Monday January 9, 2012
Today we took to the northeast coast. We took the train to Fulong Beach. It was pouring here and really windy. The beach was closed due to the weather conditions, but we walked as close to it as we could. Fulong Beach is connected by an arched bridge (Rainbow Bridge) over a river. It is a popular place in the summer, swarming with surfers.
We had biandang (lunch boxes) around the Fulong Station, which is a local delicacy famous from this town. They are a cheap meal box which typically includes rice, cabbage, pork, tofu, pickled vegetables, Taiwanese sausage, carrot, a hard-boiled egg, and minced chicken and pork rolls.
After that we took the train to Keelung (pronounced Ji-long), northern Taiwan’s international harbor/port city.
It was pouring here as well. We started to walk to Jhongjheng Park, but this picture is only as close as we made it since Joe's feet were soaked and hurting and it was raining harder. We were miserable.
The canal along Ren 1st Rd was nice.
Keelung is famous for its Night Market. The 70 stalls have signs in English and clearly defined maps to each type of food to help out foreigners not used to eating new little eats you’d find in Taiwan (bubble tea, rice-flour noodle-mifen, braised eel, douhua, butter crab). It’s also open 24 hours so we didn’t have to wait until late to get some grub.
We had a bite to eat and then we went back to Yonghe to have hand-shaved beef noodle soup with Dad. Jackie could have watched the lady in back artfully shaved noodles into the large bowl of broth for hours. Not something you get to witness every day.
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