Monday, January 29, 2007
Sorry guys for the delay in posting up pics from my Taiwan trip...I had better things to do like slacking *sniggers*...but here they are. Just gonna upload a few for your viewing pleasure (there are seriously too many).
My sister enjoying her "zha ji pai" (fried chicken cutlet) from the famous Shi Lin market - it was super yummy cuz it had cheese oozing out of it.
Shi Lin night market has a wide variety of local delights like their fried chicken cutlet, oyster omelette, bubble tea, small sausage wrapped in big sausage (which is actually glutinous rice shaped like a sausage, stuffed with a small "lup cheong", which my mother and siblings enjoyed very much) etc. However, I thought that it was not only crowded and dirty, it was super smelly too considering the fact that people were selling smelly tofu everywhere *screws up nose*!! When you enter the market it's like going into this hot, smelly, no ventilation place....phewweee!!! All I wanted to do was get out asap. It didn't help that the stall vendors were competing for customers. We kept getting yelled at to sit down at so-and-so stall and to buy their food. However, when we stopped at the fried chicken cutlet stall, the owner was super friendly. He asked us where we were from and when we said Singapore, he said, "oh, nowadays many Singaporeans are coming to Taiwan. How come ah?" Honestly I didn't know how to answer that question. Cuz it's cheap? Cuz we want to visit the tallest building in the world (Taipei 101)? Cuz it's near? Cuz we love 5566? I have no idea *lol*.
Anyway, we went to this place that had all the 12 zodiacs carved from stone. Here's me and my mousy! It's holding an ingot! Naturally, we mice/rats (if you prefer) are money-faced.
Here's my brother and his ferocious fire-breathing dragon. I have no idea what it's holding.
Come to think of it...his dragon looks smaller than my mousy...
Anyway, tell me if this looks like an opening to heaven to you
Isn't it gorgeous?
This is gigantic mochi (honestly this is the biggest mochi I have seen - it's nearly as big as my fist) filled with chocolate and stuffed with half a strawberry in each. I thought the skin of the mochi was too thick (I hate mochi) but I liked the chocolate and strawberry haha.
Now this signboard is funny...if you get it. Who doesn't get it raise your hands!
Another gorgeously scenic picture...Taiwan really has nice scenery.
Ok...I look super weird in this pic cuz I have to admit I was super embarrassed taking a picture with a SIGNBOARD. What to do...the real actors weren't there. By the way, this is my favourite Taiwanese drama series, "ge dou tian wang". We went to this huge garden/floral place where they were famous for their flowers. There were signboards like these all over to show how many drama serials were shot there. I'm actually standing on the piece of land where 5566 has stepped on before!!! *squeals*
This is such a cool rock formation don't you think? Geography teachers should be here. This reminds me of Marianne Chong and physical geog. YUX. However, studying rock formations is one thing and just enjoying the scenery is another.
This is pic of the 3 of us on the tour bus. We went a bit mad from sitting on the bus for too long.
Finally, this is a pic of my mom digging out money from her purse to pay for the huge bag of barbequed cuttlefish she just ordered (it was yummy btw). I hate reading Mandarin, and it gets worse when it's in traditional Mandarin!!!
Btw, we saw Gong Li (yes, THE LEGENDARY Gong Li) shopping in PRADA at Taipei 101. How cool is that? She looks exactly like what I see on tv. I couldn't get a pic cuz there were bodyguards in there...but no one else saw her...until my dad said, "hey! I saw Gong Li!" *lol* Anyways I don't think she would like people disturbing her whilst she was shopping.
That's all for now folks!!
Yinny was Joshing around @ 4:07 PM
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