both me n waifu been craving hard for some good chinese meal..while taking a short weekend to visit MY would never be enough, we set our eyes on Taiwan.

it's very convenient as the local airport (Komatsu) 20 min away has direct flight to Taipei, and best part of the airport is free parking (for like ~2+ weeks) when taking international flight

quickly put together a 3 days 3 night trip, only need take one day leave.

Komatsu airport


Very nice stained glass at the departure area


short and smooth 3 hours flight, imigration suck ass, very long queue..
both unlucky, didn't get anything from the lucky draw


Airport express straight to Taipei main to check in and drop off the luggage first before first round of dinner.
Transport fare are pretty cheap, but got too used to JP's JR gate speed, felt the fare gate was pretty slow.

Nice Taipei main station


Walked over to the nearest night market, Ningxia Night Market 寧夏夜市




since no particular plan of what to eat, so simply walk one round and decided on braised meat rice. seems pretty popular store, no place to sit and many ppl queue but not sure why the auntie just let me and my wife sit in front of the shop, skip queue and order makan


ordered vege n a bowl of braised meat rice. holy fuk..one spoon already worth the trip, super nice gelatinous fat sticking all over that smacking lip, ichiban!
and so damn cheap, 40 NTD only


next meal, wanted to try taiwan fried bee hoon


40 NTD also, cheap af but i prefer MY "economy" bee hoon better


also, I never been to a hotter city than Taipei, even at night, it's so fking hot

This post has been edited by quadcube: Aug 19 2023, 10:59 PM

a cup of ai yu bing to cool down. very long time no drink this, like from childhood



Day 2
Took the bus and headed over to Jiu fen..came too early so not much stores/shops were open.


tried their fish ball and braised meat noodle, gooding. don't remember how much but it was also pretty cheap


more pics of jiu fen






also tried their red yeast meatball dumpling. taste fine but probably won't try again if I come back again. don't really like the texture of the kuih


one of the popular beef noodle shop in jiu fen.


Nopeee...just no. macam eating pepper je. still prefer MY beef noodle. banned TW beef noodle for the rest of the trip.



before heading to Shi Fen, need a beer to cool off, so fking hot

Shi Fen, hot af..
see ppl fly lantern, train pass next to shop..nothing much I guess


went up to the Shi Fen waterfall..I guess I have to mention again: hot af, not for human


crashed at a convenient store and...another beer


went back to the hotel to take a quick nap as we were pretty exhausted.

quick dinner near the hotel. and this is the best braised meat rice i had in the entire trip, absolutely recommended. https://goo.gl/maps/PUXLjatFLorccA2q9
like the first, lip smacking good sticky fat


visited taipei 101


night view of the city from ground lvl


headed over to Raohe night market


god this night market is crazy, so packed!


Hey! found apam balik!


not bad

Penis cake


some famous pepper beef biscuit, not bad but still too much pepper. inb4, i also don't like MCD prosperity burger


don't remember what else I ate in that night market, probably a lot of tropical fruits (scam kao2)



Day 3
Time to try ori Din Tai Fung for brunch...again, very long queue in the hot weather


vege, taiwan fried rice


shrimp siew mai. I was expecting MY pork n shrimp siew mai but oh wai, it's xiao long bao with shrimp.


xiao long bao. gooding.



and taiwan famous, bubble tea best man their bubble tea, seriously good


tea time, Tim Ho Wan for more dim sum


more siew mai, not bad but i still miss my childhood siew mai which till today I cannot find back the same taste
also the lao sar bao is nice


ah, this dish..the other tokyo trip I went to Yokohama chinatown, mtfk, it's so bad idk what was I eating, they probably use mochi rice powder to make the skin, taste and texture absolutely lari
this not so terrible but still, prefer MY one


This post has been edited by quadcube: Aug 19 2023, 11:40 PM

more milk tea. the auntie asked how much sugar I wanted, I told the regular. she was like u sure...very sweet one hor..u sure?
Initially I thought maybe I should take her suggestion but then I remembered, i'm Malaysian so just went with regular sugar
turn out, even regular sugar, tealive kurang kao2 sugar version also sweeter


a visit to Shi Lin night market, the most overated night market here





first, more beer..too hot.


oyster mee sua


was slightly disappointed, was expecting it to be better than MY version although I don't remember MY version taste anymore. nothing too spectacular


tried their popiah ice cream. auntie asked whether want coriander, as coriander addict, Yesss please. then auntie mentioned that usually Malaysian and singaporean don't really like it.


not bad, cooling. probably nice for trying once


went to find shelter from heat at a 7-eleven. tried banana milk.


random interesting thing i saw along the way. real time washroom availability

couldn't get more of braised meat rice..so went for another round for supper.
that's where everything started to go down hill real fast.
not delicious de braised meat rice.


Last day
another not delicious braised meat rice for breakfast...
then later I learned from one of my TW follower, that there's generally two type of braised meat rice, one dry like this two pic, and the sticky ones which are godly. I prefer the latter ones.


Rushed over to the airport and checked in..
since still got time, I went over to the other terminal to look for bubble tea. but sad af, T2 bubble tea shop only open at 11am..was there at 10+am

no choice, had to masuk departure already.
and lord behold, bubble tea in front of my gate

tapao2 two cup, one drink on the spot, another brought all the way back to JP



sekian my short taipei food trip.

some key points:
1. summer not for human, so I will never step into TW in summer again
2. braised meat rice and bubble tea alone are worth that return flight ticket

in the end, spent a total of 128k yen in total for everything (flight, hotel, etc.), very cheap n fun trip


can't wait for my MY & BKK trip this coming Friday
all the food waiting for me

This post has been edited by quadcube: Aug 19 2023, 10:54 PM

tunggu la my BKK my BKK trip this 1st sept

ok la, for food pretty okay. but i didn't go other museum or historical sites..spent a lot of time underground or indoor because it's too hot

damn man the heat is one of the kind. even japanese summer also not that bad

thinking whether want to do another winter or spring trip but probably will go HK first

This post has been edited by quadcube: Aug 19 2023, 11:09 PM

Eat Japanese food most of the time will sien one..TW food will also look like heaven in my case

Beef with fire extinguisher cooking method? I must have miss out something. What was it? Nice?

Same with JP, summer rarely rain, except when typhoon come

Oh this one! I skipped these because I regularly grill A4/5 wagyu at home, so didn’t thought of eating them at all

summer bang..even me up here in countryside, my home office hot until in the morning can reach 40c

sure MY no.1 for most of it, but some of TW food are the best i had so far (braised meat rice n bubble tea)

where's this? I want try on my next trip

my area here in JP has Formosa branch, I haven't tried the ori branch in TW. usually i go there to fix my chinese food craving

ah no, I mean JP. I live in Ishikawa

yea, really not nice.

the other nice beef noodle also peppery or?

same feeling. but I kinda like the night market especially when I'm not living in MY, a lot of choice, give that asian food street vibe..lots of choices although not everything is nice.

yea, a lot of the good ones have no meat all fat but sedap..cholesterol also naik

HK china so boring kah? haven't been to both

been to Seoul once, didn't like it at all, rude ppl..boring food, it's either bbq or noodle or kimchi

how's the soup? peppery?

stayed at a shitty but super convenient place. AC so cold like electric free one...not worth the mention

maybe BKK one in next two weeks can review

yes, da best

man so many days, idk how u can tahan the heat for so many days literally on bbq even at night man, those concrete building and streets still radiate their heat after midnight


very limited choice compared to others..but for the first night market that i visited, the ru rou fan was an eye opening experience

The trip was last month, now already back in JP and recently only got time to post

Where would u recommend for a food trip?

No, I true bred MYsian.

Look nice! Thanks! Saved to my want to visit list

Thanks for the recommendation! Probably will enjoy the hot spring in winter

Nope, didn’t came across it in convenient store. Is it good?

Dayum…rm3000 for everything including hotel and flight? How much is the flight for 2 pax?

Thank for sharing such detailed list!

Definitely Malaysian taste bud too heavy. I always have to adjust my cooking when I host Japanese friend and family

i tried that one, not bad but still too peppery for me

next round no more summer TW trip

really? didn't know that, I guess view n vibe should be much diff..

no wor, didn't know about about it. will try it next time

i went there first, but it's take-out only, they directed to the main branch opposite of the road if want dine in

but JP summer banyak holiday and company mandatory take at least 9 consecutive days between July to end of Sept..so end up jln2 a lot..

for the past 5 years, almost every summer I end up spending time in MY from 2+ weeks to 2 month, totally skip the hot summer in JP

no star, just in michelin guide je

why see your description of HK a bit don't want to go liao..but how about the food?

if i go china, probably go visit more countryside spots sightsee and visit Shen zhen, electronic Mecca

ayam jepunis salaryman

didn't buy so idk..i initially though can probably buy it somewhere else but i never found it again, so wasted opportunity

hmm, enough for my wife to complain about it..for me, confirm don't like, i think i taste pepper instead of beef. for me, even prosperity burger i also think too much pepper

where u go kena bite by midges? i don't remember kena insect bite

main goal of the trip was to eat upcoming MY and BKK trip also to makan too

wow, nice, so cheap! my flight was more than half of my total spending for two pax

unless my wife want 3P

which one?

oyster cake? never heard of it before

sua ku malaysian sapu 7-11 stuff..for me, when i see TW convenient store, i shock at how exp it is compared to JP convenient stores

regarding stinky tofu, waifu don't want try so oh well
oyster omelet wanted to eat but couldn't find a place so next time
deep fried raddish cake didn't know it's famous there, got place to recommend?

the other two also dun know what that


taipei will steam u alive, from morning till midnight still steaming..

the only nice thing is the malls/indoor AC are cold, not like JP mall, save electric until inside can't feel big diff with outside temp