Today, I will continue my Danshuei trip from Friday the 11. september 2009.

So after we ate seafood, we went to the same walk by the river as David took me to on my second day here. Today, however, it looked completely different because at this time it was already night. Especially the view of the city is gorgeous with all those light you can see on the other side of the river.

The above picture is taken while we were waiting for the boat that took us to the Fisherman's Wharf. While we were sailing there, the view was even better, although completely impossible to capture with my camere, which is not very good with pictures while moving or shaking.

This was all for today. I hope you didn't mind that I sneaked another post about taiwanese birthdays in between the two danshuei trip entries. 

Today, I went to Danshuei (or Danshui) in the evening with Joni.
There, she showed me the perfect place to go and eat superb seafood.

 
So, outside the restaurant, you can see all the seafood they serve, crawling and swimming around little boxes with water.

 
And when you get in, you go right through the kitchen and up through a tiny red stairway of a type which can be seen everywhere in Taipei, into a not super fancy eating room.

 
But then you put your teeth into crab meat, noodles, shrimps with wasabi (green mustard for japan-noobz), and really fresh and good tasting clams.

 
The crab meat is really great too, but hard to eat if you're not used to it.
I'm a quick learner though, so I found out after a while. The crab meat was not as fresh as the clams and shrimps, but still good. Come and try it damnit. I can take you there, the MRT is really close to the restaurant.

 
All this for just 1250 NT$. Thats around 38.5 US$ or 200 DKK. That is: delicious seafood dinner for two people, and actually, the crab meat cost us half of the total price, since crab meat is not inexpensive.

 
Perhaps someday I can provide you with the pronuncation with the latin alphabet. And with a bit of luck, I will continue my Danshuei story with some nice nighttime pictures i took of the fishermans warft and more tomorrow.

This evening, I am very tired again. Another big lot of stuff happened today, this time with a few pictures because I just put the pictures onto Joni, my host mothers mac. (I can barely operate this contraption at all. I am not used to using a mac and everything is in Chinese including, of course, the keyboard, so I need a bit help to get around - just like when I am out in the city.

   David's family and his wife's sister. 

Joni's brother, David, showed me around Taipei (in some parts belonging to Taipei country) today. (And I have been with the MRT quite some times already.) We went to danshuei laujei, a street by the river where the locals tend to go to relax. The river side is full of stores selling all kinds of edibles and "drinkables" (and that which is both.) There, I tried cooked sea snails (some little snack ones that take a very long time to eat because they are still in there shells and you have to suck them out one at a time, so I didn't eat very many of them.) I also tried fishballs which are not bad and sweet potatoes cooked with sugar, tastes very good even though most of the Taiwanese think it is too sweet. It's a different kind of potato than from home, and when you have prepared it in the way mine were (there's two ways of preparing them,) they get hollow and sticky inside, while dry and sugarish on the outside. Later David and his family took me to a snakes bar to eat baozi buns and fishball soup. By the way, if you ever talked to someone who have been to Taiwan, they will probably have told you that mango's are very good in Taiwan. I haven't had a real mango yet, but my mango icecream was very good. (Icecream, that's what the Taiwanese called it but actually it's a kind of slush-ice.)

After a lot of walking in the incredibly hot and humid air, we drove a long way up the mountainside to drink some tea and coffee with a toast next to the nice view of sanchi mountain, a nice place where the air was a little cooler. I think it was around 27 degrees Celcius compared to the 34 degrees down at sea level. Up in the mountains people keep a lot of animals, especially dogs but also usually chicken. I even saw a squirrel while there.

China is famous for being a place where people eat dogs, but people i Taiwan do not eat them because in Taiwan, eating dog is illegal.