The next day, we slept in then had some erruns to do before heading back to Taipei that evening.
Grandma is an early bird and bought us some fresh pastries and roasted duck for breakfast. As she knows we love soy milk, she also got us a bottle of it. In Taiwan, the soy milk is ususally fresh with no sugar, the best! Many (breakfast) stands along streets will sell cups of it to go too. I also found a steamed bun in the steamer. This one had a few raisins scattered throughout.
We visited a Hakka heritage site which has been heavily influenced by Japan. Hakka is the Taiwanese ethnic group which my family is from. They have their own dialect too.
Saw a cute kitty in the window:
Inside, they were advertising Taiwan made products.
The flowery pattern you can see above is a pattern often related to Hakka. The lady inside also asked us if we could spare some time to color a flower. For every flower colored, the site donates 10 NTD to charity.
After this visit, we headed to grab me a local phone number. A lot of businesses use Line and phone numbers for contact. There are many places selling food so after we grabbed a couple snacks.
This is a small circular pastry with a spring onion filling. Spring onion is used a lot in Taiwan. This was very good. The pastry was light and flaky with a good amount of filling. 8/10
Yet another form of tofu. This one has a similar texture to dried fruit. The flavor picked is plum and winter melon. It was the perfect balance of sweet and savory with the occasional piece of plum. 8/10
With the temperature hitting highs of 32°C by the early afternoon, we also grabbed a drink. There are so many drink places around every corner and street. The cost is also far lower than UK, starting from £1 for a large milk tea (£1 ≈ 38 NTD, current to time of post). There are also different options from teas to fruits to toppings.
Before catching a train back to Taipei, we had dinner made by my grandma.
Included is roasted duck, greens, tofu and fish soup, stir fried tofu strips, fresh bamboo shoots, and fish. Often, the fish here has a lot of bones and is used whole. The bamboo shoots were personally brought by my mother’s good friend who went to the farmers to buy it as the season has just started and she knows my mother loves them.
Grandma also gave us a snack to take.
This is similar to pork floss but is not as shredded. 7.5/10
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