Showing posts with label Hualian 花蓮. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hualian 花蓮. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Hualian - Food trail....EAT EAT EAT

Be prepare to eat when staying in Hualian. We in fact spend a whole afternoon going on a food tail and I mean that literally. Thank to 小羅 (home stay owner) we ate one place after another, he wanted to show people what to eat in Hualian so they handmade little map to allowed their guest to follow and go on a food tail.

This was our first stop and it come highly recommended, Mr Goose 鵝肉先生 is the name of the shop. More info and map check out 鵝肉先生. This was beautiful and delicious...A must when visiting Hualian.

By the look on their face you know they are happy to eat. There are two person missing here one busy taking photo the other busy eating ha ha Teng mom really enjoy it...


Second stop is just down the street from the goose shop. A dumpling shop 公正包子, this place is like a celebrity of Hualian, Internet, TV program and magazine had all introduced the place. It is nice and cheap compared to the one you find in Malaysia. Teng mom just love it, after this everywhere we went she asked for dumpling.


After some shopping our third stop is a cup of coffee, The Mud Cafe 泥巴咖啡. This too come highly recommended for it coffee (really strong and with great aroma the minute the coffee are served) and for it bagel which is actually called ‘mouse bagel’. The cafe is owned by very friendly old uncle which come with a great story 泥巴咖啡.


Last stop of the day Japanese restaurant 賀川壽司屋 as you can tell from the picture, we did not order a lot because we were so full by then. This is one place highly recommended by me. I had eaten in many Japanese restaurant but none as satisfy as this one. I guarantee you get quality and quantity however be prepared as this place is not easy to find and also you have to queues. Here is more info on the place 賀川壽司屋Day one foods trail end here.


This is day 2 food trail, there is not much because we spend the whole day sight seeing. First stop is this soup shop, come out of the train station walk right across the street and there you see a row of eatery and this shop is the first shop. The fish was fresh and the soup was sweet.


Like I say early all along the street there is different store, so you can tried out the foods little at time.....The food trail for the second day was really just the soup shop because we were dead tired.

Hualian - Jian Chinxiu Temple 吉安慶修院

If you have free time at hand, this can be one of the place to visit....There is really nothing much except for it history and the peaceful beauty.

The surrounding will really make you feel like you are in Japan.

A great place to take photo. Here is our two beautiful lady.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hualian Bookshop - 時光二手書

(Photo credit to Teng). I learned a long time ago that the best kind of holiday is going to places and doing thing that is out of the ordinary. The great thing about home stay 柚子家 is that they show you a different kind of holiday in Hualian. They recommend the norm but they also want you to see thing that leave you with different kind of memory from other tourist. When I first saw on their blog a post with title 讓時間停留在 時光二手書 (Direct translate "spare some time and stop by Time secondhand bookstore")again I told Teng is a must stop by.

The place is like going back memory lane. You walk through alley looking for a plain wooden house, once inside is like back in the 60.....

Once you enter it feel like you have walk into a small kindergarten library.

The place is like a timeline the deeper you go inside the further you go back in time.

I really like this photo, this is Teng aunt indulge in the music she is listening to....So peaceful.

While we were there we met up with an old friend 三間仔.