Taiwan Trip 2008 Day 8

At the wholesale area next morning., this whole sale area was less crowded than wufenpu, but the prices not that cheap too. Cheapest stuff still in Bangkok! Everyone kept asking us if we were going Kenting, a seaside area. But Kaohsiung's weather was really blisteringly hot!

We took less than 2 hours to comb the area and we went to the Lotus Lake. The taxi uncle didn't want to turn on the air-con. He said he had been waiting for business since morning and the petrol prices were very high. Wah...difficult being a cab driver too. And we melted at the back of the cab. haha.. Looks nice right? Wait till...

You see what happened to the water... Why didn't anyone tell us they pumped out the water out to prep for some sort of Games in 2009?? Anyway, after the renovation, i think you can canoe, do all sorts of water in the lake. But for now, it's a desert. haha..

Another temple with a digital clock

The weather was too hot to walk anywhere, so we took a cab (SGD 20 plus) from one end to the other end, to the biggest mall in Kaohsiung, Dream Mall. This is my lunch, I see this everywhere in food courts , I think the people in TW like to eat Jap curry?

Ferris Wheel at the top floor

There was a Converse exhibition going on..

The tallest building in Kaohsiung, we didn't visit it, sort of similar to Taipei 101.

Night-time at Cijin. We took a bus and then a ferry. NT10 per person, motorcycles can go directly on to the lower deck. Asked the uncle at the pier where to go eat seafood, and he recommended as the place below.

Aparagus NT100, nice home-cooked taste

Crabs NT800. once again I had a field day eating up all the onions, spring onions and chili. The taste of jiu ceng ta was very strong..There was one more fish dish NT280, which was very very fresh (just killed) and had a very very tasty gravy. Haha...the aunty here was really careless.

A shot of the water feature after we moved out of the restaurant at exponential speed. At Cijin, I bought the most amazing prawn crackers, which withstood manhandling back to Taipei and back to Singapore, and stayed prawny and crunchy for a week and a half after i bought it.

After Cijin, we took the ferry back to mainland and a bus to xin Jue Jiang night market, which is way better than Liuhe. The stuffy are more trendy and more young people here too. We bought a lot of bags here for NT200 each, due to a misquote by the seller which he has to honour. Original price was NT250, which was reasonable too.

Back to Kaohsiung. This is the platform ticket that everyone has to buy to get from the front station to the back station. The railway cuts the area in two and the platform ticket is the only way you can access both areas. Of course, there is a free underpass somewhere, but we heard that it wasn't safe.

Walking across the platform back to our hotel.

Supper, 2 cold noodles and one lobster flavoured one on the right, which I liked the most. Pity I didn't buy any to bring back to Sg.

Accounting slips meticulously maintained by our trip accountant, Lynda! Thank you vv much!