Taipei Tamsui part 2

For those who missed us on the previous episode of Taipei Tamsui Old Street, click on the link for part 1. Hugo Wolf spotted on the train from Taipei Main Station to Tamsui Station.

Welcome to part 2 of Tamsui old street. It was Saturday evening with a massive crowd here at Tamsui.

Another stall selling Tamsui fish balls and ah gei.

Fishing!

This Tamsui fish ball stalls was mentioned in the Taipei travel book but our filled up stomach did not allow us to go for more fish balls.

A cute Piggy sign, but it wasn't selling pork.

The street is getting dark.

It is only 5:30pm and the sky is already as dark as nightfall! Let's see what other local Tamsui delicacies we can find!

Another quail egg stall at Tamsui.

We spot a temple at Tamsui old street

Have no idea what fruit is that.

Walking back to where we started.

The crowd at Tamsui never rest!

Fruit stall at Tamsui selling pink guava! We have never seen pink guava before! Have you? Taiwan's pink guava is very sweet, juicy and crunchy!

Hello Hugo!

A curious onlooker sets his eyes on Hugo Wolf, as usual, getting attention everywhere.

It says German pork knuckle! Wow

And another interesting stall - Deep fried durian!

Shida Night Market, Ximending, Jiu Fen, Keelung coming up soon. Stay tuned! (^_^)

Tamsui Old Street (Taiwan)

Hugo Wolf says hi from Tamsui district of Taiwan! Day 1 at Taipei and NICI-Mania's first destination is Tamsui!

Tamsui district is most famous for the Tamsui old street. Its only 4pm Taiwan time and the crowd has already flooded the entire street.

Tamsui is very easy to go, just take the Taipei metro red line and go northbound towards the last station.

Once you get out of the mrt station, turn towards your left

You will see a sign pointing the direction to "Tamsui Old Street"

We kinda followed the sign..WRONG IDEA!! This doesn't look like Tamsui old street

After following majority of the crowd, we reached the famous Tamsui old street. Its very hard to miss because you will see mountains of people and lots of local food stalls.

Tamsui old street first stop - wild boar Taiwan sausages!

Tamsui most famous for fish crackers!! We bought a lot back home.

Its autumn towards winter at Taiwan and 27 degree Celsius is considered too crazily warm for this time of the year.

At Tamsui, you must remember to visit the Tamsui Ah Po shop selling the authentic and most famous "Ah Po Tie Dan", the legendary 'iron egg'!

You must also patron the famous Tamsui fish ball stalls. There are many Tamsui fish ball stalls here all claiming to be the authentic one.

The acclaimed Tamsui fish ball was a huge disappointment. Tamsui fish balls are very different from the usual fish balls we eat here.

Tamsui fish ball stalls always sell "Ah Gei" together with fish balls.

Tamsui ah gei is fried tofu stuffed with glass noodles. Very unique food you can't find elsewhere. Not exactly tasty though.

Then we head out towards the harbor side of the Tamsui old street.

The pier where everyone was waiting at to take the ferry to go to fisherman's wharf, a very well known scenic spot with the famous Lover Bridge accompanied by beautiful sunset.

Instead of going to Fisherman's wharf and lover's bridge..We head for more local Tamsui delights!!

This is a very interesting Tamsui delicacy..they are frying quail eggs with silver fish. Then you get to brush the quail eggs with the special garlic sweet sauce which is very tasty!

Fried quail eggs with silver fish is surprisingly delicious!! A must try at Tamsui old street.

The sun is setting soon, more Tamsui old street pictures coming up!

NICI in Taipei 2011 (Taiwan)

NICI wolf spotted at Changi T1! It's NICI-Mania's Hugo Wolf at Singapore Changi airport checking in for his flight to the beautiful Taipei city!

It's 5:30am in the morning, after checking in, our NICI wolf went to shop around and found a Harrods outlet! Look at the size of the Harrods Bear!

NICI plush vs Harrods Bear

 We haven't had our breakfast yet, so we stopped by Burger King and Hugo Wolf waited like a boss while his human queued for the food.

The Jetstar airplane that is gonna take NICI-Mania to Taipei

Getting ready for takeoff, Hugo Wolf, please fasten your seatbelt

Hugo Wolf looks outside the window..

and off we go! NICI-Mania is en-route to Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan and one of the most wonderful city to visit in the world.

After a 4 hour flight, we arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International airport. What a sunny afternoon!

 

Go to one of the counters to get a bus ticket that cost NT125, it will bring you to the center of Taipei city in 45 minutes time.

The airport shuttle bus stops us right in front of Taipei train station. 

Hugo Wolf: Hello Taiwan!!!!!!

Taipei train station building.

It's already approaching the end of Autumn here in Taiwan and we really wasn't expecting the weather to be so HOT! NICI-mania plushies almost fainted in the heat.

The first thing you'll notice about Taipei is, the whole street is flooded with 7-Eleven. You can even stand in a street and see two 7-Eleven right opposite one another.

Lots of food to eat in 7-Eleven!

Large sausages and herbal tea egg

 Look who's here at Taiwan! Little Rocker Wolf joins Hugo Wolf for this Taiwan trip. Let's grab a beer in this warm Autumn while we check in to our hotel near the Taipei main MRT station.

After dropping our bags, our hungry plushies went straight for food and right across the street from our hotel is this dumpling bun stall - 老蔡水煎包

There are lots of condiments from chilli sauce to dark soy sauce to vinegar for you to add to your dumpling bun.

There are 3 types of dumpling bun for you to choose from, the meat bun is the most tasty of them at 老蔡水煎包. Just look at the juice overflowing out from the bun!!

After finishing the lovely dumpling bun, NICI-Mania sets out to Tamsui district of Taipei. We will be taking the MRT from Taipei Main Station. This is just like the City Hall interchange of Singapore, right in the center of Taipei city where you can go to any direction.

Cute train souvenirs at Taipei Main Station.

Hugo Wolf passed by MacDonalds in Taipei! No time for that though, we need to rush to Tamsui.

But Hugo Wolf spotted a very cute panda in front of MacDonalds riding on a bicycle!

If you have an EasyCard, you can go anywhere in Taiwan, from MRT to buses to even trains. Hugo Wolf taps his EasyCard and off we go to Tamsui.

See you in the next entry for Tamsui, Taipei.

Yes we are going to visit the NICI shop in Taiwan, so stay tuned for the pictures!