Wandering Fel

Yellow Rubber Ducky is coming to Taiwan

Keelung has won the visit of a giant rubber duck (黃色小鴨/ Huángsè xiǎoyā). The rubber duck will be placed at Keelung city's famous port starting from 21 December 2013. ^^

In case you don't know, this is what I'm referring to:

Dutch artist, Florentijn Hofman, originally created the duck in 2007. Does it bring back your childhood bathtub memories? =P

Since then, the duck has visited a lot of cities like Hong Kong, Osaka, Sydney and Amsterdam.

Excited much? For more information, you can visit Keelung Yellow Ducky's official facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RubberDuckToKL?ref=br_tf

Taiwan's Awesome Convenience Stores

I saw my friend's posting on Facebook about Taiwan having the highest density of convenience stores. I thought she was kidding...

...until I saw this. 7-11 and Family Mart located just a few steps from one another. And if you keep walking for roughly 5 minutes, you will see another convenience store, Hi-Life.

Okay, there are everywhere but what's so awesome about the convenience stores anyway?

Right, the one thing that amazed me the first time I stepped into the convenience store is...it has oden (hot-pot dishes). I never see this before in other countries' convenience stores. Well, maybe Japan has it. But I've never been there so I don't really know.

I also love their onigiri. Easy to bring and eat. And yummy too. If you want to try pork floss (肉鬆/ Ròusōng) onigiri , you should buy that from Taiwan's convenience stores. I heard the Japanese don't really like pork floss. So I don't think they have these in Japan.

My favorite onigiri - pork floss with egg (肉鬆加蛋/ ròusōngjiādàn). =)

Other than food, they also have a variety of drinks.

Are you amazed yet? Taiwan's convenience stores also provide other services like bill payment, online booking for movies, train tickets or concerts.

And if you are staying alone and there is no-one at home to collect your packages, you can have it delivered to the 7-11 too. You can collect your packages there afterwards.

If you are bored at home and feels like hanging out somewhere cheap, you can hang out in the convenience stores too.

The best part of all? They opens 24 hours per day. Even in the event of typhoon. Crazy but cool. XD

Taiwan Cafe: Perfume Dance Cafe, Zhongxiao Fuxing SOGO

It's hot outside and you are looking for a place to chit chat with your friends...

It's only 9 PM, the night is still young and you don't feel like parting with your boyfriend/girlfriend yet...

It's raining like crazy outside and you are stuck at Zhongxiao Fuxing's SOGO...

Well, if you are experiencing one of the above situations, you may as well find a place to sit and continue chit-chatting/ dating your friend(s)/girlfriend/boyfriend while having honey toast. Yum~~~

Perfume Dance Cafe Zhongxiao Fuxing Taipei

Perfume Dance Cafe is known to be similar to Dazzling Cafe minus the queue. I've never been to Dazzling Cafe before but I agree with the "no-queue" statement...at 9PM on a weekday night.

The main star of the menu here is of course, honey toast. With a lot of varieties and all looks tempting if you have sweet-tooth.

Honey Toast Menu Perfume Dance Cafe Taipei

We decided to go with the berry theme. Because we think chocolate theme may be a little too sweet for our taste. It tastes so yummmyyyy.

Berry Honey Toast Perfume Dance Cafe Taipei

There is no minimum order here but each person must order one food or one drink. Since there is no way for us to finish 2 plate of honey toast, we ordered a jug of fruit tea.

Perfume Dance Cafe also sells other things like sandwiches or burgers. But we were satisfied with the honey toast. Nom Nom Nom~~~

The place opens until 10PM daily. And it is located at Zhongxiao Fuxing SOGO Basement 1. There is another branch located near Zhongxiao Dunhua MRT station.