Yi-Lan!

Today we've been taken with Geena to Yi-Lan with Pete and his friends. The day has been full of amazing places, great food and we've had a lot of fun together.

As a good base for our day we've started with Garlic pork soup. Wow - so much garlic for me and even raw one! And I've been thinking, that my Czech Garlic soup has been "spicy"! But it has been very good. I liked it very much. I've been sweating very much, because the soup has been very hot, but everyone has been sweating too, so it's OK :-)

Because we've been very thirsty, we've bought my favourite Taiwanese drink - Papaya milk. We've also tried Avocado milk (very good - quite sweet) or Taro milk (taste like an ice-cream). Geena has chosen a Aju drink (not sure about the pronunciation) - from some lemon seeds with jelly - also very good, but too sweet!

Anyway after our eating and drinking start we've been to  National Center for Traditional Art. This place is something like a big park, where you can spend almost whole day. It's so big. You can find there some exhibitions, old house, traditional buildings, temple, old Alley, some stores, beautiful nature.. You can also rent a boat and take a road on artificial canal.

Welcome to National Center fot Traditional Art

First we've been to Buddha and Dragon Exhibition. I like the dragon more, maybe because I don't know very much about Buddhism. Later we've seen some Scary poppet exhibition - I cannot imagine having a fairy-tale with this poppets. They are so scary! I think I would have a nightmare.
Later we've been to some Traditional Old House. We've had to cross some old bridge and we've seen some kiln again :-) Some degeneration from our project I guess. Anyway this house has been very interesting. There were some historical tools, old kitchen, living room or some traditional Chinese calculator or coins.

Sad angry poppet

Another poppets

Creating poppet - No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

Kiln :-)

Old Chinese coins

Chinese Calculator

Chopsticks

Bridge to the Old House

On our way back to the car we've stopped in the Shopping street in this Center and we've bought some cherry tomato in candy paste - so great! Something like our tomatoes with sugar and salt :-) Pete has bought for us later Barley drink - so bad drink. I don't like it at all. It taste likes an old coffee.. But thanks Pete!

Shopping Street

Cherry tomato in sweet jacket

Oh my God! Geena has shot me!

Our next stop has been beach! Sea sea sea! I like sea very much. The waves were pretty high, but we've wanted to get closer and throw some stones to the sea. It has turned out, that the waves are very big and we've been very wet later - but it has been very big fun! I can throw stones and make some "frog jumps" and I can write my name in sand - but the waves are destroyer. I've also taught one friend how to make an angel in the sand - the one, we usually make in the snow - lie on the back and move with the hands :-) He has been really like an angel (even though we've buried him before :-D). I've really enjoyed the sea very much.

Sea!!!

Angel

Welcome to Luodong!

Our last stop in Yi-Lan has been Luodong night market. We've eaten and drunk very much :-) For the welcome we've bought with Geena Bamboo green drink = sugar cane. I was so much looking forward - I've been very thirsty. But it has been so disgusting! Oh, so bad.. It tastes like a grass! And I'm not an animal to eat grass :-) 

To make my taste better we've bought two types of pork popcorn, dumplings with oysters, dumplings with pork and spring onion (typical for this region), some chicken sausages on a stick, scallop (pieces of fish) with fish chips, lamb soup and we've finiseh our eating night with some lemon sauer drink = kumquet (much better than bamboo grass). 

Smile please Geenečka, Albert and Cloud!

Geenečka and Terezka

Pete, Charles and Big Cloud

But I like sweet at the end I've bought papaya milk again and at the end we've had bubbles filed with red beans in touhva, ice and sticky rice. But maybe the top dessert at the end has been almond jelly in the bowl. I was so full :-) So ňami.. I'm going to miss local food so much - cheap, everywhere, nonstop.The evening has been later pretty calm..

Fuuun! :-)

I liked this day very much. Taiwan is beautiful :-)