Taiwan Day 2

Actually planned to get up as early as 630am, but ended up 1 hr later as we were both exhausted. Haha..

From Ximen Station to XinBeiTou Station.

XinBeiTou 新北投

Arriving at XinBeiTou Station.

Beitou Library 北投圖書館

Beitou Hot Spring Museum 北投溫泉博物館. Wanted to enter, but were required to take off our shoes, so never mind, we shall just enjoy the view from outside.

Plenty of artists crafting the beautiful scenery.

♫ Musical performance ♫

Beitou Geothermal Valley地熱谷

It was warm here despite the cold weather. Strong sulphuric smell as well, but the view was stunning, isnt't it? Smokey fumes could be observed~

Thanks to GoPro, we could get wide angle selfie pics easily! :D

To experience hot springs culture, there are plenty of baths; outdoor or indoor, high-class hotel or tub, private or public available. Of cos, price differs as well. We went to a pleasant hotel which costed us about NTD799 per hour. Our package includes a private room for clothes exchanging with a bathroom attached. Soap and bathing foams were also provided. The spring water was freaking hot. Soaked for about 20mins only as it was not advisable to soak for too long. To get ready after bathing, the 1 hour time limit was almost up as well. 

Man Ke Wu Ramen 满客屋拉面

Climbing further up the hill, you would catch this Ramen shop, selling Hot Spring Ramen. Used to be known as Man Ke Lai Hot Spring Ramen 滿來溫泉拉麵. The shop was rather small, visitors were a lot, but luckily turnover was quite fast. 

正油叉燒拉麵 （NTD120). Seriously this was the best ramen I had!

Side dishes of Fish Eggs 鱼卵 (NTD150) and Hot Spring Eggs 温泉蛋 (NTD25). Superb.

Zhong Xiao Dong Lu 忠孝东路

Dropped off at Zhongshan Station and walked our way to search for 肥前屋

A long queue~ We joined in and manage to get our spot after an hour later.

Unagi Don! Everyone's here for this!

Tamago as a side.

Took a walk at the famous shopping street, 忠孝东路 and of cos our food hunting journey never stop.

Dropping by at 東區粉圓 for some sweet treats.

GongGuan 公馆

We headed to Gong Guan next to hunt for sneakers. There was the night market there with lots of street foods as well, but we took a very heavy dinner at Mala Spicy Hot Pot馬辣頂級麻辣鴛鴦火鍋. It was a good meal with lots of quality foods and also good ice creams. :D

Pullman Weekend High-Tea Buffet

Delighted to be invited by Pullman Kuching to their newly launched Weekend High-Tea Buffet at Puzzle Restaurant. Available on every Saturday and Sunday from 12-4pm, every adult would just have to pay RM42+ to enjoy the wide spread of food choices especially DESSERTS~~

First of all is the spot for appetizers. This tray here has some ingredients for you to make your own Rojak.

Up next is some greens in which you can make salad of your choice with the variety of salad pastes available.

And of course, they have some pre-mix salads like pasta salad, fruit salad and coleslaw.

I find this part of the salad station much more appetizing and delicious. There are beef sausage salad, chicken lyoner salad. Probably because I prefer meaty dishes. :D

They also serve soups like mushroom soup and chicken soup. I only tried the mushroom soup.

Some spring rolls, curry puffs, fried dim sums and quiche lorraine maybe?

Only tried this as the rest are not my type of food. Quite nice but it would be better if it's just out from the oven.

Noodle station where you can order Laksa or Kolo Mee with the ingredients you want from the chef working live. They have chicken shreds, prawns, fish balls, eggs etc. 

Moving on to the main dishes. Having served in front are the turkey ham croissant and mini tuna burgers. I have tried the croissants before which were lovely, so I tried the mini burgers.

Top left: Deep-fried chicken

Top right: Deep-fried fish fingers

Bottom left: Grilled beef in herbs sauce (yummy and tender)

Bottom right: Beef embedded in bread (forgotten the name)

Left: Penne (slurpsss)

Middle: Curry chicken 

Right: Fried beehoon

Left: Assam fish (had a lot of this)

Middle: Chicken sausage in pesto sauce (delicious too)

Right: Deep-fried squid 

Okay... Finally to the desserts corner! I must say all of them were awesome! 

Muffins

Left: Mocha cheese cake

Right: Marble cheese cake

Both the cakes were damn rich and smooth!

Left: Strawberry slice cake

Right: Chocolate fudge

Melting chocolate in the puff! So good that I had a couple of this. The sweet chocolate sauce is well balanced when taken along with the puff.

Donuts 

Chocolate cakes which it's so difficult to resist!

Tarts. On the left is cheese tart and fruit tart on the right.

Some macarons, cookies to add on the calories. The macaron was good. Weren't too sweet.

Fruits as an healthy option.

They also serve shaved ice desserts in which we are free to pick our own ingredients. In local, we call it ABC. Besides that, there are also 3 other prepared desserts like chilled watermelon in coconut milk, red bean soup and green bean soup.

Well, I did not try everything there. I took one round first, seeing what they offer and with the hell lots of desserts, I restricted myself to less main dishes in order to cater more desserts. Haha.

Here's my 1st round.

2nd plate and more to go...

Third one!

Desserts!

Laksa with prawns and beehoon only. Served really hot which was great. Taste-wise, it wasn't really my liking, but George said it was good.

George 1st plate.

We actually had moreeeee than this but I was busy eating and forgotten everything about photo-taking. Instead of high-tea, it's a great lunch buffet we had!