Long Cheng, Sekinchan

Yes. you definitely see this place so much appearing on my blog. I love this place for their seafood and relaxing environment with paddy field. Came here for like a one day trip during the holiday, you can actually come here during weekend for a quick escape from the city buzz.

There's a lot of seafood restaurant here everywhere. This is the one I ate this time. Not very tourist kind of restaurant located near the paddy field. Those near the beach have a slightly higher price, I think is a tourist thing, tried a few there and it's good too, so much on own perspective.

Sour soup steam fish (RM38.16)

This is good, recommend by the restaurant owner. It's like a sour soup with slight spiciness because of the chilli in it, the lemongrass definitely the hits. They even stuff ginger in the fish, its good! Though my family can't really take spicy food but we managed to finish this whole pot of soup.

Sizzling tofu (12.72)

Well, normal sizzling tofu with really cheap price.

Salted squid (RM13.78)

Because the salted egg stuff is really the hits these days including bread, brinjal and etc. so I opt for this fried squid with salted egg. Taste good but still slight disappointment because I actually want to try out their famous da mu / hua zhi (sotong katak) which I only found there but they served the normal squid, hence :( But taste really good, not that the taste is bad just the type of cuttlefish is different. I tried their gong bao cuttlefish last time and it's good too, you should try that because don't think here we had this kind of dish.

Black pepper butter meat (15.90)

This is special too! Black pepper with butter smell, a great combination. A sudden level up for a meat :P Serving also with the curry leaf that brings out the smell.

We ordered also Si Da Tian Wang price at only RM8.48. So so cheap!

The bill comes with a total of RM100.40 only with six bowls of rice and six pax hot tea (which doesn't taste good) but it's okay, it's so cheap for 5 great dishes and it's seafood okay! Don't complain. Oh ya, wanted to order the famous sha li (ambra) drinks here but they only served chinese tea hence the order :(

End this trip with buying fresh seafood is what we always do because the seafood here is really cheap and fresh! Okay, I know I had been mentioning this for like N times but is really cheap and fresh! I think that bought like 1 extra big fishes which can be cut into 10+ pieces where people normally fried it, 6 normal fishes 4 the one we ordered above and 2 red fishes, 1 kg prawn, 1 pack frozen mantis shrimp (xia gu), 2 large squid (sotong katak) and 1 pack of sea cucumber. All these cost like RM400+ only which is pretty reasonable.

Klang Executive Club Restaurant

Went to have a luxurious lunch with the family today. The dishes including the tea is good with their 5 stars service. We ordered a pot of hot chrysanthemum tea (RM14 for 7 pax) and below are the 5 different types of dishes we ordered together with white rice.

 Asparagus (medium RM25)

It's served with spicy prawn chilli flakes that give the good aroma. The combination is good, just that the asparagus serve is a little too old.

Chinese broccoli (medium RM25)

It's served with deep fried chinese broccoli too with anchovies. We called it the concept of chinese broccoli on chinese broccoli. Our kind of favourite vegetable dish.

Deer meat (small RM20)

This tastes good, not much of the gamy taste most of those rabbit, deer, cow, sheep had. The only thing is why did they cook it with bamboo shoots :( I don't really like te smell of bamboo shoots moreover their taste, it smells a lot like toilet, yucks, but certainly dependent on individual taste bud.

Signature tofu (big RM30)

This tofu is homemade ones if not mistaken, kinds different from the usual tofu we get in the market, certainly not local tofu or japanese tofu we could get from the market. This dish is serves with mushroom and spinach, both my favourites :9

Mango chicken (half chicken RM25)

Certainly super mango, the fried chicken it's all top and cover by the mango. Dad commented that the mango is over ripe (soft), he favours half ripe mango which gives a little bit of crunchiness and sour taste, but we love this sweet over ripe mango instead so it's another up to individual taste stuff.

The bill comes with a total amount of RM156. This meal certainly a good one. With the environment and service provided, it's another bonus. We had our long family chat there with tea and food.

Taiwan Day 6 (Yehliu)

Before the day start, had this for breakfast somewhere near XiMenDing or LongShanShi (not really sure of that though) but this is really good especially the fried char siu. Apart from their signature watery porridge and thick bee hoon, they sell lots of other side dishes too.

The day continues with the journey to Shifen, Jiufen and our last stop Yehliu. Some place from the internet mentioned about the queen stone statue. After reaching this place, I found out that it's isn't all about that. They have small beaches with sea water view too. Lots of different types of stone if you know how to stand back and enjoy. Do check out more here before you go, I find these interesting explaining all the types and shapes of rocks you will find there.

Mushroom Rock

Princess' head

How can you miss out this very trendy tourist spot here, the Queen's Head. You need to queue for this but the line goes pretty fast :) Lastly, ending with a group photo of us at some random lake, you can see that the weather is actually very hot here.

Taiwan Day 6 (Shifen, Jiufen)

Continue our journey to New Taipei City! :)

Shifen

Shifen is popular with writing down wishes on the sky lantern and release it to the sky at the railway. Anyway, that rail is not just only for decoration, trains are still operating and pass quite frequent fetching tourist here, they call this as the Pingxi line. People are free to cross the track as there will be people on duty there to clear the rails before the train come. Shops at both sides selling souvenir and snacks. We bought the sky lantern with four different colours for different sides each symbolises different meaning for NTD200 each. Red for good fortune, pink for romance, peach-red for decision and opportunities, orange for money, yellow for success in school or career, white for health, green for growth, blue for hope and purple for idealism. Well, the two couples obviously shared and buy their own sky lantern, while the remaining nine of us shared two sky lanterns. They sell also mini sky lantern as souvenir :)

Jiufen

It's a town famous after Miyazaki sketched on Spirited Away. There's a lot of food stall and souvenir stall, not to forget the theme shop. It looks classic with narrow street and steep stone steps. Below is the view of Keelung outer sea. Apart from all the unique and interesting building, we come here for food hunt! We eat according to the food list from our tour guide and some stall people queue and sort of random ones.

This is a must try! Almost everyone come here for these, one bowl of taro mixture prices at NT45. This is good. Each taro has different colours and it actually tastes differently.

This is a shop where we try out their oily rice and braised meat rice with different types of ball. Taste good and price is reasonable. The shop is decorated with photos of the boss with artists, couldn't recognise most of them but I suppose it's a very famous shop with artists.

Ah Lan Hakka Gluttinous Rice cake is famous, you got to queue up for these. We bought all 4 different tastes to try each cost NT10. They have it in salty and sweet taste which are yam, salted vegetables, red bean and salted green bean. 

We ate also Yu Wan Bo Zai selling fish ball, really very chewy and springy. It's priced at NT60 per bowl. This is very nice too!

Taiwan Day 5 (Cingjing)

The first activity of the day, He Huan Shan! Waking up 4am in the morning is no kidding. The weather her is super cold which I don't realise or take note before I came. Wearing an off shoulder blouse with a cardigan definitely not a wise choice especially when the wind non-stop blowing to make sure you know its existence. I think I almost freeze or actually freezing already but still insist on not getting into the car for some heat because you never know when is the last. 

I took this photo when the sun had already risen, the reported weather is 8°C. I believe while I'm still waiting for the sunrise, the weather is way below that. Some of my friends or should I say most of it give up half way due to the cold weather. Anway, that tough one hour actually comes out with amazing and stunning views (photos :P). But Pontianak Bukit Jamur still win the best view! 

Below are some photos taken by me and my friends from the dark blue sky with cloudy winds till the sun rises which is beautiful and amazing!

This view is taken from the second stop, a few turning down the road after He Huan Shan. This cloudy blue sky is beautiful too and slightly warmer here probably because the sun already rise. We had our group photo here! :)

We then had our breakfast at the nearest 7-11 while waiting for Cingjing farm to open. It's operating hour is 8am. By that time, Guan Dong Zhu is not yet ready, I bought a hot sausage bun and a cup of coffee. Seeing those road riders warming their hands by directly touching it with the pot.

We are among the first to arrive here, Cingjing farm. Got our ticket with student price at NTD120 though we are not local student which were discounted to almost half the price, normal ticket price on holiday is NTD200. Lots of grass with sheep, furry and not so furry ones. There are also sheep performance (at 9am) and horse performance (at 10.30am). Oh, you get to feed the sheep too by buying their food for NTD10. This area is big, you might need three hours or so to really enjoy this place. We are a bit too rush as we are chasing time, heading down to Taipei from here need around 3 hours not included all those traffic jam and lunch.

Lunch somewhere in some random shop trying out Taiwan lunch box and this turn out to be good! Price range around NTD60-100. They served free soup and drinks, you just need to order their lunch box. I think I ordered the normal ones, the portion is huge serving with three to four kinds of meat, tofu, braised egg and a little vegetable. This is cheap and delicious! Especially this free soup really nice to drink.

Next update will be Taipei, the main city of Taiwan.