Taipei Day 6 - 14 Sep 2013 (Sat)

I name this day the Ultimate Feasting Day of our trip.

We started off our day at 8am, taking 捷运 to 善道寺 for the famous 豆浆油条 introduced to us by our 乌来 driver 小杰.

The place is located about 15 min walk from the station , and is within a supermarket named 华山市场。

He told us that its gonna test our patience to the max if we were going for this, but we really didn't expect anything quite like this.


This shop is located at level 2 of this supermarket, but the queue tailed all the way into level 1, and stretched outside the building, surrounding it. Can you imagine that ? !!
It took us a good 45min to reach for our turn to make our order.

As highly recommanded by our taxi friend, we ordered the famous  厚饼煎蛋, and a tau hu fa which sounded quite unique to us, the Salty Tau Hoo Fa.

Here's the Salty Tao Hoo Fa(on the right). It tasted almost exactly like steamed eggs.


Everyone loves the 厚饼煎蛋 like nobody else's business, ass they claimed that it was very special, but i found nothing so special about it.
 

The only thing that i really love was the 油炸鬼. I personally found it very crispy, and not oily. Even the one that was already dipped into the tou hoo fa for a very long time retained its crispiness, which is very rare and special to me. I loved it very much.

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And that was breakfast. Now's lunch.

We took a MRT to 行天宫. 20min walk, and reached this place called 上引水产。


Its a place which is located right at the port, where seafood were harvested straight from the sea, and directly processed and put on the shelve to be sold, either to go, or for direct consumption.
Needless to say, it's all about freshness they're talking about here, as everything comes straight from the sea and immediately to the customer.

To give u an idea how fresh the seafood is, take a look at this shot clip which I've shot on a pack of squid displayed on the selling shelve:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srdwl7nvCOY

(To read more about Why squid change color, go here:- http://ca-seafood.ucdavis.edu/squid/squidcol.htm)

These seafood are alive, and you can simply choose any of your choice, and they will immediately process it for you. 
You can either pack it back, and consume it there and then.


Me happily handling an abalone ...


See how huge is this crab???


And just will ya look at the crowd on the packed processed seafood ....


There is no chairs in this place. If you'd like to dine in, you will have to collect your number, and wait for like an hour until u get your turn to order, and eat standing.

And well, there's really nothing much that I can say about this place, only to say that if you love sashimi 
and fresh seafood, this place is one damn freaking place you shouldn't miss.
4 pairs of us people went in there, and spent a load some of NT$2500 per pair on this meal, and 
nobody was crying that the price was too expensive.
I'll just leave it to you guys to do your own wild imagination on all the following pictures of seafood that 
we've consumed.

So.... enjoy :)

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We could hardly move after that meal.
On the way back, we suddenly saw a very fat cat snoozing inside a shop, and everyone goes crazy.


Surprisingly, the shop owner was very friendly and welcomed us and invited us in.
Only then we found out that it was actually a Cat Veterinary shop.


We spent almost more than 1/2 an hour there playing with the cat, and talking to the very friendly vet.

It was really one of the most fulfilling event of this trip.
It triggered a lot of thoughts, especially at this special timing where Me and Danielle have started planning on going serious about operating our own pet shop. It even triggered me to really start my 2nd career as a vet by attending a night school on Veterinary.

We exchanged ideas and talked a lot on the back, in the bus, and even when we reached our hotel.


Danielle was a person who's full of ideas, and a true visionary. She seems to have been drafted all the plans in mind.

We could do everything step by step. No rush.
We could just start off with just providing boarding services to cats. And well, they need food and litter sand, right? We could be getting those in chunks, at distributor price, and even sell them to customers.
Slowly, we could expend our offerings to other variety of food, accessories, etc .......
Services could come along when we start attending pet grooming courses and stuff.
And then we could have joint venture with other vets. We don't even need to be vet ourselves. Not to say that we couldn't. But that's an open option for discussion not for now.

And the discussion goes on and on ........

I'm really excited. And I'm really happy with how this final stop of our Taiwan trip ended in a wonderful way.
It's all about what I've learnt, and experienced, and I've gained way a lot more that I've expected. And I hope I could share those, but that would be a story for another day .....

:)