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2024: Taiwan Trip
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(setq org-board-make-relative t)| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| 02/09/24 | 02/10/24 | 02/11/24 | 02/12/24 | 02/13/24 | 02/14/24 | 02/15/24 | |
| Morning | Flight | Buy SIM Cards | Sandwich Shop | Delicious Chicken Meat | Bike Morning/Noon: | Breakfast | |
| Rent Bikes | Xitou National Park | Anping | Boba | ||||
| My Favorite Beach | Bike Morning: | ||||||
| Bomb Scallion Pancake | Erliao Sunrise Pavilion | ||||||
| Noon | Transit | Shanghai Good Flavor | Xitou | Fire Meat | Transit | ||
| Tea Magic Hands | |||||||
| Night | Sushi | Dadong Night Market | Feng Chia Night Market | Hot Pot | Guo Hua Jie | Flight |
Locations
Restaurants
上海好味道小籠湯包
Serves lots of dim sum. XLBs taste great!
Front Menu Sign offline
Picture Menu offline
Paper Menu offline
Fire Meat
There are two options to get "fire meat", or "crispy skin burned meat". It's a hong-kong style dish, but my mom and I have found a couple places that sell it.
These two restaurants sell, um, "bento boxes"?
Yes, I just googled it. It's apparently the same "word" in both Japanese and Mandarin. It's pronounced closer to 'byan dahng', but it's the same concept: boxes with rice, meat, and vegetables.
It's the same wikipedia page as "bento box":
- https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BE%BF%E7%95%B6
"Fire meat" (脆皮烧肉) is cooked porkbelly, but one side of the porkbelly is cooked to be really crispy. It's not like charcoal-y, but more like it seems like it was deep fried on one side. Tastes really good!
This is what it looks like:
Side note:
While googling this, I found out bulgogi also translates to 'fire meat', but in Korean. Not the same thing!
港記燒臘便當
聚香園燒臘快餐
王記好吃雞肉
It's a mildly funny name for a restaurant. They literally name themselves "good tasting/good flavor/delicious" chicken meat.
It's just roasted chicken meat, sold in a bento box format.
I like the taste of it.
鮨次郎壽司專賣
Sushi!
Menu offline
茶的魔手-東安店
GAMMA(尬麻)火鍋聚場_XM餐飲-東區和牛火鍋 海鮮火鍋 宵夜推薦 吃到飽餐廳 聚餐餐廳 必吃美食
Night Markets
Night markets are a kind of night-life phenomena that are common in Taiwan and China. I get the impression that these are prevalant across all of East Asia, but the sentiment that I get is that this is a phenomena that originates in China/Taiwan.
Night markets are basically a conglomerate of popup stands that only open up at night, and are lined up in a way to facilitate a kind of leisurely strolling experience. You walk, there's a line-up of shops selling gadgets, trinkets, and importantly street food. There's also gambling opportunities (fun games to play for prizes or satisfaction).
大東夜市
逢甲夜市
Nature Spots
溪頭自然教育園區
Highest Resolution Map I could find offline
漁光島
My favorite place to bike to. It's a 4.3 mile bike trip (8.3 mile round trip).
Especially in the early morning, when nobody else is there.
台南二寮觀日亭
People normally try and travel to here via motorcycle, but my silly brain says that it's bikeable. It's a 29.6 mile round-trip, uphill one way, downhill the other way.
Last time I went, I left around 4AM, and got back by noon. On the way back, this pesky thing called the sun rises, and makes things hotter, so the way back - even though downhill - is way rougher IMO. There's a 7-Eleven in the middle, where I had to stop and cool off for a while before making the rest of the trek back home.
Unplanned
Egg scallion pancakes
記愣蔥油餅-小北炸蛋
Menu Pictures offline
夏林蔥油餅
Bomb Scallion Pancake
So, there's this dish called "egg scallion pancake", which is a savory kind of breakfast food in Taiwan.
Bomb scallion pancakes are the same thing, but it is instead deep fried rather than just stir-fried.
The reason they're called "bomb scallion pancakes" is that it's a pun. If you put the word you use for "deep fry" in front of the word for "egg", it's pronounced the same way as "bomb". So, "bomb scallion pancakes" are really "deep-fried egg scallion pancakes".
7-Eleven
Yes, you heard me right. We should probably spend a day or two getting food from a 7-Eleven.
In Taiwan (probably in other East-Asian countries), 7-Eleven (and other kinds of these "convenience stores"), actually sell good tasting food.
These convenience stores have all sorts of connotations and use cases, but I think the most telling kind of way these stores are treated is the following: 7-Elevens are a common stopping place for children who just got off of school, and need a place to sit, eat, and do work before their after-school tutoring lessons.
The above use case almost gives 7-Eleven a kind of library-type feel, except instead of books, they sell packaged snacks, food, and various useful trinkets.
Fish Skin Soup
家福早餐屋
We bought dan bing (egg pancake) from here.
東門阿姨鹹酥雞
Stand Picture offline
Boba?
Buffets?
- Han Lai
- Tan Chuo Ma Li?
- Shiang Shi Tian Tang
碳佐麻里
Malls?
Old
CLOSED! 小公主咖啡館
A nice little cafe that's right next to where I purchase a SIM card when I go back. They serve Takoyaki, as well as these, um, "cake sandwiches"?