Duration: 14th – 19th July 2011
Hotel: 京站時尚會館 (y3 @ Taipei Main Station)
Venue: 野柳地质公园, 九份, 基隆廟口夜市 & Lava & Room 18
Took a little longer than usual to blog about Day 3 because my schedule was packed for the entire month of Sept & Oct – birthdays, gatherings and more birthdays. Am glad that everything came to an end (am 1 year older too *cries) and its nearing Christmas too. *jumps*
And so… Day 3 begins with breakfast at Q-Square foodcourt and I’m impressed (not anymore cause MBS has the same concept) with the classy interiors and the place was neat.
After, we walked over to Taipei West Bus Station Terminal A and bought bus tickets to 野柳地质公园.
Okay once you alighted, there will be taxis waiting around to psycho you to take the ride with them and they will tell you “its a LONG walk in and probably take you more than 20mins” blah blah blah.
And so, we got tricked (partly because it was going to rain) cause it only took 5mins. But we benefit from it as uncle proposed fetching us to 九份 (and once again he claimed it will be a long journey & inconvenient as we need to change buses in between) at the price of NT$1000 for 5 of us.
Quite worthy what right. So we took the offer.
野柳地质公园 is a cape on the north coast of Taiwan and is known by geologists as the Yehliu Promontory. It stretches approximately 1,700 meters into the ocean and showcase interesting set of geological formations. [wiki]
The famous 女王頭 (The Queen’s Head). This unique rock, shaped by wind erosion for nearly 4,000 years, may collapse in ten years as its middle part (the neck per say) becomes thinner and thinner.
Started to rain and we were glad we got the ride. Saved us aplenty of time and it was so comfortable with the aircon and the music he plays (he says he’s Show Lou’s senior hahaha. Whatever.)
九份! During the first years of the Qing Dynasty, the village here housed nine families, thus the village would request “nine portions” every time shipments arrived from town. Later Jiufen (“Nine portions” in Chinese) would become the name of the village. [wiki]
And do you know its downtown was used as a model in the anime movie Spirited Away (my favorite anime) and one of the tea houses was used to film A City of Sadness featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.
The place where we bought our sanitary pads sweets!
Lunch and its… Lu Rou Fen again.
One of the must eat at 九份 – 阿蘭宇粿/草仔粿. I didn’t try cause it looks like yam and I dislike yam.
There were sweet & salty fillings for you to choose from and Ms Char chose the salted veg one (odd one out from all) and think that gave her tummyache after.
Dorayaki with ice-cream. Doraemon’s favorite food.
How can you not find a teahouse and chillax when you come to 九份? We found one with outdoor seats and a magnificence view.
So beautiful that I want to fall in love there and not leave.
Another must-try food – 阿甘姨芋圆. 真好吃!
The teahouse which “A City of Sadness” was filmed.
I mad love 九份 that we don’t want to leave but we have too cause we are going to one of the best night market in Taiwan!
基隆廟口夜市! Or you can say its our favorite among ALL the night market we visited for the entire trip. Everything is so yummy know!
Blogging this makes me mad hungry and want to fly back there.
First up! 營養三明治. THIS IS THE BOMB. H E A V E N.
I can’t exactly tell you how good it is till you try it. Nom nom~
Second – Salted chicken. Normal but twins was running the stall hahah. ^.^
Third – 一口香腸. Just another Taiwanese sausage which is really 一口.
Fourth – We never get sick of it
Fifth – 泡泡冰
基隆廟口夜市 is one night market that is ALL about food and more food. There are so many things to try; from snacks to seafood (we saw many stalls selling snow crabs which we didn’t get to try) that I get crazy.
Walked till 10+pm and headed back to hotel. Got ourselves prepared for…
P A R T Y.
Tried Lava cause we heard they have interesting programs that they hold there but it was all a waste, saw nothing at all. Boo! Opened a bottle of Johnny Walker which costs us only NT$3800 (cheaper than paying entry with 2 free drinks of NT$1000 each).
Drank finished the bottle and hopped over to Room 18 opened by 庹宗康 (Tuo Tsung-kang) and that place is mad happening. The antidote to the bored-to-death-Lava.
The place and the music fits our bill. Perfectly. (No photos cause cameras ain’t allowed. =))
And so that’s the end of our packed Day 3 from 10am – 5am.
Shall tryna blog about Day 4 soon ya.
Till then.
♥♥♥,
Karin
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In this blog:
- 野柳地质公园 (Yehliu Geopark)
Directions: Board a Kuo Kuang bus at Taipei West Bus Station Terminal A (near Taipei Main Station) to Yehliu. An hour & 20 mins journey.
- 九份 (Jiu Fen)
Directions: Take the train (not MRT) to Ruifang Station. From Ruifang take the Keelung Transit bus from the bus stop in front of the train station to Jiufen.
To eat: 口吅品 (smelly tofu) / 阿甘姨芋圆 (Grandma Lai’s Yuyuan) 阿蘭宇粿/草仔粿
- 基隆廟口夜市 (Keelung Miaokou Night Market)
Directions: Train. No suggestions for this as we took from 九份
To eat: 營養三明治/鼎邊銼/甜不辣 /一口香腸/泡泡冰/雞腳
- Lava & Room 18
Address: B1, No.88, Songren Rd., Taipei (台北市松仁路88號b1). Basement of Neo19 building which houses Lava, Room 18, Babe 18 & Barcode
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Tags: 野柳地质公园, Jiu Fen, Keelung Miaokou Night Market, Taipei, Taiwan, Yehliu Geopark, 基隆廟口夜市, 九份
