Day 4

  We started off day number 4 by heading to Q Square food court to eat lunch since we woke up at 12pm. This food court was different from how our food courts in Oahu look. For example our Ala Moana food court has a mix of different vendors and each shop looks like its brand giving it a very diverse multi-cultural look, but the food court here was very unified where all the vendors looked the same with only the name (in Chinese) that was different. This sucked because I could not tell easily what each vendor sold without having to walk around the entire food court and looking at the individual pictures. Finally I decided on a combo meal with kung pao chicken and black pepper beef that was served on top of a hot plate.

  After lunch, we had to take a 1 hour long train ride then transfer and take another 1 hour long bus ride to finally reach JiuFen. JiuFen reminded me of Stanley Market in Hong Kong, but what's even more amazing was that this place was the inspiration for the movie, Spirited Away (which most of you should have seen!) and sold all sorts of souvenirs and snacks.

JiuFen (The lady in the wig was very nice too!)

The taro mochi balls were very chewy and cold; perfect for the hot day!

  We then took the bus back down towards Keelung, where there is another night market. This one seemed a lot bigger than the ShiLin one that I ate at the other day because this one had over 100+ different vendors. If you can see in the picture below, there are numbers next to each vendor...it was impossible for us to try EVERYTHING! The food was just indescribable!...and the fact that they were in Chinese and I don't know how to explain it, but it was good!

Random: This picture of Keelung just reminded me of Hollywood

Keelung Market

Simply Yummy!

  That's all for today, good night!