day0: osaka airport, jp. to orient yourself before going into the bathroom?
day1: shilin, tw. my cousin's cute idol drama bedroom.
day1: sanzhi, tw. zongzi.
day1: sanzhi, tw. this many, minus we already ate 3, for 100NT ($3)!
day1: jinshan, tw. after lunch at the jinshan youth activity center. my cousin and some homegrown tomatos from rotten tomato seeds.
day1: north coast, tw. rushing water is so scary!
day1: north coast, tw. kites near the rushing water.
day1: north coast, tw. this scooper truck looks like a cute little dinosaur!
day1: north coast, tw. snacks near the rushing water. grilled squid!
day1: north coast, tw. corn dogs?
day1: yangmingshan, tw. view from a foodstall on the side of the road.
day1: yangmingshan, tw. foodstall selling fried taro and fried sweet potato.
day1: yangmingshan, tw. our fried taro and fried sweet potato.
day1: yangmingshan, tw. sweet potato soup and bamboo shoot soup.
day2: shilin traditional market, tw. small corner of really tasty “twins” (shuanbaotai), basically sugary fried dough.
day2: breakfast shop, shilin, tw. too excited about my salty soy milk and shaobing youtiao!
day2: breakfast shop, shilin, tw. closeup for my breakfast. the soy milk is curdled, but that's what makes it taste so good!
day2: hotpot restaurant, shilin, tw. hotpot is my favorite type of meal.
day2: hotpot restaurant, shilin, tw. for those who have been to shabu-zen in boston, don't the dishes look familiar?? i think just about every hotpot restaurant uses the same dishes.
day2: longshan temple, tw. with tour buddies and the sign they made to find me.
day2: longshan temple, tw.
day2: shaved ice shop near longshan temple, tw. shaved ice with 8 toppings.
day2: shaved ice shop near longshan temple. eating shaved ice and chatting with tour buddies.
day2: mrt station, tw. this is fast food!
day2: mrt station, tw. more beautiful fast food!
day2: chiangkaishek memorial, tw. this is the gate (with new name, that will be changed back). i think those were protesters.
day2: chiangkaishek memorial, tw. the memorial. in the middle between the stairs is a beautiful slab of carved stone, but now it's covered by a green tarp with white lilies.
day2: chiangkaishek memorial, tw. and here is the memorial hall where chiangkaishek sits, now blocked by kites.
day2: chiangkaishek memorial, tw. view from memorial, beautifully trimmed gardens.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. ordering food.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. my oyster omelet
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. non-impressive food stall...
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. ...that produced the most amazing niu nai peng bing!
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. a movie theater.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. movie theater ticket booth.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. pub.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. people used to rent space to put ads on the outside of this and someone would pedal the bike around.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. ice cream bike!
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. police station.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. dentist.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. apothecary drawers!
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. a classroom.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. there was a little piano in the front of the classroom.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. this is a game. you pull pick a string, pull, and see whick of the things hanging in the lion's mouth is attached to your string.
day2: taiwan storyland, tw. pinball. you get a stick to flick the balls toward the top and let them fall toward the bottom. you get different prizes depending on how the balls land.
day3: tastey kiwi juice!
day3: train to hualien, tw. is it too much to ask of me to squat and aim in a jostling train? at least there was toilet paper!
day3: train to hualien, tw. i appreciated the sink too.
day3: hualien, tw. pine garden.
day3: hualien, tw. clothes made from the fibers in banana tree trunks.
day3: hualien, tw. clothes made from fibers in banana tree trunks.
day3: hualien, tw. view from pine garden.
day3: hualien, tw. street of stone art craft.
day3: hualien, tw. aboriginal dancing at street of stone art craft.
day3: hualien, tw. carved from stone and sold at a store in street of stone art craft. ($5600)
day3: hualien, tw. carved from stone and sold at a store in street of stone art craft. ($2000)
day3: hualien, tw. xiao long bao at gong zhen bao zi.
day3: hualien, tw. pearl barley soup.
day3: hualien, tw. my room at the hostel.
day4: taroko, tw. tour bus for 1 day taroko tour.
day4: taroko, tw.
day4: taroko, tw. apparently an award winning bathroom.
day4: taroko, tw. tunnel of nine turns.
day4: taroko, tw. lyushui trail.
day4: taroko, tw. a completely dark tunnel in lyushui trail. notice how we have to touch the sides to know where we are.
day4: taroko, tw. lyushui trial.
day4: taroko, tw. grand formosa taroko.
day4: taroko, tw. a mountain vegetable we ate at grand formosa taroko.
day4: taroko, tw. outside grand formosa taroko.
day4: hualien, tw. chishingtan.
day4: hualien, tw. hualien harbor.
day4: hualien, tw. hualien harbor fish market.
day4: hualien, tw. hualien harbor fish market. frog legs?
day4: hualien, tw. hualien harbor fish market. this is where we bought our sashimi.
day4: hualien, tw. hualien harbor fish market. fresh sashimi.
day4: hualien, tw. hualien harbor fish market. sashimi for 100NT ($3).
day4: hualien, tw. nanbin park.
day4: hualien, tw. nanbin park. i caught a rainbow!
day4: hualien, tw. nanbin park and night market.
day4: hualien, tw. dragon whisker vegetables at nanbin night market.
day4: hualien, tw. cute poo at nanbin night market.
day4: hualien, tw. hualien tour buddies.
day4: hualien, tw. stayed in this 6 bed dorm style room in same hostel the second night.
day4: hualien, tw. part of our 6 bed dorm style room.
day5: hualien, tw. nanbin park before starting on the bike path.
day5: hualien, tw. nanbin park.
day5: hualien, tw. nanbin park at start of bike path.
day5: hualien, tw. while biking.
day5: hualien, tw. a really bumpy part of the bike path.
day5: hualien, tw. the bike path.
day5: hualien, tw. still on the bike path.
day5: hualien, tw. still on the bike path. stone factories and mountains.
day5: hualien, tw. map of bike path.
day5: hualien, tw. almost took a wrong turn at this bridge, but we were still on the bike path at this point.
day5: hualien, tw. chishingtan.
day5: hualien, tw. chishingtan. ;-/
day5: hualien, tw. nice benches at a part of chishingtan.
day5: hualien, tw. in the store for hualien's famous muaji.
day5: hualien, tw. making the handmade muaji right in the store.
day5: hualien, tw. muaji ice cream!
day5: hualien, tw. taro flavored muaji ice cream!
day6: shilin, tw. day1 of my sunburn, my watch mark is a good indicator of before and and after.
day6: shilin, tw. pet chickens on the street.
day6: gong guan, tw. cool store.
day6: gong guan, tw. cute sign for a restaurant.
day6: tong hua jie, tw. hot pot table with useful tissue dispensing abilities!
day7: taipei, tw. less than half of the pens at guang nan! the clearing of people in front of these pens is somewhat of a miracle!
day7: taipei, tw. surprisingly tasty duck blood (left chunk) and stinky tofu (right chunk) soup.
day7: taipei, tw. selling frog eggs?
day7: taipei, tw. no, not at all. you can see the hint of a large tapioca near the bottom of this picture.
day7: taipei, tw. awesome way to carry your drink!
day7: taipei, tw. bulk jewelry.
day7: shilin night market, tw. REALLY good shui jian bao.
day7: shilin night market, tw. some kind of dried seafood in batter balls.
day7: shilin night market, tw. skewered and grilled squid. REALLY good.
day7: shilin night market, tw. grass jelly, tapioca, pearl barley, and candied sweet potatos. and there is ice hidden under the grass jelly!
day7: shilin night market, tw. see the hidden ice? all that sweet stuff on top made the ice REALLY tasty.
day8: bali, tw. egg on grass in park along danshui river.
day8: bali, tw. view waiting for ferry to danshui.
day8: bali, tw. the ferry we will take to danshui.
day8: danshui, tw. a ma's plum tea.
day8: danshui, tw. waiting in line to buy fishball soup.
day8: danshui, tw. fishball+wonton soup and meatbuns.
day8: danshui, tw. there is a pork filling in the fishballs!
day8: danshui, tw. REALLY tasty special red sauce.
day8: danshui, tw. twisting for eggs.
day8: danshui, tw. random church.
day8: danshui, tw. mascot for a telephone company.
day8: danshui, tw. the flushes are clearly labeled, no guess which is for what.
day8: danshui, tw. we think this tree might have been in jay chou's movie secret.
day8: danshui, tw. more of the tree almost touching the water.
day8: danshui, tw. fort san domingo.
day8: danshui, tw. a cafe in fort san domingo.
day8: danshui, tw. flowers in fort san domingo. they remind me of lego flowers!
day8: danshui, tw. flowers in fort san domingo. they were actually really small.
day8: danshui, tw. aletheia university. my cousin said the movie secret was filmed here.
day8: danshui, tw. aletheia university. this college campus looks like a park.
day8: danshui, tw. aletheia university. i snuck this picture from far away with my great 10x optical zoom camera, and the kid had no idea!
day8: danshui, tw. aletheia university.
day8: danshui, tw. waiting to buy a gei.
day8: danshui, tw. a gei. delicious!
day8: danshui, tw. a gei is cellophane noodles, in a fried tofu, sealed with fish paste, topped with red sauce.
day8: danshui, tw. view from danshui old street.
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. this mango and taro twist ice cream was 20NT (60cents).
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. grilled stinky tofu. delicious!
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. seafood sausages.
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. candied and roasted taro, sweet potatos, and a taro crossed with a sweet potato.
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. the mutant taro / sweet potato is sooo purple!
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. quail eggs on a stick. delicious.
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. from left, corn dog (pretty good), quail eggs on 2 sticks, shrimp rolls.
day8: danshui, tw. eating on danshui old street. shrimp balls, a waste of stomache space.
day8: danshui, tw. nice night by danshui river, and a woman playing beautiful guzheng music.
day9: ximending, tw. ximen mrt station exit no. 6.
day9: ximending, tw. mos burger.
day9: ximending, tw. mos burger is so awesome because you can wash your hands without going to the bathroom!
day9: ximending, tw. my cousin's seafood mos burger.
day9: ximending, tw. my beef mos burger.
day9: ximending, tw. my cousin and mos burgers.
day9: ximending, tw. me and mos burgers.
day9: ximending, tw. aparrently these noodles are really popular.
day9: ximending, tw. the old red theater.
day9: children's recreation center. some new singer, aparrently he's coming out with an album. kept asking and forgetting his name, but i wrote down “zhi xiang”.
day9: children's recreation center. i'm pretty proud that my camera can take such good close up pictures!
day9: children's recreation center. some singer named “wa wa”.
day9: children's recreation center. sharon li from one million star!
day9: children's recreation center. sharon li.
day9: children's recreation center. this is sharon li's one fan.
day9: children's recreation center. sharon li and that's her mom holding the umbrella.
day9: children's recreation center, tw. sharon li is autographing my notebook.
day9: children's recreation center. sharon li and me.
day9: children's recreation center. more quail eggs!
day9: children's recreation center. i didn't eat this, but look at that bubbling cauldron!
day9: children's recreation center. watermelon popsicle.
day9: children's recreation center, tw. ice cream that i thought looked cool in the picture, but turned out to not look cool in real life, but then was surprisingly tastey, it was melon flavored.
day9: children's recreation center. me on carousel.
day9: children's recreation center. my cousin on carousel.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet.
day9: shilin, tw. front desk at modern toilet.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet, where i'm sure there is always someone taking pictures.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet upstairs.
day9: shilin, tw. my cousin at modern toilet.
day9: shilin, tw. my seat at modern toilet.
day9: shilin, tw. me at modern toilet. notice the tp on the wall behind me!
day9: shilin, tw. my food at modern toilet.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. my spicy hotpot.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. i accidentally spilled some of the spicy soup when trying to move my tray.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. interesting meatballs.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. meatball with a taro filling.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. another meatball with filling.
day9: shilin, tw. the dessert of two girls in a table next to us at modern toilet. honestly, looks kind of gross...
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. but my poo poo dessert looks so cute!
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. me with my poo poo dessert again.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. my poo poo dessert in a squat toilet.
day9: shilin, tw. modern toilet. what's left of my ice cream, because i didn't eat it fast enough, because i was too busy taking pictures.
day 9: shilin, tw. home. why why love and mike he actually on a tv!! michelle chen (i love her!) in the background.
day9: shilin, tw. home. kingone on a tv!! rainie in the background.
day10: shilin, tw. home. day5 of my hualien sunburn. that spot by my watch marked somehow got burned extra bad (reflection of my watch face?) and then peeled, so then got extra red after subsequent days of sun.
day10: shilin, tw. home. gui yuan cupcake.
day10: taichung, tw. fruit stall in market near my grandma's apartment.
day10: taichung, tw. scallion pancake and other stuff stall in market near my grandma's apartment.
day10: taichung, tw. a really good meatbun that has basil and a fried egg on top.
day10: taichung, tw. scallion pancakes.
day10: taichung, tw. goose meat, also from the market near my grandma's apartment.
day11: chiayi, tw. at chiayi train station looking at alishan forest railway timetable.
day11: chiayi, tw. my train ticket to alishan.
day11: chiayi, tw. back of my train ticket to alishan.
day11: chiayi, tw. in the waiting area for the alishan train. the alishan forest railway uses different tracks than the normal trains.
day11: chiayi, tw. the alishan train is coming!
day11: chiayi, tw. alishan train.
day11: fenchihu, tw. eating my fenchihu lunch box on the train.
day11: fenchihu, tw. the fenchihu lunch box is a little overrated, but there are a lot of different foods hidden under that big piece of pork.
day11: fenchihu, tw. the best thing about my fenchihu lunch box was the plastic sheet separating the rice and the meat/veggies, keeping my rice super clean!
day11: alishan, tw. map of alishan recreation area.
day11: alishan, tw. right after you enter the recreation area there is this sign...seems really easy for someone to just change the forecast.
day11: alishan, tw. it is cherry blossom season on alishan.
day11: alishan, tw. cherry blossoms.
day11: alishan, tw. i think plum tree flowers? i don't remember.
day11: alishan, tw. i think a plum tree flower? i don't remember.
day11: alishan, tw. another little train that runs around alishan.
day11: alishan. wasabi is grown on alishan!
day11: alishan, tw. random elementary school as i am walking through the trails.
day11: alishan, tw. a middle school as i am walking through another part of the trails.
day11: alishan, tw. entering the more foresty part of the trails.
day11: alishan, tw. entering the giant tree trail.
day11: alishan, tw. here it looks pretty flat, but later there are like a million stairs.
day11: alishan, tw. there's a lot of these signs, and then a really big tree.
day11: alishan, tw. a really big tree.
day11: alishan, tw. the giant tree train stop, which we passed on the way up to alishan.
day11: alishan, tw. an old tree stump with a nice name.
day11: alishan, tw. really does look like a pig!
day11: alishan, tw. another old stump with a nice name.
day11: alishan, tw. a heart!
day11: alishan, tw. it took me a little longer to actually “see” this one.
day11: alishan, tw. but i think i took the picture at the right angle.
day11: alishan, tw. view from the shopping and restaurant area on alishan.
day11: alishan, tw. dinner of bamboo shoot soup and...
day11: alishan, tw. dragon whisker veggies!
day11: alishan, tw. alishan train station.
day11: alishan, tw. sunrise from alishan train station. i took A LOT of pictures and came up with this one.
day11: alishan, tw. view of my hotel from the outside at night. 青山別館 (qing shan bie guan).
day11: alishan, tw. my hotel room. small, clean, and only 1800NT ($60).
day11: alishan, tw. my peeling sunburn on day6 since biking in hualien.
day12: yushan, tw. the sunrise tour that i took from alishan.
day12: yushan, tw. right before the sunrise.
day12: yushan, tw. sunrise.
day12: yushan, tw.
day12: yushan, tw. cloud sea to the right.
day12: yushan, tw. cloud sea.
day12: yushan, tw. took all these stairs down (and then up) just to see that giant tree, that i can see from the top of the stairs.
day12: yushan, tw. rolling mountains.
day12: taichung, tw. eating bawan here.
day12: taichung, tw. my bawan (bottom) and cellophane noodle soup (top).
day12: taichung, tw. my cousins have a pet shrimp.
day13: ershuei, tw. my allday pass train ticket for the jiji line.
day13: checheng, tw. checheng train station, the last stop on the jiji line.
day13: checheng, tw. this is the jiji line train.
day13: checheng, tw. checheng used to be a logging town.
day13: checheng, tw.
day13: checheng, tw. to transport logs.
day13: checheng, tw. plum winery.
day13: checheng, tw. inside plum winery.
day13: checheng, tw. the whole town is uphill.
day13: jiji, tw. my checheng lunchbox.
day13: jiji, tw. you can get your lunch in a wooden bucket in checheng.
day13: jiji, tw. actually it was not very good and way too expensive. 300NT ($10).
day13: jiji, tw. jiji train station, the oldest train station in taiwan.
day13: jiji, tw. i rented a bike for 100NT ($3) for the whole day.
day13: jiji, tw. turns out most of the biking is on the road...with cars. view from the side of the road.
day13: jiji, tw. this looks like it would be a lot of fun, but it was dead because it was a weekday.
day13: jiji, tw. probably would have a lot of people on the weekend, but nothing is open on a weekday.
day13: jiji, tw. on the bike route.
day13: jiji, tw. watershed.
day13: jiji, tw. view from side of road.
day13: jiji, tw. i road by and heard some flopping, and realized, this guy had caught a fish!
day13: jiji, tw.
day13: jiji, tw. the start of a very short actual bike path.
day13: jiji, tw. no cars!
day13: jiji, tw. there was a seashell store on the other side of the tracks from the bike route, and the front of it is paved with shells.
day13: jiji, tw. closeup of shells.
day13: jiji, tw. seashell store.
day13: jiji, tw. confucian school on bike route.
day13: jiji, tw. confucian school.
day13: jiji, tw. and a normal middle school right next to the confucian school. there seem to be a lot of tourist destinations in taiwan that have schools right next door.
day13: jiji, tw. a banana eggroll shop near jiji train station. really good!
day13: jiji, tw. freshly made banana eggrolls at the shop.
day13: jiji, tw. banana eggrolls.
day13: jiji, tw. i thought they'd be really good, but they ended up being the worst bananas i had ever eaten. absolutely no flavor. jiji grows a lot of bananas.
day13: jiji, tw. gross.
day13: taichung, tw. high speed rail station.
day13: taichung, tw. high speed rail station looks a lot like an airport.
day13: taichung, tw. my high speed rail ticket.
day13: taichung, tw. back of my high speed rail ticket.
day13: taichung, tw. without meaning to, my luggage matches. and matches the orange theme of the high speed rail!
day13: taichung, tw. approaching high speed rail train.
day13: taichung, tw. high speed rail train.
day13: taichung, tw. map of what's offered in the high speed rail train cars. vending machines! and there is a business class!
day13: taichung, tw. high speed rail lunchbox looks fancy, and is expensive.
day14: shilin, tw. pudding flavored marshmallows!
day14: shilin, tw. pudding marshmallows have filling!
day14: taipei, tw. national palace museum.
day14: taipei, tw. inside national palace museum.
day14: taipei, tw. silverware at this cheap steak restaurant comes in a bag!
day14: taipei, tw. the table has a handy spot for knapkins!
day14: taipei, tw. delicious and only 180NT ($6).
day14: taipei, tw. they have the coolest soda flavors in taiwan, but actually they weren't very good. i tried both.
day14: taipei, tw. double decked bike racks outside of national taiwan university!
day14: taipei, tw. double decked bike racks outside of national taiwan unversity! looks so organized.
day14: taipei, tw. bonnie and i.
day14: taipei, tw. my sweet potato cake, ice cream, and red bean dessert.
day14: taipei, tw. i'm not sure what this was...
day14: shilin, tw. my big bottle of yangleduo!
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. xiao long bao.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fong. vegetable steamed dumplings.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. vegetable baozi.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. wontons.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. drunken chicken.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. black pepper pork.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. taro baozi.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. there is a purse pouch next to every table.
day15: taipei, tw. it is always really crowded in din tai fung, and long lines outside too!
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. the toilet seems complicated.
day15: taipei, tw. din tai fung. wow.
day15: taipei, tw. chen xiao chun on the right. near taipei train station.
day15: taipei, tw. chen xiao chun. near taipei train station.
day15: taipei, tw. ktv.
day15: taipei, tw. ktv. my cousin and her bf.
day15: taipei, tw. ktv. my other cousin and her bf.
day16: ximending, tw. waiting for yoga lin.
day16: ximending, tw. crowd waiting for yoga lin.
day16: ximending, tw. there is a peter pan fan!
day16: ximending, tw. ah! what happened?!?!?!
day16: ximending, tw. they turned yoga lin into a monster and he is singing an elvis song!
day16: ximending, tw. turns out that was his only song.
day16: ximending, tw. yoga lin.
day16: ximending, tw. papaya milk.
day16: ximending, tw. a kiwi drink in a japanese restaurant.
day16: ximending, tw. my beef dish at japanese restaurant. still raw.
day16: ximending, tw. at a japanese restaurant.
day16: ximending, tw. my beef dish. cooked. it was disappointing.
day16: ximending, tw. my cousin's mystery pancake. pretty good.
day16: ximending, tw. my cousin's muoji like appetizer.
day16: taipei, tw. whoa canned ovaltine!
day16: taipei, tw. people drink supau hot??
day16: taipei, tw. another day another steak.
day16: taipei, tw. whoa, these chicken feet are already de-boned.
day16: shilin, tw. minced meat on rice.
day16: shilin, tw. fried chicken butts.
day16: shilin, tw. fried squid.
day16: shilin, tw. fried chicken skin.
day17: shilin, tw. usually i am not crazy about luwei, but this was EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD! bought yesterday at ximending at lao tian lu.
day17: shilin, tw. exceptionally tasty duck wing from lao tian lu in ximending.
day17: shilin, tw. niu nai tang ice cream!!
day17: shilin, tw. taro ice cream-sicle.
day17: shilin, tw. muoji ice cream.
day17: shilin, tw. taro muoji ice cream.
day17: shilin, tw. chicken spine.
day17: shilin night market, tw. da bing bao xiao bing.
day17: shilin night market, tw. these are all the xiao bing's.
day17: shilin night market, tw. crushing the xiao bing.
day17: shilin night market, tw. my cousin's taro flavored da bing bao xiao bing.
day17: shilin night market, tw. rolling up the da bing.
day17: shilin night market, tw. my black pepper flavored da bing bao xiao bing.
day18: yehliu, tw. harbor.
day18: yehliu, tw. wow people actully live here. the whole area stinks like dead seafood.
day18: yehliu, tw. a gutter contraption!
day18: yehliu, tw. entering yehliu geopark.
day18: yehliu, tw.
day18: yehliu, tw. the whole geopark is just this tiny peninsula, but it is so beautiful!
day18: yehliu, tw. mushroom rock.
day18: yehliu, tw. you can see the queen's head in the distance.
day18: yehliu, tw. queen's head.
day18: yehliu, tw. queen's head. her neck is getting thinner and thinner due to natural erosion, so it will snap one day.
day18: yehliu, tw. a rock formation that looks like a sandal!
day18: yehliu, tw. named ginger rock. but i think it looks like dog poo...
day18: yehliu, tw. looking back from near the tip of the peninsula.
day18: yehliu, tw. fried seaweed.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. oyster omelette.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. my seat was right in front of these oysters...enough to lose your appetite.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. this was a waste of stomache space.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. fried crabs.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. fried crab with basil.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. shubing in peanut soup.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. pao pao bing!
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. making the pao pao bing.
day18: keelung, tw. miao ko. my taro pao pao bing.
day18: shilin, tw. these stores are now really popular in taiwan. each cubby is rented by a different person.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. milk pudding! (pudding rating: 1/4, 1=best).
day19: shilin, tw. left is carrefour's red bean pudding. (pudding rating: 3/4, 1=best). right is imei's egg pudding. (pudding rating: 2/4).
day19: shilin, tw. tongyi's egg pudding. (pudding rating: 4/4, 1=best).
day19: shilin, tw. shuang bao tai (twins).
day19: shilin, tw. zhua bing. pizza?
day19: shilin, tw. zhua bing with basil and egg.
day19: danshui, tw. the best steamed dumpling stand.
day19: danshui, tw. the best steamed dumplings.
day19: danshui, tw. steaming the best steamed dumplings.
day19: danshui, tw. the best steamed dumplings!!
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. winter melon tea.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. i walked by this and it just started! (i think i may have brushed it with my shoulder?) good thing my cousin quickly put a cup to catch the, actually pretty good, mr. brown mocha.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. accidental mr. brown mocha.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. singles cheese man! hehe.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. mint m&ms?? maybe i don't shop the candy aisle enough in the states.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. sushi flavored chips?
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. seaweed flavored chips?
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. i'm pretty sure there is no latte art inside.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. instresting snacks.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. it tasted like a mouthful of harbor! definitely the most disgusting food i ate on the trip!
day19: danshui, tw. kfc egg tart.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. i saw someone on the street drinking a whole row of yangleduo's...so i wanted to try it too!
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. my progress.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. almost done.
day19: danshui, tw. our family convenience store. i finished!
day19: taipei, tw. after my last dinner. steak again. >_<
day20: osaka airport, jp. the old person looks like it's going to sit on the handicapped person...
day20: plane from osaka to detroit. eating my lucky stars!
day20: plane from osaka to detroit. luck stars!
