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  • Taipei Trip: Wu Fen Pu & Raohe Night Market

    Taipei Trip: Wu Fen Pu & Raohe Night Market

    Taipei Trip: Wu Fen Pu & Raohe Night Market (Day 3) – First of all, do not visit Wu Fen Pu Wholesale Garment Market on a Monday (go on other day but not Monday), because the people will not entertain you or sell you anything. You can touch, you can see but you just can’t buy! Sad, should have know this earlier. But nevermind, Raohe Night Market is just a stone throw away, we headed to the night market after a quick disappointed walk in Wu Fen Pu.
    Bike sharing in Taipei, I like it!
    I tell you, I want this pig pet, where can I find?!
    (Wu Fen Pu Wholesale Area)
    (Wu Fen Pu Wholesale Area)
    (Wu Fen Pu Wholesale Area)
    (Wu Fen Pu Wholesale Area)
    Cute little poodle.
    I’ve read on the net that Raohe Night Market is one of the good night market in Taipei. To be honest, it’s good, in term of food choices, but not shopping. There’s nothing much to shop, eat is number one here, buy is number zero. Of course, do pay a visit to this place, because you can find some good eat here! Weather turned a bit colder when night falls, so visiting the night market was not a warm one.
    Temple in front of Raohe Night Market, the place where you can find public toilet. (Raohe Night Market)
    One of my favourite beverage in Taiwan – Bittergourd Juice. (Raohe Night Market)
    As usual, night markets in Taipei are filled with tourists, of course locals too. The first thing to do, visit the the temple, go to the public washroom (temples are the good place for free public toilet) and have the hands washed, then we started the night market exploration.
    Hu Jiao Bing. (Raohe Night Market)
    Wu Jiao Bing (Pepper Biscuit) is a must try because there’s many people queuing for it. HAHA. It’s Chinese-style biscuit stuffed with a whole lot of pepper-marinated meat and yes, it’s indeed delicious.
    Interestingly, there’s many this game store where you can win teddy bear. Only in Taiwan. (Raohe Night Market)
    Herbal Pork Ribs Soup. Must try. There’s so many stalls at there, and you must be thinking which is the best. Well, they are they same to me. (Raohe Night Market)
    Lu Rou Fan, all-time favourite. (Raaohe Night Market)
    Herbal Pork Ribs Soup is another must try at there. The fragrance of Chinese herbs is very strong and tasty together with the essence of pork ribs. Well, it’s a modified version of our Bak Kut Teh I would say, but with a stronger herb taste and lighter in colour. An addition of Lu Rou Fan (again) do serves the meal well.
    This person is selling deep fried Oreo biscuit, dare to try? (Raohe Night Market)
    Taofu Fa Pudding, which I find it quite normal, just like normal sweet jelly. (Raohe Night Market)
    They claim that the string treatment on the face can remove blackhead permanently. Seriously? (Raohe Night Market)
    Huge sesame chicken drumstick. (Raohe Night Market)
    Pork Liver soup, quite interesting. (Raohe Night Market)
    Food doesn’t stop coming to us at Raohe Night Market. We had exotic pork liver soup and a huge chicken drumstick cooked with sesame oil which I find it somewhat special, and good too!
    Handmade Bubble Pearl. (Raohe Night Market)
    What a food-ful night at Raohe, ended with a Taiwanese bubble tea. We were lazy to walk to the MRT and cab was the solution to go back to the hotel.
  • Taipei Trip: Visiting Taipei 101, Ding Tai Fung & Surroundings

    Taipei Trip: Visiting Taipei 101, Ding Tai Fung & Surroundings

    Taipei Trip: Visiting Taipei 101, Ding Tai Fung & Surroundings (Day 3) – Visiting the 3rd attractions, the once the tallest bamboo-shape building in the world – Taipei 101. If you ask me whether I like maize-shape building – Petronas KLCC or the bamboo-shape building – Taipei 101, I’ll pick the maize. Come on, it’s really not as magnificent as I thought. Petronas KLCC is sparking clean every day with shiny stainless steel frame, but the Taipei 101, looks old and dusty. They need some polish and cleaning.
    LOVE Sculpture.
    I should have stop complaining now, it’s still one of the greatest architecture success after all. 😛 Taipei 101, tallest building in Taiwan, and that’s it. The one and only tall building in Taipei. If you do notice, there’s not really many tall skyscrapers in Taipei.
    BRANDED!
    Inside it houses office as well as a shopping mall that includes all the high-end designers’ label which will makes rich go WOW. It’s a quiet mall on a Monday afternoon, Prada is very cheap in Taiwan as far as I know, comparing to other Asian country.
    For food, Ding Tai Fung is a must try, because it’s the number one restaurant on TripAdvisor! Don’t expect it to be expensive because I find the food is quite reasonable. Food taste is great but what’s even better is the service, you will know what I mean if you visit the restaurant. Young Taiwanese waitress, with their cute voices, you will just get goosebumps after a while and the service was just superb. Every worker has a smile on their face. Well, just not regretting visiting the number 1 restaurant.
    After that, we walked towards to the MRT station which is rather far. Passed by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, a departmental store with a funny long Japanese name where every department is allocate in one building. So men’s section in one building, ladies’ section in another. That’s big!
  • Taipei Trip: National Martyrs Shrine

    Taipei Trip: National Martyrs Shrine

    Taipei Trip: National Martyrs Shrine (Day 3) – Not many people will visit this place except Chinese tourists in big tourist bus, or people who visited the Tripadvisor for attractions like me because you can only access this place by cab. It’s just a shrine, dedicated to the war dead soldiers of Taiwan, but what interesting is checking out the changing of National Guard which makes it the main attraction of the place. Other than that, it’s the Chinese architecture then that’s it. Inside is just ancestral tlablets of the dead soldier, a bit creepy, it’s more of a tourist attractions to me.
    We were just so lucky to be in time to check out the changing of guards and it’s really very cool I tell you. All the soldiers were very well synchronized. I wonder how much is their salary. HAHA.
  • Taipei Trip: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall 國立中正紀念堂

    Taipei Trip: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall 國立中正紀念堂

    Taipei Trip: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall 國立中正紀念堂 (Day 3) – Talking about the must-visit in Taipei, the CKS Memorial Hall is one of it. Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall (in Mandarin it’s not Jiang Kai Shek, but it’s named as Jiang Jie Shi) also known as the Natioanl Taiwan Democracy Hall is a famous monument, landmark in Taiwan which is built in memory of former President of Taiwan – Chiang-Kai Shek.
    National Concert Hall
    CKS Memorial Hall
    National Theater
    The Memorial Hall Square has 3 Chinese architecture buildings surrounding it with National Concert Hall on the left, CKS Memorial Hall at the centre and National Theater on the right. A simple, clean square, yet evokes the feeling of Taiwanese patriotism.
    It reads Freedom’s Square.
    Sky was not that beautiful for a photoshoot. Brother told me that if you go in the evening, you will get to see the National Guard changing the flag.
    I didn’t really spend a long time at there, just about 30 minutes or less, we moved on to another memorial – National Martyrs Shrine. 
  • Taipei Trip: Ximending (Night)

    Taipei Trip: Ximending (Night)

    Taipei Trip: Ximending (Night) (Day 2) – The one-day trip didn’t end up at Keelung Night Market, we spent about 2 hours at there and we couldn’t continue anymore because of the super huge crowds at there. We hopped on a cab and went back to Taipei city, to Ximending where my hotel was located. Funny was I guided the cab driver on how to go back to our hotel with Google Maps because he’s from Keelung.
    Huge sausage, Taiwan style!
    Anyway, after dropping our bags of shopping bags at the hotel, we went to the famous Ximending shopping district to explore, hunt and eat again. Ximending, you can call it the Harajuku of Taipei, Bukit Bintang of Taipei, Times Square of Taipei, Causeway Bay of Taipei, Orchard Road of Taipei, East Nanjing Road of Taipei, or just anything equivalent you can think of, filled with vibrant billboards, shopping malls, retail outlet, youths and tourists.
    Bird eggs, the sinful street food!
    Street performer. Very entertaining. =)
    Dancer from some local school, performing there to collect fund for their club.
    The red one reads – DU LAN Guo Xiao. Du Lan is more a vulgar word in Malaysia, but it’s a place in Taiwan. LOL.
    Oh cute leopard catty!!!!
    Dogs.
    If you are hunting for young and fashionable thing, or cute Taiwanese girls and boys, food, cats, dogs, then this is the place. HAHA. It’s really vibrant and happening, especially on the weekends night. Just glad that my hotel is so nearby and convenient to walk there.
    Didn’t buy anything but ended up the exploration with meal of Taiwanese Lu Wei street food, a combination of braised pork organs and vegetables. Yums
  • A Walk At Chow Kit Area

    A Walk At Chow Kit Area

    A Walk At Chow Kit Area – Under the scorching Sunny heat, with dusty breeze from the road blew occasionally, the sound of motor engine can be heard passing by, I was walking at Chow Kit area. Took the LRT from Kelana Jaya to KL Sentral, interchanged to monorail to Chow Kit then I alighted. I should have taken the LRT and interchanged to PWTC instead. The monorail is slow and expensive!
    Clean and green sidewalk. I like.
    I was in town in the morning yesterday, to check out a place that I found in Chow Kit which to be designed for my final design project. Site analysis is a part of every of my project and so, a visit to the place is a must to study, to see, and to photograph.
    This indirectly gave me an opportunity to explore another side of Kuala Lumpur – Chow Kit, a place that known much as the red light district, black and dirty zone. Indeed, but Jalan Ipoh on the other hand is clean and green, surprisingly. Some places is clean, some places is dirty. That’s the problem of KL, not every corner are well maintain which is kinda sad.
    Food stall in the alley.
    KL Tower from one of the rooftop.
    The place have potential to be revitalized into a new district because the architecture at there is very retro and have feeling. If it’s not the assignment, I would not have come here already. You know right, you have to be careful when walking around KL city.
  • Furniture Design Class Visit To IKEA

    Furniture Design Class Visit To IKEA

    Furniture Design Class Visit To IKEA – A very random post about I visited the IKEA with my classmate last week for an assingment of looking IKEA furniture, research and document them. It’d been some times I go to IKEA, IKEA actually was my sanctuary where I like to see their new decorations, buy their furniture bit by bit and also to eat their meatballs. But now, IKEA, is just IKEA to me, not obsessed to it anymore. Somehow, I must visit the original headquarter in Stolkholm one day, next year, perhaps? =D
    Hanan, Rasyid, Aida
    Edwin
    Shahu
    Azhar
    Arvin
    Jia Hui
    Arvin, Steve, Wesley, Me
  • Klang Valley: Beautiful Mess 5.0 of myBurgerLab

    Klang Valley: Beautiful Mess 5.0 of myBurgerLab

    Klang Valley: Beautiful Mess 5.0 of myBurgerLab – A torrent of slaps fell on Friday night. I thought that with that kind of wet and roaring weather, people will tend to stay at home for meal or go somewhere near to grab a quick bite, but then the usual evening queue at myBurgerLab was on!
    Indeed, the burger shop is doing very well. Queued for about 20 minutes and the burger of the night was Beautiful Mess 5.0 (RM18) – Charcoal bun stuffed with portobella fries, thick and juicy beef patties, sunny side up, and mozarella cheese.
    One more thing, thumbs up for the good service of myBurgerLab’s staff who always put a smile on the face. =D Another thing is that they should seriously a bigger space is needed, it’s hard to get a place to sit.
    BEAUTIFUL MESS 5.0! Look at the deep fried portobella!
    Eating mate of the night – Connie, Quenna, Siyi.
    Eating mate of the night – Jason, Henry, me, Simon, Connie, Quenna, Siyi.
    My Burger Lab
    No. 14, Jalan 21/22,
    Seapark 46300 Petaling Jaya,
    Malaysia
    Business Hours: 5pm – 10.30pm (Tues – Sun)
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  • Penang: Kampai 9.9 Taiwanese ‘Zhu Char’, E-Gate

    Penang: Kampai 9.9 Taiwanese ‘Zhu Char’, E-Gate

    Penang: Kampai 9.9 Taiwanese ‘Zhu Char’, E-Gate – Despite being tensed with the General Election 2013, while waiting for the result to be announced later, I think I shall write some food post to release some tension. =D Let’s head to Penang, for food!
    So this place that I visited last weekend was Kampai, located at E-Gate, the place used to be Tao Japanese Cuisine. It’s quite a surprised to see the once very famous Tao is gone and replaced by Kampai. Later then, I just realised that Kampai is from the same person who runs Tao! That’s why.
    Kampai is actually a Chinese restaurant, just like ‘zhu char’ (dai chao) restaurant but in a up-scale environment and atmosphere and selling mainly Taiwanese dishes, starting from RM9,9/dish. It’s quite interesting trying Taiwanese-style of ‘zhu char’ because all the while, Taiwanese food is just beef noodle, 3 cups noodle and deep fried chicken.
    Fried Bittergourd with Salted Egg
    Pork slices with garlic sauce together with toufu under the pork slices.
    Sweet and sour pork which was rather hard to chew.
    Ma Po Toufu which is quite standard, nothing fancy.
    Well, actually the taste is quite good in my opinion, but my brother commented that it’s quite standard, taste like what he had in Singapore. The fried bittergourd with salted egg was good, the pork slices with garlic was good, but the sweet and sour pork andma po toufu was just not fancy enough. But after all, I kinda enjoyed my lunch at there.
    Kampai @ E-Gate
    1-01-05 & 1-01-06, Ground Floor,
    E-Gate, Lebuh Tunku Kudin 2,
    11900 Gelugor, Penang.
    Telephone: +604-6587826

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  • Penang: Mugshot Cafe, Chulia Street

    Penang: Mugshot Cafe, Chulia Street

    Penang: Mugshot Cafe, Chulia Street – Haven’t been home for quite some times and just realised that there’s so many new cafes pop up around town! Mugshot Cafe is a new one (might not new to Penangite but me) at Chulia Street, right opposite the famous Wan Tan Mee or just next to the Rainforest Bakery.

    I’m wondering how to describe this kind of cafe. It’s retro-ish, a bit of artsy fartsy and a little bit similar to Burps & Giggles of Ipoh. Heritage artsy style? There’s so many in town right now. I went on a Sunday afternoon and it’s kinda hard to get a seat there. The seating is kinda cute with low table and chair like in the kindergarten.

    There’s not much in the menu, you can find coffee and tea, some cakes, homemade yogurt, and bagel muffin. That’s it. Bagels were sold out and it’s only cake and yogurt for me. The carrot cake was good, sweet enough for my sweet tooth and the apple crumble was nice too according to my mom, but then I think I am not an apple crumble person, I don’t like the sourish apple in it. HAHA. Another thing I ordered was the Walnuts & Raisins Yogurt which I find it too sourish too, should have tried Jackfruit & Gula Melaka!
    Raisin & Walnut Yogurt. Too sour for me.
    Carrot Cake.
    Apple Crumble Pie.
    After all, this seems to be a good place for an afternoon tea and to chill. Will be back to try their bagel muffin.
    The Mugshot Cafe
    302 Chulia Street,
    10200 George Town,
    Penang, Malaysia
    Telephone: +6012-4056276
    Business Hours: 8am – 9pm
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