good morning everyone it's mark Wiens
with migration ology calm
it's about 5:45 a.m. it seems like we're
always heading to the airport at about
this time but we're going to the airport
now and this time we are flying
somewhere I have never been before
we made it to Don Muang Airport which is
Bangkok's budget airline Airport and we
are going to check-in we're flying an
airline called Tiger Air I think it's
called it's an airline based out of
Singapore but we will be flying directly
from Bangkok to Taiwan to Taipei Taiwan
we got through check-in and got through
immigration now heading to the gate have
about an hour I think an hour and a half
until our flight I'm going to sit and do
some email
we're in the airplane now and this
should be about a three hour flight
we don't arrive in to Taipei until mid
afternoon and they don't serve any food
on this airplane because it's a budget
flight but while I was doing email back
at the airport being went and bought
subway I can't even remember the last
time I've had subway it's been years
sorry this time there will be no
airplane food video but there will be
subway in an airplane
I do love mustard
it's about 2 p.m. local time
welcome to Taipei thank you thank you
you
we got through immigration extremely
quickly there was almost no line and now
we are at baggage claim going to grab
our bags and we are going to take the
train into Taipei to get into our hotel
we got our bags we got through
immigration and I am excited to be here
here are our transportation options I
think we're going towards the to the
high-speed rail I just stopped up at the
front of the airport to go to the ATM
and pulled out some money so we're good
to go now and we ended up buying this
ticket which is a bus ticket to the
high-speed rail which cost 30 Taiwan
dollars the bus just dropped us off at
how un station and I guess this is the
high speed rail station with non
reserved ticket
one way
I baked I
family and hearty Tantalus yeah
thank you
we just got off the high speed train and
now we are walking to the MRT
we are at taipei station right now which
is right there and we actually just need
to go one station over to Shimon station
single ticket chagum
successful here are our little tickets
our little tokens
we're taking exit number six
all right we have emerged into the real
world and while I think this is one of
the main shopping areas in Taipei this
area feels almost like being in Tokyo or
in Hong Kong
we got a little bit off-track but I
think we found the correct road now
which is something called like chin chin
Singh Road and we are on our way I think
in the right direction to our hotel now
but we definitely took the scenic route
the address is 36 and I think it's at
the top of this building on the ninth
floor so we got to walk through this
little mall it looks like a little IT
mall
oh I think this is the place we're
looking for the elevator and then I
think we're supposed to be on the ninth
floor we came to the top of the ninth
floor but this I don't think this is our
hotel that was a complete failure we
just went to the ninth floor on a random
building so we just came back down the
elevator and now we're back downstairs
and I think we just spotted the sign for
our hotel oh there it is go sleep hotel
but then it changes to Chinese every
couple seconds so it's kind of hard to
see it in English if you're just walking
past
is it the same hotel same hotel oh okay
just different location
sorry no sorry if my audio doesn't sound
so good my microphone battery died as we
were going through this adventure but I
guess this hotel it's called go sleep
Hotel they have two locations one is
just a block away so we actually went to
the top of a building first then we went
to then we found that hotel and they
brought us over to this hotel and we
finally are getting into our room okay
here's the room oh we do have a window
at least in the bathroom we literally
just got into our room we threw down our
bags and we're back in the elevator
going downstairs going to look for food
we're really hungry we're walking around
looking for something to eat right now
by eating wants to stop and get a
Taiwanese milk tea with boba
you ain't got the Taiwanese milktea
which is very famous in Taiwan and I'm
going to taste it
okay that's very good I got some of the
little mochi balls which are sticky and
yeah kind of gushy and then this tea
it's nice it tastes like a black tea but
very milky and you got it not sweet so
it's not very sweet but actually that's
pretty good and that's very refreshing
we're just walking around I'm not sure
what exactly they're serving here but it
looks good and this is my kind of spot
and there are a few tables here on the
sidewalk so we are really hungry we
cannot walk around any longer so I think
we're just going to eat here whatever
they have
oh here's the menu on the wall here in
this little glass cabinet they have a
bunch of little set-aside plates with
tofu and looks like boiled eggs here's
what we ordered starting over here
that's a big bowl of noodles with icy
basil in there and I think there are
some kind of like tofu and fish cake and
all sorts of random goodies in there
this one is rice topped with some kind
of fatty pork braised pork
and then over here is a big what she did
is she blanched a bunch of bean sprouts
and then topped it with some kind of
stewed look like stewed braised beef and
then also a bunch of dark sauce and then
over here this is the dish that I saw in
that glass cabinet and it is tofu and
stewed eggs and then in the middle I
think is a type of seaweed okay I'm
going to start with the beef
oh that looks good on all those bean
sprouts
those bean spouts are still crisp and
then that beef has a actually a very
meaty beefy flavor to it and also has a
kind of a sweet voice in flavor to it
just very light eating has already
tasted some of this chili sauce and she
said it is really good so she said I
need to have some she said it's very
spicy
it looks awesome I'll put that on to the
beef
actually this needs to be eaten with
rice though I'm going to take some of
that fatty pork because it's mostly rice
with just a little bit of pork on top
and I'm going to eat it with that beef
since that beef is rice less
put some of this into the but there is
sauce maybe I should just taste this
real fast
that's plain but you can really taste
like the oiliness from that pork now I'm
going back for that beef all with the
chili sauce onto the rice
get that other piece up in there all men
all that's that looks amazing
just beautiful in really case the dried
chili flavor it's extra salty and a
little bit sour and a little bit oily
okay tofu and I'm going to try a little
bit of those strips as well all they're
pretty slippery
it's a little bit on the cold side but
very good the tofu is very firm and
almost like almost like cheese but no
but without the saltiness okay and then
finally these this bowl of noodles and
I'm going to go in for one of these
these fritters and take some of the
noodles
for a pot
that's just a good kind of mixed bowl of
noodles really hot and freshly cooked
and yeah really good I think it could
use some of that chili though and maybe
a dash of soy sauce because that one is
a little bit plain we finished all that
food that was so good
and partly was really good because we
were all really hungry I especially
liked the beef that braised beef with
the bean sprouts and with that chili
sauce all that hit the spot
I saw this stand and I just absolutely
have to try whatever it is I don't think
I've ever seen this it's like a it looks
exactly like a bitter melon but it's
white well thank you thank you Tom any
put a honey into it and then I guess you
blended it up into a juice
it tastes kind of like a honeydew melon
but at the same time it has a bitterness
so it must be it must definitely be
related to a bitter gourd bitter melon
because it had that same texture and the
same look we are just walking through
this area and mostly these are walking
streets and they are just packed tonight
so many people and lots and lots of
shopping like an almost ridiculous
amount of food and drinks and this is an
amazing place I am already loving Taipei
and we came through this lane with a ton
of delicious looking food and we made it
all the way through and then at the end
there was this sausage vendor who I just
could not pass up the food it just
looked incredible and so I thought this
would be a good way to end the night on
so you had two different colors of
sausage and the white one he said is
rice only rice made into a sausage form
and then grilled up and then the pink
ones or the red ones are pork and so you
could either just order a pork sausage
or you could order the works and I
ordered the works which he took a one of
the white rice sausages grilled it and
then cut it in half and then filled it
with a bunch of different toppings look
it looks like a bunch of different
chilies and pickles and all sorts of
delicious goodies and then he popped it
with one of the pork sausages and
wrapped it in a little plastic bag and
he showed me kinda you like kind of
squish it from the bottom and squeeze it
oh there we go just like that like a
like a tube of toothpaste and you can
see Paul that is so hot
I don't even know what the best method
of getting everything in one bite is
that looks amazing
oh that is delicious that is like a
Taiwanese hot dog the sausage is a
little bit sweet then the rice is really
gooey and sticky but has kind of a
crunchy layer on the outside and then
all of those pickles and crisp they're
all crispy a little bit spicy and also
it's a pretty fun kind of squeezing it
out of this bag like a like a tube of
toothpaste oh here comes my next bite
I think I got some plastic on that bite
we're back in the hotel now it has been
a very long day Taipei is an amazing
city so far so much food I can't wait to
try more food in the coming days and I
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