Terence's @rchive

Arrived in Taipei late in the evening 2 days ago. Before heading to the hotel, I led my group of customers to Shilin Night Market (士林夜市) to have dinner.

Introduced them some local delicacies like the famous Hot Star Large Fried Chicken (豪大大鸡排), fried oysters (蚵仔煎) and fried oyster bihun (vermicelli) – 蚵仔面线.

Long queue to buy the large chicken chop

Hotstar Large Fried Chicken 豪大大鸡排

Per piece is NTD50. I queued up to buy a few to treat my customers. After I bought, the guide came and tell me that he can cut queue, no need to line up….. dammit wasted my time.

Chicken chop production line

Their business is really good, non stop frying of chicken chops. It does taste really good. Crispy on outside and juicy inside. I gave away all the chickens I bought because I tried it a few times already. I want to try other foods.

Beef Steak

Cream of corn soup and garlic bread

I end up having my favorite food, beef steak at this big beef streak specialist shop. The name of the shop is 大统一牛排专卖店 Big Consolidation Beef Steak specialist shop (direct translation).

As I walked into the stall/stop, the waiter ushered me into an available seat, it was packed with people. I ordered streak medium well. Shortly the waiter came back with a bowl of cream of corn soup, garlic bread and utensils packed inside a paper bag. 5 minutes later, the steak is served. This is the 1st time I had my steak served up to me in such a short time.

The steak came with a sunny side up egg beside it on a hot plate. The whole set meal of steak with egg, soup, garlic bread and a cup of tea cost only NTD150. Quite value for money and the steak tasted quite all right. Soup very watery and plain. Bun okok only.

Shop that sells Pig Kidney Soup

Then I came across this shop that sells mainly pig internals. I’m don’t eat animal’s internal organ except pig’s kidney. The pig kidney soup signboard caught my attention, I sat down and ordered Pig Kidney Vermicelli (猪腰子面线) to try out the taste.

Full of pig kidneys

The vermicelli

The pig kidney tasted how it should taste. As for the soup, too much of sesame oil in it but the vermicelli taste quite good. Was too full to finish eating all the vermicelli, I just finished all the kidneys. This bowl cost NTD100.

Walkway

Walkway between the shops in Shilin Night Market. The traders will try to persuade you to eat in their shop its very competitive there.

Shop selling friend oysters

I’m not recommending this shop, its just a one of the shop that sells fried oysters. I think Malaysia fried oysters still taste way better, but whoever that never try it before should try it out.

Fruit juice stall

There are also many juice stalls that sells big varieties of juices and bubble teas.

This is just the food area of Shilin Night Market, we only had 1 hour so no time to venture to the actual night market which sells other things.

I have to dig out those old photos that I took from previous trip to show the night market but its quite late already and I need to wake up at 6AM tomorrow to go Kaoshiong, so I will stop here. I might post more stuffs of this Taiwan trip tomorrow if I have time and Internet access.

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Woke up early despite sleeping very late to visit the Sunday Market at Jalan Gaya.

Jesselton Hotel

Sunday Market

Household Items

Colorful Hats and Caps

Tongkat Ali

Colorful Patterned Cakes. Taste quite good.

Fish for sale

Alot of people

Country prosper, citizens live in peace and I cannot translate the other phrase.

Anyone care to help me translate?

Only on Sundays from 5.30AM to 1PM

The market is full of cheap goodies. I bought 2 wooden bracelet for just RM4 and had alot of snacks along the way. If anyone who is in KK on Sunday should pay a visit.

Then Jimmy drove us to this famous Guo Man restaurant (国民餐室) to have fish paste noodle.

Kedai Restoran Kuo Man 国民餐室

Everyone ordered fish paste noodle

Hand made noodles

Fish Paste

The fish paste was tender to bite, no fishy taste and the hand made noodle was very nice too. (Haha I need to improve my writing skills on describing food. Its really very good lar….)

Menu and Price List

The fish paste noodle cost RM6, quite expensive for plate of noodle but considering the bowl full of fish pastes, I think it was worth it. I just noticed a menu item, “Smooth Beef” Noodle that interest me a lot. I’m a sucker for anything beef, I shall go try that dish next time when I go KK.

Then we head back to Jimmy’s house to pack our things. Before leaving to the airport, we took a group photo together with his mum.

Group photo with Jimmy's Mum

This AGE should be the smallest among all AGEs. Only 2 LTPians, 2 mixed LTPian/DJPian and 2 DJPians but still a very fun trip nonetheless.

Jimmy, thanks for driving us around and putting us up at your house, its better than staying in a hotel.

Mel, thanks for leading the kids activities and teaching me balloon sculpting skills. It won’t be the same without you, don’t worry your car budget can recover back very fast one. (Read Mel’s blog on pukak).

Kelley, thanks for being the pretty face of the group.

John….. You didn’t do much but you being there gives strength and support to all of us. And you cracking jokes in the car makes the journey to and back from Pukak seems shorter (at Mel’s expense).

Sheila, thanks for organizing this AGE. You took up the responsibility despite being far down under, the organization could be better but what the hell, we had a good time and we made the kids at Pukak very happy as well.

Looking forward for AGE7….. Lets make it happen and bigger!

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