Although armed with GPS, it took us quite a long while to locate our home stay for Happiness Hot Spring Home Stay (礁溪-幸福温泉行馆)。 Its located within an apartment blocks. I believe the owner had brought a few units to convert into home stay rooms and the others are local residents in that block.
Though it is 12pm when we reached and way early den the 3pm check-in time, the owner was nice enough to let us check in, how nice :).. We settled in and unpack a bit while changing into shorts as the weather is unforgiving. After lazing around for half an hr, we decided to go down to search for lunch and also checked out the super market nearby heheh..
We picked a random noodle shop and sat down to order some food. Took quite a while to order as its all written in chinese. Hubs ordered a wanton noodle while I went for sesame oil noddle. We also picked up a plate of side dish to go along.
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| 小菜一碟 |
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| 麻油拌面 |
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| 馄饨面 |
The thing that amazes us bout Taiwanese food is that no matter what we ordered, they usually tastes good! This is also the reason why I leave out doing research for food. After a quick lunch, we went to the super market which I spotted earlier on our to the hotel to stock up some snacks. Hehe our favourite activity.
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| Excited about the vast selection of chips |
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| Big ass coke |
We spent sometime here in the super market, grabbing quite some snacks and a small slice of cake for my birthday celebration. Not sure whether the things in SG are overpriced or the things in Taiwan is under priced. But its way way cheap to buy snacks here.
1 thing to take not though, as they are campaigning for a greener environment, the supermarts/convenience here charge a small fee for getting a bag for your purchases. This is to encourage 1 to bring their own bag when they do shopping. Good move though, I brought my own hehehe..
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| Taiwan beer here is wayyyyy cheaper than SG |
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| Mr Love making himself comfortable while I unpack abit |
We then went back to our home stay. This time, we stayed in for awhile, eating the newly brought snacks and watched a movie with the air con on @ full blast. But it is just not me to nuah inside the hotel, so I dragged Mr Love out, and we decided to go visit the town beside us, Yilan (宜兰)。
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| The homestay is located within this apartment blocks |
We decided to take another route to the train station, checking out the surroundings. Found a hot spring park where people can soak their feet there F.O.C.. How cool is that?
Saw a lot of 伯伯 soaking their feet and chatting away.Relax life..The water seems hot as I can see their feet turning to a shade of red. Still, they continue sitting there. Perhaps they are used to it le.
Urged Mr Love to try on, but he didn't want to wet his feet..So we moved on.
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| See some1 sitting at the far end soaking their feet? |
As we walked along,we found some stalls that has yet to open. It looks like there might be a mini night market here and we made a mental note to come back tonight after 宜兰。
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| To 宜兰, here we go! |
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| 礁溪站 is a pretty modest looking building |
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