Day 2 - Jhongli to Taipei

Last night we went to night markets and exposed to many new and exciting experiences such as tangy fruit on sticks and pancake like bird cake. I bought a dress for Jess (chinese one), so bling hair clips and some cat slippers.

Yvonne's family live in Jhongli which is a city about 30 minutes by train from Taipei. Today we woke up at yvonne's parents house around 9am and had breakfast of steamed bun with pork floss; we also had a toast with a sweet spread which smelt like popcorn and tasted very nice!! This was washed down with lavender tea. We then went on train to Taipei, Scott picked us up and took us out to lunch at a dumpling restaurant - very nice! We then went shopping at a department store called sogo. Very expensive goods... I ended up buying a KAPPA jackets (down-filled bet I will get HEAPS of use in Australia so the wogs better watch out!) and Sean also bought a TOMMY jacket whichs is VERY nice! We spent many many hours in this store - it was over 12 levels including supermarket in the basement.

We then caught MRT (subway train) and met up with Christine, Scott and Elaine and had dinner at the Prawn Restaurant which served fresh hot prawns (we saw them alive before they were cooked) with different fried cooking styles. We then were driven to Elaine & Allen's place where we stuffed around on their couch and Allen finally got my laptop to work on the internet (he is very smart!!).