Friday, July 10, 2020

Two Rooms

Still on Thu 8 Nov 2018 Day 3 in Taipei - 6.30 pm - the free for all snacks in the hotel common room.

The hotel common room with free flow self service coffee machine and free for all snacks which are replenished daily.

This was room 1 - the entrance is facing the entrance of the bathroom.

Frosted glass sliding doors for the bathroom.

With windows and mirror.

Two double beds because there were 4 of us.

Basic but clean room.

Each bed has its own bedside unit.

This is how the entrance to almost all buildings in Taipei looks like - with a counter where the security guard sits at. He sits so low that only the top of his head can be seen in this photo.

This is the room that we checked in to rest for just a few hours from 3.30 pm to 9.30 pm but I think we pay the full price for the use of this room.

A smaller room.

With just one big bed. Bye bye room at 9.20 pm.

The check in and check out counter. An old fashion weighing machine to weigh luggage. So we took the MRT to the airport and just sit and rest on the chairs in the airport until boarding our flight back home in the wee hours.

Fri 9 Nov 2018 - 12.30 noon - back and waiting for luggage. Home sweet home and bye forever Taipei!

*** Thursday 9 July 2020 d114 *** 

10.40 am - my portion of takeaway breakfast from a nearby coffee shop - wanton noodles with siew yuk with green chilies. I bought a big portion at MYR 8.50 nett for 2 pax sharing and we just eat directly from the plastic bag.

11 am - continue to eat half of this chee cheong fun (1 roll, 2 slices ccf) with 1 slice of bean curd sheet and 1 okra stuffed with fish paste (ytf). I asked for the brown sauce to be poured directly onto the chee cheong fun because I intended to eat this ccf immediately when back home and I did not want another bag with brown sauce. Two of us shared this pack of ccf that costs MYR 5.50 nett. We also bought century egg, salted egg and minced meat congee for 1 pax for lunch.

Still not comfortable dining in coffee shops seeing that some countries had to lock down certain areas again so had to continue to buy takeaways and continue to practise the 3Cs - avoid crowded places, avoid confined places (go open air places) and avoid close conversations; and 3Ws - wash hands with soap, wear masks and warn oneself to do the following: don't touch other people (no handshakes), cover mouth when cough or sneeze, clean and disinfect common places, stay home as much as possible and seek treatment if one has symptoms.

6.30 pm - my portion of congee.

7 pm - a bowl of home cooked red bean tong sui with 90% red beans and 10% water so it is like eating red bean paste which I like.

14 comments:

  1. chee cheong fun looks spicy. :p

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    1. Brown sauce is Tim cheong, it is sweet and not spicy at all.

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  2. I had wanton noodles for my morning bfast too. Bought a large pack to be shared by 3. Thx for sharing ur taipei travelogue. Shld hav share it earlier coz now v cannot travel abroad😭. Btw is tht ur mum & bro at the hotel check out counter?

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    1. Wait till next year, then can travel. Hahaha, bingo. 😆

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  3. Wowwww!!! That's one huge suitcase. I guess the two were sharing one.

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    1. Yes and we went to airport by walking and mrt with that big suitcase.

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  4. You have just reminded me that I bought a packet of red beans a few weeks ago. I better look for it and cook red bean tong sui!

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    1. Yes, better cook your yummy red bean tong sui and share with your partner. I wonder does your partner eat red bean tong sui.

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  5. I want to laugh at the old fashion weighing machine to weigh the luggage.

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    1. Hahaha, ya, this type of weighing machine is not that suitable to weigh luggage.

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  6. I dread the long wait at the airport. Hopefully, I can remember to boil mung bean tong sui tomorrow.

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    1. It was a long wait but we did sleep sitting upwards on the airport seats.

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  7. So nice your Taipei pictures. Doesn't make you feel like going back?

    On social distancing, I take comfort that there are very few cases in the country now.

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    1. When I think of need to sit in an airplane for 4 to 5 hours, I don't feel like going anywhere. It just take one case to spread to many cases for a super spreader if that one case is not wearing a mask to protect others.

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