@-->---: Taiwan Trip D1

Day 1 - 10 Sept :

SIN - TPE

From Taipei to Yilan :

- Visited Kostin bakery at Taipei : Kostin Bakery - 可仕町專業烘培

- Drop by to eat Salty pancake : 礁溪柯氏蔥油餅

- Tried Peanut Ice Cream, just next to the salty pancake

- Walked around Hot spring

- Visited Local supermarket

- Eat Steamboat for dinner at 上鼎日式涮涮鍋

Spent 1st night at Jaee Hotel 和風嘉一館

Important things you can do at Taipei airport :

1. buy local Taiwan SIM card with data plan
2. change your money to TWD

Before we reached the immigration counter we went to buy local Taiwan SIM card with data plan.

Tips : choose with a higher price because it covers more area especially went you travel to small cities.

There is a money changer counter before the immigration, make sure you have enough TWD with you.

Make sure you already had TWD with you because there is only 1 money changer counter.

Immigration counter was full of people but everybody queued patiently. Officers act with full attention, que was fast and effective.

We reached Taipei around 2pm, it was past lunch time.. at first we plan to have a proper lunch but taifun came (small taifun = very heavy raining with strong wind ) so driver took us to a bakery shop to save time worried taifun became worst.

We reached Yilan after about 1 hour and stop to try the Taiwan pancake.. long queue even it was raining..

I called it a salty pancake.. you can choose the seasoning and spread yourself..

Next to the salty pancake shop, there is a stall selling ice cream wrapped in a popiah/lumpia skin with grated peanut and chinese celery.. a new and unique taste for me, my sweet tooth husband liked it very much. The brown block thing is the peanut block, grated and put on to the ice cream roll..

After all the delicious snacks, we checked in to our hotel.

This hotel reminds me on the old type of motel in Japan with small lift and quite old interior, but it is clean.

Breakfast was simple yet delicious.. they serve vegetarian food..light and comforting your stomach.. one unique food for me was the preserved tofu, very salty with a bit of smell..