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!