Written recap of the 8-day trip: day 1 n 2

Day1 - continue frm the previous entry. Rainy cold night. An experience indeed to the shilin night market. Took the wrong turn out of the 地下铁站 aka metro and so the longer than the supposed 400m walk. The jeans and right sleeve all wet, unpleasant. The lingering 臭豆腐 smell in the air is overwhelming. 鸭血臭豆腐. Double whammy. How do pple enjoy this? Really smell worse than ****. Customers laughing and stall owners touting in familiar 亲切 taiwanese mandarin。"躲雨的人来吃一个，要我拿过去吗？＂ hahaha so onz. The rain is too heavy to carry on. The rainwater dripping off the edge of the awning along the streets lined with 2 rows of stalls at the sides enhanced the experience of weaving thru the crowd and trying to walk in between the 2 "walls of waterfall". Argh give up. Temp drop from 17 to 10. Quite a fluctuation. The best thing that had ever happened since the beginning of the trip was the long hot shower. And totally can understand why taiwan can haf 宅男. So many entertaining tv programmes! Chn switch n u will feel that ur time spent on the couch is worth it.

This wk is the peace memorial wk, there goes the normal 台 train tix. Fully booked. So the only choice to chiayi is via HSR. Length of journey will drop frm 4 to 1.5 hrs for sgd 42 instead of 16 per pax. The underground streets n malls n train stations are a maze. Discovered my weakness in orienteering underground. First discovery was the orchard road's. N now it's cfmed. Totally lost.

Public hol. This means crowd. But this increased the number of locals among the tourists. Gd for soaking up the culture else it'll be not much difference frm joining tour packages anyway.

Day2: 11am train from taipei to chiayi. Still raining. Walked a long way to chiayi park where they sold fried quail eggs. Really anything tastes hot in such cold weather. Wanted to tropic of cancer park, bought the tix but dunno where is the bus. Seem like we missed it. The next is an hr later. Pass. Dinner is 葱油火鸡饭 和卤肉饭。To the night market and really walked the whole town in search of winter wear. The guys' designs are so much nicer. Merv bought one n passed me his. So prepared to go alishan in 4 layers.