Jackie's World: 2014: Taiwan (Day 05)- Yehliu Geopark, Chiufen Old Street And Taiwan Night Markets

Good morning, Yilan! Different kind of morning view~

1. Breakfast @ Shangrila Leisure Farm Hotel like homestay's restaurant, Yilan

Sweet potato porridge with ham, egg omelette, minced shredded dried meat (bak hu), mushrooms and etc. and a cuppa of coffee for breakfast. Oriental style.

Breakfast with a breathtaking view!

Colourful pic @ Shangrila Leisure Farm Hotel before we bid goodbye and left for Yehliu Geopark.

2 . Yehliu Geopark Landscape, a home to fascinating rock formations, unique terrain and abundant nature, making it one of the best must-see sights on the island in Wanli District @ New Taipei, Taiwan.

Tickets counter @ Yehliu Geopark.

The entrance tix with a route map.

The signboard of the formation.

Amazing breathtaking nature's "alien pods" formation which looks like candle rocks @ Yehliu.

Me and the breathtaking sea view overlooking East China Sea @ Yehliu Geopark I had my natural hair blown shot too.

Nature's Queen's head formation and I. Looks a lil' like Donald Duck to me. haha~

Seaside at Yehliu with lil' of the nature's formation at the beach.

Got this interesting ice cream from the 7-Eleven choco ice cream in a a plastic cone @ 40yuan (~RM5)

3. Chiufen (means 9 -chiu and pieces-fen) is located on these amazing top of Taiwan steep and narrow mountains area in Ruifang District of New Taipei City near to Keelung. Legend believes that on this mountains lived 9 families in this village. Back then, there were lack of transportation which made trips to the markets inconvenient. Therefore, whenever 1 family went to the market, they divided the groceries into 9 pieces to be shared by the 9 families. Thus, the name 9 pieces derived. It is a prosperous village with lots of tourists visit and has many shops selling local dishes, snacks and souvenirs. However, was told not to buy tea from here as they are imported from Vietnam (was told to be possible to contain radiation/ nuclear/ bomb effect in the products. Needs to read on the history of Vietnam).

Us @ Chiufen, a busy place on a mountain.

I bought some snacks from this touristy gift shop in which our tour agent brought us here:peanuts (black peanuts, green wasabi and black charcoal flavours) and black sugar ginger tea (jiang mu cha) there.

Chiufen Old Street -narrow and crowded. Beware of your own belongings.

The so called famous beef noodles stall.

Had lunch there as well whereby it wasn't covered by our tour for today:
Beef noodle -tasted so so to me imo.
100yuan/bowl (RM12)

The sitting environment at the coffeeshop. It was really packed like sardines.

Taufufah (beancurd) Taro balls Red bean dessert soup was something interesting. 50yuan/bowl (RM6)

A cute lil' pooch was staring at me.

50 yuan (Rm6) dessert stall.

Marvelous and breathtaking view from Chiufen.

4. Tourist Pearl Shop (beauty products/supplement/ accessories) @ Taipei. We were brought to this shop for a visit. The sales ppl were very determined and persevere to sell us their range of products made from pearls. I newly learned from this trip that we can actually eat pearls in order to treat symptom like cough? and there's something that interests me, pearl eyedrops for tired eyes? I saw the sales person demonstrated to us by mixing the pearls in the solution (believed to be saline) and then filtered through a given filtration and that it is ready to be dropped on the eyes. Ermmm...no comment. Given that I'm a scientific-based person, definitely I wouldn't drop it on my eyes after seeing on the simple preparation. I am quite skeptical. My eyes may not be perfect, but I wouldn't want to go blind.
When I came back, I told my mom about this excitedly, and to my surprise, she told me that some ppl consume pearls and could be bought from the Chinese medicinal shop? Ooops. I thought pearls were for accessories/ decoration/ ornaments. FML~ But logically, pearls contain calcium components which I think would benefit our humans bones la~

5. Ximending @ Taipei; a source of Taiwan's fashion, subculture and Japanese culture (high fashion sense ppl---urbanisation).

Ximending!

Sexay Santarina @ Ximending! ;)

The famous Ay Chung Flour Noodle Shop

Had tea time: Ay Chung Oyster Mee Sua (yummy and flavourful porky and oyster mee sua.
50yuan/bowl (RM6)
A must to eat this when you're in Ximending!! :D)
No tables for you to find and sit. Just a couple of chairs are available. Stand to eat your meesua.

Xmas tree decoration at Ximending!

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