Taiwan

四海豆浆大王 @Datong District, Taipei

Posted on 30 July 2015 by lendeliz
Morning spread

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

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:

  • 鹹豆漿 Salted Soy Milk (NT$25): Looking like some kind of watery stew, there were little bits of coagulated soy milk. It did not look too appetising, but it was delicious! The mixture of soy milk, 冬菜 (a type of preserved vegetable), dried shrimps, and pieces of 油條 (fried dough fritters) was simple but delightful.
  • 燒餅夾蔥蛋 Flat-bread with Spring Onion Egg (NT$25): Freshly made, the hot prata-lookalike flaky flat-bread pastry had a nice chewy texture and hubby enjoyed it very much!
  • 肉包 Steamed Pork Bun (NT$18): While the bun fillings were quite little, it was very flavourful, and the skin was delicious, unlike some of the buns that we have locally with skin peeling off all over the place.

What a great way to start our trip!

Contact:

  • Location: 台北市大同區長安西路29號, No. 29, Chang’an W Rd, Datong District, Taipei City, Taiwan 103
  • Hrs: 6am – 9:30pm (Mon-Sat), 6am – 1pm (Sun)
  • Nearest MRT: Between Zhongshan Station and Taipei Train Station 捷運中山站與台北車站的中間
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Taiwan June 2013 Trip

Posted on 30 September 2013 by weiming
Beautiful station in Kaohsiung

Beautiful station in Kaohsiung

[I know we started this blog in Aug 2013 and this trip was in Jun 2013, so it’s kinda backdated. But after documenting the Taipei trip, we thought we should ‘complete’ it by documenting the Taiwan trip as well, even if it’s just a photostream. So here it is. 🙂]

And so we went on a Taiwan trip in June this year after more than 4 years. I believe many Singaporeans goes to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Bangkok probably once every year or maybe even more than once, so > 4 years sounds incredibly long.

But this trip was not really planned for, because I was supposed to be going to Boston for a conference, and wifey was supposed to come join me after that and we could tour around the academic city of Boston and Cambridge. But for a totally incredible reason, we ended up booking on a trip to Taiwan instead. You wouldn’t want to get me started on that incredible reason…

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Taipei Trip Day 5 (Tuesday)

Posted on 17 September 2013 by lendeliz

 

FInal day in Taipei!

FInal day in Taipei!

Today is our final day in Taipei and our flight was 3:35pm. We planned to reach the airport 3 hours before departure, so we had plenty of time in the morning.

Morning was basically slept-in till 8am, enjoyed room facilities (Nespresso and the super nice tea bags provided) with cheesecake bought from 7-11 just behind the hotel the night before.

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Taipei Trip Day 4 (Monday) – Jinguashi, Ningxia Night Market, Xia Gang Ye

Posted on 16 September 2013 by lendeliz
Simply but delicious Minsu breakfast

Simply but delicious Minsu breakfast

Breakfast was served at 8:30am at the Minsu and we were stunned when we stepped out of our room at 8:30am sharp. All but one table were filled! Everyone was already tucking in and there was this mummy from a big family (Singaporeans :-() who practically swept away all the sandwiches. We were shocked by the speed and ferocity that everyone was attacking their breakfast 😮 I guess that they must all be rushing off, just like us, aiming to catch the 9:15am 臺灣好行 黃金福隆線 (Tour Taiwan Shuttle Bus Service – Golden Fulong Route) to 金瓜石 (Jinguashi). Luckily, the Minsu owners were also very quick in replenishing the food, so we still managed to have a hearty breakfast which consisted of very yummy home-made sandwiches, slightly burnt but still delicious thick corn soup, steamed buns and refreshing iced red tea/hot coffee.

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Taipei Trip Day 3 (Sunday) – Shifen, Jingtong, Pingxi, Jiufen

Posted on 15 September 2013 by lendeliz
Shifen is our first destination

Shifen is our first destination

This was an exciting morning! We woke up at very early at 5:45am to check out of hotel and to go queue for Bus #1061 (stops at 瑞芳 Ruifang) or Bus #1062 (continues to 九份 Jiufen and 金瓜石 Jinguashi after 瑞芳 Ruifang) because we saw a very long queue yesterday afternoon. The first bus on Sunday was at 7:10am and was empty! There were also very few people waiting for the bus early in the morning. So we got up, set alarm for 8:15am, thinking that the ride would be around 90min, and promptly went to nap. Luckily hubby was a light sleeper! I woke up briefly just before 8am and decided to continue to nap a bit more and hubby woke me up just 1min later and pointed to the display screen: next stop Ruifang! Wah seh! 50min ride (NT61? with EasyCard) was way shorter than expected, which meant that we would be able to grab breakfast before the 8.45am train ride! The bus stop was near the police station, about 5min walk away from Ruifang train station. After you get off the bus, turn right and walk straight all the way till you reach a big junction. The train station is on the right side.

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Taipei Trip Day 2 (Saturday) – Addiction Aquatic Development, Yehliu, Coffee Alley, Gongguan Night Market

Posted on 14 September 2013 by lendeliz

Slept in and went for late breakfast at 姜太太包子店 , this time getting a 韭菜肉包 (chives pork bun – loved the aroma of chives!) and 雪里红肉包 (pickled potherb mustard pork bun – the veggie was slightly bitter and crunchy), as well as the soya bean drink (slightly burnt taste today).

Addiction Aquatic Development

Addiction Aquatic Development

Took MRT to 捷運中山國中站 Zhongshan MRT Station, cross the road to take Bus #74 till terminal and walked less than 5min to reach 上引水產 (Addiction Aquatic Development). Actually we could have taken the bus from Zhongxiao Fuxing too but we didn’t know that till we checked out the bus route. Not much savings in time when comparing taking MRT for 2 stations and taking the bus directly (about 10 min bus ride between the 2 MRT stations).

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Taipei Trip Day 1 (Friday) – Maokong, Shenkeng, Tonghua/Linjiang Night Market, EZ5

Posted on 13 September 2013 by lendeliz
Flight TZ202

Flight TZ202

Let’s Scoot out of here! Thanks to the $0.02 promotion 2 months ago, we are Scooting out on a nice Friday morning! Very early indeed, on flight TZ202 departing at 12:55am on 13 Sep 2013 at Changi Airport T1 Gate F50. Check-in was a breeze as there was no queue when we arrived 2.5 hours before flight time.

Flight time was 4.5 hours and we touched down ahead of schedule at Taoyuan Airport in Taipei around 5:25am and were greeted by the beautiful sunrise. It was a very smooth flight, and the plane was very clean with very decent leg space! Descent was very lovely with the countless lights from the grounds that shone through as we watched the skies slowly change from dark to light.  Too bad there was a toddler crying for perhaps ⅓ of the time and was sometimes crying directly into hubby’s face so he didn’t get to rest much.

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