Xin Tian Yuan Restaurant (新田园) at Taichung, Taiwan

After we left Sun Moon Lake and drove passed Taichung, we simply stop by this restaurant for our lunch...cause we were starving...!
The Xin Tian Yuan Restaurant (新田园) (N23.90334 E120.92783) is just located at one of the intersection of YuChi street.

The restaurant was empty when we visited, I guess because the lunch time had over...our driver heard the drum's sound of our stomach and ordered for us Immediately!

The restaurant had very simple setup, no fancy decoration and without air-conditional.
Luckily, the foods served on our table very fast! Everyone just enjoy the foods silently...:)

Deer meat

Pork

Shrimps cooked with chili

Vegetables (I forgot the name of it)

Mushroom

Steam Fish

All foods were nice and tasty! We like the cooking method of Taiwan very much because they won't cook it too oily! Especially the Unexpected nice and simple fried rice! Yes...we had it Double! All of us satisfied with the foods! Thumbs Up!

If you visit this restaurant, you cannot miss the Fried Rice!

Once we finished our lunch, we said bye-bye to Taichung...and continue our journey...

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Ah Yong Restaurant at Shuishe, Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan

Ah Yong Restaurant (N23.86494 E120.91155) is located along the street at Shuishe town. We were bought to this restaurant by our driver (Mr Yew) and all dishes are serve and cook in Ita Thao's recipes. Ita Thao is one of the Taiwanese Aborigines, we visited their village in the next day and I will blog about it later...

Ah Yong Restaurant

The restaurant is Famous with the fish below...

I don't know how to call it in English...

All dishes were ordered by our driver, and served on table very fast!
Before we start our dinner, the lady boss came to introduced every dishes from the restaurant...and she claimed that the fish (below) are only available in this restaurant, we can't get elsewhere in the whole of Taiwan! Really?!

The Special Fish of Ah Yong Restaurant

Mixed vegetables and mushroom

Pork Knuckle (Ita Thao recipe) DELICIOUS!

Cold Steam Chicken

Mushroom soup

Vegetables

Pork

All dishes were Delicious and I like it very much! Especially the fish, steam chicken and the pork knuckles! All of us satisfied with the Special recipes of Ita Thao and I MISS the taste Very Much!

If I will have a chance to visit Sun Moon Lake again, I will DEFINITELY dine in Ah Yong Restaurant!

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Master Of Mushroom (菇神) Restaurant at Taichung, Taiwan

The Master Of Mushroom Restaurant (N24.20089 E120.79925) is located along the XieZhong Street which is about 2km away from the Xinshe Castle. This was the restaurant we had our lunch after the photography session.

Master Of Mushroom Restaurant

The Trademark before we step into the restaurant - 菇神

Once we stepped in, the was a corner selling all types of mushrooms and souvenirs on the left...

Mushroom and some cans food...

I believe the Giant Mushroom was also one of their trademark.

The restaurant had 3 sessions of dining area and divided into 2 storey. The photos below was the lower level of dining area.

The main counter of the lower level

Both dining area of the lower floor have different of setup. As you can see from the tables and chairs...
And we chose the upper level for better scenic view from the restaurant.

One of the Unique table at the upper lever

The dining area at upper level of the restaurant

The scenery was Marvellous! It was a different Dining Experience at the Master Of Mushroom Restaurant! We were busy taking photos of the surrounding before the food serve...

The scenery view from the window

The protruded area of the mountain was due to the Taiwan 921 Earthquake.

There were many mountains in Taiwan have the same scenario and some of them protruded much more than this!

The two small plates of special appetizer for us before the food serve...

The Appetizers

The Manager came to our table to explain the proper way to enjoy our Organic Mushroom lunch, she told us the procedure and the time to cook for various of mushrooms...
That moment, our table was full of fruits and mushrooms...once the soup was boiled, we had to put half of the fruits (the 2 plates below) into it...

Then wait for 3 minutes to continue 30% of each type of mushrooms (below) for 20 seconds...

Types of mushrooms...

I like the colour of this mushroom very much!

The main bowl of soup where everyone waiting for it!

Beside the fruits & mushrooms we put in, there were others ingredients cook together in the big bowl of soup...
Once the bell rang! That was our First taste of the Organic Mushroom soup!

It was YUMMY! This was my first Organic Mushroom meal! Awesome!
The Manager did told us not to take too much rice, but we Can't resist the pork gravy with some minced pork which for mixing with rice. The taste was so nice!

The pork gravy and the rice below...

Then we continued the formula circles and together with the pork below...

The meal was So Delicious! Especially the Special Recipe of the soup. I will strongly recommend to all my friends to try it if you happen to the Xinshe District.

We spend more than 1 hour and slowly enjoyed the foods and with the cooling environment before we proceed to our next destination. We were Overloaded!
The Damage : TWD300.00 for each person included drink. Reasonable!!

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Fong Chia Night Market (逢甲夜市) at Taichung - Taiwan

Our driver dropped us at the junction of FuXing Rd & FongChia Rd (N24.178803 E120.645136), and we started to hunt for our dinner....

Dedicated lane for motorcycle at Fuxing Rd, Taichung.

Fong Chia Road, Taichung

We noticed the the Lane 20 of Fong Chia Rd (N24.178985 E120.645696) has many food stalls around, which is part if the Fong Chia Night Market (逢甲夜市), so decided to have our dinner here...

Lane 20 Fongchia road, Taichung - Taiwan

Wah! There were many food stalls in the lane, and we were confused what to try....as you can see from the photo below...all kind of foods available! Certain stall really interested! Like this one at the bottom right of the photo below...:)

Food stalls along the Lane 20 - Fong Chia Road, Taichung

Colourful Sports Shoes!

All of us agree to had the Oyster Vermicelli for the first hit...and I ordered mine with extra intestine...

Oyster Vermicelli + Intestine = YUMMY!

I don't know whether because we were so hungry or the vermicelli was so Delicious?! I finished mine within 3 minutes! YUMMY! We were NOT done yet! It was just the first meal of the night market...

Noticed many stalls selling Deep Fried Chicken Chop along the street, our temptation told us...Don't reject it! And we found one of the stall with long queue...and grab one of it!

The Chicken Chop stall with some write up...

We chose this stall because of the queue...

The friendly boss of the stall, he was A Good salesman! Haha!

Waited about 10 minutes...we got our chicken chop!  
It was served in pieces in a small paper bag.

I like the sauce, but the chicken was average...(TWD50)

After we finished the chicken chop, we walked to the main road - Fuxing Road. There are more shops and food stalls along the road too!

Fuxing road (福星路), Taichung.

Some interesting food stalls...'Wolf Sausage'??!! Wah! I doubt....

The Wolf Sausage stall @ Fuxing road, Taichung

We didn't try on it, well...we bought the Big Sausage & Small Sausage opposite of the Wolf Sausage stall. :)

The Big Sausage and Small Sausage stall

Surprised! It was delicious too! I like the mixture of some cucumber, onion and others...

The Taiwan Sausage - TWD40

About few hundred meters away from Fongchia road, we came to another junction and saw this...

Welcome to Fong Chia Night Market (逢甲夜市)

I believe this was another part of the night market in Wenhua road. We tried not to miss any lane here and so...just simply explore the street!

Fong Chia Night Market (逢甲夜市)

Colourful slippers!

The interesting helmet stall. Which is your favorite? :)

As I look on top of me, there are cables Flying everywhere! Haha!

The cables on top of my head...

We discovered another Flagship Night Market within the night market! Interesting! Night market within night market.

Privilege parking

We explored the night market until midnight and I bought a few cans of Taiwan beer back to hotel.
We called it the night!

Full Of Angry Birds!

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