More Taiwan!

Dec. 28th Monday

So today was a day of maintenance. I was able to borrow my uncle`s old car to drive Leslie and I around, but it took me a lil while to get used to driving on the other side again. The car was a cute lil burgundy Nissan Verita. I loved it. It was just a little bit hard to drive. So we went morning shopping for things. I bought some fake nails to glue onto my fingers because I missed having my nails decorated/blinged out like a gyaru`s nail. It makes your hand just so much more interesting. haha. The nails were pink with light pink and white sparkly criss-cross designs at the tip and on some of them there were acrylic white flowers and fake diamonds. It was sooo cute! (Check out my pics) But sadly they only lasted a day. ;_; Then we went to go buy some milk tea, after all, we`re in the land that created it and boba and all. I missed it hardcore because it`s so damn good here. So I ordered my sweet mung bean drink from my favorite store. I love the place. We also bought some awesome popcorn chicken and Taiwanese tempura. Oh man I missed this. Street food bought from vendors is the best. And I knew from that day I was gonna be gaining a hell of a lot of weight. Actually, I knew before I went to Taiwan that I was gonna become fatter and eat from day to night. Cuz that`s what you do in Taiwan. Eat and shop.

In the afternoon we went looking for a hair salon cuz Leslie wanted to get her hair dyed and cut and I decided to get a hair treatment. After getting lost 5 times and almost hitting a rogue moped driver (I swear, moped drivers are freakin crazy and reckless in Taiwan. Oh, and there`s no concept of pedestrians here.) we found a cool looking place with young people who work in there. And there was one ikemen guy in there. So at first it was a lady who was talking to both me and Leslie, but when I asked her about the hair treatment stuff she called over the treatment specialist who turned out to be that hot guy. I was like "no way, oh man. I`m gonna have a heart attack" lol. So he touched my hair and after asking him what was best, I decided to go along with his recommendation. He took me over to the washing basin and started to wash my hair. Along with the hair wash was the most amazing head massage EVER! Damn it felt good! His hands were like magic! Leslie said I was there for a good 10-15 minutes and said that he must`ve liked me enough to massage for that long, kya! Yeah, it did feel like a long time, but I enjoyed every second of it. >D Leslie got her hair dyed a beautiful burgundy red color and my hair felt soft and silky aftewards.

We went back home ate some wonderful Taiwanese hot pot with lamb and then left to go to the night market for some shopping. I got there and ate food again....lol Then came back home to play with my doggies. Oh, and it was only 16 degrees C outside but people here were sporting thick winter hokkaido style jackets. I was like WTF? It`s warm outside! But then again, I have gotten used to Hokkaido weather.

Dec. 29th Tuesday

So today we went to Taichung!! Yay! Took the train over. Actually we woke up at around 11am and watched some TV and ate lunch before heading over to Taichung. ehehe. So our goal today was to watch Avatar in 3D. We went over to ShinkongSanye or Mitsukoshi and watched the 2pm showing. It was soooooooooooooo GOOOD! Watch it peoples if you haven`t watched it! The story is pretty typical, but it`s the graphics that you have to watch it for. It`s beautiful, like ridiculous beautiful. And it really is like a pocahontas story. =P Anyways, afterwards we went to the Taichung Fengjia Night Market to shop and eat dinner. We just went to eat alot of stuff sold by the vendors, got some mega long ice cream, ate stinky tofu, and drank Indonesian pulled tea which was manned by this hot looking in-man`s-clothes-girl. There`s a lot of them here in Taiwan. I believe they`re lesbians. But I think they`re terribly hot and sexy. I`d totally go for them because they just look soooo good. They`re girls who dress up like guys, act and walk like guys, and do their hair like a guys. I actually have a couple friends like them and I think they`re hot! And they usually always have some really hot girl with them too, maybe their gf? Anyways, Taiwanese lesbian couples are hot hot hot. >D

We had a wonderful evening and caught a taxi back to get one of the last trains back home.

Dec. 30th Wednesday

Today is Lugang day. Lugang is the second oldest city in Taiwan and its chocked full of historical stuff and old alleys. It`s also very Buddhist. Lugang translated into English means deer alley, but I didn`t see any deer. Anyways, the meat buns here are the most famous and this is about the only place you can get dragon whiskers candy. It is made from sugar spun into thin strings so they look like whiskers and they wrap them around sesame or peanut powder so it looks like a cocoon of sorts. I love it and missed this as well. I went to the temple to do some praying because I haven`t done so in a while. I did the usual thing then went out to buy some wonderous mini deep fried shrimp. Then we walked around the old alleys where there were vendors everywhere and we bought liquid molasses candy that are in bags with sticks sticking out of them closed off with a rubber band so that the liquid cant flow out. You cut off the tip of the bag at the top and start sucking out the molasses. It`s super sticky but not extremely sweet, just perfect. Walked around a bit more and then went on back home late evening. I also bought mung bean and milk powder cakes. Lugang is also the only place for these things. Anywas, getting back home we were pretty tired from the days excitment but still went to the Changhwa night market inmy town. And there we bought papaya milk and ate more foods. Yup that`s all you do here.

Dec. 31st Thursday

Spent the day in Taichung again. Just chillin and shoppin and then went to the Sogo Dept store for a nice New Years Eve dinner. We ate at California Skylark. I ordered a nice 3 course steak meal and Leslie ordered a four course one. Appetizer was a shrimp and mushroom grill. Soup was puff pastry chicken cream soup. Entree was steer steak and chicken nuggets on a teppan plate. And my drink was fruit tea with an assortment of cut fruits floating around inside. It was delicious! We then went home and went upstairs to the roof to watch the fireworks at midnight to bring in the new year. Woo 2010!