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Breakfast started off with the buffet in the hotel. This morning, I had:
Rice porridge (congee) with fermented bean curd, salted duck eggs and peanuts. I also had a side serve of potato gems.
Second round consisted of the same porridge again, with a slice of bacon and some pastries.
Lunch was bought from a shop along the highway as we had lunch under a pergola at the Three Immortals. These bao were $18 TWD (60c AUD) each .. I ended up having 2.5 of them and they were nice. Rich, fatty pork encased in soft pastry. Singaporean Tiong Bahru bao are just as good, and include egg, but are more expensive.
After the walk back from the Three Immortals, I decided to try a random drink from the vending machine. This YoGo Fresh cost me $18 TWD and tasted like an icecream spider. I didn’t end up drinking all of it and it went in the bin.
These chips were bought in Taipei on the first day for snacks whilst on tour. I looked for flavours that we couldn’t get at home. These ended up tasting in between sour cream and chives and cheese and onion chips, with Kettle like texture.
Some restaurant near Chateau de Chine, Hualian
We walked down the road from the hotel and eventually found a restaurant which looked semi busy. Total cost of tonight’s meal was $1500 TWD (roughly $50 AUD for seven people).
White cut chicken. The chicken was a little tough, I’m guessing cos it was an older bird instead of the younger birds that we usually eat in Australia.
Steamed fish. There was a few chunks of fish in here, along with some jelly like stuff. It turned out to be fish fat which was quite odd.
Stir fried asparagus with salted duck egg. This was quite nice, the salted egg gave it a slightly grainy texture but it wasn’t too salty.
Some seafood dish, with prawns and two types of squid.
A seafood and tofu dish, with some shredded ham on top. There were some clams or mussels in here which were a little fishy.
Steamed dumplings. These were pork and chinese cabbage, a little bit like a boiled wonton but with different pastry.
7-Eleven, Hualian
Feeling like a drink, I bought a small carton of ‘Apple Milk’. It was exactly as described. Milk mixed with apple juice.
China Trust Bakery, Hualian
We passed by 3 bakeries on the walk back from dinner to the hotel. We stopped by each one, some buying one item from each to compare. I ended up buying dessert from the last one we passed, both of these items cost $90 TWD in total, or $3 AUD.
The first was a light choux pastry filled with cream and strawberries. The puff was huge and hard to eat, but the choux pastry and cream was light. Similar to Beard Papas but not as heavy as it had cream instead of custard.
This was a giant egg tart which was about four times bigger than a normal custard tart. The dim sum custard tarts have a flakey pastry, whereas this was a hard crust to hold all the custard. The custard was nice, but I left the pastry behind.
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