went for a company retreat to TW for 4 days, =)
went there after the flooding situation and pretty amazed by the taiwanese resilience against all the natural disasters they have to deal with year in and year out. awesome people.
in the plane flying over East Coast Park, one of those ships docking there.
Our coach when we arrived in TW,
our guide for the next couple of days, Xiao Li, inspiring guy, =)
first stop: some dam in Tao Yuan, sorry can't remember the name, but it was huge and mega impressive.
to have the gates open means that there is too much water and it's a bad thing. =<
at the other side of the dam, used to have 3 villages underneath the waters, but have to be flooded becoz they wanted to build the dam.
went to their lao jie, (old street) and bought this black sugar bun at like 10 tw dollars, very nice!
small cakes that's very nice and value for money! the friendly uncle actually was posing for me, haha.
i was on a mass eating spree, the cake from the uncle above and onigiri from their 7-11, super yummy!
went to their pottery museum and had a hands on session with clay.
demonstration on making a dumpling bell.
i made a cup in the end with ahgirl design, sadly, it didn't survived the transport back home, broke it. =<
liu fu chun, Six Luck Village, a theme park somewhere between tao yuan and tai chung?
madness with colleague
went to visit the temple that survive the massive earthquake that hit taiwan some years back. it was a 3 stories building but the level 1 was flattened. the amazing part of this was no one who was in the temple was hurt whereas the surrounding buildings were all flattened.
went to feng jia night market.
food there was very good, curry fishballs, and hei che lun, (black wheels) soemthing like yong tou fu in Sg, but u can get pig's blood and other organs here if u like.
it doesn't have the piggie smell as compared to china (no offence). pretty acceptable and big portions too.
Tip: better to travel in groups of 4s, as the food portions tend to be quite big.
went for hot spring.
what their room look like. basically a bath tub and u only need to mix the spring water and cold water to your liking.
Fisherman's Wharf
went to DanShui after that, and had their signature 'ah geh' and fishball soup. yums!
their da chang bao xiao chang, it is glutinous rice and sausage.
random landscape
on the way to WuLai
was suppose to take a train up to the village but it had stopped functioning a few months before we arrived, thus had to climb up the mountain.
the waterfall
one of their tribal design.
Last but not least, Teipei 101
cost for me on this trip was like sgd$200 coz it's a company trip! keke!
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