this is also my first time travelling overseas with darling, and its really like our honeymoon. haha. just holding her hand and walking in the busy shi lin night market, or standing in xi men ding sharing a bowl of ah zong mian xian, makes me very xing4 fu2. :)
the taiwanese seem to have the impression that singaporeans speak sub-standard mandarin. everytime when me and darling spoke mandarin to them, they will praise us that we speak mandarin very well, and they even more surprised when they hear me speak hokkien, although i admit my hokkien is half-bucket standard. haha.
for the 7 days 6 nights trip, we spend the first 2 nights in yilan, 1 night in hualien, and last 3 nights in taipei.
so i will now blog about yilan first, which i will start with our accomodation for the 2 nights, cos i think this accomodation that we stayed at deserve its own post.
we stayed at spring villa 逢春園, and trust me, its really a paradise. the scenery in the villa is nice, scenery outside villa is also nice, with tea plantations, farmlands and beautiful mountains. not only scenery nice, the staff working there also very nice, hospitable and friendly. they really make us feel 宾至如归.
my vocabulary limited, so i shall just show you the pictures to let you see for yourself how nice spring villa is.
the lobby. very vintage, with alot of souvenirs from different countries. the owners of spring villa travel widely, and they have will purchase a very special souvenir from each country and place it inside the lobby. for example they bought a nice bottle and inside the bottle got sand from sahara dessert.
dining area
our room. everything is perfect, just that the room is still very cold. out of yilan, hualien and taipei, the temperatures in yilan is the coldest. one of the forest recreation parks in yilan reached a temperature of 2 degree celsius!
the rest of spring villa
the area/scenery outside spring villa
and finally, the FOOD that we ate at spring villa. simply delicious~
our dinner for the first night
breakfast on tue morning. one plate of fruits, one cup of home-made 豆浆 & 米浆, purple glutinous rice, hard boiled egg, mixed vegetables omelette, and a cup of superb coffee, which is the best coffee i tasted throughout the 7 days in taiwan.
the white liquid is the 豆浆, and the purple liquid is 米浆
breakfast on wed morning. we had exactly the same thing, just that the glutinous rice + hard boiled egg swop with yummy sandwiches.
so for those who are going to yilan, i recommend you all to stay for a night in spring villa. but hor its damn ex, 140 sing dollars for one night. but i think its sort of once in a lifetime experience, so pay a little bit more money is also worth it. :)
for more information about spring villa, do visit the following websites:
http://www.spring-villa.com/
http://iamwindy.pixnet.net/blog/post/21581114
