Taiwan Day 1: SIN to Kaohsiung,

Day 1: SIN > Taoyuan Airport > Kaohsiung

"I'm flying to Taiwan again!!" This time with a different traveller with me. No special feeling. Not even on the day when I was flying. It only hit me that I'll be going to Taiwan just when I arrived at the airport. Hahah!

Bro and I were flying on the same day and the both of us had been "arguing" for ages who take which luggage with us. Hahahah! Of cus being the youngest kid in the family, I decided that I'll take the prettier one and Bro had no choice but to give in. But tbh, it's always good to take a luggage that can be expanded if you're going for a trip for more than 5 days. This luggage that I took with my burst when I was in Korea. Me being stubborn and lesson not learnt... I chose this luggage in hope that the zip won't spoil on me again.

Parents sent us to the airport that night but they didn't stay for long this time. It was a drop-off-goodbye-and-go kind of thing. My snapchat-spam started that night till the end of my trip. It was literally spam this, spam that, everything also spam! Hahah! Sorry not sorry /Gags/

Anyway, we flew with Scoot again. I think we were the only two who ordered meals and felt kinda guilty for disturbing others with the smell of our food.


Lesson learnt: never order any food when you're travelling at an unearthly hour because you won't have the appetite to eat at all. All you wna do was to slp till you reach your destination.

We landed at Taoyuan Intl Airport at about 5plus in the morning. Bought our tickets of UBus (NT $30 each) to Taoyuan HSR Station for the train to Zuoying, Kaohsiung. There's some hiccups in between because the one that Baby purchased online was at Taipei HSR but we went to Taoyuan HSR instead. Luckily, we were told that we could still continue and get our money refunded. It's cheaper to travel from Taoyuan, instead of Taipei, to Zuoying.

If nothing goes wrong, we could actually use these machines to retrieve our tickets. But...

From Zuoying > Martial Arts Stadium Station

We got lost while searching for our hotel. Ended up that it's just one street across the station -__- As the room wasn't ready yet, we were told to go for our lunch and to head back to the hotel in 2hrs' time. Left our luggage there and headed to Cultural Center Station as it was recommended by the receptionist.

Had our lunch at Vasir. It was picked randomly by the both of us as the restaurant was quite crowded and we thought "crowded means nice, so why not?" This restaurant serves dishes like our tzi char in Singapore. Nubad!

We ordered 双人套餐 that comes with 2 bowls of 卤肉饭, one vege, one dish that costs between NT $120-130, omelette, soup / 2 beverages of your choice. So, we chose these...

卤肉饭

Omelette with caipor

No idea what's this

Cabbage & seaweed soup (instead of beverages)

And guess what! You can nvr get this kind of price in Singapore. Other than the cabbage, the rest were rlly good! And it costs only NT $329 which is approx SGD15 for 2pax. WOW! Cheap pls! Back to our hotel because the weather was killing. The sun was scorching hot!

Yknw that feeling when you're finally on bed after a long day in the hot weather! Took our power naps, got up and prepared for our night activities! 

Dream Mall was the first destination but tbh, I think there's nothing much you can do there other than buying the waffles and other finger food. The ferris wheel at the rooftop arcade area was like... Nothing beautiful. The one I wanted was in Taipei :( I realised it only after I was back from my trip. Heartbroken max! 

Anyway, we still went ahead to Dream Mall 夢時代購物購物中心 @ Kaisyuan Station because we're tourists! Took the shuttle bus just outside of the station (Exit 3) to the mall.

 

Next stop: Ruifeng Night Market 瑞豐夜市

Fishball-alike food

Fried cheese cubes

Quail eggs which I thought it's nice!!

Next stop: Love River 爱河

There. Is. Nothing. Period. Maybe, just this and a bit of wefie. That's all. 

Bad lighting anyway...

Walked to Liuhe Night Market  六合夜市 and we got lost for awhile. Hahahah!! But we still managed to find our way to the night market! It's always good to have someone who knws how to read the map! 

Green bean soup which has super hard beans :/

大肠包小肠

Back to our hotel to have an early rest because we were too tired. Started our day at 10pm the previous night and we hadn't had any good rest yet. But before that, I forced Baby to have eye masks with me. HAHAHAH!

This concludes the end of Day 1 in Taiwan! All the fattening food with lots of oil accumulating in our tummies... Hahahah! 

Places we didn't cover in Kaohsiung:
- Hanshin Ju Dan Shopping Mall
- The Dome of Light (This happened because we were rushing for our last train and we had totally forgotten about this before that)
- Anning Street (wholesale market)

Goodbye!