TW - travel outside of taipei, japan tomorrow
so perhaps i should clarify the diet drink. so its in this powder form and ur supposed to mix it with water and drink it. the container said that the powder stuff is supposed to expand to 10x its size inside ur stomach and intestines and thus make u feel fuller so u eat less as well as clear out ur digestive system and make u poo more.
i think i should start drinking it just to poo more cuz ive been feeling kinda constipated. haha...and im sure u guys all care about this...thats why im telling u. hahaha jk
anyway, i think im also no longer jetlagged. today i had a hard time getting up at 9 and only did cuz my uncle was gonna take us to this place at 10. today my uncle drove us to [insert city name here] to see the new peng yuan restaurant that theyre building. the new location can seat 2000 people...its pretty ginormous. the city is about...i'd say 45ish minutes away from taipei. and its well-known for its hi-tech stuff. theres a college nearby thats like taiwan's MIT...all according to my uncle. anyway, so we went to check out the construction and then we went to eat some more food. beef ball soup and fried rice noodles are the specialty there. good stuff.
after that we went to another city [insert city name here]. its known for its ceramics. ive been wanting to buy a new teacup for a while. i really wanted to buy a gai wan...its the three piece tea cup set...with a lid, a cup, and a saucer. but then i also wanted to buy this other teacup thats bigger with a strainer piece and a lid and handle. and then i also wanted to buy the tiny clay teapots that are made especially for oolong tea. and there are so many different designs for all these different teacups and teapots. so i ended up buying the bigger cup with strainer type. it was pretty expensive though. :/ but i like it. maybe ill end up buying all three...we'll see.
ate at the thai restaurant that we ate at the last time we came to taiwan. good food. but some dishes were not so good. like the pineapple fried rice...too sweet. and the hot and sour seafood soup...too dark. i like it more clear. but most of it was really good.
also tried to look for purple sneakers today. all the styles i wanted were out of my size :((( and the one that i like the most is a guy's shoe so its too big for me. *sigh* keep lookin i guess.
tomorrow im off to japan! but i found some unfortunate news. i had originally thought that my cousin who we are visiting was going to take us around during the 9 days that we are going to be there. but i found out that he is actually not done with school yet. so basically we have to figure out what we want to do..and he'll just tell us how to get there. this kinda sucks a lot cuz 1) i didnt plan anything or look at any places to visit cuz i thought he was just gonna plan it all, 2) none of us know japanese, 3) now i have to research about places where i want to go so that we dont waste the time we have there.
i welcome suggestions of places to visit :)
i think i should start drinking it just to poo more cuz ive been feeling kinda constipated. haha...and im sure u guys all care about this...thats why im telling u. hahaha jk
anyway, i think im also no longer jetlagged. today i had a hard time getting up at 9 and only did cuz my uncle was gonna take us to this place at 10. today my uncle drove us to [insert city name here] to see the new peng yuan restaurant that theyre building. the new location can seat 2000 people...its pretty ginormous. the city is about...i'd say 45ish minutes away from taipei. and its well-known for its hi-tech stuff. theres a college nearby thats like taiwan's MIT...all according to my uncle. anyway, so we went to check out the construction and then we went to eat some more food. beef ball soup and fried rice noodles are the specialty there. good stuff.
after that we went to another city [insert city name here]. its known for its ceramics. ive been wanting to buy a new teacup for a while. i really wanted to buy a gai wan...its the three piece tea cup set...with a lid, a cup, and a saucer. but then i also wanted to buy this other teacup thats bigger with a strainer piece and a lid and handle. and then i also wanted to buy the tiny clay teapots that are made especially for oolong tea. and there are so many different designs for all these different teacups and teapots. so i ended up buying the bigger cup with strainer type. it was pretty expensive though. :/ but i like it. maybe ill end up buying all three...we'll see.
ate at the thai restaurant that we ate at the last time we came to taiwan. good food. but some dishes were not so good. like the pineapple fried rice...too sweet. and the hot and sour seafood soup...too dark. i like it more clear. but most of it was really good.
also tried to look for purple sneakers today. all the styles i wanted were out of my size :((( and the one that i like the most is a guy's shoe so its too big for me. *sigh* keep lookin i guess.
tomorrow im off to japan! but i found some unfortunate news. i had originally thought that my cousin who we are visiting was going to take us around during the 9 days that we are going to be there. but i found out that he is actually not done with school yet. so basically we have to figure out what we want to do..and he'll just tell us how to get there. this kinda sucks a lot cuz 1) i didnt plan anything or look at any places to visit cuz i thought he was just gonna plan it all, 2) none of us know japanese, 3) now i have to research about places where i want to go so that we dont waste the time we have there.
i welcome suggestions of places to visit :)