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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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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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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Morning spread
So its more than a month since our last overseas trip, and more than 2 years since our last trip to Taiwan!
Simple menu
After dumping our luggage at our hotel, we were in need of nice breakfast. Near our hotel was a popular breakfast place, 四海豆浆大王, (Four Seas Soy Milk King), that was recommended by our hotel. The menu was in Chinese, and we shared:
What a great way to start our trip!
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Brioche French Toast
It has been a while since we last came here… Too many places to go to 😛 But today, we have a craving for brunch, so here we were around 10am on a Sunday morning. It was full house, but we only waited for about 5min for a table.
Gashouse Eggs
This time, we decided on a Gashouse Eggs with Bacon Jam ($10), Brioche French Toast with Homemade Berry Jam & Candied Walnuts ($10), Caffè Latte ($4.50), and Matcha Latte ($5).
The Gashouse Eggs was full of cheesy goodness! Cut through the centre and the runny egg yolk oozed out, simply perfect! We liked the combination of the Brioche, with the sweet candied bacon bits complementing the salty cheese. Of course, anything with runny eggs is always nice 😀
The french toast was still as good as before, thick and fluffy, with the lovely, slightly tart jam.
The matcha latte was quite milky, but still had that slight hint of bitterness, which I liked. Coffee was as good as ever.
In all, a wonderful Sunday brunch 🙂
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Sizzling beef
When we read about the 600-seater, 7-in-1 Japanese food place Eat at Seven, we were very excited!
We kinda imagined it to be like an higher-end food court, where we could order food from all 7 restaurants (3 are currently having soft launch), but alas, while they are indeed under the same roof, they are very much separate restaurants 😛
We decided to try Nikunohi ニクノヒ, as it was currently having a 50% off for 3 platters (till 31 August 2015, limited to 2 servings per table), and also because, there was quite a small crowd!
Nikunohi is the first Yakiniku restaurant in Singapore produced by Chef Kensuke Sakai who is youngest “Iron Chef” Challenger. There is a great selection of authentic roast beef and premium meats to satisfy meat-lovers!
Eat.Eat.Walk.Walk . 吃吃走走 