See cherry blossoms in DanShuei, Taipei!

March is the best month to go appreciate flowers. Especially cherry in Taiwan, which always blossoms in late winter and early spring. So I'll say it's kind of a sign for new life.

Victor's friend woke us up around nine. V was too lazy to get up, but i felt I have great mood to give it a try. So we dressed up for the 40km biking trip.
We started from LuChou, and cycled on the bike road to GwanDu Bridge.
You can see the DanShuei River along is getting higher than average because of the 'Super Moon' tonight, and we are kinda worried be screw if the tsunami attack...

It's bit fog, but still can see the road clearly. It's definitely not a short distance.(I won't say it's long since I'm NOT a weak girl anyway, haha.) Sometimes I'll stop suddenly for some really smaill view, like a heart shape leave in road side, or sort of things. In fact, it's quite good to check those photos after the trip, you will see there's not only cherry but also other things worthy to take care.

This time, we didn't go to the main street, doesn't have the chance to grab the plum drinks, fish cookies, black eggs, and the tofu stuff. We choose another mountain road to get the HooWei Avenue. HooWei is the old name of DanShuei. It's freaking high, so pretty hard to ride to pass it. Me and another girl only can hold our bikes walking pass and it's more exahusted!!!
But when we saw those cherry blossoms along the road, everthing looked worthy.
Those red, pink, peach pink cherry blossoms are everywhere. I guess they might know they will all die in this two weeks, so they tried their best to be pretty.

We stopped once in front of an old building because of the rain. And I met Annie Lin and Karen Hsu there! They rode a motorbike to get to the destination-Tien Yuan Temple.
Later, we also got there by bikes. Lot's of people gather Tien Yuan Temple to see the flowers.
And of course lots of food venders gather there,too.
We bought some random food, like potato dumpling, stinky tofu, tarrot cake, and some drinks.

People climb to the highest level of the temple to see the whole view of flowers.
The reason why this temple is so popular is they plented cherry trees around it, so it looked great in the season if you stand at a high spot.
Since we brought bikes, we just walked around.
When the wind blew, the flowers like rain, pink rain.

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Taipei food-chapter one

The amount of months I stay in the city now is more than ten fingers could count.

What do folks lean on life while living in this constantly changing city?

I, as a Taiwanese, who already tasted thousands of plates, would like to introduce some of my food-chasing experience.

A.     the Fresh Soybean Milk

It was a super sunny Thursday. And the place I’m heading to is quite famous for “Old Taipei People.” It’s called the Fresh Soybean Milk-(Shin Shian Dou Jiang Dien)

The most special food is their soy bean milk and the fried sticks.

The burned smelling of the milk is really strong. I’ll say it’s because of their traditional method of producing the soybean milk.

The milk is about 20NT dollar, about 0.6USD.-quite common price in cities.
It's at nomber 160 of Aikuo E. Rd., Sec 1. (愛國東路一段160號)

B.     between club7 and roxy99

Most of people who live near Shida might notice that there’s a seven-eleven ALWAYS full of foreigner. People called it “Club 7”

It’s kind of an attractive culture that foreigners like to hang out there for some really cheap Taiwan beer. Since some countries have law to forbid drinking on streets and beaches, it’s very casual for them to drink in Taiwan.

But the thing I’m talking about is the breakfast store next to the convent store.

They start from midnight to noon. It always feed us when we are hungrily left from the bars.

My personal favorite is their shao long bao and salty soybean milk.

The shao long bao in Taiwan is sort of the must eat food. When it comes out with hot air, you use chopsticks (or whatever you want) to take it with some soybean sauce, vinegar, and some ginger. Hmmm… at the moment, the shao long bao totally comfort your both soul and stomach.

I used to put some spicy oil in my salty soybean milk.

It looked like tofu soup, but tasted more delicious. The fried sticks inside are the drier the better for me. It’s really lay back for people who can stay there have a bowl of it with newspaper, and normally, lots of elder Taiwanese do that.(not thing really can do, so they have plenty of time on appreciating food, haha)

Oh, and they do offer English menu for foreign guests, it’s quite interesting to read the food names in English.lol

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Hello World!
I probobly will use this blog to share my traveling experience around the world.
Will be hard on keep writing.:P