Day 2 in Taipei saw us waking up early in the morning because we had planned to go to Jiufen (九份)! As mentioned in my previous post, we stayed at iTaipei Service Apartment which is located right above Taipei Main Station. It was really convenient for us.
Queuing to buy train tickets to Ruifang.
The express train journey took about an hour. It was raining when we reached Ruifang. 🙁 Waited for the public bus to take us up to Jiufen.
I had been to Jiufen at least 3 or 4 times and honestly, I don’t find this place interesting. Plus it always rains in Jiufen! 🙁 It was misterchewy’s idea to visit Jiufen again.
Stopped by Zhang Ji Traditional Fish Balls (張記傳統魚丸) for lunch.
Braised pork rice! These were quite good, although not exactly fantastic. The rice could definitely use more sweet soy sauce.
Their mixed balls soup was pretty awesome! My favourite was the cuttlefish ball.
We were so hungry that we ordered another bowl of braised pork rice and mixed balls soup to share 😛
Feeling kinda full already but we stopped by Lai Ah Po Yu Yuan (赖阿婆芋圆) for handmade taro balls. Heh.. I think I still prefer Blackball because it’s sweeter 😛
I was initially quite worried about going to Jiufen because I was quite sure that there wasn’t any nursing rooms there. Thankfully, misterchewy did some searching online and told me that we could take a 10 minute bus ride to Jinguashi Gold Ecological Park. Taiwan is really baby-friendly! This kinda place can also find nursing room. Really not bad!
The hubs bought this Agnes B bijoux bangle for me at Q Square shopping mall on our way back to our hotel! 😀
AHHHHHH! I can hardly contain my excitement! We had dinner at Jay Chou’s Fujiwara Tofu Shop!! It was really a dream come true for us Jay Chou fans! 😀 😀 😀
This photo was taken during closing time. There were only about 5 tables of customers that night. The location wasn’t that easy to find, imo.
If you don’t already know, this restaurant is named after the tofu shop owned by the characters played by Jay Chou and Anthony Wong (as his dad) in the popular movie, Initial D.
We randomly chose a place to sit but apparently we hit jackpot! Sat right next to the iconic Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (AE86)! There was a mini one too! How cute 🙂 I suppose nobody sat there because it was near the entrance. Haha.
I was grinning from ear to ear the entire time we were there 😛
We bought an unopened bottle of Ramune soda (also known as marble soda) and brought it back to Singapore as a souvenir.
I might update this space again if I manage to find the receipt. Honestly, the food is mediocre but we didn’t regret at all! 🙂
HAHAHA. I swear it wasn’t my idea! 😛
It was an extremely memorable night for misterchewy and I. I know it sounds kinda funny but it was as though we could feel Jay Chou’s presence. LOL! We visited another of Jay’s restaurant two days later which will be featured soon! Stay connected with us on Facebook www.facebook.com/missuschewy and on Instagram @missuschewy and @misterchewy 🙂