the DAY of the worst dinner
Another waking up early day, gosh, the trip starting to take its toll as we have another early train to catch, this time a draining 5 hr ride to Kaohsiung. We dumped out stuff at the main house or erm lobby, where we found the Ali BaBa mascot, the one that made us chose this location, and we eagerly snapped pictures with it! Haha, guess the entire decor of the place is not only aesthetically pleasing but with the numerous soft toys around, makes for quite a homely feel. We went around looking for breakfast and stumbled on this roadside stall that sells erm, 饭团. Its just meat wrapped in rice, with quite a number of other weird ingredients, not too bad I guess.
Onboard the 5 hr train ride, LH was immediately in la la land and dunno y, Andy and me hardly slept the journey. Lucky got PSP to keep us entertained! The stupid tennis game, ahhh. Nightmares. Haha, after we finally beat some nameless person in Round 3, had to go against Andy Roddick, cannot win! Oh well. We did stop at some of the train stations to take photos, ahem, so I've been to Taitung! Lunch was also bought earlier at 7-Eleven once again, AHH. No wonder we got quite sick of it later lol, but the train do sell food and though we didn't buy, the prices didn't seem all that expensive.
The previous night before, we were kept entertained by this Taiwan talk show, done mostly in Hokkien and perhaps the novelty of the language kept us hooked. It got us in stitches with 2 phrases! "没拜拜就没保庇", "吃人够够". Which was so applicable to our Kaohsiung segment, as we got exploited as tourists and with so many things not going our way, sigh.
Oh well. When we finally arrive in Kaohsiung, we had to look for our Hotel and upon finally pinpointing the location, we realised it was on the other side of Kaohsiung. Kinda like the city vs the slums, and we were on the slummy side of town, with a nice railway line separating the two, with the way there being not very accessible, had to go through some construction area. So sad! The entire city looked very sad, yellowish-grey skies, smog-ridden, had a stench of despair to it and it quickly infected us as well, but well, still smiling in the pictures below as we made our way across the track.
As we had booked a double room once again, this time, we decided to be more secretive and Andy / LH went to check in first while I loitered outside, but it was one of the better things in KS actually, as the room given was actually a 2 queen/king sized bed so we had ample space! Anyway, while waiting downstairs, I went walking round the Hotel area, but it was so ulu! All the shops were closed and very little people around, really felt like a deserted side of town.
After they came down, we started on our travelling and first qns already kenna banged. When we looked at the tourist map, they had already drawn in the MRT stops so we thought we could move around via that, however upon enquiries, it wasn't scheduled to be open until end 2007. Oh well. As we had to crossed back to the city side, this time we took a more populated route, the railway bridge cross over but wah, they actually charged a ticket, 月台票 just to cross the platform! It's only 6 NT ~ 30 cents, but the audacity of it all! Just a stupid flyover, and not like its airconditioned or have escalators or what not, ahh, walking also need to pay toll charges, stupid!
Well, with that idiocy out of the way, we took a bus to the Gushan Ferry Terminal for a 10NT ferry to Qi Jing, where we saw this shop called dua wa gong (大碗公) haha, very big! They have another size bowl (even bigger) displayed outside but think that one really not meant for consumption, can feed 10 people lo.. but they did put 世界杯3000CC, so well, erm, go there and try again?
Somehow ferry rides aren't all that bad, there's the seaview, breeze, feeling of being on deck that makes it all quite fun, its just a short ferry ride though, something like the old harbourfront to sentosa distance!
First stop at Qi Jing was the 天后宫 temple and just said a little prayer before moving on. Haha, should have prayed more though! We then walked around the beach, towards the harbour, lighthouse area and just kinda took our time exploring there. The pier design was quite unique though, with a long platform stretching out, and ships had to pass through sort of a gate to enter the docking areas. There was a star gazing tunnel, and if you clap your hands, the birds will chirp, which was really quite dumb, since it erm, doesn't fit in with the astro - theme at all?
The beach was unique in the sense that the sand was black? No idea why though.. probably just the mineral content, but unique as it is, the colour wasn't all that enticing for us to go play with as well, it resembled dirt! Who can blame us!
And well, dinner time. Being at the beach, it is apt to have seafood! So of we went searching for a suitable restaurant. Haha, bad bad experience. Perhaps we were enticed by the supposedly cheap prices but its actually based on per person and well, overall it ain't cheap! Guess the 3 of us weren't much of weird seafood eaters, so perhaps this wasn't such a good idea after all!
We ordered 5 dishes (from top in clockwise manner):
1) Sotong Ball! (Not shown in picture, this is one of the best actually)
2) Squid like tentacle - deep fried
3) Shark skin (Super chewy, gah, like rubber)
4) Clam shell like thing
5) Weird hard crunchy thing, black in colour
haha, so many unknown weird descriptions and aiya, with stuff like this, how to stomach it down, and the cook was bad, dishes weren't nice and the stuff were just erm, weird and bad. The shellfish had sand inside also, damn bad la...
the remains
not much difference lo, haha... food here really cannot make it, give me a night market anytime! We left the place as well as Qi Jing feeling displeased and cheated, haha cos it turned out to be quite expensive also, think around $15 plus per person and not high end seafood also. (SOTONG BALL LO!)
Back in Kaohsiung, we headed for the Love River and started an intensive session of photo whoring that finally stopped when we ended up at the Harujuku square street market (name also must copy!) + show off my camera abit!
... finally at the river ...
... heart pose ...
... nice red flowers in bloom ...
... the scenic view ...
... another perspective ...
Next stop, 城市光廊 or Urban Spotlight. Not sure what it is exactly but seems more like a chillout place with a live singer and lights in an urban park?
... AH! Ghost! ...
... Sir Stamford Sean pose ...
... Charlie's Angels ...
... poseurs ...
Other than an eggtart, doughnut, shopping, stationery break in between, we ended up at the LiouHe Night Market! Well, food's always good, we tried quite a nice variety once again, fried ice cream! oyster omelette (we requested without oyster after our seafood scare, erm abit bo hua hor), dumplings, etc etc.. There was also a near fatal accident as I poked Andy with the satay stick ACCIDENTALLY. Ok, I need training on how to feed a person haha.
With that, tired, we took our tired bodies back to the Hotel, but were still rejuvenated enough to play dice! Loser drinks a full glass of water, or subject to a whack with the cane that we bought. Luckily, I was not the one who had to keep waking up to go to the toilet, whew!
With that, tired, we took our tired bodies back to the Hotel, but were still rejuvenated enough to play dice! Loser drinks a full glass of water, or subject to a whack with the cane that we bought. Luckily, I was not the one who had to keep waking up to go to the toilet, whew!
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