Taiwan Trip- Day 2, Taichung

We arrived in Taichung around 7pm+ and the tour guide brought us to the famous night market there, Feng Jia Night Market. Tell you, I was dropped dead tired and actually hope that we could check in to the hotel asap. This is the thing that you follow a tour.

I didn't do any shopping and my dad and I headed straight to the hawker food. I ate the famous "chow taufoo" (fermented bean curd) there. Tell you, the Taiwan "chow Taufoo" much more tastier than the Hong Kong Chow Taufoo. The one I ate in Hong Kong was deep fried but I tried the braised fermented bean curd with spicy szechuan style in Taiwan. Yummmmm......best lol....It was soooo spicy yet so yummy!

Taken some of the pictures of the hawker food.




I like this BBQ Taiwan sausage. Yummy! Much tastier than the ones sell here.

Taiwan Trip- Day 2, Taipei & Beitou

Tell ya, this is the first time and also the last time I would follow a group tour. Imagine, we have to change the hotel everyday, traveling from places to places. Sleep late and wake up early to grab the breakfast. But, I need to praise my kids. Really! They have been behaving very well. Very , very well during our 8 days in Taiwan. No fussing for early waking up, no fussing from travel from places to places and no complaint from traveling in buses for long hours. In fact, from young as babies (they started traveling with us as early as 3 months old), both of them proved to us that they are really "kaki" travel!



our first destination on 2nd day- Yangmingshan National Park. It is a very nice park and the air is so good there. However, on all the way up to the mountain, if you wind down your window, there is a strong sulphur smell as there are hotsprings around Yangmingshan. There are also Azaleas (cherry blossoms) in the park.Too bad as I didn't snap the pictures of these nice beautiful blossoms.



After our visit to Yangmingshan, we took the coach traveled south to Taichung. Our first stop in Taichung is Yieliu. Weather was cold that day and it was even colder as yieliu is near to the beach.







me with the famous queen head statute at the back. I didn't try to take picture next to it as there was a long, long queue of tourists waiting there.



my lil's missy in the picture with my aunt (my dad's sister). We are traveling with the relatives from my mom's side and also from the dad's side. Huge family tour hor!


After all the visiting, we stopped at Wu Jiao Chuan Ban Restaurant for lunch. It was an attractive place. You'll be amazed as the sculpture and design there were made by carved wood and stones.












You must be wondering where is the little boy. He was sleeping soundly in his stroller. I remembered I "ta pau" the food for him to eat on the coach.

Taiwan Trip - Day 1, Taipei

This is a long overdue post. It has been sitting in my draft folder for almost 3 months. Share with you some of our pictures taken during our holiday trip to Taiwan in March.

Our flight was at 9am+ departed from LCCT. We started our journey from Kuantan by coach and arriving LCCT around 5am+. Kids and I didn't nap and they both ran around the airport for almost 5 hours. They slept the moment the flight took off. I myself had to gulp down few cups of coffee to help me staying awake to watch them like a hawk.

Arriving Tao Yuan Airport around 4pm+ and there were two tourist guides waiting to receive us as we were traveled in a huge group (around 40+ persons)




my second uncle, mom and I having something to eat and drink at the LCCT cafe






Our first destination- Yu Ren Ma Tou. The weather was so cold and caught me by surprise as I didn't expect it was that cold. I had to take out extra clothings from my luggage to put on for the kids.

Di-di was in the stroller and been very silence due to the freezing cold weather. This picture was taken on the Blueway Wharf




After our visit to Yu Ren Ma Tou, we went to the famous Dan Sui Street to try out their street food before heading to a restaurant for proper dinner.

Jia Jia had the ice cream and tell ya, it was good experience eating ice cream in the freezing cold weather.



As I was busy trying out their hawker food, I didn't manage to snap more pictures. My dad and I tried almost the hawker food in Danshui Old Street introduced in the tour guide booklet we bought.

Floor Detergent

For those who are clean freak like me, I strongly introduce you to use Licin-Licin floor detergent. I got to know about this product from my mom during my previous trip back to Kuantan. You will definitely like it after you mop your floor with this liquid.

No More Bottles

The kids had weaned off from the milk bottles since April. Di-di doesn't ask for the bottles but lil' Missy asked for her bottle sometimes. Well, it has been two months that they drink their milk in Avent Sippy Cup and sometimes, just from the cup with a straw. I do not need to spend on the BPA Free bottles and the bottle teat anymore.

Now It's Di-di's Turn

Remember my previous post on how Jia Jia dressed up the little Kiki, her favourite toy? Just a few days later, it was di-di's turn to be monkeying by his sister.

I know it is not good to let the boy to be "dressed up" like this but it was just too funny to look at. I had a real good laugh looking at them.





di-di wears her jie-jie's princess tiara and heels

Random Pictures

I brought Jia Jia to the Bulatan Park on a weekend's evening. Only me and the little girl. She enjoyed herself very much cycling on her tricycle. After that we headed to a coffee shop nearby to get something to drink. It was a great evening as I managed to spend some personal time with her.

Lack of Updates

Yup. I was on holiday for the past 1.5 weeks. Our holiday here (inclusive of Gawai Festival) started from last Thursday. Hubby was actually on leave since Friday, 28th May. So, everyday is sleep, eat, shopping, eat, sleep.....I myself also become so lazyyyy..........lack of "ummph" to work on everything!

We've been traveling to Brunei once during the holiday to help up my brother with his house and do some grocery shopping at Brunei Supa Save.

A Helpful Jie Jie

These was taken quite sometime ago. It was on one Sunday when I was busy in the kitchen and the little boy wanted to go wee wee.

As my hand were dirty, so I asked lil' Missy to help her di-di "shee-shee". See how she undress and dress her brother. She's really a big sis and can really help me with simple task.