After a sleepy morning, we started Saturday with some pork rice from Formosa Chang:
It may not look super appetizing, but it's actually a really yummy traditional Taiwanese dish. Simple and good! After that, we started our trek towards Taipei Zoo, where we could hop on a gondola up the mountain to Maokong. The gondola ride was pretty incredible- we sailed over the trees and got some excellent views:
Also, our gondola had a glass bottom!
When we arrived at the top, we took a stroll down a little path lined with food vendors, and tried out some sausage on a stick:
We went over to a beautiful tea house that overlooked the city, where we had our own private tea room:
Dana was kind enough to do the whole tea ceremony thing for us and we enjoyed several cups of delicious tea (I think some kind of high mountain oolong?)
That's Taipei 101 in the background! We were able to get a really lovely video of the city as the sun was setting:
Once we were done with our tea, we headed back into the city and over to the Raohe Night Market.
I was able to try a ton of different snack foods there, including the infamous stinky tofu:
It actually wasn't too bad! The overall flavor was good, though it leaves kind of a gross aftertaste. And also smells a bit like garbage. I also tried a few other small things, including an amazing black pepper pork bun:
After lots of snacking and strolling, we decided to call it a night. Stay tuned for 1-2 more posts about Taiwan!
