The question I had answered most in Taiwan~

After i arrived Taiwan and my intern place-Jiucyong Hu~

The question that I had answered the most is "Why you can speak Chinese very well?" 

They even consider i'm a Malay! Haha~

Then i realized that almost all Taiwanese think that Malaysian don't speak Chinese~

That's why i want to explain here~

Malaysia is a multi races country~

we have three main races- Malay, Chinese, and Indian~

I'm Chinese who born in Malaysia and i'm Chinese educated. 

That's why i can speak Chinese well~ Haha~

I even can read and write Chinese well (simplified)~

During my internship in Taiwan, i learn how to speak like a Taiwanese~

When I go travel, they won't think i'm foreigner (i can pretend that i'm Taiwanese, hehee)~

This is a good situation o not??? erm... i have no idea~ But quite funny~

I have been chat with a auntie for an hour when I took bus and she din't know i'm not Taiwanese, ekeke~

P/S: Taiwanese can speak cute~

 

   

Liu’s Restaurant 劉家燜雞

13 years old tradition of Hakka Cuisine ever since it was founded 1997 in Liu’s Restaurant has maintained its original quality of Hakka cuisine and become a place of interest frequently enjoyed by many people.

Where is the location of Liu’s Restaurant? It is located on Jiuqiong Lake in Xinpu Township. Before Mr. Liu runs this restaurant, Mr. Liu was a business man. He is a friendly and humor person, he always invite friends come to his orchard to pick some fresh fruits and treat them a meal with dishes cooking by him. Mr. Liu cooking skill is good and his friends recommend him to run a restaurant. Hence, Mr. Liu started to run his own restaurant with few simple Hakka dishes. There are none expected situation had happened which is more and more customers come to have meal because of the delicious Hakka cuisine. Finally, Mr. Liu decided to put all his effort to run this restaurant.

Liu’s braising chicken restaurant specializes in braising chicken which is original creation of Mr. Liu. He use high quality free range chicken and each must meet four kilograms. Season the chicken with secret flavoring; put it into a special iron box and braising with high temperature of wood fire. Wait for an hour, a golden brown and gleaming, tender and juicy chicken is ready to serve -- engages each sense. The crackle of chicken as it cooks and the wondrous aroma that perfumes the environment provoke a feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment. Besides braising chicken, braise bamboo shoot and crispy spring roll are also signature dishes of this restaurant. The must try dishes when you having your meal here.

Liu's Restaurant~

Mr. Liu~ The Boss of the restaurant~

The yummy braising chicken~

Braise bamboo shoot~

Crispy Spring Roll~

Hakka style cuisine~

Yummy vegetable~

Show the step of braising chicken~

A lot of customers~

Enjoy the meal~

Guatemala's tourists~

 P/S: The dishes of Liu's restaurant are really yummy and delicious especially the braising chicken ~ Must come and try~ Don't miss it~ ^.^

金谷農場 Golden Valley Farm

Golden Valley Farm is a poetic farm with its graceful environment. Golden Valley farm planted a lot of butterfly attracting plants and became habitat of butterfly. Many butterflies fly at the garden during April to November. So you can see different kind of butterflies at Golden Valley Farm almost all the year.

If you come Golden Valley Farm in summer. You can see the endangered insect - unicorn beetle (scientific name: Allomyiina Dichotoma). That’s because Golden valley farm has planted Fraxinus griffithii (光臘树) which the tree snap is food for unicorn beetle. If you are lucky enough, you can see the battle between male unicorn beetles to fight for a spouse.     

Besides butterfly and unicorn beetles, there has another unique feature in Golden valley farm – Southern Cypress (scientific name: Taxodium Distichum (L.) Rich). Southern cypress will change color with different season. Leafing out in spring, green in summer, yellow in autumn and red in winter. You will have the illusion of living in the North Country especially when you come in autumn and winter.

Golden valley farm has playground and a Ming pond that really suitable for family activity. Parents can accompany their children play at playground or feeding fishes at pond. If you feel thirst or hungry, don’t worry! Here has a delicate coffee shop and Hakka food stall, you can have lunch or afternoon tea and indulge yourself in such relaxation environment.

Apart from a recreation farm, Golden valley farm also sell flowers and plants. The master of farm, Mr. Huang has made sure the flowers and plants that sell are beautiful and the price is lower than market price. So, don’t forget to buy some flowers before you leave Golden valley farm. It can be souvenir for friends or decoration for your own garden.

P/S: Hope you all will like the pictures I had took ^.^

埤唐窝生态园区Pi Tang Wo Ecological Park

In the previous articles~ I had mentioned fews spots of Jiu Qiong Lake~ Now, i want to introduced these spots but I will just introduce Pi Tang Wo in this article~ hehee~ 

Pi Tang Wo is an ecological Park which planning well by the Soil and water conservation and residents of Jiu Qiong Lake. Pi Tang Wo is an abandoned farm before develop. The planner transformed this farm by guided the farm’s pond drainage that originally will flow into the river into four artificial ponds that built at the abandoned farm. Each pond has different environment for different aquatic plants. The path of Pi Tang Wo covered by wood chips, you will feel comfortable when you walk on the wood chips path. You will see many kinds of butterflies and birds at Pi Tang Wo. With the effort of well planning, Pi Tang Wo had become a very beautiful and fantastic ecological park that suitable for learning and relaxing. Don’t miss this place when you visit to Jiu Qiong Lake.

This is the plan of Pi Tang Wo:

Let's see the differences before and after develop~

The environment of Pi Tang Wo~ 

P/S: The other spots are coming soon~

Turnip Pudding蘿蔔糕

Turnip pudding is one of the Chinese traditional foods~ Making turnip pudding was a complicated process in the old days. We need to cut white radishes into thin slice, grind rice using the stone grinder to make the rice paste and bla bla bla… Everything was done by hand. It must taken hours of work to make turnip pudding. It is easy to make turnip pudding these days. The food processor shreds the turnips in a few minutes and the rice powder is available in packages.

My neighbor beside my home in Jiuqiong Lake will cook turnip pudding almost everyday~ they cook for sell to tourist who travel to Jiuqiong Lake~ They are using the half traditional way to cook turnip pudding. Why I say so? This is because they didn't use rice flour which buy from market but grind rice by using a machine to make the rice paste. I went to have a look and took some pictures to share with you all, the process how to make turnip pudding~

Ingredients: white radishes, rice, salt, pepper, water

The process:

1. Peel and shred the white radishes

             2. Grinding rice using a machine to make the rice paste

Rice paste~

Smooth~

      3. heat a large wok. Add the white radishes and season with salt and pepper. Cover the pot and cook the white radish on low heat till soft. This takes about half an hour. Give it a stir once in a while.

Add white radishes~

Stir~

Add salt~

Add Pepper~

      

      Note: They didn't use neither animal oil nor vegetable oil when making so that is suitable for vegetarian and healthy ^.^

      

      4. Pour the rice paste slurry into the white radishes. Cook the mixture on low heat. Keep stirring until the paste and turnips are mixed together evenly. Put the pudding into heat proof dishes for steaming.

      I had miss this part~ So I grab this picture from website~~~~

       

      To serve: cut into chunks, steam to heat it and eat with soy sauce or Cut into thick slices and pan fry.

P/S: Try to make it by yourself if you are interested ^.^ I knew how to make turnip pudding after I saw the process but I don’t think I’m able to make it by myself :P