Continuation of Day 1 - Friday, October 18, 2019
For the second half of our Yehliu, Jiufen, and Shifen Day Tour with Taiwanese Pastry Making tour that we booked from Klook, we first went to Yehliu Geopark where we saw the various natural rock formations in the area and snapped a pic with the famous "Queen’s Head".
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| Different levels of reaction from 😐 to 😲 |
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| Yes, tourist mode on "we were here!" |
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| Replica of the "Queen's Head" near the entrance. |
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Walang kamatayang "groufie!"
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The actual "Queen's Head" was far from the entrance of the natural park. We only had an allotted time since we were in a group tour so we skipped most of the other natural rock formations and headed straight to the most pictured part. |
| The "ang haba ng pila so picture muna tayo" pic (notice the "panatang makabayan" pose; we often used the phone's hand gesture feature to take groufies 😁) |
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| Konting kembot na lang... |
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| Chukchess! |
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| Peace! ✌ |
And finally, our last stop for this tour was at Shu Shin Bou Wagashi Museum where we created and tasted our very own Taiwanese pastries. We also saw there how most of their products are made which are super popular as "pasalubong".
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| At the entrance |
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| Bumped into some fellow kababayans who were also in that tour. |
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| Ready to make us some pineapple whatchamacallits. (sorna koya 😅 kumusta naman yung mga hand gestures namin?! 😂) |
The pastries that we "hand-made" had a sort of tagging or number (can't remember exactly) on the plates so that after they bake it, we'd know which ones were ours. While waiting for our pastries to be ready, we toured on the museum and at the end was their store section where we bought a lot of "pasalubongs".
I know I snapped some photos of the finished product of the pastries that we made when we got back to our accommodation but I can't find it in the shared drive. Oh well, moving on...
So yeah, after we did the tour we were dropped on the same place we started (or somewhere near it) and thankfully it was just a stone throw's away to our rented place so we decided to first go back there, do some freshening up, leave a couple of things (a.k.a the "pasalubongs") then went on to NingXia Night Market for dinner!
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| Another mirror groufie! (may pa-outfit change si Steve) |
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Welcome to Ning Xia Rd. Night Market!
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Pak! Mga nawawalang bata.
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It was a relatively small night market compared to the other Taipei night markets in the city but we opted this one first because it was close to the Taipei station. We just walked from our place to this night market.
Of course, when in a night market, we feast! Here are a couple of snaps we took of the food scene there.
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| I think these were some sort of giant mushroom sprinkled with love, char, with somethin'-somethin. Taste-wise, not for me. I remember it was sorta bland. |
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| Green thingies wrapped in what I think is pork meat? (hahahaha. sorry for the lame captions). We bought this from another stall and just placed it on the mushroom container. |
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| Scallion pancakes. |
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IG shot!
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| Beef? Most probably. (sorry can't remember 😅 but what I think I could remember is that I think this was a little chewy. Still it's meat so yeah, a yes for me). |
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| Steve calls this the adobo rice topping with guinisang kangkong on the side. I loved this one 'cause it has meat and rice (yeah baby!) and kangkong is one the few leafy vegetable I eat being a picky eater. |
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| We scored a table and seats in this stall! Yay! |
After having a delightful dinner at the night market, we bought ourselves some milk tea on our way back to our unit.
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| 50 Lan (50嵐) - Here in the Philippines, the one in Rustan's supermarket in Alphaland Makati it's 50Tea. But definitely, the taste and quality is superior in Taiwan. I guess their tea leaves really do make a difference. |
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| Grace's order. |
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| My order. Some sort of fruit tea (probably green tea based). |
Steve isn't a big fan of milk teas and coffee so it was only Grace and I who enjoyed the wide selections and brands of milk teas in Taiwan.
Before returning straight back to our place, we took some more photos and enjoyed the cool night and city lights.
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| Turista 1 - cute! |
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| Turista 2 - nanlilimos yarn?! pengeng pag-ibig 😆 (I'm super awkward, I don't know how to properly pose). |
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| Turista 3 - Cool.. Chill lang. |
And that ends our first official "gala" day in the land of night markets and milk teas, Taiwan. (uuuuggghhh... I wanna go back so bad!)
