good morning everyone it's mark Wiens
with migration ology calm in taipei we
woke up in the morning we went to
breakfast at the hotel and now we are
out we are on our way to the confucius
temple as well as Bao anh
temple this morning we're heading to
Shimon metro station and from there
we're gonna pick the metro
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we just jumped off the Metro at yunchang
station and let's just go check out this
map to see which exit to take
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we are here
exits armed up
and we're going to the confucius temple
before I forget I just wanted to quickly
take this opportunity to tell you that
when I got home last night after eating
that what I thought was that surprise
stinky tofu it indeed was stinky tofu
but the reason I didn't I wasn't
expecting it to be stinky tofu is
because a couple years ago when I was in
China I had stinky tofu and it was black
in color so this was just normal kind of
golden brown but now the more I think
about it it definitely did have a flavor
that sort of tasted like stale water
that had been sitting around for way too
long but I really enjoyed it and I know
for sure I'm gonna be eating more stinky
tofu here when I'm in Taiwan but just
wanted to confirm that and if you
haven't seen yesterday's vlog I will
link it here but also yeah go check out
that video as well now onward to the
confucius temple
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unfortunately we were planning to go to
the confucius temple but it says that
it's closed on Monday and today just
happens to be Monday so that is our bad
luck or my fault for not researching
well enough but anyways the bow on
temple which is just across the street
is open I haven't been inside yet I'm
about to go inside but it's beautiful
from the outside the face of the temple
is is extremely well-preserved very
artistic and very detailed and decorated
and also I'm not sure if you can see the
road right in front of the temple but it
is cobblestone which gives it a nice
feel as well and now I'm gonna go check
it out inside
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yesterday I visited the longshots temple
that really has an energetic buzz to it
but right now here at the Bao anh temple
it really has a complete complete
different calm and peaceful Ness to it
and the artistry here is just truly
remarkable the paintings if you look up
the paintings the sculptures the reliefs
are impressive it's Monday in Taipei so
a lot of museums and many of the
attractions are closed today so I guess
we're sort of out of a plan we don't
have that much to do today so we're
gonna go for lunch now it took us about
20 minutes to walk from the temple but
that is the restaurant right in front of
us I noticed the yellow banner sign and
that's where we're heading to eat right
now
I think this restaurant is kind of
buffet cafeteria style so we just got in
line and there's a long line right now
but then all the food is at the front
there and I guess we're just gonna
choose what we want to eat well this is
excellent there are some huge takeaway
orders just check out all those orders
on the table there
we have approached the front of the line
ready to grab my red tray the more I
stand in this line the more excited I'm
getting and this atmosphere here is just
amazing it's it's a classic I got to
grab that chicken boiled chicken with
scallion oil
that looks like scrambled eggs with
tomatoes you oh man you got to pace
yourself cuz you might fill up your
entire tray before you get to the end of
the buffet here just look at all those
takeaway boxes they are stacking up
there that's incredible oh man I love
this place and we got in the line it was
stretching to the door now it's
stretching out of the restaurant and
onto the sidewalk outside but anyway you
just get in line and then you wait to
get your turn for the front of the line
and just like many Chinese style
takeaway restaurants they have all the
dishes prepared in the front and you can
just kind of pick and choose whichever
dishes you like this is boiled chicken
with scallion oil and ginger over here
this one is a scrambled egg with tomato
and some kind of red oily sauce this one
I'm not sure exactly what type of fish
it is it almost looks like salmon
because of that pinkish color but it
looks like it's just pan-fried and then
finally I got a just a bowl of
vegetables and another thing that's very
famous to get here is this clam clam
soup oh and there's some ginger in there
and it looks very just kind of like a
herbal soup almost break open my top
sticks and I got a rice bowl of rice
waiting to try the scrambled eggs it's a
tomato
hahaha
this looks like a bite to shove off
well that's comforting that tastes
exactly how it looked like big scrambled
eggs and then really kind of sweet yeah
they're actually very sweet tomato it's
not really dark
salmon time I might need to use my
finger to break off
yeah that's salmon salmon I couldn't
tell at the front there because it was
it's a little bit on the dry side but at
the same time it's still very good I'll
take a quick break from the rice and
tried that clam soup let me just taste
that brah
well that's plain but and it's not salty
but you can really taste the ginger in
there well that's like a like a boiled
ginger broth and maybe it's a chicken
broth so I like that it's a plain but
very gingery and good okay let me grab a
clam oh and all that ginger on there
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yeah ginger is just a wonderful thing
and then the final dish it's the boiled
chicken and I'm not a huge fan of the
boiled chicken skins so I might just
feel a good thing about when you eat the
boiled chicken is that you can just feel
it right off and you got all that
delicious juicy chicken meat under there
I'll take some of the scallions and that
ginger
oh let me go got that bone
the chicken has a little bit of a
rubberiness but you have the same but
that's from the big boiled and then
plunged into cold water I think and then
that that sauce is very salty you can
really taste a little bit of ginger and
you can really taste the green onion
flavor in there as well
just finished with lunch I'm nice and
full the food not the best quality
because it's kind of mass-produced but
pretty good and nice and filling the
price is not bad
and I like how you can choose such a
variety of different food to eat but
since it's Monday and not that much is
open that I wanted to check out I'm
gonna head back to our hotel now and get
some work done
and then later tonight we're gonna go to
a night market which I'm going to make
into a whole separate video so I
probably won't show that on the vlog
right now I'm gonna end the vlog for
today here thank you very much for
watching please remember to give it a
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I will see you on tomorrow's vlog
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