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Leong Ji Seafood 量記海鮮豐食館 @Punggol Settlement

We have been wanting to check out Punggol Settlement, but unfortunately, it was really out of the way for someone without a car, and our friends did not really express interest in going 😦 So when Mr L suggested a double date, we readily agreed!

It was… REALLY Far!

The views were also sadly disappointing, partly due to the haze, and partly because the sea view was really, erm, just looking at the construction. Aiyah, I had thought that the views were lovely! Luckily the couple didn’t take my suggestion to have some pre-wedding photo shoot earlier this year.. Haha…

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錦州街 Jinzhou Street @Zhongshan District, Taipei

Happy couple!

Happy couple!

We were staying at 新驛旅店復興北路店 CityInn Hotel Plus Fuxing North Road branch, and just around the corner from the hotel, half-way to the 捷運中山國中站 MRT Zhongshan Junior High School Station, is this awesome food street, and was the recommended go-to street for food!

There is a variety of food options here, ranging from small eateries of braised pork belly rice, noodle stalls. dessert stalls, Japanese restaurants, to Italian restaurants, trendy cafes, and a vegetarian buffet restaurant!

We had popped by for lunch when we shifted from our previous hotel, and brunch on our last day in Taipei. Spoilt for choices, but we had only enough stomach space to try the following places.

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台北夜市 2015 Taipei Night Market Part 3

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Tonight, we decided to check out a smaller night market, 遼寧夜市 Liaoning Night Market. It was only one stop away at 捷運南京復興站 Nanjing Fuxing Station from our hotel.

Upon reaching the station, in our excitement, we exited the nearest gate to find ourselves facing two exits, and nowhere to walk to Exit 2 😮 The station map indicated that it might be a long walk to the other end, so we sought help from the station control. The staff seemed to meet blur tourists like us all the time, and very calmly gave us a laminated card and guided us through the gate and sent us along the direction to the correct exit, located at the green line side. We then passed the card to the staff at the other counter and we were good to go!

Once we were out of Exit 2, we made a right turn to 遼寧街 Liaoning Street, away from the huge pedestrian crossing. We then walked though a somewhat curvy small road to reach 遼寧夜市 Liaoning Night Market. This is a rather local night market and there is no clustering of stalls or closure of roads. We tried out 2 of the more popular stalls.

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台北夜市 2015 Taipei Night Market Part 2

So after our walk at 永康街 Yongkang Street, we decided that we shall conquer a couple of night markets along the 中和新蘆線 Zhonghe Xinglu Line (Line 4) since last night we did the same along the 板南線 Bannan Line (Line 5).

There were a couple of night markets located conveniently along the line, notably 輔大花園觀光夜市 Fuda Flower Night Market located right next to 輔仁大學 Fu Jen University, and 三和夜市 Sanhe Night Market located near to 捷運台北橋站 MRT Taipei Bridge Station.

We had initially planned to come here the day before (Thursday), but realized (only in the afternoon) that 輔大夜市 Fuda Night Market closes on Mondays and Thursdays! To think we had thought that all night markets in Taipei open daily, haha.
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永康街 Yongkang Street @Da’an District, Taipei

We made our way to 永康街 Yongkang Street after breakfast and walking around 華陰街 Huaying Street. We were here the last time using LadyIronChef’s article but somehow we didn’t recall seeing the street as it was now. Haha…

We were just walking around after exiting from the MRT station, and were quite shocked at the rather high price tags everywhere! So we were just strolling along when we saw a huge crowd at 思慕昔 Smoothie House and another smaller crowd at 天津葱抓餠.


天津葱抓餠

We had read about this 葱抓餠 online and decided to get a 九层塔加蛋 Basil and Egg Flavour (NT35). Despite the smaller crowd, it was a relatively long wait because the stall was also preparing a huge order at the same time – the size of a box of 5-rim A4-size paper worth! So for every 5 prata made, they would take one order from the queue. By the time we got our food, the queue has grown really long!

This is one of the “popular queuing food” 知名排隊美食 on Yongkang Street. We observed that the helpers would use the spatula and hit the prata to make it fluffy and full of texture. Then he would pass to another helper who would put it on top of an egg and add other ingredients like ham, cheese, and basil. Eaten while hot, this oily prata was quite fragrant and the basil gave a refreshing lift to it.

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華陰街 Huaying Street @Datong District, Taipei

華陰街 Huaying Street is very near to 台北轉運站 Taipei Bus Station and also known as 台北後火車站商圈 (Back of Taipei Train Station Business Area) and is just behind our favourite breakfast place 老園環食品, so that was where we went after breakfast. We then realized that most of the eateries are only open from noon onwards, except for a few pushcarts.

There were also some local department stores. Do not be deceived by the small shop front; we went into one that had 2 floors! The stores are very similar to what we have in Singapore, selling all sorts of daily utensils and what-have-yous. Walking here could easily be mistaken as walking in Toa Payoh Central!

We walked through the entire street and very soon it was time for lunch!

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老圆環食品 @Datong District, Taipei

Nestled in the neighbourhood

Nestled in the neighbourhood

Located 2 junctions away from our hotel (turn right after exiting hotel), near Hotel Queen and Chang An West Road Lane 45 is this wonderful place that Ms E had raved about that she went to for breakfast during her previous trip.

Since it is so near to our hotel, we made it a point to come here for breakfast too. And boy were we glad that we came!

In fact, we were so impressed with the food that we came back again the next day to try other stuff in the menu!

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天天利美食坊 @Ximending, Taipei

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We had read about a rather famous 滷肉飯 braised pork belly with rice in this area, so we decided to just pop by after our trip to the night markets at Longshan Temple area.

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台北夜市 2015 Taipei Night Market Part 1

The start of Guangzhou St Night Market

The start of Guangzhou St Night Market

After lunch, we went back to the Pintoo shop and got what we came to Taipei for: loads and loads of puzzles! We bought so much we had to pack them into a carton box to carry it! And it had to rain just when we were about to walk back to our hotel! Totally unexpected because we read that Taipei would be hot summer the whole while! In any case, we walked back to the hotel in a small umbrella and a huge carton box of puzzles. 🙂

After checking in to our hotel and a short rest, it was time to hit the Night Market!

There are 4 night markets near Longshan Temple MRT 捷運龍山寺, 3 of which were kind of interlinked. So we did the Guangzhou Street 廣州街觀光夜市, followed by Wuzhou Street 梧洲街夜市, and Huaxi Alley 華西街觀光夜市, before walking over to Xichang Street 西昌街夜市.
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開封包公府的私房麵 @Datong District, Taipei

2015-07-30 13.42.28So we managed to locate the Pintoo puzzle shop that sells the type of jigsaw puzzle that we like, but the stock would only arrive in the afternoon. Feeling famished, we took to the small streets to look for small eats to fill our stomach.

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