Taiwan Day 5
Basically after our one night stay in 台中 (on the eastern side of the island) we travelled to 花莲 all the way on the west coast. Didn’t take much photos on Day 5 so it’s going to be a short post.
Mobile library at the railway station.
By the time we reached Hualien it was close to 7 or 8pm? We checked in to our second 民宿. The rooms were a lot better than the first one. Looks more like the pictures on the website.
The owners of the 民宿 were quite nice as well. They have a habit of referring to themselves by family terms such as 大姐 and 叔叔. 叔叔 brought us to the local Hualien night market. In my opinion its one of the best night markets we went to. It was small and near the beach and had that kind of festive but homely feel.
We ate dinner at this place that served humble but amazingly good food. We were enticed by the huge slabs of pork just sizzling on the grill. Had bamboo rice, roasted pork with onions and clams. The clams were paired with some minty vegetable and they sorta exploded their juices in my mouth. I have no idea whether that’s good or bad. Also we bought this amazing corn on a stick which was just nicely carmelised.
We were very amused by the bermuda triangle of milk shops that had underaged girls screaming for customers in the cutest and whiniest voice you can imagine. “先生, 这里也可以买啊!” One of them was particular sultry and slutty lolz.
After that we exploded fireworks and let off a 天灯 on the beach. We let off 1 that was like a flare gun which you hold on the hand and it released 5-6 small bursts (it also caused some kind of mild panic from more seasoned firework exploders because we set it down on the floor and the base according to them was unstable and it was better to hold in your hand). We also let off this butterfly firework that twirled around and around in circles before blasting off into space. Our best fireworks was this expensive box that cost like 10 dollars and you just light one end of the box and it sort of fires them like a missile launcher. We didn’t get to launch our 天灯 ourself unfortunately, some boys grabbed it from our hands and said they’d help us do it, but from the complicated way they handled it we would most probably have burnt it lol. We wrote our names on the sides and love on another and saw it floating away peacefully into the sky, becoming a tiny little speck before fading away into night. Too absorbed letting off fireworks, so only have pictures of others letting off fireworks.
Best night in Taiwan. Absolutely beautiful.
