Monthly Archives: February 2024

by JiaYing

Taiwan Day 7: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Longshan temple, Shulin

The Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial is immense and grand, I guess that's the point. I left Taiwan when I was 4 and it's one of the few childhood memories I have. *Chiang Kai-Shek is basically the George Washington of Taiwan.
A flock of pigeons rose up and startled us.
Incredible dress and location.
Coffers in the ceiling
Changing of the guards takes place every hour.
The crowd mid-day Monday.
The MRT: so organized, clean and efficient. 58 cents a ride.
TAIWANESE FASHION
Lunch with my aunt at Caesar Metro Hotel where I had the best fatty pork belly of life.
Longshan temple entrance
Inside Longshan temple
Taiwan in one picture. Scooters, scooters, everywhere.
Children are an increasingly rare sight. Taiwan has one of the world's lowest birth rates.
Taiwanese makeup, which comes in only three shades! The standard of beauty is light, lighter and lightest skin.
Bars on all the windows is the prevailing aesthetic.
Kids after school.
All the topping options for tofu pudding!! $1.28 a bowl.
My uncle stuffed us silly with the BEST street food outside his house in Shulin.
by JiaYing

Taiwan Day 6: National Palace Museum, Taipei Children’s Amusement Park, Tamsui

National Palace Museum, Taipei Children's Amusement Park, Tamsui.

With my fabulous cousin in front of the National Palace Museum.
The famous jadeite cabbage! It's the one thing you MUST see. (It's like the Mona Lisa of Taiwan.)
Everyone politely waited in line for their closeup with the jadeite cabbage.
Basically when Chiang Kai-Shek left mainland China in 1949, he brought allllllll the good stuff with him. So the top Chinese treasures are in Taiwan (and nope, not giving it back).
These were a big deal because they'd never been displayed before.
Ding cauldron to Ji from his grandson
Found the item pictured on Paul's ticket! Revolving vase with swimming fish in cobalt blue glaze
Caught a bus directly to the Taipei Children's Amusement Park. You pay for each ride with your EasyCard, so convenient.
The swings are so cute. They're planets orbiting the sun.
Picture from my cousin
Dumplings from a street vendor
Get the most delicious red bean cake for 50 cents here.
We took the MRT to the waterfront, Tamsui. My cousin is an expert at the claw machines!
Teaching us how to shoot marbles.
On the MRT