We had a lonnnnggg day of walking yesterday… so I was too pooped to write up a blog entry!
Yesterday morning at 8, Sage, Linda, Randy and I walked along the streets of the student district exploring for food (like always). We found a Bao Zi place a little bit down the road. The lady at the stand sells her Bao Zi for 20, or 6 for 100. since we all spent an over amount of money these past few days, we’ll probably be stocking up on Bao Zi for Breakfast and Lunch, then have a nice dinner. What’s really weird (but healthy, I guess?) is that we’ve all started eating breakfast, when back in the US all we had was lunch and dinner.
We all ordered Pork Bao Zi. They were HUGE AND DELICIOUS! We wanted to try other things, but I forgot how to to say them in Mandarin! What a fail 
We’ll try again in a few minutes (since it’s tomorrow now!) We went to the park to eat. It was really nice and calming. We recorded Randy having his first Bao Zi ever since he came to Taiwan as his final project for Film. It’s pretty interesting! And he has an amazing camera. (Do want. I’ve been wanting a camera like that for forever. Sigh)
We gathered in our group and started walking toward our destination: The Flower, Jade and Handicap markets!
Along the way we stopped in a park where there were people set up in stands selling various types of foods. I bought Sugarcane juice with a hint of Lemon. We all agreed that the lemon overpowered the sugarcane…so no lemon next time! We also bought some more Sausage; it wasn’t as good as the one we bought at the New Year’s market. Qiu Laoshi bought a type of fruit and had all of us try it. It was a bit bitter, just like a grapefruit. As we walked through the rest of the park we came upon a section of the park made for health purposes; AKA rocks. They have rocks set in different positions on the ground. You’re supposed to take off your socks and walk on them. The more they hurt, the more they heal, because we have all of our pressure points in our feet. By walking on the rocks, we are healing the various parts of our body that hurt. I walked on it and it didn’t hurt too badly, so I must not be as jet lagged as I had previously thought!
After some more walking, we finally got to the markets. The Handicap Market is a market where people that are certified handicap by the government can go and sell crafts that they make. They had some really interesting stuff! Will post up pics when wordpress decides to work with me hahahaha.
At the Flower Market Lind and I bought ourselves a little bamboo plant set in a panda cup! Sooo cute! We didn’t buy anything at the Jade market. Linda left with Brenda at the beginning of the Jade market to go back and eat, so Randy, Sage, and I did a walk through. At the end of the Jade Market we decided to head back and walk. My feet hurt pretty bad halfway back. Along the path back toward our dorm they had campaign posters sticking up in the bushes since the vote for presidency was then. We found one that had been torn down, so Randy and I took it for his senior project. Yep.
When we finally got back to the dorm we decided to go to the Ramen shop that Sage has been talking about for three days straight. Sage and I ordered Pork Katsu, and Randy got a HUGE bowl of noodles and soup. We also got a side of Lemon tea to drink, and some salad, as well as the usual miso soup. This miso soup tasted a LOT better than the one back home, probably because the ingredients used are real. Hahahahahahaha. I asked the lady if we could get a student discount, and she gave us 16 dollars off! WINNNNNN!!!
We went back to the dorm and promptly fell asleep. I had a hard time waking up at 5 to get ready to go eat at 6. We met downstairs and Professor Smith then took us through back alleyways and multiple twists and curves to the Sichuan restaurant. We had mapotofu, ants in a tree, seafood soup, green beans, eggplant, and some other dish. This other dish consisted of Pig blood, intestines, and STINKY TOFU. I have absolutely no problem with the first two, but I cannot STAND stinky tofu. At least I can walk away and say I had the experience of trying it. x.x We got to drink REAL BOBA. It tastes like warm milk/cereal. It’s delectable!
Professor Smith proceeded to leave us stranded at this market and told us to explore, aka “find our own way home.” Needless to say, we got lost. But it all ended up being okay because we found our way back before all the other new people!
And then we crashed and I’m ending it here because i have to go eat! Maybe edit later.
Bye!!!!!!!!!
2012/01/14 at 6:27 pm |
Yeah, those walks that he took us through wasn’t pleasant either… and to imagine doing that in the SUMMER, didn’t make our jade market visit a pleasant one at all. haha. OH! he ditched us too! We were actually drinking tea and then he said “find your way home – goodluck!” then he gave us that smirk and just vanished. We couldn’t even follow him if we tried.
But you’re gonna eventually get use to all of that walking, plus more! And don’t worry about eating healthy. The food there will be much more healthier than here, including what you eat at home (non-mom made food) haha. Plus you’re doing so much walking and stuff, so EAT UP. Plus, in the next 4.5 months you won’t have that same food again. GO STUFF YOURSELF GLITTLE!!!!
and pictures, pleaseee haha
and those rocks didn’t hurt you?!?! wtf! haha. Smith told us that if we walked on them it will make us less stress or whatever and it was suppose to ‘cool us down from the summer heat’. My group all agreed that he just lied to us just to get us walking barefoot. Because at the end of that mini trail, we were limping and we were sweating even more. haha