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We're now at the MRT station
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Heading to Shifen
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Taking the 624 train to Hualian
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I dont even know if we can actually sit in the train?
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May need to ask somebody later.
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If you use this card, you actually have to stand all the way
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Ruifang is a platform you wanna go to to either go to Jiufen or Shifen
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So wherever you wanna go (Jiufen or Shifen)
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from Taipei Main Station or wherever, you will still need to get to Ruifang Station first.
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Now we're taking the KTM version of Taiwan
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It's the railway tracks.
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But since we got in with the EZ cards,
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we will have to stand all the way for 40 minutes from Taipei Main Station
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In the case that you actually wanna sit down,
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you will have to get tickets at the counter.
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Instead of using the card.
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We're waiting for everybody (who has seated tickets) to sit down first.
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Then we can sit.
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We got quite lucky so we got seats.
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But my brother has to stand.
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My dad is right behind.
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So if you're lucky you can get seats
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but always be prepared to stand up when people come in at diff stations.
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That's not a very nice sight.
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(toilet door wide open)
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We plan to go to Shifen first.
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I think we have to take another train.
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I'm quite lost actually, hold on.
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1.00 PM?
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Yeah, they did mention it was coming at 1.00PM.
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It's coming.
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We're here. 1,2,3,4.
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4 stations.
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After arriving at Ruifang, come to Platform No 3.
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Apparently you have to tap out, and back in - because they have a time limit for travellers.
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I don't think we wanna go very far.
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The train is coming in 15 minutes.
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So we just go back in.
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The train to Shifen. Wow.
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It's really crowded.
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Everybody's going down (from the train)
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That took about 40 minutes.
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This is a self facilitating station
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I'm getting abit of a sore throat already.
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So crowded. (Everyone is tapping out)
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Actually they had another machine there.
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So far the food is about the same
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Nothing very different from other markets.
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The price along the whole street is the same (Lantern Set Off)
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But the view from our spot here is really nice.
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After the train leaves, every body comes back out to the tracks.
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Standard Lu Rou Fan.
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We wanted to set the lanterns up but we are going to the waterfalls first.
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Ow, my bones cracked bro.
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We wanted to set the lanterns up but we were running out of time.
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We wanna go to the Shifen Waterfalls.
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You'd have to keep walking to the waterfalls.
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Is it far?
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Decided to take a cab.
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From Shifen Station to the Shifen Waterfalls...
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..they should only charge you NTD 100.
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Nothing more.
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It's probably about a 5 minutes drive from here.
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Saves you a lot of waiting, and time.
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That was quite a quick drive.
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We're crossing this hanging bridge.
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Feels pretty stable but its still quite wobbly.
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Proof of me on the bridge.
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Found the waterfalls.
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Taking the train back to RUIFANG.
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It's super packed and we can't buy seats.
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So you gotta queue (?)
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The Ruifang Station is right over there.
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But if you walk over, just abit out from the exit
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You'll find this place where you can wait for a taxi.
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If you have at least four people in your group..
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might as well just take a cab to Jiufen.
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It's abit more expensive still..
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..but its easier? You don't have to wait with the crowd.
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You don't have to wait for the bus.
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And its just easy, just directly from the station.
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The bus intervals are pretty fast.
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But there's usually a lot of people.
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You won't know if you can actually get in.
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And i heard alot of reviews that they're usually delayed?
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Think this cab is ours.
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From the first impression, it looks like its a very souvenir based area?
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You can buy alot of souvenirs that can tell that you came to Taiwan.
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This looks abit like the Bugis area.
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Is it cheese? Cant' tell.
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But it tastes just like butter croissant.
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It's not even cheese.
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40 yuan.
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Oh its the mushroom.
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Maybe i can try it here?
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Do you think its as nice (as the one in Shilin)?
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Do you want chilli?
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No please.
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6.00PM and we're having our dinner.
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Total would be 240 yuan.
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Ah do we pay now?
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Not very fond of these fishballs cause they're really floury.
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It's not like..fish.
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Just rushed ourselves to the train.
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We initially wanted to get reserved seats.
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But we were abit too late.
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And it was just 2 minutes before the train was gonna arrive.
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We just rushed to the platform.
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and now we're all non seated.
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We gotta be here for about 40 minutes
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An experience.
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Having our breakfast.
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Finally, I am sick. (as if I've been waiting)
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After 7 days, we realised eating here we don't really have much of an appetite?
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Huge wastage but we really can't force ourselves to eat.
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Not because it's not nice I guess?
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I dunno, maybe because we're sick?
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Today we're going to Zhong Xiao Dun Hua one more time.
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We've been there about 2 times already.
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and later we may go to Shihlin.
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After that I don't know. Maybe somewhere else?
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But yes. Day 7.
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We are here in Din Tai Fung.
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I'm feeling really, really, really unwell now.
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We're gonna grab some lunch and go back and rest for at least about an hour?
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Din Tai Fung is founded in Taipei.
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So we thought we have to try it here la.
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Each basket of Xiao Long Bao has 6.
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(NEXT DAY)
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It is the last day.
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We are checking out in about 15 minutes maybe.
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I got sick last night.
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But alot better now.
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I expected to really, really, really like Taipei.
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But I think i set my expectations too high.
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Not that it was a bad experience.
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Didn't get to shop as much.
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Didn't get to eat as much.
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Didn't get to sightsee as much.
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It was not bad. It was an okay trip.
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Just that I expected alot, alot more.
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Something that I didn't expect at all..
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..was that the food didn't really suit our taste buds. Not just mine.
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I don't know what it is.
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Sometimes it's too bland.
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Sometimes it's too oily?
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Not complaining tho.
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It's just that we all have different tastes.
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And also maybe we all got sick.
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Anyways, I'll just wrap everything up.
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I didn't even get to wrap up certain days.
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Because I was just really tired.
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And..or..maybe I just forgot actually.
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I'll wrap up the Taiwan vlog now.
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I'l see you guys in the normal daily vlogs.
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Bye!