- Hey, everybody, I'm Gunnarolla and this is Jackass.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Hey! I'm Gunnarolla, world traveler, food lover.
Taiwan is one of my favorite travel destinations
and last fall, I had the chance to cycle around the country
with my partner in photo shoots Sylvia.
This trip was a great way to experience
all that Taiwan has to offer and challenge ourselves
by doing something we'd never done before.
From breath-taking views to the freshest seafood
and bubble tea everyday, and the occasional booch.
- Booch it. (laughing) Booch!
- This was our trip to Taiwan. Ready?
Alrighty, day three.
(laughing)
We're-- (laughing)
Is it day three or day four?
- Day four? What day is it? I don't know?
- It's our last day in Peng-Hu and we have had
quite a time cycling around the island.
- So our first stop of the day is Peng-Hu Bay.
It's this beautiful spot that looks onto the water
there's this epic bridge.
- Like epic, the incline was so steep.
You would totally never make American Ninja Warrior.
We said it before and we'll say it again,
it was unreal windy.
- I could barely hear you sometimes
and you were literally right in front of me.
- Literally, I was like talking to you
and you were just nodding your head.
Made it to the top
(roaring wind)
I don't think your processing anything.
- It wasn't the wind.
All right, last couple minutes in Peng-Hu.
(roaring wind)
(mumbles)
So, it's time to checkout of the hotel and we have maybe
five minutes before we had to get on a bus to lunch
and we were on a pretty tight schedule,
because we were flying out that day.
- Gonna give her this ice wine from Canada and--
- I think we should run a little bit.
- Oh God.
- We're gonna be late, but, I mean,
they have been waiting for us the entire trip.
- They can wait another five minutes.
We're heading up to Tea Pro and surprise Vivian.
Not gonna get hit by a motorcycle!
- Back again, third time in a row.
- Hey!
- Hi!
(laughing)
- We were so happy we got to say goodbye to her
and we also got to met her son Ken,
and his English teacher Jonathan.
(speaking Chinese)
- Hi! Welcome, Peng-Hu.
- Gotta say, we were all in sync fashion-wise.
Well, most of us.
- Minus me, cause I didn't get the denim memo.
We're saying bye.
- Bye, Vivian, we love you.
- Bye, come back next year.
- We'll come back, we'll come back.
- We'll be back.
- Next year?
- Next year. Okay, promise.
(laughing)
And so we were off to our last lunch on the island
at a place called
- [Gunnarolla and Sylvia] Cauliflower
- Last Memory - Memory
- Oh, Last Memory?
- Yeah!
- I thought it was Cauliflower--
- Oh, old memory!
We both got it wrong!
- [Gunnarolla and Sylvia] Cauliflower Old Memory!
- This was a place that you can tell had a lot of history
seemed very traditional, very rustic
and it was finally time for me to try trilobite.
(restaurant patrons talking)
- Did you just grab another piece?
Oh, wow! Is it crispy?
- It's not crispy.
- Is it mushy? Crunchy? Chewy?
Mushy?
- It's just kinda everything at once.
- Try a little bite?
- It's a lot.
- It's like if you took a piece of KFC chicken.
You took the skin off and then
you, like, stripped it of some of the spices
and then you left it for a day.
(laughing)
- That's exactly what it is.
There are maybe people who enjoy it, it was not for me.
- At least you gave it a try.
I wasn't even brave enough to.
- At the time, all I could think of
was that I wanted a bubble tea to wash things down.
And I even said this to you.
- We literally said that.
- I wish I had a bubble tea.
- And low and behold, Vivian walked in with Bubble Tea.
What the--!
(laughing)
This is so--
(laughter) (excited talking)
- She brought us bubble tea! What the heck!
- Oh my god!
I'm in shock right now!
She literally came and found us!
(laughing)
(speaking Chinese)
We were literally just saying we wanted the bubble tea.
(Vivian speaking Chinese)
- Manifested.
- Hashtag, law of attraction.
Hashtag, bubble tea for life.
- Hashtag, I gotta wait for you to finish talking
before I try to leave the frame.
- Hashtag, Cauliflower Old Memory.
(laughing)
- Hashtag--
- That's the actual hashtag.
- We gotta say bye again.
(laughing)
- [Group] Bye!
- We genuinely love Vivian.
It wasn't just because she was a bubble tea shop owner.
She was just such a kind soul.
- She was so excited about everything
and that light really just spoke true
to all of Peng-Hu and the island vibe.
- So that was a perfect way to end our time on the island,
but it was time to get to Taipei.
- I love how your
(laughing)
- Can I do it? Can I--no, I can't.
That's as far as we can go.
- Your gonna rip your pants,
and it's not gonna be my problem.
(laughing)
- Listen, I already ripped my booch on this trip.
So, we visited two of Taipei's landmarks,
The National Palace Museum and Taipei 101.
- We're going up to Taipei 101.
- ♪ Up, up, up we can only go up, from here. ♪
So, traveling in Asia as an Asian
is an interesting experience.
- It really is. You blend in.
So people don't really know that you're a foreigner.
- No, they treat you like a local
and for whatever reason, in Taipei we blended in so well
that it felt like people just couldn't see us.
- We were invisible.
(playful music)
(crowd of people talking)
- We were so close-- (laughs)
We were so close together, there's no way
that she didn't know that we were recording.
She had to like squeeze her way through.
She wanted her moment. Shoot your shot, lady.
- I'm pretty sure we shouldn't be
laughing this much in a museum.
I'm crying.
So we attempted a photo shoot.
- As we usually do.
The only issues is there are a lot of tourists
that seem to not even recognize that we're here.
Did these people did not see that we were trying to have
- [Gunarolla And Sylvia] A photo shoot?
(intense techno music)
- Hey everyone!
Hey everyone!
Hey! Hey!
Say bye! Wave! Bye!
- We had a group dinner and no offense
to all the seafood we had in Peng-Hu, I loved it,
but it was so nice to have Taiwanese food.
- And of all things, Din Tai Fung,
the original, famous restaurant of Taiwan.
- Oh my god!
- That is dark chocolate! Whew!
- So it was time to wrap things up
and say goodbye to everyone in our group.
- Including our tour guide Min.
- Because, from the beginning,
I'm not a person to know how to handling these two,
because they look so cool, and they're like confident.
- We're crazy.
- Yeah and then I realize they are super nice people,
you know, and then I deeply, really like them so much.
- Aw , we love you. Group hug.
Thank you so much for everything, Min.
- I will miss you guys.
- All the local on this tour were so nice and friendly,
and they really made us feel welcome.
- What more can you ask for?
- How about a stay at a five-star, luxury hotel?
(gasps)
- Don't act so surprised. You were there.
Next Friday on Gunnarolla.
- Elsa, I feel like I know her already!
Oh my god, this really does look like Korea.
- I will eat a lot of things. I still can't eat that. (gags)
- You good bro?
- Listen, if they don't have English songs,
I'm gonna sing English lyrics to Taiwanese music.
One of the things that people of higher society like to do,
is to get afternoon tea.
We just saw the coolest thing
but you're not gonna know what it is.