Snacks from Sun Moon Lake

Our driver recommended we tried the tea egg (Cha ye dan) from this particular stall.  Jake also read from some foodie blog that it is a must to try tea egg from this stall.  Anyhow, Mr Li (our driver in blue shirt) also recommended for us to try Goose Tea Egg.  It is 3 times the size of chicken egg. He also asked us to try the wild boar sausage from the same stall.

 

Me posing with the two eggs.  The Goose egg had huge yolk.

Wen Wu Temple文武廟

Bell lanterns -it chimes when the wind blows.

Here's the Wen Wu Steps of the year.  In the olden days, it was known as Stairway to Heaven as people used to come via boat and climb the steep steps up to worship in the temple. Now roads have been built and the steps renovated to have 366 steps to symbolise a leap year. 

 

 

Peacock garden

On the way to Wen Wu temple, the driver dropped us at Peacock garden for some phototaking session. Too bad the peacocks weren't exhibiting their pretty feathers.

Below some albino peacocks.

 

老街 (Old street)

To go to Sun Moon Lake from Taichung, one can take the bus (costs NT $190 per way per person) and takes 2 hours and it only gets to the Sun Moon Lake and had to take another bus costs NT $20 to 40?? from Sun Moon Lake to the cable car location.

We took the easier way (ie rent a private taxi for NT$3,000). We agreed with the driver that we want to cover the Cable car/Tribal village and then go to the Lao Jie (Old Street) an also go to Wen Wu temple. They were kinda on the way but if we used bus, would have to walk to those destinations or take taxi at Sun Moon Lake perhaps.

So above were the duck sausage stall. In NZ, whenever we go to any Taiwanese festival or Chinese NY festival, we always made sure we buy the taiwanese sausage from the stalls. but we have never seen Duck sausages in Auckland, so try that we must. It was NT $30 per sausage.

Our driver told us we had to try the stuffed chicken wing飯飯雞翅 Jake had tried them at Shilin market in Taipei but our driver Mr Li insisted that the ones in Sun Moon Lake were more authentic. Anyhow, it must be pretty good the queue was long, we queued for 15 to 20minutes and there were still at least 12 ppl ahead of us.  We went back to Mr Li as we needed to head to Wen Wu temple next. Turns out, Mr Li knows the chicken wing guy, so he helped us buy two stuffed chicken wings without even needing to queue. The chicken wing were NT $60 each.

 

Check out the glutinous filling.

It was delicious! Its definitely worth trying.

Sun Moon Lake (2)

There's also an Western Garden in the Nine Tribal Village. 

Behind us is an European inspired fountain. The sun was shining right into our eyes. *ouch

opposite the garden was the big entrance/square for the tribal village. Below is a picture of the name of each tribe in Chinese.

 

There is an exhibition of the 'cartoon' character they are promoting at the amusement park.

Above is an aerial view of part of the amusement park. Below is another 'theatre' of the tribal dance. Picture taken from the cable car.

 

那魯湾 (Na lu wan) - Hello!

The main attraction of the Sun Moon Lake area is the Nine Tribal village and also the theme park. It was an all inclusive entrance of TWD 780 per person (which includes the return cable car ride, entrance to the theme park and the cultural village)

We caught a show of tribal dances by all the different tribes of Aboriginal Taiwanese.  I can't stop comparing their costumes to all the various Sarawak indigenous tribe and to me, they were very similar.

Below is a rack of display of enemy skulls! They served to protect the tribes.

 

Performing some rites.  

They also had their 'waka'.

Some tribes lived in houses on high stilts.

Here visitors are given opportunity to play some tribal game.
Below is a link on :
Taiwanese Aboriginal people

Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) ,Taiwan

View from our cablecar (or Ropeway) as they call it at Sun Moon Lake.  This is just the bay portion.
Taken using my new Canon SX260 teehee.

At wenti's house (in Sibu)

The boys loved it at wenti's house. She has lots of toys and she shares them with the boys.
they didn't want to leave.
We look forward to our next visit back to Sibu.

p/s: My posts are starting to lose its chronological order.
Pic taken in April 12

Lao pa sat

 

 

 

 

We took a taxi to lao pa sat from chinatown.
We had satays, char kuay teow and fried clams.
it was pouring and noel got kinda lost in the lao pa sat!
fortunately a kind waiter uncle helped him.

Chinatown - SIngapore

These pics were some of my favourites taken in April in our last trip.


After Sibu, we went to Singapore. The first place that we visited were Chinatown.



The Ais kacang Singapore style

The Niu Che Jui big sign. - I have recollection of my first visit in 1984 with mom and dad!!!

This is a RED fire hydrant Noel spotted outside the indian temple

 

The shophouses still retains its olden day looks and souvenir stalls aplenty.

we were constantly drenched by our own sweat, thanks to the humdity.  Here, chilling out with a coconut drink.

Kids said the funniest thing

N: mum you are the boss of the house and daddy is the most boss of the house.

Occupying a 2 and 4 year old

 

the boys love foam stickers.  I got them from the dollar shop and brought some craft popsicle sticks with me during the trip. THey came handy as they made puppets and art work.

Nightmare came after they finished ie. picking up the white bits of the stickers.