Taiwan 2015 Day One - Taichung

Ok, finally im here to update my taiwan trip with Shering few months back! This trip was kinda booked on impulse though we casually talked about it before that..haha! Saw the Jetstar promo ticket in Feb so we got our air ticket around SGD250+ each and I thought it was pretty worth it! After settling our air ticket, we started to look for accommodation and i'm so glad we decided to give Airbnb a try, my first time booking airbnb overseas..hehe! I can say that we put quite a lot of efforts in planning and preparing for this trip. We even bought new lens for this trip yeay one more prime lens added into collection XD

Anyway, fast forward to our 1st day of the long awaited trip..can you imagine we bought our air ticket in Feb and have to wait for 9 months for the trip to happen? lol~ Our flight was at 7am so we decided to spend the night before at Changi Airport because you know..we scared we overslept..haha! Talked non stop in Paris Baguette until boarding time and no surprise we straightaway fell asleep on the plane after it took off :p

Reached Taoyuan Airport after a 6 hours flight and the first thing we did was to apply the local data prepaid plan..hehe! The plan we used is the 7 days package with unlimited data and 150NT call time from Taiwan Mobile (台湾大哥大). We were so hungry by that time so we bought some food from the 7-11, love love love the oden and the milk tea! The milk tea is a must try! I even bought few bottles back..ahaha!

Ok, our trip started in Taichung so we have to take the high speed rail from taipei to taichung.We took a bus (客运) from Taoyuan Airport to Taiwan High Speed Rail (HSR) Station and from there we took the HSR to Taichung Station. The journey from Taipei to Taichung by HSR was about an hour so we bought the railway bento for our late lunch..hehe! #nonstopeating The 1st day was just keep travelling and travelling on road, we took another bus from Taichung train station to our airbnb stay for 45 mins - - Can't really locate our airbnb stay at 1st and we were so tired carrying our luggage around..worst part was when we know they put us on 5th floor..what..with no lift!! Luckily they changed our room to 3rd floor in the end and even asked their staff to help us carry up our luggage..hehe much appreciate!

Meet my lil sis and her friends for quick dinner at Yizhong Street and my sis strongly recommended us the Devil chicken cutlet (恶魔鸡排), it was devil indeed..haha! The chicken cutlet is not like the usual one we had and it was so so big and super tender and moist and crispy at the same time hahaha!! We tried some other street food as well like cheese potato and the 棺材板, lol I dunno what is it called in english, it's something like stuffed toast XD Went to Fengjia Night Market afterwards and it was so packed with people, I didn't take much pictures there because i was too busy browsing here and there, the shops all closed around 1am so ya we only went back to our airbnb after midnight..lol!

Summary of Day 1:
Taoyuan Airport > High Speed Railway Station > Taichung Station > Airbnb > Yizhong Street > Fengjia Night Market

Ok, that's all for our Day 1 in Taiwan! Stay tune for more updates! Meanwhile, please watch my vlog above for our day 1 & 2 in Taiwan! *Please watch in HD!!* I can't wait to share our day 2 itinerary especially the super cute shaved ice we had but then again..i haven finish editing the photos XDD 

To Be Continued..

The Laneway Market & LICK

I didn't know there's so manyyy food choices around Tanjong Katong area till I visited The Laneway Market with Joanne couple weeks ago. With so many cafes and restaurants around, you will never go hungry but you might have a hard time choosing what to eat..haha! We've been hearing about The Laneway Market lately and it seems that the food are quite promising so we decided to have our brunch there :D The Laneway Market is hidden away from the main road, located at the turn from Tanjong Katong Road to Boscombe Road, just beside Bee Chee Hiang store. There wasn't a lot of people when we arrived so i guess we were pretty lucky, heard that it's usually crowded during weekends. We ordered spam fries, pulled pork burger and their famous risotto to share~ As for drinks, we ordered the iced earl grey and ice sea salt chocolate!

The pulled pork burger comes with 12-hours braised pork in beer-infused BBQ sauce, purple cabbage slaw and truffle fries. The pulled pork was very tender and moist but i can't taste any beer flavor in it but overall it was quite yummy..hehe! The highlight of the meal has got to be the mushroom risotto! Love the plating and how cute is the fried mushroom standing like little trees on the risotto..haha! The risotto was done very well with al-dente yet soft texture and the rice has absorbed the stock well, a must order imo!! Spam fries was quite nice but I don't understand what's the green sprouts doing on the fries, hahaha adding color to the dish maybe xD

It was raining heavily outside after we had our brunch so we decided to have ice cream nearby hahahaha! First time trying this Little Ice Cream Kafe, LICK and boy it was such a pleasant surprise as we didn't expect it to be so nice! :p We had the hershey's chocolate, red velvet and honey lavender to share, i love the honey lavender the most!

Did a vlog too..hehe! Please watch in HD! :)

The Laneway Market
266 Tanjong Katong Rd
Singapore 437053
Tues: 4-9pm
Wed-Fri: 11am-9.30pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-9.30pm

Little Ice Cream Kafe
258 Tanjong Katong Road
Singapore 437046
Mon-Thu: 1pm-11pm
Fri-Sat: 1pm-12am
Sun: 1pm-11pm