darrentungphoto: 20150824 | Taiwan Day 3 - Guanghua Electronics Plaza, Stinky Tofu, Night Market

Monday, August 24, 2015

20150824 | Taiwan Day 3 - Guanghua Electronics Plaza, Stinky Tofu, Night Market

Photos from our fourth day! I realized that our food photos has my watermark on each individual photo, but I'm too lazy to correct aha :P
Our breakfast for the day:

A local street vendor, right next to the subway station

Hi Tim :P

After breakfast, we slowly made our way to the Guanghua Digital Plaza, making a couple of intermediate stops. The Guanghua Digital Plaza is a set of two buildings and an undeground space that sells anything electronic related - brand name computers and peripherals, cameras, audio gear, individual electronic components (i.e., microprocessors, connectors, you name it).There was a large park and exhibit area that we stopped by first (Huashan Creative Park). This is an art installation made entirely of computer motherboards by the the entrance to a park under a freeway - a skate park and a basketball court - fitting, as it was right next to the Guanghua Digital Plaza.

Here is one of the exhibit halls - loving the large open skylight and the wooden ceilings

A look at a local starbucks - the prices are very similar to their domestic counterpart. Also a very interesting bicycle in front.

Alex and myself! Thanks to Tim for the photos!

A treehouse of sorts!

I was told that the Chinese subtitle is interesting and a bit off - Tim isn't here to translate for me as I type this up though, and I don't remember what he told me it said...

A view of the Guanghua Digital Plaza - the old building on right, and the new building on the left.

Some noodles for lunch before we continue perusing the stores in the plaza

A look down at the streets from one of the higher floors of the older building - things look so much smaller from afar - it's pretty congested and bustling from down in the streets...

We went into the new building soon after - for some reason they had a huge Disney Tsum Tsum display, but when we asked, they didn't have any for sale! D: (the actual tsums at least)

Highlights from dinner:1. Taiwanese Beer - tastes like a Budweiser. Relatively light, and tastes alright. Alex's first drink (18yrs is the drinking age)2. Stinky Tofu - it actually doesn't smell quite as bad as people make it out to be. Tastes alright, but I'm not crazy about it yet. As Alex said, it's alright, but it's not something we would 3. Turtle - It's pretty good - again loosely quoting Alex, for something that's part sea, part land (amphibious), it tastes just like that - a bit fishy, and a bit meaty.4. Yellow Watermelon - it tastes and feels like regular watermelon, but is just yellow!

We went back to the night market and had some shaved ice - he shaves it from a block (obviously) then after adding the syrup, he uses a drill to mix it all up, and that scoop of ice that he is holding will be condensed to what you see in the next photo!