Japan/Taiwan - Day 6

To one of my favourite country now! I have been to Taiwan for a couple of times. This was my third time already. The first time was with my sister (yes, again) in 2011. We went there for 9 days in during March where it was still abit cooling. The second time was in 2013. So you can expect this Taiwan itinerary to be much more relax than Japan and my previous Taiwan trip. Especially for Taipei, we practically didn't plan anything for us. It was really a free and easy for Taipei. Flying off to Kaohsiung by Peach airline at 1130am, so we reach Kaohsiung at around 2pm. We applied the youth travel card at the airport because there are discounts for certain tourist attraction places, so remember to go get the card! 

Off we go to our hotel, we actually booked the hotel through Expedia because my sister found the place and she said it was pretty cheap as well. Didn't stay very far from the airport, it was just a 12 mins train ride from 高雄國際機場站至三多商圈站. This is the detail for the hotel that we stayed in Kaohsiung:

Each Family 家家小屋

36F-6, 21, Xinguang Rd., Qianzhen Dist.

Kaohsiung 80661 Taiwan 

It is actually just 5 mins walking distance from the station, so pretty much accessible and there is family mart below! The better! Taiwan family mart also has many variety of ready food. So, for 3 nights, we paid $200 for the room which is cheap, considering that the room is actually not bad. Initially I was quite skeptical about my sister's choice because the web has not much information and I always like to believe that pictures are deceiving even in expedia or airbnb. I mean it is to attract people to buy and it is not exactly too wrong to shoot in a certain angle to portrait a bigger and wider room but still, you know.. anyway I didn't say this hotel was no good, in fact it was really nice and comfy. 

Taken by a camera, the hotel that we stayed.

It has a balcony and we actually stayed quite high level. Cant remember what level thou

pardon for the messiness. I was really very tired by then.

They got a small kitchen in the room ok! And a washing machine.

There. This is taken by my wide angle camera. Look bigger right the room?

The small kitchen. Spot the washing machine! 

The corridor.

It doesn't really look like a hotel to me. More like an apartment because it is like a tall building with rooms and doors like these. But it was really a nice room with that price. Probably couldn't get this price with such room anywhere else. So we head over to 高雄火車站 because our only plan in the itinerary is to visit this maid cafe nearby. There's a night market around also.

out from 高雄火車站 

月讀女僕咖啡高雄店

營業時間：周日12:00~21:30

地址：高雄市.建國2路.259號

Walkable distance from the station so just look for the street name and you probably can spot the cafe.

Tbere you go, the cafe looks like this from the outside.

interior of the cafe. These are ornament on our table actually.

Spot me at the background with burnt skin. LOL

One of the staff interacting with the guests

my sister's dessert

The food here are actually not that expensive, pretty cheap I would say. I think food in Taiwan is generally cheap as a whole. That's why I always like to come to Taiwan because you can eat alot of food and won't burst your pocket! The staff in cosplay uniform would interact with you, try to open a conversation with you which one or two of the staff failed with us upon knowing we are from Singapore and didn't know what to continue with. Only one staff who did study awhile in Singapore could manage to chat more with us and also introduce us more cafes like these. We weren't here for those "maid" staff like most guys would so it doesn't really bother us whether or not there are interaction. The cafe itself has a nice ambience I would say, but a little dark thou. As it was a late lunch for us, and we really didn't have anything on plan so we head over to the night market to see if we can do some shopping before we attack the food. 瑞豐夜市 is located at 高雄車站巨蛋站 1號出口 and it is said to be one of the famous night market in Kaohsiung, and is one of the newest (I think?) 

There we are!

Taiwan night market games are always very tempting. look at those soft toys. damn cute right. LOL. But not as easy ok.

We ended our day with some food snacking and a local street band performing outside the station which was quite nice actually. We stopped to listen to a few songs and finished up the food on hand before heading back to the hotel. A very short day spent and because we were quite tired at the end of the day as well with the early flight and travelling. I think we left the night market around 10? Watch out for day 7 with a post that we met scammers!