Taiwan - Day 4 (Shifen Old Street - Shenkeng Old Street - Shilin Night Market)

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We slept in and skipped breakfast at La Vie Motel on the second day. Sorry to say that their breakfast wasn't impressive enough to wake us up. We checked out before 12pm and waited for our friend to pick us up. Again, we had another fabulous lunch at a restaurant in Linkou District.



Oysters with "yau char kwai" (Chinese crullers)


Stir-fried noodles


Vegetables


Fried rice


Steamed chicken


Fish


Soup


Pork belly


Stir-fried intestine with onions


Fried dry shrimp


Seaweeds


Stir-fried pork intestines with gingers and chili


After lunch, our friend decided to bring us to Shifen Old Street located in Pingxi District. A journey that took us about one hour from Linkou District. Shifen Old Street is one of the popular tourist attraction whereby majority of the tourists will release sky lanterns with their wishlist written on it at the railway track. It's a live railway track and yet people still release their sky lanterns there! Apart from sky lanterns, there's a number of stalls selling snacks and souvenirs.

Jingan suspension bridge is located behind Shifen Station, a bridge that connects Shifen and Nanshan village. Another attraction is the Shifen waterfall which is located 20 minutes walking distance or 6 minutes drive from Shifen Old Street. We didn't continue our journey to Shifen waterfall because it started to rain by the time we reached the Shifen waterfall suspension bridge.



Shifen Old Street


Shifen sky lantern


Shifen sky lantern


Wish list...


Wish list...


Live railway track


Shifen railway station


Jingan suspension bridge


Jingan suspension bridge


Shifen waterfall lake


Shifen waterfall suspension bridge


Address:
Shifen Old Street
No. 226, Taiwan,
New Taipei City,
Pingxi District


We had our dinner at Shenkeng Old Street (45 minutes drive from Shifen Old Street) famous for its tofu-related food. There's a row of restaurants all selling various tofu dishes. Stinky tofu is a form of fermented tofu that has a strong odor like rotting garbage. This is my second time trying stinky tofu. My first stinky tofu experience was 10 years back in Taiwan too. That time, I traveled with a group of friends and we had it at Raohe Market. Stinky tofu actually doesn't taste as bad as it smells but I wouldn't say that it tastes good either.



Shenkeng Old Street


Shenkeng Old Street


Stinky tofu stall


Stinky tofu


Stinky tofu with 2 side dishes - cabbage and cucumber


Tofu restaurant


Cooking area


Tofu soup


Spicy tofu


Cabbage


Taiwanese braised pork rice "Lu rou fan"


Tofu soup


Clay pot tofu


Fried fish


Pork ribs


Fried tofu


Address:
Shenkeng Old Street
Shenkeng District,
New Taipei City, Taiwan 222


After our tofu dinner we dropped by Shilin Night Market, largest night market in Taipei. Shilin Night Market is about 40 minutes drive from Shenkeng Old Street. First stall we saw that has a long queue was this Taiwan Original Cake. I've never tried it in Malaysia and since we're here, we decided to give it a try. It's a simple homemade old-fashion egg sponge cake but the queue was crazy. It's nice and fluffy but too eggy for me.



Shilin Market


Original cake


Original cake


Next, we bought a box of muachi - glutinous rice flour balls sprinkled with roasted peanuts. It's soft, gummy and sticky. Muachi tasted good when it's still warm.



Muachi stall (glutinous rice flour balls sprinkled with roasted peanuts)


Muachi - NT$ 60


Mango ice is one of the must try dessert in Taiwan. It has a good mango flavour and pieces of mango taste good. Most importantly it's sweet and juicy. Ice cream was good too. Full of fresh mango flavours. Besides that red bean soup, one of the common Chinese dessert taste good too. They add in the so called rich material which is made of taro balls. Perfect way to end the night.

Note: NT$ 1 = RM 0.1460



Top mango ice - NT$ 190


Rich material with tofu pudding


Rich material with red bean soup - NT$ 50


We saw this Chinese Temple with beautiful lanterns somewhere around Shilin Night Market


Address:
Shilin Night Market
No. 101, Jihe Road,
Shilin District, Taipei City,
Taiwan 111

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