Jhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan R.O.C.

Here I am. Taiwan! Touched down at TaoYuan international airport in Taipei. My mission: I come, I eat, I see girls. Me and my partner were greeted with a fully tinted black Mercedes like mafia members. Well, at least it would have been convincing if I've landed on Sicily. Uh, nevermind. I would settle with the title Taiwan mafia for now.

Left: Preparing for touchdown. Right: Our black Mercs.

Off we go, destination Jhunan Town, Miaoli County, the main office hostel we are gonna spend some nights in. It took about 1 hour to reach Miaoli. Everything along the way looks fresh and interesting. All the BMW & Mercs police cars, all mandarin sign boards (if you can't read chinese, and no translator with you, you are in trouble). This is chinese heaven.

Let's take a look at the main office hostel facilities. From TV/reading room with LCD TV to leisure corner. They even have in house cardio equipments and very own dancing/aerobic room! The employees can come here to relax during breaks or after work to release tension. Very good idea indeed.

Left: Our bedroom. Right: TV/Reading room.

Leisure corner



Cafe and training room (The cafe has LCD TV too!).


Sunset from our hostel and wind power generators from afar.

We had our first meal consists of cute, nicely packed fried rice and "o chien" (something like fried clam meat with chicken egg). And not forgetting to grab ourselves some sesame pao on our way back.

The "o a chien" looks and tasted different from hometown. Got myself "bak hu" (minced pork) fried rice. It smelled good but it tasted kinda plain. On well, maybe it's for the good health. Sesame pao tasted good though.

Food stalls & nicely packed rice.



Do not let the packaging deceived you.
It's a huge portion and I could hardly finish it. Sesame pao on the right.

The left pic below is where I took my safety trainings in order to enter the work area. It's a small training centre. Taiwan safety rules are kinda strict compared to us. The cute little scooter in the right pic belongs to a cute pretty little girl who works for the training company. Too bad she was kinda shy to take pics. So I took a shot of her bike instead.

My roasted duck 便當 (fast food) for lunch. The training company even helps to "tapao" (take away) lunch. It tasted so-so though. Kinda balanced meal I say. Lots of vege and sorts.

Fast food packed rice for dinner. I had fried drum stick rice. Take away fast food usually comes with Vitagen thingy. Helps to improve digestion I guess. Some nice pretty ladies bought us original Taiwan pearl milk tea too!

Our breakfast. Picture on the left is 飯團(rolled rice? LOL) with ingredients like egg, you-cha-kueh, salted vegetables and minced pork (肉松). It's very delicious. Yummy yummy. The thingy in the middle is some kinda egg rolled you-cha-kueh (I forgot the actual name). For drinks, we have soya milk and 米漿 (rice starch, tasted good!).

Shot of another cute pink scooter belongs to one of the cute girls in the admin office. The office ladies have been really friendly and helpful. Not to mention Taiwanese girls are mostly very fair and pretty albeit the hot weather and bright sun during summer.

The 3rd day, we are going down south to Tainan - the actual work place. Bye bye Jhunan. Sob sob*. Here's the Hsinchu bullet train station. They called it Taiwan High Speed Rail. It only takes about 1 hour plus to reach Tainan. You gotta pay the price (expensive fares) for its speed (over 300+ kmph if not mistaken). The interior of the train looks as if you're in a plane.

Right: Rows of taxi. Middle: Here comes the train. Right: Interior of the train.

Next up...Tainan.