Taiwan Day 2 — Taoyuan

Continuing my Taiwan post from ... 

http://linayee.blogspot.sg/2016/05/taiwan-day-1-taoyuan.html

So glad for the morning because the weather was slightly better (warmer because of the sun). We left his apartment at around 11 am for brunch at a random eatery. Everyone knows my Chinese sucks. So I have no idea what I was gonna order. But the moment I saw the word 魚 as seen in the picture, I decided to order that because I love fish!

Was a little confused when the bowl was presented in front of me because I was expecting fish meat instead of.. pork?? Little did I know that this was the moment I fell head over heels in LOVE with this I have no idea how and why but it's so HEAVENLY. The way the meat melts in the mouth. Omg. I'm missing it so much now. :( 

I actually had a teeny weeny bit of difficulty trying to find the first 滷肉飯 (lu rou fan) picture that I had eaten because over the course of two and a half weeks, I ate quite a lot of bowls of it. 

And the best part? This particular bowl was only 25 TWD. Wthell right?! That's only about a dollar plus SGD. And apparently most places are selling it at around 25 - 40 TWD only! The funniest thing is that it's my third time in Taiwan and I've never had it the past two trips?!

Ok, I should stop harping about the rice. But please go try it if you are heading to Taiwan! It's by far my favourite dish throughout my trip.

I also got myself an easycard. Oli and I were in a hurry so we hurriedly purchased the card. I was quite upset that there were a lot more cuter designs than my standard boring zebra stripes card. T_T

We took a bus to Daxi Old Street. Apparently was a recommended place to visit, however it was quite a deserted area.

Climbing down the stairs was okay, but back up was ...

Psst, it's a different temple from the one above! 

We walked and we walked and found some farms where there were rice crops. 

Then we also saw an area with a few washing boards. Since the area was pretty countryside-ish, i'll assume that the villagers really do use the washing boards to wash their clothing?

Snap some pictures, had 干面 (gan mian) and we left the place.

Idk why the picture looks like spaghetti bolognese but that's the gan mian.

Oli needed to get some fish food so he brought me to a pet shop! It's a pretty big pet shop selling various animals like really cute white mice, hedgehog, crickets and even SNAKES!

Super adorable right?! 

And apparently uber is banned in Taiwan. And people are going to say im crazy for saying that because my friends did debate with me over the ban. But it's true la guys. IT IS BANNED, don't ask me why. Go google yourself. But ya, despite the ban, we uber back to Oli's apartment. Continue watching Amazing Race for awhile before we went down for Oli to get ingredients for dinner!

He actually forgotten that I cannot eat beef and bought beef! But that's okay because the meal was actually really good!

The day ended and that was actually my last night in taoyuan!

Till then!

Crazy for DIY

Shall blog while I can. Hehehe, I've been wanting to share with you all the process of the minion doll house making right ?

My posts are soooo not consistent. Suddenly talk about miniatures then hop to my Taiwan trip and back to miniatures.

So continuing to where I left off, J and I only managed to cut out the prints but have not gotten down and dirty with the gluing part yet. This is actually my second time doing a doll house (kinda second time but I didn't complete the first). And I swear, first times are the messiest because I had to figure which glue works best on which material. And using the wrong glue like white glue for cloth would create a wet mess that takes a reaaaaaally long time to dry.

J fixing the wardrobe on the double decked bed. I swear that the stairs for the top bed was the most troublesome part.

This picture depicts a completed bed frame (Yay! It's also quite annoying to do.), wallpaper and frames up and we are about to get started on the cloth materials which includes the bedding, pillows and stuff. 

Making the pillows weren't easy because we didn't bother using needle and thread (which might make the job a lot easier than gluing the pillow together). J worked with the fabrics while I focused on the miniature furniture.

Snap of two seats, a box of minion posters (REAL ADORABLE POSTER DESIGNS, I actually used loom bands as rubber bands to hold the shape of rolled up posters.), a bottle with wires hanging out that are meant for the lamps later on and a really cute minion plushie. 

It's sooooo cute that I was actually really excited to make it. But oh god, it was so tough because of the tiny details like the 6 strip of hair on his head.I dropped one of it and had a really hard time finding it.

Our final product actually look really similar to the one displayed on the box. I would say that it's a job well done! Go back to the post http://linayee.blogspot.sg/2016/05/miniature-dollhouses.html and you'll see that we did a pretty good job right? Hehehe. Last last Friday was J's brother birthday and we gave it to him already! 

I've been doing other craft stuff over the past few days. Not sure if I would wanna blog about my crafting adventures but i'll probably be doing something about it! ^^