Finally heading to Ximending on the sixth day!
Shops in Ximending open generally pretty late and close pretty late as well, 11am - 10.30pm on weekdays and till 11pm on weekends. It usually get liven up from the evening. So if you want to avoid the crowd and have some leisure time shopping around Ximending, noon will be a good time. Then again, most of the street food stalls only start operating during the evening through to late night.
We practically spent the whole day in Ximending hunting down food and shop around.
Take the blue line MRT and stop at Ximen Station. Exit through Exit 1 to get to Xi Men Red House or Exit 6 to the shopping district.
We paid a short visit to the Red House.
The Red House
It was wet and we were very hungry. So, we only stayed for a short while, I personally think there's nothing to see ._. .
First stop: Lunch at Niu Dian (牛店)
Bull painting in the shop
Address: 91 Kunming street, Taipei (near ximending)
We had a hard time finding this shop, cause our GPS was screwing it up. Nevertheless, we never gave up and we found it. Oh, my love for food!
Normal Beef Soup Noodle
Braised Beef Soup Noodle
We ordered the plain original beef noodles, and special braised beef noodles. The waitress explained to us how to enjoy my braised beef noodles on arrival. Personally I think one of the special braised beef noodles is enough for the 2 of us. The braised beef noodles came with a bowl of plain beef soup noodles on the side. You can add the braised sauce into the soup according to your liking. So you can actually have a taste of 2 different beef soup noodles in one dish ;) .
Beef soup noodles were nice and tasty, very light soup base.
Happy girl and boy after lunch, we headed towards the main shopping district of Ximending.
Ximending district
We spent all day wondering around ximending, looking around, surveying prices and hunting down for more food. The boy bought a Porter sling bag and I bought a pair of Timberland boots ;)
Ah Zhong Mian Xian (Rice Flour noodles with Pork Intestine); Hot Star Deep Fried Chicken Chop/Chicken Schnitzel
IMO, the Ah Liang Mian Xian (rice noodles) in Shilin night market tasted better compared to Ah Zhong's and my boy agreed too! Nevertheless, worth a try. There's no table around so you will have to stand and eat. One of a kind experience ;) . After we finished our noodle, we stumble across the famous Hot Star Chicken Chop, 60NT for one. It is extremely huge and could feed 3 person! Unless you're hungry man. Nothing special, we ate half and threw away the other half, totally did not expect it to be that big.
Around 5pm ish the food stall will start to cook up and so we hunted down for more food.
Da Chang Bao Xiao Chang aka. Big sausage warped in small sausage
Well technically the big sausage ain't a sausage. Its glutinous rice made into sausage shape, topped up with some fillings of your choice and the tasty Taiwanese pork sausage. Look cool and its fairly filling as well, worth a try. You gotta give everything a try when you're travelling eh.
Prince Cheese Potatoes
Combination Cheese Potato
A stall next to the sausage stall. If youre a cheese lover like my boy, you will love this. Creamy cheese over potato with toppings of your choice, yummy and sinful!
Another stall next to the potato stall, we saw a freaking long queue. Long queue means good food (generally but not always). You see long queue, being a tourist, go join the bandwagon. We joined the queue, and after half an hour, we finally get to find out what's so fancy about this stall.
Okinawa Japanese Style Char-Grilled Mochi
Tada! Japanese char-grilled mochi incoming! This is a must must try. I say again. A. Must. Try. in Ximending. Queue is long, but worth it. We went back for a second round on the next day! Forget about the traditional mochi you eat. Click on the link and read up if you do not know what mochi is ;)
The chargrilled mochi is so good, soft and chewy, topped up with your choice of sweet topping. Plum and condensed milk toppings were good, not a fan of the peanut toppings though.
Love the mochi! Ending our day with a sweet and cheap street dessert ;)
Beef soup noodles were nice and tasty, very light soup base.
Happy girl and boy after lunch, we headed towards the main shopping district of Ximending.
We spent all day wondering around ximending, looking around, surveying prices and hunting down for more food. The boy bought a Porter sling bag and I bought a pair of Timberland boots ;)
IMO, the Ah Liang Mian Xian (rice noodles) in Shilin night market tasted better compared to Ah Zhong's and my boy agreed too! Nevertheless, worth a try. There's no table around so you will have to stand and eat. One of a kind experience ;) . After we finished our noodle, we stumble across the famous Hot Star Chicken Chop, 60NT for one. It is extremely huge and could feed 3 person! Unless you're hungry man. Nothing special, we ate half and threw away the other half, totally did not expect it to be that big.
Around 5pm ish the food stall will start to cook up and so we hunted down for more food.
Well technically the big sausage ain't a sausage. Its glutinous rice made into sausage shape, topped up with some fillings of your choice and the tasty Taiwanese pork sausage. Look cool and its fairly filling as well, worth a try. You gotta give everything a try when you're travelling eh.
A stall next to the sausage stall. If youre a cheese lover like my boy, you will love this. Creamy cheese over potato with toppings of your choice, yummy and sinful!
Another stall next to the potato stall, we saw a freaking long queue. Long queue means good food (generally but not always). You see long queue, being a tourist, go join the bandwagon. We joined the queue, and after half an hour, we finally get to find out what's so fancy about this stall.
Tada! Japanese char-grilled mochi incoming! This is a must must try. I say again. A. Must. Try. in Ximending. Queue is long, but worth it. We went back for a second round on the next day! Forget about the traditional mochi you eat. Click on the link and read up if you do not know what mochi is ;)
The chargrilled mochi is so good, soft and chewy, topped up with your choice of sweet topping. Plum and condensed milk toppings were good, not a fan of the peanut toppings though.
Love the mochi! Ending our day with a sweet and cheap street dessert ;)
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