13 May 2023
The trendy bit
Feng Chia night market
The Feng Chia night market area is undoubtedly the trendiest and busiest part of Taichung. It might be coming off a low base, but I still thought it was pretty good. Hard to capture the vibrancy properly without getting run over, even the closed off streets still have speeding scooters, and the best shops and restaurants are along the edge of the busy road with no footpath and buses flying past. Taiwan needs to fix this.
Dinner was a healthy option, it even had pineapple in it, all true patriots have to eat Taiwanese pineapple, they used to send them all to the mainland, but now that President Biden said China is not allowed to have computers anymore, so China has banned Taiwanese pineapples.
After today's rest day, which still ended up at 30,000 steps, I have a bigger plan tomorrow, involving mountains and fire. So I better do my research and go to bed early so I can get up early and beat the Sunday hiking crowd.
I have no idea what's going on here. They do not appear to be selling anything.
Long time readers, that is readers from last year, will remember my constant raving about open sewer parks in Korea. Well here is one in Taiwan. This one is not up to Korean standard, you cannot descend down into the sewer and walk along it.
The healthy dinner. Poke I guess, but I get chicken, and kind of make it into a burrito bowl. Delicious, especially the pineapple. I will probably have similar again at some point.
Approaching Feng Chia. All the roads leading to the area are footpath free.
Not a petrol station, an ice tea station. I suspect they converted an actual petrol pump, it is the same colour and looks the same as the pumps in the main CPC petrol stations. I hope they rinsed it out properly first.
There are lot of shops like this in and around the night market area, which is of course, also a major university. And where there are university students, there is a need to spend hundreds of dollars on giant Godzilla models.
Example of, walking along the road with traffic. Made all the more dangerous when you take photos of it.
Time for a couple of night market shots now that it is actually night.
Here is another.
The claw machine shops are everywhere, all without any customers.
Last shot tonight, another busy road back to where I can hop on the rapid bus back to my hotel. I managed to not get run over.