taiwan day 3 我从山中来 之 九份半日游 day3part2
after the long bus ride, we made it to jiu fen. looking down at the tiny houses, the ocean that we didnt saw when we are travelling up and lands that are below us. the air is cooling up there. near cold.
lol too dark la. we 背光
there are many of those tiny steep-like-hell staircase
we decide to go down 1. haha.
im abit reluctance to go down. (... alot more than abit)
but yq went down quite a distance. haha. tat's ppl's home btw.
some cool jap restaurant
we went to a shop that sells all this musical instructment. ceramic flute??
the shopkeeper can play very nice music with them. amazing
the uncle which is the boss is very funny. haha.
i bought 1 for myself. shape of a baby milk bottle and a more classical 1 for my dad.
the other shop houses
funny labels. my mama says it doesnt taste nice. haha.
then. we went to a sweets shop dat sells all kinds of weird sweets. they have sweets shaped like condoms, male gential (-.-), sanitary pads, syringe, plaster, boobs, shit, etc.
whatever is biagra???
haha remember my michael bought me this
male gential and boobs. rather obscene. haha. i took close out pics. but censored it away. haha.
condoms
boobs
shit
syringe
yq bought the sanitary pads one. i bought nth.
view from mountain high up
beautiful shop houses (other tourists)
i think this is cute. y i didnt buy huh? (no one in shop aniway)
snapping away everyone haha
i suppose this is wad they took?
a temple out of nowhere. well, i guess it is more convenient liddat?
all taken by yq. i wonder wad she's thinking when she take this... hm...
and my shoulder
and some ancient windows
and us. i often have this 'nervous' smile when i forgot how to smile. haha.
a big dog is coming! i hurried off
staircase up to god-knows-where
dunno wad's this. ppl house?
im obsess with windblown hair haha
yq's shot haha. the 'kang' is slightly slanted.
i think this is beautiful (minus the cars)
and the ppl
nice view. like something out of a movie.
more charming up close
me n yq bladder's quite full by then. toilet is nowhere near. T.T then, we past by a place tat says pottery museum. when we stepped in, we then realise this place sells tea. and that we entered, we are suppose to dine there and yum cha. and chit chat. and pay a huge sum of money. gulp. we are not rich tai tais. but we entered. so be it. we dined. and of cuz not to let our money go wasted, we took TONS of photos. haha.
that's the place we had our high tea. the lady that orientate us told us this is some ancient bed used by dunno who. all antique.
boiling water. gives off a very nice smell. burning of charcoal and boiling of water.
the tea itself is $35 (right? yq?) the view and experience is priceless. HAHA.
on the way down to toilet. it's squeaking clean.
there's fishes.
their unique lamp
stove (hey, no charcoal leh. how come i smell charcoal?)
of others
of the antique fan which is still WORKING! lol.
of the old old mirror mirror on the bed
of the old painting on the bed
still boiling~
of me acting... looking far away?
of yq smiling haha
alamak i look as white as a sheet haha
??
-.-
lol. im bored...
another lady teach us how to make the tea ourselves
i got learn properly de k? lol.
our some tea cheesecake.
me sampling the tea. it is very nice. the smell is very nice. got milk de smell. haha. taste nice too.
hmm...
the lady offered to help us take a pic. yq says, please make us look like 贵妇. lol. but yq blinked
haha
the cup
our tea set
that's our seat number. bed 2
that's to pour away those water and tea to 'warm' the pot and cups
wrong demo~
dat's the right one. to pour here first then use dat to pour into our lil tea cups
pour n pour
waitress tay
taitai tan
me unglamly slurp the tea
yq trying out the pose she saw behind her. hehe.
yq and her new flute. so... got feel. haha.
didnt actually blow la. haha.
so victorian style
the pot very very heavy lo. and the small teapot so small. haha. very hard to aim leh
the tea shape so funny. like droppings
waitress tan haha
the person so enthu to take photo of us. haha.
person sitting at bed 1 is a japanese. and the waitress there can speak japanese to her.
the fire. we can bring the rest of the tea leaves home.
then, we went to walk about after finishing the pot of tea and the cheese cake.
pottery
all the tea cups
the man working in the pottery workshop is friendly
teapot shaped like pig. lol so cute lo.
the dragon lamp.
urinal hehe
haha acting again
looks like those 金盆洗手's 盆 lol
steamboat?
after dat, we leave.
en route i felt hungry. i bought this ugly looking 肉圆 but it is not round at all. it's in a cup. it's slimy. it's stinky. it taste like drain. it's ultra ulgy. T.T regret buying it. haha. yq dun even wanna taste it. haha. the reason i bought is, it look TOO disgusting for ppl to buy. how come there's still soooo many ppl buying and eating it? it must be delicious right? but NO! it taste as disgusting as it looks. sorry no pics. no hand to take pic of it anyway. but i will nv forget how it looks like!!! no more hunger after eating dat.
trip back is sleepy. and crowded. we waited quite long for the bus. cost us 90NTD. once we reach the bus stop, we went to look for New Life Church(right?) the one that Faye of F.I.R went. but we cant find it leh. instead, we saw a supermarket. i always wanted to go supermarket in tw! haha.
so i went and we lug ALOT of things back to our hotel. their cup noodles is fantastic. got real meat inside. beef and all. lol. and got REAL pig intestine inside for the one named 药膳大肠面 haha.
whole bag of cupnoodles and some bubble gums.
tired, we rest and play the flute for some time. until the cleaner lady came to our room. haha. she tot noone's in. and we surprised her. haha. tat's when we decide to go out to ximending again. we are hungry once again. wad did we eat???
so retro leh. haha.
the famous ah zhong mian xian. and soooooo many ppl standing there and eat. slurp slurp slurp. me and yq went back hotel.
since 1975 leh. dun play play.
my ancient looking ice cream. hehe.
not too sweet. good!
she like this pic leh. haha.
stocking cost $4 only lo! not fair.
things i bought
things yq bought. the lays taste better den ours. less salty. the postcard is complimentary from the tea chapter.
milk bath for day 3. finally got a call from my bf dat day. i just got my bill back. it's 100+ lo! faints. no choice. i still miss him when im enjoying.
*
i still wish i no need to work. this week roster sucks big time*
commission parade n ball is completed. i heave a sigh of relief. really im proud of him and all, but it's wearing me out with pressure. lol. i am so scare of formal events leh. T.T it's over it's over. what to do with those dress???
