THIS IS WHY YOU TRAVEL TO TAIWAN! SHIFEN & TAIPEI
once again from Taiwan we're just leaving the beautiful mountain town of jufin where we spent last night that's where our last video was from and we're heading to another town that's supposed to be nice called shiffin so we just heading to the bus station right now down these stairs if you didn't see the video the last video this is how it looks around here oh that's on no good on that side but yeah it's kind of like this loads of little Alleyways these beautiful lanterns everywhere so we've just been using Google Maps to know the bus times it's really good because it tells you the exact time that it's gonna arrive at the station and the bus number the different options so you know exactly when it's going to arrive so this is our bus right here 7 88. foreign bus we have to get two buses so this place is called rui Fung and our bus is arriving in about 10 minutes I think so just gotta wait 10 minutes here so that's funny this definitely didn't go to plan so at the bus station where we're over there they have like a electronic board telling you when the bus is coming and it showed that ours was coming in five minutes and then we saw the bus pass and we couldn't stop it in time because we thought we still had five minutes to wait so I guess that thing's not always accurate and that bus is only going to pass in about three hours now we could get a train as well but that's only in an hour's time so we're just going for the Uber aren't we yeah 20 and that's for like a 30 minute ride 35 minutes yeah Uber it is we tried to do it the more affordable way but the electronic sign defeated us so we've arrived in chiffon now we actually passed the bus that we were supposed to get on the way and that was way back so I guess at least we got here quicker and the first spot that we're going to is the chiffon waterfall like the most beautiful thing to see here it's really surprised me just how beautiful Taiwan is as we're driving around and it's so green and there are many mountains everywhere like like you said we we are surprised because we were we didn't expect it to be like this and to be honest I don't know what I was expecting but it's very very nice yeah before coming we didn't really know much about Taiwan we've seen more of like places in South Korea and Japan online but not Taiwan I knew there was mountains and that it would be green but it seems like basically everywhere is like that so it's not like a specific region from what we've seen so far everywhere it's just kind of like this everywhere you go all right let's find this waterfall so let's go straight away we have a suspension bridge here I think there's two of them overall foreign number two now it's actually a train going over the river too we just missed it we just saw the train passing in the distance also got a waterfall here that's not the main one still looks really nice though so here the stuff it looks really beautiful got this cute little Bridge back there and up there is a cafe so that would be a nice place to have a coffee if you want one it's so nice around here yeah and it's funny because in the in this waterfall there are so many holes in the Rock on the road yeah I can see them over there those are holes yeah even around here it reminds me of the waterfall in the Amazon ah that had many big calls yeah that you could jump into yeah they were a lot bigger kind of similar though so you can see these carts here with the coal in them from what I read the train track up there was actually built during the Japanese era to transport the coal so I guess they already used these things here and here is the main waterfall certainly looks like a impressive one I read online that it's 40 meters high so it is pretty big really beautiful one thank you foreign so it's actually free here which is surprising with all the infrastructure that they have here they built numerous viewpoints it's also a big area with like a food court where you can eat so there's a lot of things there and it's all for free another one of the viewpoints up here and now you're seeing it head on pretty much looks like you can go down there probably even better view we'll head down there yeah this is definitely the best view spot down here now you can see it in it entirety I think in the past maybe you could have walked around here this is all man-made you can see some steps there water's going down them extremely beautiful waterfall so we've now come to the main Center of shifen this is called shifen Old Street and this is definitely a tourist overload yeah a lot of people way more than at the waterfall and this is one of the places where you release the lanterns people are doing it now can I just see it all in the sky I don't know if you can see on the GoPro yeah that one's taken off we'll see these guys take off soon but it's cool because as you can see the train track goes through the middle oh that one goes now the train track goes through the middle and we should be able to see the train leaving soon we've already seen three pass so I think it's pretty frequent oh there we go so we're probably gonna look for a place to eat around here pretty much every single store is places to eat or buy lanterns it is a Saturday by the way so that's why it's so busy it's probably not this busy on a on a weekday go another one another one so I thought that they only released this on like specific dates special occasions yeah but that's not how it is no they're late releasing thousands a day it seems there's so many so many non-stop there we go another one thank you so we found a cool local place to eat and we got some different food once again so I got this pork balls in like a noodle soup I think that's bok choy Carol got fish ball soup I don't think there's any noodles in there is it no yeah we thought maybe that would come with noodles but it doesn't and then I got this which is a taro pork roll so if you watched the last video we had that Taro dessert which is like a route that they have here but that one was for a dessert but they also mix it with some other Foods so I'm gonna try that out as well at the soup just a liquid yeah it's all good there's a strong garlic I love garlic I'll try the pork ball yeah very tasty as well I think Taiwan is the place that I've eaten pork the most because I've been having the pork dumplings all the time and now they're Sports well I was at the train yeah again here we go that comes in both directions then all right I'll try the roll out too really big piece oh man good that is so so good way better than the the ones in the noodle soup when I ordered it she was like good choice yeah yeah because there's like a crispy outer layer which I think is the taro and there's some sort of sauce I don't know what sauce it is but that's what's making it extra delicious how's the fish ball it's a very good I usually don't like Fishbowl that much but this one is good yeah once again we're just absolutely loving the food in Taiwan everything that we try so all this food here was 220 and we also got our lemon iced tea at 60. so we got the famous Taiwanese bubble tea once again in the last video I got a macho one and I think this is the original one where it's just like a milk tea with the tapioca balls there the black ones and this originated in the 80s here in Taiwan they created it and then I think an immigrant took it to California oh I can see the balls going up yeah yeah I think I got like 10 in my mouth yeah no it's really good though I never had this one with just the milk is it like black tea or with milk I can't tell but it's so milky really nice you you have a book good I think it is black tea it is black tea but like I said it's very milky yeah sweet as well they've added some sort of sweetener in there delicious balls are very chewy yeah they are nice and soft so that was 60 wasn't it yeah and so it is way more fact right now way way more people we're just trying to get out of here oh there's one on fire that probably happens a lot so we've come to another huge Bridge here suspension bridge this is called jingan and we just gotta kill some time now because we're going to be leaving here by train we gotta get a train to ruifang where we were early on where we missed the bus and then we'll get a train back to Taipei where we're staying pretty high up this one a lot higher than the other ones that we saw yeah it's definitely good to come to this place isn't it yeah I'm really loving Taiwan so we're back in Taipei now in ximen the area that we're staying and we filmed here on our first video but it was early in the morning so everything was dead and I mentioned that I film here at night because it's way cooler you can already see way more people around and we mainly like it because everything is litting up good so it makes it look way better we took a picture here on Instagram and everyone said that it looked like where you came we thought wow it looks like Japan we've never been to Japan but this is how we imagined it looks cool with these lights above us as well and we're probably going to try and find some street food too yeah once again stinky tofu coming up yeah we'll finally try it out Ed Sheeran Ed Sheeran's everywhere so they always have a show here every night thank you thank you thank you so that was one awesome Street performance it's actually a multiple different groups after the acrobatic guys some guy with like a Basketball doing tricks went on so yeah if you just stay there you'll see loads of different shows this might be the busiest that we've seen it yeah weekend so it gets extra busy yeah because even on the weekdays it is already busy every single day here it's not only on the weekends you got these cool side streets too that will go down clothes on food places got another show going on here Taiwanese yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah man check that out we even got a anaconda what the hell no thanks that's crazy foreign on here but I wasn't expecting all this the crazy thing is that we're only like five minutes away walking and our part is all quiet in the street but we're right next to this like the main area really good location where we're at then oh yeah it's fantastic and we have the subway here it's a very good location like you said yeah right near the subway already more video games see loads of promotion for video games eh it's a Transformer I think it's another show isn't it shows everywhere oh really yeah one here over the other one so there appears to be a market going on today we didn't see this on the other days I don't know if it's food we're looking for food now looks like it's just jewelry yeah I don't think it's a food market jewelry market are you hungry yes I am yeah I think we need to go and find a food place this is one of the coolest angles yeah with all the lights and I love it though on the streets that's why it reminds me of Japan I think like Tokyo is like that right screens everywhere also New York yeah New York's like that right I think that's the only place in the US that's like that oh so we're going down the little side roads now still loads of shops everywhere and if we're on the street that went down the other day there was some like food streets around here I don't know everything looks the same maybe further down there I know this this is the street down here there's a few little food places on the left there you got the steamed dumplings again tempted but I've already eaten too many of those on this trip already everything's in Chinese also can't really tell what what's what is that like a hot dog I can't smell any stinky tofu you know when you're in a sting stinky tofu right yeah it's a very very strong smell a horrible smell yeah I don't see it here so I'm gonna eat this uh diced beef steak smells good so this is the flamethrower beef and for the topping I got cumin I didn't know they'd have cumin here you could choose like black pepper garlic some rock salt but I chose cumin like in India nice and soft the pieces of beef and just a strong cumin taste obviously all the powder that was 200 for bucks then you got two because they were very yeah so we found a little food stall here with stinky tofu and Carol got it mixed with something else isn't it some cabbage but people were like exaggerate and how how much it smells but it's really bad it's like sewage like sewage guys yeah it really smells like something you don't want to eat but take it away Carol yeah it's a very famous dish here in Taiwan there must be a reason I hope it's tasty at least how much was that 60 60. yeah here we go to bed it doesn't taste like sewage ah so inside it just tastes like normal tofu yeah maybe I need to I thought it's gonna have some crazy strong taste by the smell of it no it's good then yeah that's why another thing that they have here in ximen absolutely everywhere at these stores these like toy stores one over here too I forgot what you call these machines we have to grab the toy but they're everywhere aren't they these straps at least here in ximen lipstick thank you and I think the majority are 24 hours yeah and there's nobody nobody that worked here they're just uh empty no employees or anything I think we're gonna give it a go or do you want to win Carol I don't know nothing lots of options yeah I'm not sure this is some sort of game there's actually food as well you can win food I think it's 10 Taiwanese dollars we saw some that have like a iPhone no iPhone here no I want an iPhone but maybe a flip-flop you want flip-flops what the hell is that like washing up stuff oh yeah why would you play one of these machines to just like clean your dishes off I'll clean your clothes what the hell yeah again I think that's like detergent or something bizarre here washing up liquid it's a nice price I found something that you might like oh okay yeah I think that's the best option for me Ferrero Russia you actually buy that at the supermarket don't you yeah I still have some in my okay let's go for the first attempt let's do this get that big one there yeah no but I think the arm's gonna get stuck oh yeah no that's no that won't work this one no it's not going to get it either no what what did you do what did you do you need more time I couldn't I couldn't bring it all the way over here maybe that one there I don't know we're gonna try again to go fast I think it's not gonna grab it though look so we're trying a different machine now oh oh it's a scammy throw it through it away yeah he had it come on look he grabs it and he throws it away oh no I'm not playing it anymore nah so we're heading back to the apartment now I just got another bubble tea this time with green tea and this one is hot the one that I had earlier was a cold so this is nice every single one that I've tried so far is nice and in the next video we plan on going to a completely different region not even on this Coast anymore or near Taipei some hours away so that's going to be really cool to see yet again another side of Taiwan so if you like this one just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe to see more videos like this follow us on Instagram and Facebook and we'll see in the next one foreign
2023-03-24 18:15
