first place to go for day 3, a 40 minutes bus ride to 圆山大饭店 (The Grand Hotel, Taiwan) for sightseeing. the main building of the hotel is the world's tallest chinese classical building. haha. from the outside, it does really look like some ancient palace kind of place.
i have no idea is this hotel a sightseeing place for tourists, or is it really a hotel meant for staying?! haha.
lol. zigzag legs, looked like we need the toilet urgently!!
jumping crazily!!!
after that, back to the bus and off we go to 玲珑阁. one of the most horrible places to go, like some tourists scamming place. it's a place that sells fengshui items, but the main highlight there was the TianLu, an auspicious sculpted animal, a unicorn or deer with a long tail possession of the empire.
after the man demostrated to us on how to touch the TianLu, we were all brought inside and a lady, who was said to be one of the best fengshui master in Taiwan, gave us some fengshui talk. and amazingly, the talk was kind of interesting.
but it was like hell when we were individually assigned to one fengshui master each. they initially was like saying to help you check our 8-characters, and then after checking, they were like saying your luck not good, your this not good, your that not good, and bla bla bla.
and then she took out one small little TianLu saying that can help to overcome everything, and that bloody little thing costs like NT$8,888 (S$372). SIAO EH!!! i told her i no money, and then she took out a even smaller one which was like NT$4,888 (S$204) DOUBLE SIAO EH!!! my money was meant for shopping, not for that tiny little creature =/ she insisted and insisted me to buy, but i was firmed enough to keep on rejecting and rejecting. until she knew she can't force me to buy, her face and attitude totally changed 360 degree. oh whatever, i quickly went outside to wait for my friends to come out.
luckily, all of us managed to escape and we waited for the rest of the group outside. Shalee wasn't lucky enough, she managed to reject from buying, but that lady SUAN and critisized her like mad. what a horrible people =/
Ling Long Ge~~~
the man demonstrating how to touch the TianLu...
SCAMMERS, looked at all those SCAMMERS!!!~
$_$
i felt like home seeing our Singapore Flag there..
waiting for the rest of the group =D
after 1 hour of torturing, finally we are leaving the place. back to the bus and there's actually one uncle in our group who bought a big TianLu for like over NT$30K (S$1,256). omg lah, so expensive!~
and next, a pretty long journey to our 3rd destination. it took us almost 2 hours to reach Ta Shee Blooming Oasis, 大溪花海农场 at 1pm. according to the tour guide, we were actually behind schedule due to some traffic delay earlier on. the tour guide actually booked the restaurant to have lunch at 2pm, and the journey from here back to the place to have our lunch definitely took more than an hour. and so, we were only given 10 minutes to quickly tour around the place.
immediately made full use of that precious 10 minutes to spam photos
the colours looked nice.
love yellow xD
spamming the red and pink flowers =D
and we were told that lots of Taiwan Idol Drama love coming here for filming
back to the bus at 1.10pm, and off we go to Da Hu area for our lunch. 1.5 hours bus journey to reach DaHu Strawberry Farm 大湖草莓文化馆 to have our lunch. we tried our best, but still late for 45 minutes. at last, lunch was served at 2.45pm. lol
we were served with 10 dishes and a plate of strawberry. the foods were not bad, they tend to like mixing strawberry with some of their dishes, it was sort of their signature style. haha. but don't understand why Taiwanese like to serve cold chicken. this was the second time we ate cold chicken in Taiwan, is it part of their tradition?
the place to have lunch
our lunch xD
waiting for foods
and fruits after meal
group picture with our tour mates
cheers!!~
outside the restaurant
time to move out to those strawberry products shop. everything related to this whole entire place is about strawberry. there's strawberry cookie, strawberry cakes, strawberry biscuits, strawberry jelly, strawberry ice cream, etc.
everything about strawberry can be found here. lol. and our tour guide told us this was his FIRST time bringing a group to this strawberry place. so he's pretty excited because it's his first time too. haha
our tour guide so excited
he wanted to take a picture of his first group that he brought to this place
our tour group picture again xD
HUGE STRAWBERRY!
strawberry ^^
enough of touring outside, we went into the strawberry products shop and i randomly bought some strawberry cookies and biscuits back for my working friends.
Strawberry Products Shop
like a strawberry paradise!~
buying strawberry ice cream
strawberry ice-cream
SHARE SHARE lah! lol
大湖酒庄
we continued to move up to all level of the strawberry products shop. Level 2 to see more strawberry souvenirs, Level 3 to see the strawberry growing process, Level 4 is like a cafe or what, and Level 5 is an open space to view the scenery of the place.
move up to upper level for more shops
at Level 5 open garden area.
the open area to spam pictures at
but the man behind photo-bombed us!!
POSED!
continued to spam
lol, and all of a sudden, Shalee stomach pain. and her pain was really pain, cannot wait, must go toilet to shit, like immediately!!! so exaggerating! haha. she said she maybe got this traveller diarrhoea. and so Lisa accompanied her to look for toilet, while Ginnette and me stayed behind to continue taking photo xD
Ginnette and me were left behind xD
after that, we immediately went down to look for them. and back to bus for our journey back to hotel. this time round they changed their schedule. normally they will send us to the hotel after we finished our shopping at night market and so on. hotel would definitely be the last.
but i think due to yesterday's incident, the 4 of us over-shop and came back late, delaying everyone's time. so they decided to make it that we head to the hotel first, put down our stuffs, and then out to the night market. for those who wished to shop till late at night, they will have to find their own transportation back to the hotel. and those who wanted to follow the bus, they were only given like 1.5 hours to shop, and after that they would have to go back to the bus which will sent them back to hotel.
and obviously, the 4 of us would choose to shop till late, and we have no problem in finding our own transportation back to hotel =D
journey to our hotel
please cherish when using water
Hotel Ful Won
our room!
after that, time to move out of the room and meet the rest at the lobby area. the last station for the night - Feng Jia Night Market. yeah, for us to shop till late late at night. goodbye to those who will be joining back the back after 1.5 hours. haha we have the entire night for ourselves! THE NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG XD
Feng Jia Night Market
Night Street
we decided to try the McDonald's, not buying big big meal or what because the entire night market got lots of foods for us to try. we only bought one McSpicy at NT$79 (S$3.30) to share. we divided it into 4 parts and share, eat little will do, we still have to keep our stomach for other foods xD
McDonald's
McSpicy
sharing session 1
and next, we walked past the UFO Catcher and decided to give it a try. you know, this kind of thing i seldom or never tried in Singapore because it's a total waste of money! i will never catch it.
but right here in Taiwan, i felt that i have the reason to spend money and it was only like NT$10-20 (S$0.40 -$0.80), omg, seriously i really cannot remember. i only know i kept dropping coins in to try my luck on that little round chick. hah, so cute!
and i was shocked that i managed to catch it. after like 3 tries or what. i caught that round little chick after dropping NT$60 (S$2.50). hahaha. and then the rest started giving it funny names, Lisa called it Ah Quak
(eww), Shalee called it Lucy (
omg) and i decided to name it Keropok! haha.
UFO Catcher
for my first time in my entire life, i CAUGHT it.
continued walking, and we walked past this shop selling toufu with the shape like a fries. looked pretty special to us, and so we walked in and ordered one bowl of it to share, and it's only like NT$35 (S$1.50).
Wonderful Soybean World
our toufu fries!
Keropok wants to eat too xD
sharing session 2
next, we came across Carton King, inside has lots of pretty unique items all made solely by papers or cupboard. they can even made out one chair by cupboard, and it can be seated one. won't collapse! haha
Carton King
beautiful uh?
Shalee and her favourite Eiffel Tower
and coming up ahead is all spammage of foods and drinks. pardon me because night market is all about their 台湾小吃.
Tea Shop
Our drinks!
my Grass Jelly Milk Tea @ NT$30 (S$1.30)
group photo
Kurtos
this is delicious, bought it @ NT$50 (S$2.10)
no idea what is it, but it was like a bread filled with chocolate
sharing session 3
fried mushroom @ NT$50 (S$2.10)
sharing session 4
we deliberately took this photo
show the sign of SMELLY while standing infront of smelly toufu shop! haha
Cheese Potato @ NT$40 (S$1.70)
omg, and we actually tried this. so hilarious.
it's like a sausage wafer @ NT$40 (S$1.70), but with the shape of p****
guys should know *ahem*
sharing session 5
anyway, we bought 1 and share. haha
one final last try again hahaha.*failed*
we walked until legs going break, imagine we from 7.30pm walked till 12.20am. haha decided to take a seat inside Burger King. anyway, we ordered one large drink, one onion ring and fries @ NT$140 (S$5.90) to share. haha. supper time ah!!!!!!
Burger King
our orders
sharing session 6
group photo at Burger King
toilet sign so cute
bad vs good
after eating, we continued to shop until 2am when most of the shops started closing, and Lisa KO-ed already. she surrendered and so we took cab back to our hotel haha. but luckily we managed to buy a big big scrump soft toy for Xue Ni as birthday present.
and and, we even went to buy mask, thinking later can go back hotel and put mask. hahah
hotel lift
back to hotel
and here we are at Taichung City at 3.49am!! haha
things i bought in Day 3!!!
items bought at the Strawberry Farm
and also souvenirs bought at Feng Jia Night Market
lastly, END OF DAY 3
KO-ed @ 4.36am!!!! omg, how to wake up tomorrow?!
Taiwan Trip Day 3
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