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warning: immense load of pictures than my previous post so try not to get caught at work because the last thing we want is for them to block ONEBUBBLE. COM at your company…..actually that would get us A LOT of publicity and then maybe we could do this as a full time job.

Sooooo, Tyler and I met up with some old friends in Hsinchu that I haven’t seen in 10 years, which makes it the last time i saw them was 14, ANNND when i was 14 i looked completely different: height was the same but width wise — @_@. In any case, it turns out my friend majored in interior design, worked for a firm for a year and ended up closing shop and opening up a NEW shop but this time: serving UDON noodles, which i thought was crajee-lah!

Butttt….the restaurant had a really paris-cafe’esque theme to it which i thought was great, really classy lighting, and she had clocks installed which displayed different timezones which i thought added a nice touch of variety. The “little shop” as her mom had warned me, wasn’t as small as i pictured, as the restaurant was able probably to house no more than 25 at a time, but ANYSPACE beats I’s Cafe.

The house is known for a lot of their items, but I ended up ordering the fresh tomato sukiyaki which consisted of –> mushrooms, sausage, egg, udon, and a random piece of shrimp but NO tomato which i thought was kind of odd…see if you can find it.

While Tyler ordered the curry chicken sukiyaki which tasted great. It had a bold curry taste far from anything offered at Mesala Grill. Overall, taste wise it was great minus the tomato mishap, but of course EVERYTHING tastes better when its free =).

My friend along with her younger brother, took us to this place called NEIWAN known for its tradition food and mini go karts . It’s a historical landmark recently buffed up with street vendors to make it more accommodating towards tourists so you can get food, drinks, even watch old school movies on a giant projection screen.

The bathrooms still even have those squat pots to get a more old school aesthetic feeling, but i like it cuz it seems to preserve the tradition.

We walked along this bridge overlooking a river stream, which apparently is really clean and most certainly gets a lot of attention. Btw, if asians already all look the same, the least is wear something different right? Don’t enhance that stereotype by purposely collectively wearing the exact same colors when taking pictures. gosh they’d be so confusing if they lived in the states.

We finished our trip in Neiwan with Tyler walking way ahead of the car and looking back taking our last photo together, never to realize that there’s something weird with this picture. Can anyone find it? post your answer in your comment and we’ll high five you when we get back in Sept!

Neiwan Out!