items we wanted were all sold out. In the end, we ordered 3 roasted meats (duck, char siew and roasted pork), a dumpling soup and a veggies with rice. I personally found the roasted pork quite salty but the char siew and duck were not too bad. The dumplings soup was also tasty. After that, we made our way slowly to the entrance to the Malaysia Customs and to board the train. As usual, there was already a long queue waiting for the gates to open. We just sat down and waited. The gates were only opened around 5 plus and the queue moved slowly as the people tried to scan their passports on the gantry for entry. As there were people who did not know how to scan, there was only one KTM staff and he was walking to and fro to help the people to scan successfully. After that, we had to clear the Malaysia Customs and it was dashing and queuing for everyone again. 

Meng Meng Roasted Duck

Once we cleared the customs, we headed to the train and some of the carriages were already packed with people. Some were even standing inside the carriages. So we walked towards the carriages behind where there were more empty seats. We reached Singapore 5 mins before 6 pm and we had to clear Singapore Customs when we alighted. There were quite a lot of people at Woodlands Checkpoint as people had knocked off and were rushing back to JB. Some were like us, rushing back home after coming back from JB. We went and boarded the same bus number 911 to go back to Woodlands Interchange where we went on our separate ways home. It was a fun and relax day after 3 years of no travelling. Taking trains to JB is really easy and less squeezing than buses. Hopefully, it can remain like this and no more lockdown globally.... ^_^

Places visited:

1. The Replacement
2. Salahuddin Bakery

3. Hiap Joo Bakery

4. KSL Mall

5. Avery Day Convenience Concept Store

6. City Square Mall

7. Kimdo BBQ

8. Miyakori Coffee

9. Meng Meng Roasted Duck

Yilan 宜蘭, Taiwan Trip (Day 1)

13th May 2018, Sunday

Our Plane to Taiwan

Yeah!! Finally final exams over!! And am going with my colleagues to Taiwan for holidays today. We had to get a flight on Sunday as there were no promo tickets for Friday or Saturday. We met each other at the airport around 9 plus in the morning and i went to the arrival hall to collect the wi-fi router. It really took a while to get the rental router as there is only one staff working to  handle the queue. After that, we proceeded to check in our luggage..wanted to use the self check-in luggage but can't as one of my colleague needs to show her visa to the airport staff in order to fly. After we checked in our luggage, we went ahead into the boarding area and we went ahead to have breakfast at Heavenly Wang. After breakfast, we went to buy some additional stuffs before heading to the boarding gate.

View from the sky

Top of Mountains near Taiwan

The plane took off at 12 pm and we were off to Taiwan. It was a 4 hours flight ride and i just watched movies throughout the journey. We landed in Taoyuan Airport at around 4.30 pm, there were alot of people arriving in Taiwan too. It took a short wait for us to get clearance from the customs. Then we went down to the luggage belt to collect our luggage. After that, we headed to take the airport express train to Taipei Main Station. It was about 6 plus when we reached Taipei and it was getting dark. After which, we bought the train tickets for an express train to Yilan which took about 1 hour plus. Was feeling hungry and sleepy on the train....

View from the train

Yilan Main Station

Jimmy Park Entrance

 It was around 8 plus when we finally reached Yilan train station and i saw a McD sign from the station. There was a castle building beside the McD, so i told my colleagues that should be our hotel as the hotel name is N.Castle....hohoho...So we all walked towards the direction, however, it turned out to be an amusement centre. So we checked the map and realised we had overshot  a shot distance and had to turn right into an alley, where the hotel was located. The hotel was quite small, with two levels. We got assigned to our room, where there were two double beds and we will be staying in the same room tonight.

Dongmen Night Market Entrance

Sweet Potato Balls

Food Stalls

Choices of BBQ sticks

Crispy Spring Onion Pancakes

After leaving our luggage, we headed down to Dongmen night market for dinner. We just bought some street food while walking through the market. There were multiple shops in the market, there were also sellers putting out clothes to sell in the centre of the road. Had bbq food and crispy spring onion pancakes (nice!! :)) After that, we walked around the market....the oyster omelette we bought was not nice...After that, we headed back to the hotel and rested for the day...Going to have a long day of activities await us tomorrow....

Places Visited:
Dongmen Night Market

Hotel Stayed:
N.Castle Hotel

Kyoto 京都, Japan Trip (Day 3)

6th March 2017, Monday

We woke up early today to head out to Kyoto, aiming for the 9:03 am train. We met up at the hotel lobby and did our check-out. Then we headed to take the train to Tokyo main station. It was so crowded at the train platform when we reached Tokyo main station, and we had to drag the luggage towards to the other end for the lifts. We went to buy our breakfast and i got 2 boxes of Tokyo Banana snacks with sakura flavour. Then we went to get our train tickets and went up to wait at the platform. Got some drinks from the vending machine too before the train arrived.

Finally we got on the shinkansen train and went to our allocated seats.... "Off to Kyoto!" ^_^
Had my bento while on the train and we could see Mount Fuji when the train passed by. However, thick clouds were covering the mountain. My friends played their monopoly deal during the ride. I still sat and enjoyed the scenery. We arrived at Kyoto @ around 11 plus and we made our way to the hotel. One of my friends was guiding us to walk to the hotel when we alighted at the station nearest to the hotel. We were walking through the street until my friend guide asked me why were we further from our destination on the google map.... -_-"...hahaaa..it turned out we were going the wrong way. So I took over her phone and followed the map...funny thing was we were also walking one big round on the opposite side of the hotel...hahaa...

Tatami style

My favourite!!

Soba with Ebi

Eventually, we found the hotel, safe and sound which was a relief. However, our room was not ready, so we just deposited our luggage there and went off for lunch. I brought them to the 150 years old soba restaurant (Kyoto Honke Owariya Soba), which was just one minute away from the hotel. We had to queue for a while before we were given a table. We got to sit at the table with Japanese style, which was to sit on the floor...(almost had leg camps after eating...hahaaa..). I ordered back the same soba set that came with 5 stacks of cold soba. One of my friends ordered the same set and the other one ordered a ebi soba set. It still tasted so yummy!!! Bought some of their hand-made cookies too.

After lunch, we headed down to Gion Street as my friends had not been there before. We walked and shopped around the different shops. I bought some souvenirs too and we went to try some green tea desserts. Also, walked through the ancient streets and saw a lot of people wearing kimono. In the end, we walked until the temple at the end of the streets but it was having light rain and the wind was blowing strongly. So we went in to see the temple, we can only see the outside as the temple had closed for visiting. I had walked ahead of my friends, and when my friends can't find me, one of them actually made a "Search for a Missing Cat" short clip..... -_-". Anyhow, they managed to catch up and found me.

Side Dishes

Salt, Pepper & Lemon

Pork Belly

Beef

Then we headed out back to the streets again and we did managed to see a geisha (not sure whether was she a geisha). But many people were just taking her photos without asking and she had to walk very quickly to get away from the attention. After that, we walked to IOIO building to have a toilet break, Then we sat down there to take a short break. After the break, we headed out to find a place for our dinner. We stumbled upon an alley called Pontocho Alley where there were a lot of restaurants. We picked a beef BBQ restaurant (Yakiniku Ponto Cho Teppai) for our dinner and ordered the ohmi beef and pork. We ordered a couple of side dishes, potato salad (which i don't find it nice), we had to bbq the meats too. However, their meat were tender and nice. The staff was quite friendly and she was able to speak with us in English too. We paid $14,461 Japanese yen in total for the meal.

Our room

After dinner, we walked back along the main streets, where we went to the Disney store there. We walked until 9 pm plus. Then we made our way back to the hotel and the hotel staff told us that our luggage was already in our room. So we took the keys and went up to the room. It was slightly bigger as it was with 3 single beds. But my friends slept on one bed and i slept on the other bed. I had trouble to sleep that night as usual (got super loud snoring sound).....hahaa

Hotel Stayed:
Hearton Hotel Kyoto

Tainan 臺南, Taiwan Trip (Day 4)

20th November 2014, Thursday

Train Schedule

Today, woke up slightly early, by around 8 plus as we need to catch train to go to Tainan. So we packed our stuffs and checked out the hotel. We went back to the 2 same stalls where we went on the 1st day but the soup stall wasn't opened yet. So we got the red tea milk, a toast and 2 egg yolk piahs for breakfast. The toast was nice, with fried egg (the yolk will flow out type)and pork floss, i like it...yum yum...Then we made our way to the metro station and went down to Kaohsiung HSR station. Bought the train tickets from the self purchase machines, it was quite easy to buy and we bought the 11.36 am train. As there was still some time left, we just walked around to explore the station (didn't have time to take photos on the first day).

High Speed Rail (HSR) Train

The train arrived about 2 mins before the departure time and left the station on time. It was a 10 mins or so from Zuoying to Tainan ride by HSR. There was a couple who had changed their seats on their own but when the owner for the seats, they changed back to their original seats which were in front of us. And they just lower their seats, which were hitting on our luggage. Then they just pushed their big luggage to the empty seats beside us. And when the train was moving, their luggage moved over to our side. They didn't even realized it, so we just ignored it. We reached Tainan station around 11.47 am, and we made our way now to the Visitor Information Counter to ask how to go to our hotel. My friend went and asked first and she was soooo happy that the staff was able to speak English. So i let her do all the talking and questions (i can take a break)...hehehe.....

Weird Flavor Ice Cream

So we decided to take the free shuttle bus to Confucius temple, which was near our hotel and then take a cab from there. The cab from Confucius temple to the hotel was NT$85 and the hotel was hidden inside an alley. Luckily we took a cab to the hotel, saved our time finding it. We reached the hotel around 1 or 2 pm, so we took a rest in the room first before going out again. Then we left the hotel and walked to Confucius temple. Visited a Japanese house and passed by the weather center and a church and some temple. By the time we reached Confucius temple, it was already 3 plus. So we just walked around the place and i got a weird taste ice cream (got cola and mint)....hungry already...The uncle said he made it himself, NT$30 each.

After this, we went to the bus stop to take bus to Anping Old Street. We waited for quite a long time for it before the bus came. The fare to Anping was only NT$18 per pax, so we boarded. There was usb ports near each window for passengers to charge their devices too. My friend charged her iphone while we were on the bus. I thought the bus was going to Anping Fort (which actually we should have alighted at Aniping Canon/Anping Treehouse bus stop), but we didn't. Ended up we were the last ones with an old lady on the bus and the driver was asking us where we wanted to go...hohohoo...lost again...So we alighted at someware ulu...and tried to walk back to Anping street on our feet. It was around 4 plus when we started to walk, and we walked for almost half an hour or so before we ended up at the end of Anping street. By then, i was really very hungry. Luckily, we saw a stall selling shuai jian bao and it looked yummy. So we got 1 to try..it was nice and it costs NT$12 only.

Dou Hua (Normal and with Red Beans)

Jiu Cai He (Must Try!!)

Then opposite the stall was Anping Dou Hua, so we crossed over and bought 2 bowls of dou hua to eat. Beside it, was a noodle stall too. We also ordered 1 bowl of spicy noodles to try (not really spicy though). But the food was nice...yum yum...The noodles shop also sells prawn crackers, my friend bought 1 original flavor prawn crackers back (got black pepper and chilli flavor too)...hehehe...After eating, we continued to walk down the streets of Anping.  Along the way, we came across a stall by itself. It was selling Jiu Cai He (韭菜盒) , and people was queuing for it. I just told my friend let's queue for it too. While queuing, the people in front had given big orders for it. One even ordered for a box of Jiu Cai He.....And we were only buying 1 piece...hahhaa...And we know why the people are buying large quantity for it....It was damn nice!!! I told my friend i going to finish it all up if she still don't want to try it...hohohoo....Should have buy more (regret)....haiz...

Garden Night Market

As we walked down, we ended up at the Anping Treehouse bus stop but we cannot find the treehouse (don't know where is it hidden) and it was already dark. So we just continued walking down the street until the road hits the freeway. We was thinking whether to walk to buy the Jiu Cai He, before we saw a cab going to turn out from a side road. So we flagged it and go to Garden Night Market (花園夜市). It took us NT$165 to reach the night market and it was like 45 mins journey, kept hitting on red lights. Once we alighted, can see there were alot of motorbikes parked outside the market. And the stalls were packed in an area. There were alot of people in the market too, quite squeezing. All the stalls will have their own flags shown on top, you can easily see what is the stall selling. There are some stalls provided their own table and chairs for customers to eat in. We decided to just buy back to the hotel and eat, cos it was too crowded to eat and walk at the same time.

Fried Crickets

We bought a sausage and a intestine to eat, not nice. Bought an onion pancake too, not nice also (from the stalls near to the entrance)...very sadz....My friend saw corns again and she bought 1 white corn to eat...She said not very nice too, she preferred Kaohsiung one but the yellow corns were sweeter and nice. Then we just walked around the market, looking for food. Bought a box of crabs (fresh but i find the eggs abit bitter), a bag of guava (sweet and crunchy), yellow corns, duck slices and chicken breast....There were 3 stalls side by side which were having queue of people at the back of the market. 1 stall was selling chicken breasts (which i bought 1), 1 was selling something like prata type and another was selling fried crickets....hehehee...There were other stalls like games and selling clothes and bags around the market too. We didn't walk the other stalls as we both needed to go to toilet.... :P.....So we went back to the hotel by cab and ate our food, after which we rested after a long day.

Hotel Stayed:
Famous Hotel

Places Visited:
Confucius temple
Anping Old Street
Garden Night Market

Kaohsiung 高雄, Taiwan Trip (Day 1)

17th November 2014, Monday

Christmas Season in Changi Airport

Yeah..going Taiwan for the 2nd time and this time going to be a long 16 days journey. And this time round, had booked the air tickets after quitting my new job at a super crappy company (don't even know why they can survive for so long). Had decided to go along with Jetstar airline as they were having sales on the air tickets, $361 for a round trip to Taiwan. The departure time was 1.15 am but had received a SMS from the airline company, saying the flight had been delayed until 4.15 am due to operational requirements (i think this is pretty common for Jetstar airline). But i still went to the airport at around 9 plus as it will be too late for my dad to drive me there anyway.

Once i reached the airport, i went up to KFC on the 2nd level in T1 and waited for my friend. She came around 10 plus and we just sat there and waited for the check-in time. I even got a call from Jetstar staff, telling me there is a delay on the flight and asked me whether wants to change my flight to a later flight which is at around 7 plus in the morning. We waited from KFC until another restaurant called Ruyi downstairs, in the end, my friend just lied on the chairs and tried to take a nap....hahhaa...i was just loitering around to pass time. Waited until 2.30am, which was 2 hours before the fight, there is still no check-in counter number displayed on the board. Told my friend to wake up and go see the counters row just in case as there should be display on the counter number by now. Noticed there were already people queuing when we reached the counter and i also overheard the counters were already opened earlier and a lot of people had already checked in. There were a group of gals in front of us, saying that they tried checking in using the self check-in machines, the system had prompted them that the flight had already left....gave them a fright...LOL.....

HSR Train Tickets to Zuoying

And so, we checked in our luggage and went ahead to the gate. It was a long walk to the gate, as usual, so we just took our time to walk to the gate...heheehe...Finally, we were able to fly off to Taiwan!! The flight journey took us around 4 hours plus and we just tried to sleep on the plane (behind us were 2 younger kids, 1 of them keep crying once she was awake and the other 1 was just making whining sounds), we reached Taoyuan International Airport at around 8 am plus or later. Once landed, we found our way to take the bus to the high speed rail station. It was at the lower level and there were different counters to buy bus tickets to different location. Need to see the schedule and buy the tickets from the correct counter, we went to the wrong counter at first..hehehe....So we bought our bus tickets to the HSR station, which costs NT$30 each and the ride was around 15 mins or so. It was raining too in Taoyuan and feeling cold. We went in to buy our train tickets to Kaohsiung (Zuoying) first, NT$1335 each as it was the last station. After getting the tickets, we went to get mcd for breakfast as there is still some time (hungry from the flight too).

Zuoying Metro Station

We waited for around 15 mins and had our hashbrowns while waiting, the train came and we boarded. The seats space was spacious, we even can squeeze our luggage in with no problem. We had our breakfast once the train moved out, the pancakes i bought was cold cold and hard...not nice to eat...sadz...My friend slept on the train when i just looked at the window...It was about noon time when we reach Zuoying and once we came out from the gate, there were many cab drivers asking whether we are going to Kending. I told them no, we are going to Kaohsiung city. Funny, 1 cab driver even told us to go Kending and stay there and not to go Kaohsiung city as there is nothing to do there and was trying to get us to change to go Kending instead. Anyway i just brushed them away and went to the visitors information counter to ask on how we can get to our hotel. So we made our way down to the metro station and bought our single journey coins (still the same as the first time i went taipei)...

Glass Art on the ceiling of Dome

We took the metro until Formosa Boulevard Station and alighted, the Dome of Light is in this station. This station is the interchange station between the 2 metro lines (red and orange lines) and in the center of the station, there are colorful glasses built with art designs. It was pretty but the station is very hot and we are already sweating..hehee...so we just went up to the streets after asking the security guard on the hotel direction. And then, we just pulled our luggage and tried to find our hotel on the street, luckily is just a straight road before i saw the hotel signboard ahead. The hotel is quite small, and our room wasn't ready when we arrived. The lady was telling us maybe need another 15 or 20 mins to get it ready. So we rested in the lobby for awhile and when we had decided to leave our luggage and go out first, the staff told us our room is ready. So we went up to our room instead. The room was not very big but somehow the toilet looked bigger than the room itself., even have a bathroom. i even found a condom pack provided on the table...kekeke....Then we just rested in the room, until we feel like going out again..We went down and had turned into a small road near the hotel, noticed there were 2 stalls, 1 selling rice and 1 selling red tea milk.

Red Tea Milk Shop

We bought food at the rice stall, had braised pork rice, mee suan and kang kong dish. It was nice but i think the stall is famous for their herbal soups. Later the stall owner came and saw us, she chatted with us, asking where we are from and was talking to me in Mandarian initially, then later she tried to speak with us in English. She told us Singapore is a nice country and she had actually stayed 2 years there. And she also recommended us places to go in Kaohsiung, weird, she also recommended us to go Kending...kekekee....We also saw people keep coming to the other stall to buy red tea milk and is in big bottles. So we decided to buy a cup and tried it, we thanked the lady boss for the food and went to buy the tea. So funny, my friend tried to buy the drink, the stall staff don't understand her, so she called me for help....heheee...The staff was asking me what language was my friend talking, i told her English lor...hahaa. So i got her a cup of red tea milk (red tea with fresh milk) and a piah. I don't normally drink tea, but this tea was nice to drink (not bitter too). We both like it. The staff tried to ask my friend whether was the tea nice when we were about to leave but she asked in Mandarin...hahaha...

Love River

After the lunch, i wanted to go to Lotus Pond but ended up in Love River, which is the main river of Kaohsiung. We had to walk a distance from the metro before we can see the river. There was a group of students doing sailing in the river too, we didn't take the cruise there. We just walked along the river and enjoyed the breeze, looking at people around. It was very peaceful and calm...but still can hear the little vans going around broadcasting for voting supports for their politics candidates as it was Taiwan's election period now (Voting day was on 29/11/2014). There were big groups of supporters for each individual candidate and they are recognized by the area and their number. Anyway, this was what we been seeing for the rest of the days until 29/11. Passed by District Court, Kaohsiung Film Archive (which was closed on Monday), a church and a kindergarten. Walked over to Kaohsiung bridge too. Bought a bamboo rice to try too. So this is how we spent our afternoon, as the day ended quite early, the sun knocked off at around 4 plus and by 5 plus,  the sky was already dark (like our 7 pm). We went Carrerfour to shop for awhile too, can even try on the food before buying. Bought a packet of quail eggs for my friend to try, she doesn't like it....kekeke...Then later we made our way to the hotel (where we got lost on the streets on the way back to the metro station too....kekeke), where i checked with the staff on whether Liu He Night Market was opened today. Then we went up to use the toilet first and rested our feet (sore already from walking), then we walked to Lu He Night Market, which was just at the street behind the hotel.

Famous Papaya Milk Stall

First stall we saw was the fried giant sotong, which was a recommended food and as we walked, there was stalls for smelly tofu and i asked my friend whether she smelled it, as she was not aware of this snack when she was in HK previously. But she said she got nose block, so cannot smell anything (she did managed to smell it on the 3rd day when we went back to the market)....hahaha....Then as we walked further in, there were multiple stalls selling seafood...oysters, lobsters, crabs, clams, etc...and you get to pick the seafood and they will be cooked by using stirred-fried or bbq....they all smell nice and the seafood are big too!! The oysters were really big, even the octopus legs, i don't see that big in SG.We had a whole lobster and a skewer of scallops (6) for NT$1300. Really fresh...nice to eat...Then we walked further down the street, my friend bought a white corn from a stall (only 1 stall selling corns, both yellow and white and alot of people buying too). The cost of the corn was by the weight of the corn, so if you choose a heavy corn, it will cost a bit more. The minimum price was around NT$30. My friend got hers for NT$40, but at least she said it wasn't bad (she still preferred her own PH corn)...hohooho....Then we bought fried chicken (which i don't find it really nice) and fried mushroom (which is really nice). We came across a stall selling papaya milk and there were alot of people queuing for it. And i noticed there were also alot of autographs on the stall signboard. I remembered reading papaya milk was one of the must try food online, so i told my friend to buy it too. I wanted to get mango milk but it wasn't available, so i got 2 papaya milk instead. It was very milky at first, but later it was nice to drink. 1 cup is only NT$50, still cheaper than our fruit juice here. The market was like only 2 streets long as this is one of the small night markets around Kaohsiung.

Doggie doing Yoga

After all the food, we made our way back to the hotel. Saw a pet shop with some funny on the display, so stayed to look at them for a while. The puppies were very cute, one of the doggies even did yoga for us to see..had a good laugh on it. It was bending its head upwards and trying to bite his tail....super funny..it did touched his tail in the end. After the good laugh, we went back to the hotel to rest (had a super long and tired day). And noticed why the toilet looked bigger cos there wasn't a curtain or glass door for the shower/bathtub. So the toilet ended up flooded after our showers...hahhaa...


Hotel Stayed: Holiday Hotel

Places Visited:
Dome of Light
Love River
Lu He Night Market