A Trip to Taiwan: 1st Day in Taiwan

After 30 minutes of waiting, we were finally in Taiwan.

We saw the text in marquee:




I noticed that we were asked to stand on the right while using the elevator.


We went onto the bus and saw our tour guide.

He joked:"If you call me tour guide, no one will know who you are calling, so you can either call me 'xiao yu' or 'shuai ge'." On the way to Shi Lin, the guide explained that Taiwan's bitter gourd is drier than green bitter gourds and can be made into drinks like: pineapple carrot bitter gourd.

Soon, we arrived at Shi Lin.

We passed by a fried oyster egg store. They cooked the egg on the round stove. There were vegetables under the egg. It was extremely oily and there was a layer of oil under it. Eeeeyurgh!


After walking around for a while, we decided to try the white bitter gourd drink the guide told us. We went to "A-Zhong's Drink Stall".


They had a wide varirity of fruits displayed in a very beautiful manner:

taste.

We had 15 minutes left so we decided to walk around again. Then, we saw a stall selling prawns with claws ( very much like tiny lobsters without a claw ) !


You had to fish the prawns with small fishing rod-like things and put them in buckets - of course, its not free!

There were also games in the night market like: basketball! Pay NT$10 and you'll get to play! Here's a video of someone playing basketball:

He is professional at basketball! In just 30 seconds, he scored 128 points ( 2 points for each ball ).

We then checked in to our hotel, called Yaward Hotel.

It is actually more of a 3-star hotel because it only has 3 stories and one lift!





Here is a map of the hotel.


By the time we were getting ready to sleep, it was already 1 a.m. in the morning!