Taoyuan- Taipei

Day 7

Visit 永和 and try out their rice roll. Very disappointing, so far the worst rice roll I have eaten in taiwan.

Rice roll 40twd, soy milk 25twd.

Took TRA train to Taoyuan to visit Mindy.
Mindy and her god daughter, Ellen pick me up at the train station and today our programme is visit water lily since this is the season now.

Me and Mindy
First time met Mindy in Hakone, lovely lady reside in Taoyuan.

林家三合院

Guava

Picking up gourd on the road

Ellen found a very big one. They are going to dry this up and use it as a scrub.

莲花茶 900twd

This bee hoon is nicely fried, very tasty and we had 2 plate. It is fried with lotus roots.

Lotus roots soup

Bamboo rice

Smelly beancurd with lotus roots

Xiao long bao

This dessert is very nice with the fresh lotus seeds.

Queuing up for this 荷叶王。
50twd per pax.

Went to their farmer's supermarket, the staff using a machine to break the shell of the lotus seed.

200twd per packet

The watermelon so big!

This pear around 100twd each

According to Ellen, this is the best popcorn chicken in Taoyuan. It does have a different flavour, I taste prawn paste flavour in it.

They say this is the best green tea here.

And this is also their another favourite.

Booked steamboat at 7pm here.

750twd for dinner (2hrs)

We had the Mongolia mala and Mongolia Yangsheng soup.

They have 6-7 types of prawns, their prawns here is really good and fresh.
Plenty of drinks and few types of beer free flow. 16 types of hagen daaz, 5-6 type of MEiji ice cream etc...

After the steamboat, we walked Tesco just 5mins away.