The first stop is the Handicraft Centre where there's 3 storeys of Chinese handicrafts. Stuff like painting, engraving, all sorts imaginable. Including local produce; tea, spirits, vinegar. I ended up buying tea, and we bought cheena coasters for family. My sister bought a whole bunch and she asked the lady there for direction to find the Chinese handicraft shop but didn't get any street name or anything, just that it's near to the children's hospital.
We walked along and saw some ancient looking buildings, and decided to walk towards there. It turned out we are at the Chiang Kai Sek Memorial. There's also 2 other buildings. The concert hall and the library, both done in ancient style and huge ass big. Took photos (in sis's camera)
After that it was getting dark but sister still wanted to find Mom's request. So we walked around and on trying to locate the children's hospital. I was getting irritated cos it's cold, plus no street names given dunno where we were walking to, also can't ask if don't even know where heading to. The maps we looked at doesn't not mention the small roads and alleys' names. So we walked and walked. I lagged behind cos tired plus I didn't want to say anything, later argue or verbal tiff. I just followed my sister n walked until she herself decided that no point. Think we walked continuously more than 20mins in the open cold. When almost going to stop, we decided to walk to these rows of shops in the nearby distance, lo and behold is the children's hospital and found the bloody shop. They don't have the exact thing but bought something approximate to it.
Too tired after that to go search n walk around to find a nearby mrt then have to search for the night market, so we hailed a cab to go straight to the Shida Night Market. It's not that far away nor was it expensive. We walked and settled in a 卤味 shop where the food is laid out yong tau fu style and u choose the bits u want. It's chopped up and dumped into this 车轮 style cooker full of boiling soup. There are 3 nets like noodles nets and each order goes into one. When it's cooked, the 'wheel' is turned and the cooked contents poured onto a big dish, garnished with some garlic and sauce. Luckily is not the Hotpot 沾酱 cos it's quite peculiar and I don't like that. Phew! So it's all good. Love the 猪血, 猪肝, a yam bits jelly bar, the asparagus, mushroom and cabbage. Don't like the 猪血糕 cos inside have rice that tastes very like barley. First time ate it from my sis's hot pot the day earlier at 茶街 and didn't like it. Since my sister liked it, I chose it. The meatball n tofu not so good but overall it's good. Then it turned out we ate at the featured one in the guidebook.
After dinner just walked around. We went into a jig-saw shop and my sis bought a mini jig saw of an art piece called "the kiss". I was tempted by one of many many beers but thinking how there's not much space in luggage, decided not to. Shida Night mkt is a. Very long street but with 5 or do perpendicular roads through it so there are many cross-road intersections. We kept turning right like how one would do so when lost in a maze. But at one point we smelt 臭豆腐 but after walking on, kinda lost the scent. So we didn't eat that at all this trip though we know the smell of it. Looking for toilet, we ended up in a dessert stall. It's called 甜. And my peanut soup with tang yuan is too sweet for my taste. My sister had red bean soup. Bub think the 3兄妹 stall in Ximeng was way more generous in 料 and better in taste too. Definitely would eat there some more. It rained while we were inside but we had umbrellas so we walked a little bit more and decided to go back via cab. The taxi ride was 'thrilling' in a sense like how it was weaving in and out of lanes at high speed despite the wet roads but we got back safely. Decided not to head out to Ximeng cos by 10pm, most stales are starting to close except for food stalls.
The last day would be spent around Ximeng area. We have to check out by 12 noon. The transport arranged via the hotel to the airport would come at 2.40pm, we would have to come back by 2.30pm. Our flight is at 6pm.
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