so here in taiwan they have a high-speed
rail very similar to the bullet train or
the shinkansen in japan
why did this look more romantic in the
little mermaid
morning guys and welcome back to taiwan
if you've only just tuned in we've spent
the last few days exploring a place in
the south of taiwan it's called
and today we're going on another mission
we're going to another city and i'm
pretty sure when we first found out that
we were coming to taiwan i completely
butchered the name coast wing and tai
chung
but where are we going cause i can't
even remember it now so you're gonna be
catching a train this morning to tai
chang also breakfast today consists of
these amazing steam buns we first came
across in china first time we found
these in years and it's like a pancake
omelette
obsessed with them though
so here in taiwan they have a high-speed
rail very similar to the bullet train or
the shinkansen in japan which makes it
so easy to get around the country so on
our first day we literally flew into
taipei which is the top of taiwan we're
currently at the bottom and it only took
us a couple of hours so
today we're jumping back on the
high-speed rail and this one's about 45
minutes to get to the next city
so there are quite a lot of vending
machines to get tickets from if it's
your first time buying tickets you can
just go over to customer service and
just buy your tickets actually speaking
to someone but because we're here on an
anywhere trip they've pre-booked our
tickets so you can't actually buy your
high-speed rail tickets online and then
you just need to go speak to someone
hand in your booking reservation and
they'll just give you a ticket straight
away super simple
we find the trains super simple to use
what we always do is we first check if
the train number aligns with our train
ticket so our train ticket says 120 and
this is the 120 and then you have a look
on here at what car number you're in so
we're at five so now you just walk all
the way down to five hop in your train
find your seat
done
you guys ever get thirsty they literally
have a vending machine on every single
class
i've worked two things out what
is this
it's just
winter
the honey's still sweet it just
rises
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where'd you grab this from
that is so funny they have koalas on
them
get them out of there
it all comes
because this is a intercountry train
toilets are super clean i literally walk
past the lady come in and constantly
clean the toilets throughout the time so
like you literally don't have to worry
and the train rides are still so short
because this country is so small but
they even have like male female toilets
even urinals on these trains you should
be fine and you guys know us if you've
seen any of our european travel series
that we love going on trains we rock up
like 10 minutes before your train ride
seats are super comfortable it's
relaxing you get to see the countryside
because he actually on the ground so
it's a big thumbs up for us by using the
taiwan high speed trains
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we've pretty much just dumped our bags
off at our hotel because check-in isn't
for a few more hours but we found out
something very exciting so taichung is
actually the birthplace of bubble tea
and we have found that we are staying
right near the place that claims that
they have invented bubble teeth so go on
right now
looks busy
mickey selfies in front of the milk team
thank you
these guys have been making bubble tea
the longest and i got the original one
the pearl milk tea ready
that is so good
i didn't expect that it's kind of it's
got coffee in it i think oh really it's
like coffee and pearls like tapioca
pearls
that is so good also i mean 1983 you
think bubble tea has been along around
for a long time but not that long
it's good right we should have got two
i know where we're coming every single
day while we're in the city
it's good right yeah guys we have found
some boats we were just walking along
this taichung park it's actually the
oldest park in the city and then we saw
this lake and someone came over and
asked us if we wanted to rent a boat and
we were like yes so we are now rowing
i did not expect to do it today we are
now attempting to rob a boat in this
lane
in this beautiful park
so nice our hotel's just around the
corner we didn't expect to be doing this
it's beautiful it was actually built by
the japanese during the time that they
were raining here so it actually looks
very japanese also
how do you row a boat
i really am not that great at it
can you stop trying to make it look so
easy
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this park is seriously so beautiful i
wasn't expecting things like this in the
heart of like such a crazy city but
we are on the hunt for a certain dish
here in taiwan we've been wanting to try
it and there's a restaurant here in
taichung that serves it and we are very
excited for it it's called xiaolongbao
and they're basically dumplings but
they're filled with soup so it's like a
special way you have to eat it where you
have to make sure that the soup
doesn't burn you and doesn't all come
out when you use the chopstick so we're
going to attempt to try our first
xiaolongbao and like starts there
goes all the way
down there
we've got our number because it's going
to be a 30 to 50 minute wait wow
thank you
basically
our first ever time trying xiaolongbao
you ready i have to be careful to not
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put a hole in it
oh no
wow
some for me
like definitely a lot more squishy
you know when you go to a restaurant
you're so hungry
and you order too much food
it's like the best company i've ever had
more food
thank you
why is there something underneath here
so this is where the magic happened
best dumplings ever
man that is a powerhouse right
look in the back steve oh wow
oh wow all the piles of oh my goodness
crazy oh my gosh guys speak up to tai
chung you need to eat here like i know
it's a bit of a weight and it's randomly
inside a shopping center but it is so
good
it does it looks like
like new york old school
really especially with that font
oh wow it's cool
oh it looks really cool i didn't expect
a hotel to look like oh this is funky
this is awesome wow it does feel like a
new york apartment
like bricks on the wall
oh wow the window's huge
how cool
perfect
oh the bathroom looks nice too all right
guys we've just checked into our hotel
we're gonna be spending the next couple
of days here in taichung but i hope you
enjoyed this vlog we're definitely gonna
do some videos showing you what to do in
the city and some more tasty food but if
you are new around here make sure you
hit subscribe see you guys next time bye
this is already looking intense oh my
gosh is taiwan going to be the place we
finally win something as we've come to
one we've ordered one but the language
barrier was kind of difficult and so
we've ordered something