[TAIWAN] KAOHSIUNG: 5 MUST VISIT KAOHSIUNG + WHAT I ATE IN A DAY

KAOHSIUNG

second largest city in Taiwan totally felt like busan in Korea. Totally different ambience from Taipei, less city feel and less people ofcourse. While i was in Kaohsiung, i was with my highschool friend, Marcel, so i am so sorry i didnt know kaohsiung public transport but my friend said you can take mostly grab car or uber because kaphsiung transportation system is quite hard, only 2 lines MRT station and rare bus but i don't know HAHA but thanks to Marcel i could looked around the city. And here some of the places that i visited

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#1

CHIMEI MUSEUM

 No. 66, Section 2, Wenhua Road, Rende District, Tainan City, Taiwan 71755

Open hours:9.30am~5.30pm

It is not really located in Kaohsiung, it is in Tainan, 40minutes drive from Kaohsiung. This museum is huge men! Super classy and look more like a palace than a museum. Worth the visit because it looked like whitehouse lol 

#2

BRITISH CONSULATE AT TAKOW

804, Taiwan, Kaohsiung City, Gushan District

Open hours: 10am~5pm

where you can see the city view from up. This former british consulate was overlooking to Takao/ takow harbour where all materials were brought over from china.

#3

CIJIN BEACH

No. 1, Miaoqian Road, Qijin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 805

Open hours: 24 hours

Lazy from city hectic you can runaway from it just a 5 minutes ferry ride or 30minutes drive underpass from kaohsiung city to Cijin coast area.

#4

TIGER AND DRAGON PAGODA

No. 9, Liantan Road, Zuoying District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 813

Open Hours: 8.30am~6pm

Actually it called lotus pond, and around there are many pagodas, spring and autumn pagoda, confusius, and most famous among it Tiger and dragon. So you get in from dragon mouth and get out at tiger's mouth to get rid all the bad luck and yeah something like that but i dont know for sure what will happend if you do it reversed HAHA

#5

LIUHE NIGHT MARKET

Liuhe 2nd Road & 與中山一路口 Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 800

Open: 5pm~11pm

Not so many big night market in Kaohsiung but 2 most famous is Liuhe and Ruifeng. Actually i want to go to Ruifeng but it closed every wednesday so i went here but mostly liuhe market is more into seafood more expensive so yeah.

KAOHSIUNG FOOD THAT I ATE

BREAKFAST

正忠排骨飯

No. 300, Zhongshan 1st Road, Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 800

Open Hours:10.00am~8.30pm

OMGGGG first time i ate taiwanese style breakfast, it super famous with salty soymilk or doujiang. But there lots of selection, even have xiolongbao, fried wonton or pork bun yum! All cost less than US$1 

LUNCH

沕守面食

807, Taiwan, Kaohsiung City, Sanmin District, Dalian Street, 206號號

Open Hours:11am~8.30pm

Maybe you only know beef noodle but Taiwan also served Lamb noodle ZUPERRRR GEWDDD it not smell as i thought and the soup is savory and oil free. But you have to order the dry version one. Super recommended and for each bowl only around NT$150

DINNER

COSTCO

804, Taiwan, Kaohsiung City, Gushan District, 大順一路111號

Open Hours: 10.00am~9.30pm

Maybe it sounds weird, but actually we ate at cost co because we didnt have other choice and my friend who went to Taiwan said that Taiwan costco is worth to try. And WOOOOO  theirs are cheaper and yummier.

DESSERT

葉月堂 • 手作雪花冰專売店

807, Taiwan, Kaohsiung City, Sanmin District, 天祥一路179-2號

Open Hours: 1pm~9.30pm

I found this pretty dessert at instagram, and decided to try it. It super pretty and super packed because it thought it is new. Each person should order one and we ordered mango, watermelon,mint choco banana, and lemon (NT$260/EACH) but i love the mango the best

[TAIWAN] KENTING: 3 BEST BEACHES + 3 BEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS BY PUBLIC BUS

What summer without visiting beaches and coasts ♡ as my Taiwanese recommendation, i gonna share my best favorite summer vibes in Taiwan

KENTING

HOW TO GO

Kenting from kaohsiung click here

HOW TO GET AROUND

personally i used local bus, i bought one day pass at klook.com for  ₩3700/NT$90/US$3/Rp.40,000

 If you gonna visit lots of attractions i suggest you it or if you just one or two places just use easy card its cheaper. But for private, many people rent taxi for NT$4000/ day or if you have local friends, you can rent scooter for NT$500/20km (if more there some charges)

 

🔺️ HOW THE BUS LOOKED LIKE

🔻WHERE TO TAKE THE BUS

🔻KENTING STREET AT DAY

#1

白沙黎

BAISHA

white sand beach

It is the best beach to visit, super clean and not so many people as other beaches. You can ready see tortuiqes blue water. Super lovely!

#2 

南黎

NANWAN

south beach

Here is the best beach for you who like watersport. Before my friend played jetski+ 3 other watersports+ free umbrella and chairs for NT$700/person. We thought that was so cheap even compared if we play at Bali, Indonesia. How do you think guys? Local please leave your comment about it haha

#3

小灣

XIAOWAN

small beach

It located nearest to Kenting street so if you want beach with walk distance from there ya it's for you but same as it name, Xiao- means small in Chinese, it is super small and just okey.

#4

 猫鼻头

MAOBITOU

or cat's head is a national park with beautiful coast view and rockies and can you find cat's head rock inside the picture? I can't find it till now HAHA oh iya it has entrance fee NT$90/person. Near the entrance gate, you can buy some snacks and drink, i suggested you tried their fried fillet fish NT$50 with some chili "shilin chicken style" powder super gewdddd.

#5

鵝鑾鼻燈塔

ELUANBI LIGHT HOUSE

one of super famous must visiti n Kenting, unfortunately we can't get into the lighthouse hik it closed for public. Compared to the lighthouse, my fav here is PALM TREES GARDEN OMGGGGG sunset and palm trees super summer vibes baby!

#6

台灣最南點

SOUTHERN MOST POINT OF TAIWAN

From elaubi light house it takes around 30 minutes by foot but me and friends took taxi because we were exhausted. Too many people there i couldnt get great picture. But yeah nothing really special except "yeah i am in the southest point of Taiwan" feeling HAHA

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

nothing completed without night market, check other post about kenting night market here!

[TAIWAN] TAICHUNG: CHUN SUI TANG D.I.Y BUBBLE TEA CLASS

When i watched youtube about taiwan trip i found a video about D.I.Y Bubble tea class and i was so freakin out like I HAVE TO DO THAT #childish. So i asked my friend they said lets do that and i directly looked how to book it. So actually it helds by the founder of bubble tea in Taiwan, CHUN SUI TANG and become as tone of he most precious tea house in Taiwan

CHUN SUI TANG D.I.Y BUBBLE TEA CLASS

HOW TO GO

Original Store : No. 30號, Siwei Street, West District, Taichung City, 403
Time: 2:00 pm every Tuesday
Content: the instructor will teach how to make a pearl milk tea.

Charge: NT$269/per person

Da-Dun store : No. 9號, Dadun 19th Street, West District, Taichung City, 403
Time: 9:00am to 6:00pm weekdays, only by reservation
Content: the instructor will teach how to make a bubble tea and a pearl milk tea.

Charge: NT$ 520/person for a group of 1 to 2 ; NT$ 480/person for  3 to 7; NT$ 380 for 8 or more.

 

For reservation email to elsa.lin@icetea.com.tw / call +886-4-2259-2567 #534

 

REMEMBER THE CLASS ONLY AVAILABLE IN CHINESE

 

So when I made reservation of the class, the original store was closed, so I did in at Dadun store. The building  is super pretty and when you come inside also you can feel like in an old emperor era. The 1st and 2nd floor is for dining area and 3rd floor is for special meeting area and classes.

 

#1

BASIC HISTORY AND TEA STORY

our instructor told us simple history about bubble tea and also about black tea that they use for their products. They said they infused tea for long time so you can really taste strong flavor tea compared to other brand tea.

 

 

#2

MAKING BLACK TEA

We used 70ml black tea, 20cc self produce sugar ( they used pandan leaf inside it so you can really can smell different fragrance inside it), and ice. shake it and DONE original ice black tea, even it super standard but it definitely the best I've ever had!

 

 #3

GET INTO BUBBLE

compared to other brand, their bubble is super soft and chewy. They make it freshly every 2 hours DAMN. and also when you touch the raw bubble it totally not hard as the other it easily get broke because it contain more water compared to other.

 

 

#4

MAKING PEARL MILKTEA

and for 2nd drink, we made pearl milktea, 70ml black tea ( but it is different with before because it is thicker and stronger since it will be mix with cream powder), 20cc sugar, 1 fullspoon of cream milk powder, and shake it! Pour the milk tea inside the glass lil by little and mix the bubble so it doesn't stuck on the bottom of the glass. and again THE BEST PEARL MILKTEA I'VE EVER TRIED DAMN!!!!

 And in the end of the class, the instructor gave us certificate and mini shaker for us OMG everything just overwhelmed me! love love as this the best experience I've ever had in a trip HAHA I even bought their bubble tea again in Taipei and last one at Taoyuan airport terminal 2 foodcourt before leaving Taiwan, even their milktea price is 3 times more expensive than regular milktea but trust me price has quality!