Short Trip to Taiwan

[steveluv]

Its been 3 years since my last visit to Taiwan. Used to visit Taiwan twice a year for work visiting suppliers. Now that they are fully opened its time to go again.

Monday morning 6.15am at the Suvarnabhumi Airport

Had breakfast at the Singapore Airlines lounge

At the gate

My ride

Many mothballed aircraft still on ground

Brunch on flight

Arriving Taoyuan Airport

[steveluv]

Having to go to the southern city of Kaohsiung, I had to take a taxi to the Taoyuan High Speed Train Station to catch a train to Zuoying Station in Kaohsiung.

At the Zuoying station - bought a burger to go

Then it up the train

My late lunch

Burger

Great packaging for burger will not dirty hands

Another great packaging for fried chicken

 

[steveluv]

Then took another taxi from Zuoying Station to the hotel. Arriving at hotel

My room

Harbour view

Compliment

[RH1667]

Yes, now is a good time to visit Taiwan.

No PRC tourist, and tourist spot not very crowded. 

Enjoy your trip. 

[Inlinefour]

my friend asking how come no have 

 

槟榔西施 🤐

[steveluv]

Was brought to a crab restaurant by the locals

Starting drink

Starters

Garlic crab

Squid

Padi fish

Spread

Gourd

Vegetables

Tofu

Last drink

[steveluv]

A very important thing I forgot to share at the beginning. Covid entry requirement.

ZERO!

Theres nothing they check and require since checking in at the Suvarnabhumi Airport to leaving the Taoyuan Airport. Only thing is you will be given a box like this:

Inside contains 4 sets of covid antigen test kits 

which they recommend you to do 1 as soon as possible within the day of arrival and then another the next day before you leave home/hotel. You don't have to report anything at all. So its as good as "up to you". Well, being a good boy I followed

and the result was

[steveluv]

On the first night of my stay on Monday I visited a night market

Liu He Night Market

 

 

[steveluv]

High Speed Rail almost arriving Kaohsiung

 

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by steveluv

[steveluv]

As this is a very short trip I had on two full days to work, Tuesday and today. So for this trip did not expect any free time for sightseeing or photos of scenery. Tomorrow morning will be on our way to Taoyuan and then back to Bangkok in the afternoon.

I was in an industrial area these two days. Yesterday after the morning work the locals brought me to a local restaurant popular for serving mutton (meat from local goats).

[steveluv]

The food at this mutton restaurant

Freshly boiled mutton

Mutton stir fry with bitter gourd

Mutton stir fry with spring onions

Meesua (fine rice noodle)

Mutton stir fry with pineapple

Baked mutton

Mutton herbal soup

Mutton vermicelli

Boiled prawns

The spread

[steveluv]

Good morning everybody. This 40 seconds time lapse video taken from my hotel room window yesterday from 4.15pm to 8.15pm (4hrs)

 

[Mkl22]

why didnt you just fly to Kaohsiung directly and bypass the train?

[13177]

Nice. I missed Taiwan. This is one of the country i would never get tired going back again and again and again. 😂

[steveluv]

1 hour ago, Mkl22 said:

why didnt you just fly to Kaohsiung directly and bypass the train?

Unfortunately there is no direct flight to Kaohsiung from Bangkok at this point in time.

[steveluv]

Ok this post will not make justice to local food nevertheless here it is a dinner at the Kaohsiung city's Marriot Hotel.

I've never sat on such a humongous table (for 10) like this in my life 

Has 2 motors for the center turntable

But its pretty

The cutleries 

Very high-end Narumi bone-china

The dishes

The special drink for dinner

Starter - tofu and chives

Starter - pickle

Starter - bamboo shoots

The drink

We started with a appetizer consisting of 4 items - prawns, fungus & jellyfish, mullet roe, tofu

Creamy soup that has prawns, scallops and white fungus in it

And then its the lobster with curry sauce

Braised wagyu cheek

Beef simply melts in your mouth

Mixed vegetables and prawn

Grouper with thick rice noodle

Fruits

Almond cold soup with egg white

We had a wonderful dinner certainly however these are not Taiwanese food at all. If looking at what Taiwanese food is all about look at the next video below

[steveluv]

So this is what Taiwanese food is all about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0j1E3DbIE&t=4s

Stopped at a stall and ordered these

Fried oyster with egg and sauce ($3)

Thick soup with pork ($1.80)

Simply delicious all of them

Walked more down the street found another shop

Making dumplings

My sauces

Spring onion cake, amazing 

Clam clear soup

Dumplings

Chicken

Dinner (total $15.70)

This is what I'd call Taiwan food

[steveluv]

So this the breakfast that I have been dining at past 3 mornings. Overly huge spread this hotel's breakfast it has everything.

 

My braised pork rice (肉燥飯) today before I check-out from the hotel