Taiwan Trip (Day 1)

Here is the post for Day 1 of my Taiwan Trip in April 2010. Had our flight in the early morning, 9.40am. Thanks PS's dad who fetch us to LCCT after the early breakfast. With an excited feeling in the morning, we cant stop ourselves to start campwhoring even before we enter into departure room.

3 of us at the McDonald, LCCT

The cup of coffee from McDonald. Shared among 3 of us.

With the lugages.

2 of them.

In the departure room. Waiting to enter into aeroplane.


In the plane, before it fly into sky.

She with me.

The pre-order flight meal. Taste so-so only. The most tastier would be chicken rice. Each pack come with the small bottle of mineral water.

After 4.5 hours of flight, we finally reached safely at TaoYuan International Airport. The first thing we need to do is to get the Tour Buddy Phone from the counter. This is the facilities that provided by Taiwan for foreign travelers. We can borrow this phone for free with free credit of TWD100. We just need to return it when we leave Taiwan after 8 days. This phone had brought convenience to us to contact with our family, home stay owner and also call for taxi services.

Ta Da, these are the 3 phones. Small and light! What a good services provided by them.

Besides that, we also apply for youth card at the same counter. If you are below 30 years old, just fill up a form and you can get it for free also. With the card, we can get discount at several places at Taiwan.

From TaoYuan International Airport, we took bus to reach Taipei with TWD125 per person. There are few bus companies at the bus terminal in the Airport. Just go and ask and you will reach the place you want to go.

We had book the room before we came to Taiwan. Taipei York, LongShanShi is the place that we stay in the first 2 days at Taipei. With a reasonable price, we are satisfied with the room we got. Just a little too small for 3 persons, as mention by the owner before we booked it.

PS in the toilet. The owner is very clever to fully utilise all the spaces in the room, include toilet. lol

Campwhore in front of the mirror.

The decoration above our bed. Seriously, i love the bed, so ~SOFT~

A good facilities provided by this owner. Washing machine in every room. We do laundry everyday after we back from outside. ^^

It is a 'tree' painted on the wall, at the living room.

The key of the room. The room is name as Room Y.

The first night in our schedule was shopping in WuFenPu! WuFenPu is a place where full of clothes distributors. A lot of variety and we can get clothes for the cheapest price! 3 of us are brave enough to brought only 2 pieces of clothes each from M'sia as we already plan to buy clothes over here.

They took picture with Biyen while waiting for MRT to WuFenPu. Finally got a chance to meet her at Taiwan.

Me are in picture this round.

The 3 of us in the MRT. Took by Biyen.

As we are starving since we got down from the plane, we decided to take dinner first before we start shop at WuFenPu. It was raining since we reach Taipei and the weather is super duper cool. So we had steamboat for our first meal at Taiwan. This shop is just one steet away from WuFenPu.

Customers can easily look at the menu which is on the top of the wall. After decided what to order, we need to put down our order at the counter. Even though they serve it in a small pot, but it is quite a large portion for a person to KO one pot. Even we are only order 3 pots for 4 persons, we dont really can finish all the food.

Pot of lamb (特制羊肉锅) ~ The soup is full of lamb meat taste. They putting in the lamb cute instead of lamb meat slices.

Pot of Mah Lat (中国麻辣锅) ~ Different with the Mah Lat pot we have in M'sia. The soup is taste more to sweetenest of meat, instead of just spicy taste of the food. We also found lamb meat slices in this pot.

Pot of seafood (海鲜锅) ~ They are generous in putting in different kind seafood.

Total 3 of them. Besides of the meats, each pot contains mushroom, vegetable, grass noodle and also Fucuk.

鲁肉贩 in the shop. For the rice, we have to help ourself out.


The sauce for the steamboat. Nice!

They prepapre the pots in front of the shop.

Pearl milk tea ~ the drink that we bought during our dinner.

After we finish with our dinner, we start with our shopping street at WuFenPu. We shop until 11pm and we need to catch the MRT to get back to our 'home'. Seriously, it is not enough time for us to visit all the shops there and we plan to go back here again the next day. ^^ That's our first night in Taiwan!