Wandering Fel

Jiufen

    - Taro rice ball [famous local delicacy][link]
    - Mochi [link]
    - Grilled sausages [link]
    - Green glutinous rice cake [another famous local delicacy] [link]
    - Peanut and ice cream wrap [link]
3. Relaxing at tea house
4. Visit the tea house that inspired Spirited Away's creator [Jiufen A Mei Tea House]
5. Look at the Nine-Turns-Road which lead to Jiufen [Shooting place for Initial D movie]
6. Buy ocarinas
7. Watch sunset

Shifen

1. How to go to Shifen?
2. Shifen Train Station
3. Eat fried ice cream [link]
4. Releasing sky lantern 
5. Shifen Bridge 
6. Shifen Waterfall [spring, summer]
7. Shifen Coal Mine Museum

Planning a trip anytime soon to Jiufen and Shifen? You may want to try search for smart deals at Tripadvisor here. Have fun!

I just realised that I never post how's the view from the top of Taipei 101 in day time. For the night time's view, you can see it here. So here we come again, hello Taipei 101!

If you can spare a day in your trip to Taipei, you can do a lot of things in Tamsui.

1. Visiting Fisherman Wharf



You can get on the Lover's Tower to see the beautiful view of the wharf. And once you are done with the ride, you can walk to Lover's Bridge where the famous Taiwanese drama called Meteor Garden was filmed. If you are adventurous enough, you can cycle from the MRT station to here.







2. Have a taste of local food at Tamsui Old Street



Wherever you are in Taiwan, you shall EAT. A LOT. No kidding, street food in Taiwan is awesome. Both in taste and price. You can try a lot of food from a-gei (tofu dish) to fried gyoza to cake to iron eggs (black eggs in Tamsui Old Street .








3. Visiting Fort San Domingo/ British Consular Residence


Tamsui has a lot of history as this part of Taiwan served as an important fort for the Spanish colony in the old age. If you are interested in looking at an old fort and old British residence, you can simply visit these two places as they are located next to each other.









4. Visiting (or even considering to study?) Aletheia University



Walk further up from British Consular Residence and you will reach a university. This university is quite special as it was established by a famous pastor in Tamsui. The pastor is not Taiwanese though. He's Canadian and he's called Mackay.









5. Looking at Pastor Mackay Statue and Church



If you are wondering about the identity of Pastor Mackay (and thus, history of Tamsui in general), you will see his status and his church alongside the main road of Tamsui.

Hey-ho! Here is a summary of places that you may want to visit in Taipei (including its outskirt attractions). Hope this helps!






















Taipei / New Taipei City

1. Taipei 101
2. Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall
3. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall
4. Taipei Main Station
5. Xinbeitou (part 1, part 2)
6. Tamsui
7. National Palace Museum
4. Yongkang Street
5. Ximending

6. Night markets
    - Shilin Night Market
    - Raohe Night Market
    - Shida Night Market

7. Wufenpu
8. Maokong Gondola
9. Longshan Temple
10. Bopiliao Historical Site
11. Taipei Zoo
12. Wulai
13. Martyr Shrine
14. 228 Peace Memorial Park
15. 1914 Huashan Creative Park

Taipei's Outskirt

1. Shifen (part 1, part 2, part 3)
2. Jiufen
3. Yehliu Geopark (spring, summer)

When you are in Hong Kong, make sure you visit the famous Hong Kong cafe. And the easiest cafe to find is Tsui Wah. Simply because they are everywhere. XD

You can call me a weirdo but Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall is one of my favourite place in Taipei. It's a good thing that it's located near to where I lived, two stations away from Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall MRT Station. Hehe.

"Rainy Saturday afternoon. A meeting with friend. What suits the moment better than a quaint little cafe?"

This Saturday my friend and I picked a cafe located at Bali Lane (near Bugis MRT), Stateland Cafe,  to try the hyped red velvet waffle. Last time we went here, we could not get a table. But this time, seems like we came at perfect timing. =)

Whenever my friends and colleagues know that someone goes to Europe, the next question which usually follow is...are you going to buy branded bags? OR can you help me buy branded bags? But the thing that they seldom ask is "where to buy the so-called-cheaper branded bags?".

Even though generally the price of branded bags like LV, Prada, Chanel, etc tend to be cheaper in the high-end-boutique stores at European main street. It's still not considered very cheap, right? (to me, it still creates a HOLE in my bank account). XD

So as what's usually included in tour group itinerary, we visited a big factory outlet located a bit outside of Vienna called Vienna Designer Outlet Pandorf.

Happy New Year!!! It's time to write a lot of memorable memories of another 365 blank pages of yearbook titled 2015. So how did the first day go? I was busy burning away calories which I gained over the past week. And one of the culprit is the high tea session I had with by bestie. XD

She wanted to eat scones so we chose Brasserie Les Saveurs at St Regis to have our girl chat + afternoon tea + a lot of scones/ cakes. When we came inside, we immediately fell in love with the chandelier and comfy chairs.