General travel - Taiwan

[steveluv]

Breakfast was not bad, had chunky red snapper porridge for main course but started with some fruits and a fritter

 

 

 

So my trip will be starting from the south of Taiwan in the city of Kaohsiung then will move to Taipei Friday evening. So, when I arrive at Taoyuan Airport (near to Taipei) I have to take their High Speed Rail (HSR) to the Kaohsiung in the south. But before that I need to get to the Taoyuan HSR Station, by bus

 

Follow the sign to go to the bus station at B1 level, just outside the glass door go to number 12 kiosk for bus number 705 and pay just $30

 

 

Inside the bus

 

Train ticket $1,980 (non-reserve seat cost $1290, standard reserve seat costs $1330) from Taoyuan station to Zuoying Station (this is the name of the HSR station for Kaohsiung)

 

Here comes the train

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKVaVpHMl0

 

 

Inside the train

 

[Thaiyotakamli]

Holiday krub

[steveluv]

Short time lapse video taken from my hotel window

 

[steveluv]

Big breakfast today

 

[Ben5266]

Holiday krub

Come. We go holiday together.

[steveluv]

Night market in Kaohsiung

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eat from this shop, fried oyster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[steveluv]

View of Kaohsiung from the top of hotel.

 

 

 

[steveluv]

So travelled around outskirts of Kaohsiung on Thursday ended at Kangshan, a district of Kaohsiung which is famous for their mutton dishes. Visited this restaurant well known for serving local goat mutton.

 

 

Mutton is all ways

 

More mutton

 

Goat soup with rice noodle

 

Mutton herbal soup

 

Stir fry mutton with pickled cabbage

 

Deep fried goat ribs

 

Mutton with bitter gourd

 

Freshly boiled mutton with ginger

 

Great traditional meal

[steveluv]

Dinner on Thursday was a a Nostalgic theme restaurant

 

 

1920s street scene with a rail car (Japanese occupation period)

 

 

Rail car

 

Dining in rail car

 

Japanese posters

 

Private room

 

Rice with lard

 

Noodle with sesame chicken

 

Seafood soup

 

Cabbage

 

Bitter gourd with salted eggs

 

Fried tofu

 

Calamari

 

Snow fish with chili cause

 

Braised pork

[steveluv]

So on Friday before leaving Kaohsiung for Taipei a few friends brought me to a village restaurant in Ahlian district of Kaohsiung. This restaurant specialise in cooking local home raised chickens.

 

Started with boiled radish with sauce

 

Chicken sticky rice

 

Chicken vegetable soup

 

Roast chicken

 

Rice noodle in sesame oil\

 

Cabbage

 

Boiled chicken

 

Tofu

 

Grouper sweet and sour

 

[steveluv]

Taking the high speed train from Tainan station to Taipei station, speed was about 280-290 km/h

 

 

 

 

Cute staff 

 

 

 

[Ravinged]

Wow... eye candy!!!

 

 

Taking the high speed train from Tainan station to Taipei station, speed was about 280-290 km/h

 

 

 

 

Cute staff 

 

 

 

 

 

[steveluv]

Arrived in Kaohsiung about 7pm last night. Took a walk for street food.

Started at this shop 2km from hotel serving sticky rice with braised pork

Seems like a popular shop

Simple meal 

Sticky rice with pork

Steamed egg with minced pork

Walked another 1km to a shop serving duck noodle

After duck noodle took a walk to a night food street

 

 

Edited October 27, 2019 by steveluv

[steveluv]

Some more photos of the night market food street

Found this shop for braised pork rice

More walking

Dessert for the night

 

[Dleodleo]

Hi,

Just to share that there's a new bus 1961service from Ximen to Taoyuan airport at NT100 per pax.  Double check the bus availability for early morning.

I took the bus at 4.40am from Ximen bus stop.  Journey around 40 mins at non peak hours.  Better to be at the bus stop earlier.

See below for actual bus stop location.  Btw, not my fingers, belongs to the airport bus staff.

 

[AeroMurphy]

I traveled to Taipei in 2018

randomly found a shop at Ximending and ate pork braised rice and soup omg it was so good!😋 the shop was not even crowded with people and not in those bloggers list

[allthingscar]

Hi all,

 

went to taiwan and made a video on the Taroko national park there to share with you all.

Hope you guys enjoy

 

cheers

[steveluv]

1 hour ago, allthingscar said:

Hi all,

 

went to taiwan and made a video on the Taroko national park there to share with you all.

Hope you guys enjoy

 

cheers

Great video. 

Safe travel.