Orientation

Had another one of the sweet rice triangles for breakfast and we headed off to school for our orientation. We received our class schedules bought our books and already have our first term planned out. Looks like we are going to be very busy for the next year. Luckily they offer a class on Cuisine and Dining so our menu reading abilities will improve.

Made it home had ate some more of our salty rice trianlges and explored our books and transfered our schedules around and looked at all the supplementary classes offered and are very excited for the semester ahead.

As an afternoon snack we headed out to a street near us that has a variety of different foods and we tried steamed dumplings this time. Korean, basically kimchi, and Pork dumplings this time around. While both are good I will be returning for the Korean dumplings.

For dinner we headed out to Shilin night market, noted as the best and one of the oldest in Taiwan, to try some of their street foods. We got some fresh mango juice and turned around to find out that our friends that we had hotpot with were standing behind us. As a group we went over to another stall and got some Stinky Tofu, amazing with the mysterious chili sauce they have on the tables, and an oyster omelet. After this we did some looking around to find Chicken Butts, basically the tail section deep fried, and some coffin bread, thick toast that is carved open an stuffed with assorted yummies. We split up after the toast was gone but we were still craving some good street dessert so we got Snow with fruit on top. Unlike shaved ice, snow uses flavored milk or juice to make the ice and is shaved differently so it melts on your tongue. If its in Southern California i will find it and let you know or you can follow me there since i will be a regular customer.

Since we were full and we were already at the night market we decided to do some shopping. It goes without saying that i bought some watches. Whole trip to the night market cost us less than $10. If you are frugal you have to love this place.