Destination: Taiwan
Duration: 13 Days 13 Nights (Nov 18~Dec
01, 2015)
Day 12: Taipei -> Singapore
This
day was our last day in Taiwan and our flight would be at 5.35pm. Therefore we
still had some time to romp around Taipei for half day. We skipped the
breakfast spread in hotel and opted to use it for 7-11 instead. There was this
famous breakfast stall - Ximending Soya (西门町豆漿)
which was located like 100m away from our hotel thus we went and takeaway some
foods. We bought their famous soya milk (豆漿),
rice milk (米浆), Egg & Ham Baked Biscuit (火腿蛋焼餅)
and their famous Pirates Taiwanese Onigiri (海盜全餐飯糰).
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| Found this! Incredibly excited! |
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| Auntie cooking! |
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| Looks YUMMY huh? |
The soya
milk was thick and not so sweet even though we did not choose the one without
sugar. The rice milk though was really special with peanut taste – kind of
similar to a watery version of peanut dessert soup. Egg & Ham Based Biscuit
was like normal Egg & Ham sandwiches but with a type of puffy pastry
instead. The star here was of course the Pirates Onigiri! The portion was HUGE and
it was stuffed full with meat, fried fritters (油條),
egg, meat floss and Preserved Turnips (菜圃).
The combination of taste and texture was so delish and one might want to skip
lunch after this extravaganza breakfast. =P
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| Sammy is excited by the Foods!!!!! |
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| Egg & Ham Baked Biscuit |
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| Pirates Onigiri! |
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| Buns from 7-11!!! |
After breakfast,
we did our check out and left our luggage with the hotel to explore around the
Ximending area. We followed a map online and found the Red House Theatre (红楼剧场)
and the Presidential Office Building before making a turn back to a street full
of Cinemas (电影街) and Cinema Park (臺北市電影主題公園)
which was basically a park with Graffiti.
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| Red House Theatre - got photobombed by a truck! |
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| Random Deco at Ximending |
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| I wanna see the President!!! |
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| Sammy met his President! |
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| Let's Welfie! |
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| Around Ximending! |
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| I think this is a Hospital... Why am i taking picture with a Hospital? =P |
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| Hi Mr McDonald! |
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| Iron Buster! I think he gains weight after eating all the Taiwanese Food! |
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| Hi Spidey! |
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| One of the famous Grilled Chicken Thigh - did not try this as too full from breakfast! |
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| Hello Doggie! |
Since we
were kind of bored and no real destination, we ended up taking the MRT to
Longshan Temple (龍山寺) instead. We just made a brief stop there before
returning to Ximending area again for some last minute shopping. We also bought
this spring onion pancake at Ximending which tasted kind of similar to Roti
Canai with egg. LOL!!
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| At LongShan Temple |
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| Actually no idea why we were here! |
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| Lots of People though! |
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| The Famoud God of LOVE! |
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| Fishes! |
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| Back at Ximending! |
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| Our Spring Onion Egg Pancake! |
We finally
bid farewell to Ximending and boarded the MRT to Taipei station for bus to the airport.
According to the internet, we were supposed to take Exit Z5 to get to the bus
station (國光客運). However, we just couldn’t find the exit and
ended up following another bus station sign which pointed us to the wrong station!
*facepalm* We ended up having to walk a long way to the correct station on a
busy road with a luggage with broken trolley handle. *sweat* Thankfully the
people there were really helpful and kept pointed us to the correct direction.
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| OMG!!! WTF!!! |
After the
long walk, we finally reached the bus station and boarded our bus to the
airport. It was already almost 3.30pm that time since we wasted lots of time to
get to the correct station! *curse* Our original plan was to reach airport
early and slowly drank our beer from 7-11 before clearing immigration. We ended
up having to drink all our drinks on the bus in one go.
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| Finally the BUS!!! |
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| Beer! |
The bus
finally reached our terminal at around 4.20pm and it was really quite a rush
for us as our flight was at 5.35pm! We had to rush to check in our luggage at
the counter before going through the long queue at security checkpoint and
immigration. Thank goodness everything went according to plan and we boarded
our flight in time! =P
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| Rushing!!! |
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| Luckily we were just in time! |
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| Our flight! |
There was
some Christmas decoration on the flight as it was near Christmas season. Dinner
was served with the choice of Pan Fried Fish Fillet in Tomato Concasse with
buttered vegetable and mashed potato or Roasted Chicken with teriyaki sauce,
vegetable and rice. I liked the fish
better but the best part of the dinner was the dessert – Haagen Dazs Ice
Cream!!! *grin*
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| Merry Xmas! |
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| Sammy is happy with his Singapore Sling & Snacks! |
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| Teriyaki Chicken with Shrimp Salad! |
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| Fish Fillet with Roasted Chicken Salad! |
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| Haagen Dazs!!!!!!!! |
The plane
touched down at Changi Terminal 2 at around 10.30pm and we rushed to Terminal 1
after collecting our luggage. Our flight back to Penang was next day with
AirAsia thus we went to AirAsia counter trying to do an early luggage check-in
so that we could go to the Airside and enjoyed the amenity there. Unfortunately
for us, the AirAsia crew at the information counter told us they had closed
their luggage check in counter and would only re-opened it at 5.30am the next
day! *gasp in horror*
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| Stormtroppers at T2! |
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| In the Garden... |
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| Beautiful Deco at Changi |
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| More Stormtroopers! |
Day 13: Singapore -> Penang
We ended up
sitting at the floor of terminal 1 viewing gallery for whole night until 5.30am
as there was basically no comfortable place to sleep there. During the whole
night, security actually came and took picture of whoever sleeping there on the
floor. Hmm… for what purpose? *scratching head* Anyway, since we had lots of
time to kill, we took pictures of our 7-11 purchases and ate 7-11 hot spring egg (温泉蛋) as supper. There was also this free art area for children
which we also utilized. =P
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| Hot Spring Egg from Taiwan 7-11 |
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| The Foodssssss we bought from Taiwan 7-11 |
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| Cute Cups from 7-11! Bought for TWD100 with 10 stamps per cup! |
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| Free Art works at Changi |
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| We were too free! |
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| Somemore Sleeping at the children playground! =P |
We finally did our check-in
and got into Changi Airside and took pictures of the newly decorated Christmas
tree with Star Wars plush toys! How cute!!! There was also this London theme
deco there. We finally found the snooze area at terminal 1 level 2 and snoozed
away! I love Changi Airpot!
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| London Bus! |
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| Let's hop on! |
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| More Pic of London Bus |
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| The Iconic London Phone Booth! |
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| Big Ben! |
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| Nice huh? |
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| The English Soldier |
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| Xmas Tree! |
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| With Star Wars Plush Toys! |
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| Gaming Tree! |
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| Our Snooze Chair! |
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| Breakfast! LOL!!! |
Our flight was supposed to
depart at 11.45am but ended up delayed due to some freak accidental medical
leave by AirAsia Pilots (link).
Anyway, since we forgot to bring our SGD, we ended up eating our Taiwan 7-11
buns instead. LOL!!! We finally boarded our AirAsia flight and reached Penang late
in the afternoon before taking a bus back home. One word of advise? If you are
watching your weight – don’t go to Taiwan! It’s a DEATH TRAP! =P
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| Oh Dear.... My Dilemma Exactly! |
