(Xindian Eats) Greenery Cube Cafe 青立方 & 賴岡山羊肉

A while back, we visited Greenery Cube Cafe in the mountains of Xindian for a change of scenery. This place has been on my list for the longest time, and we've never found the chance to go.  It reminded me of Antipolo’s Burrow Cafe because of the steep walk down a hill to get to the...

Last 2 weeks of October – little wins and a Halloween party!

Not a lot happened during the last 2 weeks of October. The most exciting thing that happened was our high school class halloween party, where I "dressed up" as Stitch (basically wore my Stitch onesie) and where we had fun playing games and catching up. T and I also ate out a couple of times,...

Kaohsiung trip for Mid-Autumn Festival

Last month, we had a long weekend due to the Mid-Autumn Festival and we decided to go to Kaohsiung to be with T's family. T's brother recently bought a secondhand car so he picked us up and the 3 of us drove down to the south. As per tradition whenever we go back, we ordered...

[Taiwan hiking diaries] Qinglong Ridge 青龍嶺 and Mt. Dadong trail 大棟山步道

We added another mountain to our hike list - Qinglong Ridge 青龍嶺 and Mt. Dadong trail 大棟山步道 in Shulin! Granted, we didn’t walk the entire route because we didn't know that we had already drove past the starting point. Oops! That's something we can do next time. Before we went to Shulin for our hike,...

[Taipei Eats] Filipino food at Sizzling Manila 嗞嗞馬尼拉

I went to Zhongshan North Road Sec. 3 again to make another remittance. I was happy that the exchange rate was a bit better compared to last month. Hehe. This time around, I was finally able to try Sizzling Manila (嗞嗞馬尼拉)’s sisig & sinigang combo. They're located in Maji Square, if you're also looking for...

First hike of 2021 – Mt. Sanjiaolun 三角崙山, aka Matcha Mountain 抹茶山 (Jiaoxi, Yilan 宜蘭礁溪)

Last year, we were able to reach my goal of doing at least 3 hikes. We did Qixingshan, Jinmianshan, and Guanyinshan. In January, the weather on weekends wasn't as cooperative as it always rained so we weren't able to do any hikes. Luckily, on the first weekend of February, we finally had good weather! We...

[Weekend diaries] Italian food at Win House (溫好食), and Japanese food at 食客稻

We had been having a slew of cold, rainy days even on weekends that when the temperatures rose a bit and there was no sign of rain, we went to Linkou to enjoy the weather. T found this supposedly good restaurant called Win House (溫好食), which turned out to be pretty average given its price...

Hiking Guanyinshan 觀音山 (Yinghanling 硬漢嶺 & Niugangleng 牛港稜 trails)

I'm happy to say that T and I have gotten into hiking, so much so that we even bought hiking shoes and a small, lightweight backpack, both from Decathlon. Here is our photo when we reached the top of Guanyinshan's (觀音山) Yinghanling (硬漢嶺) trail. These hiking shoes have a stronger grip than our regular rubber...

Mid-Autumn Festival weekend in Kaohsiung (2020)

As in the previous year, we decided to go to Kaohsiung for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival long weekend so that we can spend time with T's family. We caught this almost sunset as we were on the bus, and then we spent the next 7 hours before we reached our destination. It took that long...

A weekend in Taitung

We took a spontaneous weekend road trip to Taitung (East Taiwan) for a short R&R session. I didn’t think I’d ever be back in Taitung, only because it's so far from Taipei. I wrote about my first time there (3 years ago!) in this post, if you're interested in checking it out. One of T's...