Being a Glutton
Taipei 2011
This will conclude my postings on Taiwan for 2011. after almost 5months.
Coldstone is yummy
Random cafe with wifi in Taiwan, Dong Chu area. with plenty of lomography photos stuck to the wall, random mismatch table and chairs. Even complete with a shy french bulldog roaming and hiding around.
Nice latte stirrer. With wifi around, anti-social mode on, bbm mode on.
Very nice strawberry milk drink introduce to me by my cousin. I think i bought it 3-4 times during my stay. so yummy <3
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Din Tai Fung – never leave taiwan without trying it if you are a first timer. In this case, Mrsmallface. We went to the Sogo Mall Branch as we do not want to miss our flight. Famous for the crazy long queue, we are no exception to that.
In Taiwan, I believe it’s quite sexist as you can witness how business will usually “exploits” women. For example, there is no waiter only waitress working. According to my uncle’s theory, at least when people get frustrated of waiting for their table, a nice female voice will calm people down better than a male. =.=
Famous soup noodle and fried rice to share . Uncle says dont bother with the noodle, everyone comes for the soup
Ever famous Xiao Long Bao !!! Its really super awesome
The skills of the sifu must be there as the basic standard to meet for each of the dumplings is to have 18 folds, when you pick the bao up, the skins is transluscent yet able to contain the soup inside the dumplings.
Final goodbye to my cool uncle before heading to the airport.
Boarding
Leaving with a heavy heart. :(
Taipei – Ay-Chung Mee Suah
Bonus photos from our day in Ximending. Probably one of the main reason WHY so many people throng here 
Tomyam Porridge – Raja Uda
Week 32 – I’ve heard of this infamous tomyam porridge place in Raja Uda, Butterworth for the longest time.
So, 1 fine weekend after paying respect to the biggest King of Hades in BM, we went over to check this place out.
It’s already packed with people when we reached around 7pm. No table available and most table are with drinks only.
Waiting.
and patience is what you must have if you intend to take up the “challenge” of this place.
How this place works is that, you take a small plate at the side, choose whatever ingredient that you may fancy and pass it over to the worker and they will tag your plate accordingly.They have beehoon, maggie noodle and porridge with clear soup base or tomyam soup base.
and the wait begins. The first time i was there, i waited for about 1.5 hours to be served.
the 2nd and 3rd time was around 45minutes. So do not expect any fast food there.
If you are too free, you can slowly trace where had your platter advance from time to time
Finally, food!! I had the tomyam maggie noodle as i wasnt a fan of porridge. It’s more towards the sour side
The ever famous tomyam porridge! It’s really yummy no doubt!
Is it worth the wait ? Maybe not. But when you go with a bunch of friends, you can just idle there or chit chat while waiting. I’m sure no problem there.
Be sure to get the awesome fried fish and extra egg to go with your mains.
Close on Tuesday, open from 7pm till way past midnight. No signboard, but it’s along Jalan Raja Uda, just right after Kwang Hwa School.
GPS Coordinate 5.428403,100.383507
Taipei – Jiufen 九份
I’m determined to complete this travel log.
We arrived at JiuFen quite late in the afternoon after YehLiu. It was up on the hills so naturally it has a colder climate. Thankful for that 
The main “entrance” where tourists are herded to.
- Tanjong Sepat – Sepang Gold Coast –
Confession: Sometimes i have too many toy cameras, I tend to neglect some! OH! So sorry!!
Last weekend, my friends decided to be adventurous and we started to drive few hours towards Sepang Gold Coast.
Our top priority for any road trip needless to say would be to fill our tummies!! No matter where!
First stop: Famous Pau Shop in Tanjong Sepat. Hai Yew Heng. The town ain’t big at all. You’ll deff find it.
Old Dame hand-making the infamous pau while watching Astro..
Some uncle before us bought like 100 pau of the same flava? o_O We see them pushing few trays out within the few minutes we are there. RM2 per pau.. can you count how much they are earning per day.. $_$
You see all the auntie and uncles came by bus load hoarding in front of the pau shop buying pau. Because pau seems like the only famous and THING to see/buy here.
After we had bought some of our paus, we head over to a nearby jetty to feast. Not much photos, busy eating. Most of the finer images you see in this blog was taken by Duckie.
This is raw from Lx3. Unedited using the Dynamic Black & White.. I think it’s quite nice but then again, it’s my opinion only.. 
Lepak at some restaurant.
After that we went to Sepang Gold Coast only to get denied entry for not being a guest (reasonable) So we lepak at the beach next to the water chalet for about an hour before we got chased away by the guards again. This time not reasonable because he just picked on us. The other people loitering around was not being picked on. Reason? We are blocking the view of the patrons.. Duhh…
The said patrons are sitting above the patio. hmm.
One of my favorite photo of the entire day. Thanks Duckie! MrSmallface look so cheeky… 
I look like a lollipop here… Round face and non proportioned upper body.
Tired after prancing around so I just squat there for the rest of the time while the guys continue on snapping away.
By 7pm, everyone was famished again! We went back to Lover’s Bridge, Ocen Seafood for dinner and it was so packed. Waited and waited.. until we had a table and the storm just threw a huge fit!
We were like eating while soaking our feet in a pail -__-
Everything was not bad, the famous oyster fried egg was bigger than my palm. Haha! The clams in beer sauce was great and couldn’t remember the other dishes as we were eating in fear the whole place would just crash into the sea.
Did i not mention the restaurant was built on stilt above waters -__-
So gonna be a busy week. Actually halfway through, and I’ve already pulled my head bald already with the craziness at work.
Have a good week ya’ll!
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