Next stop was a street about 8 minutes walk from the Lin Family Garden. It's called 茶館街, 'cha guan jie', and literally translates into, 'tea house street'. On the map in the Metro, I told Dad that this would be a promising place to look for tea. I could not have been more deceived by a name.
There was not a single tea shop in sight - not that we walked the whole street, but we got the point after observing that all the shops and stalls were selling food, or toys, or clothes, or souvenirs. Despite being a disappointment in being unexpected, it was actually really interesting. The 'Street' is actually composed of a a few lanes. We walked through one lane and all the shops and stalls were selling food and clothes, displaying braised pig's heads, blood cakes, whole chickens. We came across a stall selling toys at a junction, and Dad almost bought a toy car. I almost went on board to buy a set of small army vehicles but decided I already have one set at home, sleeping in some container.
It was already nearly lunchtime, and seeing we were in the company of a wealth of choices of Taiwanese food, we lunch was to be had there, in what I now translate, 茶館街, into 'food shops street'. We had one of my favourite dishes, beef noodles! The soup was brown and very fragrant, noodles were 'Q' or springy, and beef slices were beautifully decorated with a maze of tendon. The taste was heightened with slated veg.
While eating we watched news on the t.v.. The news reporter was expounding on a meteorological matter, called weather. In the weather reports I've seen, the reporter raps out the words out and we're off the weather report before its allocated time is used up. But this weather report was very informational, and long. Sunny Taipei, 2 days down the road, would be rainy and faced with a possibility of being hit by a typhoon. I was beginning to worry; Dad was excited.
For now, it remained sunny clear skied. After lunch we walked to the metro and this time, we walked to the nearer one called 'Fuahong station'. Out next stop was in Datong district.
(To be continued)
Cheers
zhusun
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